Written answers

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  • Department for Transport

    • Motor Vehicles: Anti-social Behaviour

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing compulsory insurance and DVLA registration for (a) off road bikes and (b) 4x4s to...

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Energy: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish a response to the call for evidence on Designing a Framework for Transparency of Carbon...

    • Question

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Government's announcement on plans to help cut energy bills for businesses on 21 September, for...

      Fuel Oil: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how oil customers will be able to access the £100 one-off support payment towards their energy bills in winter 2022.

      Fuel Oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department have to identify oil and liquified petroleum gas users so that they can benefit from the...

      Renewable Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether any assessment of Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin will be made in future reviews into Net Zero.

      Science: EU Grants and Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of (a) the number of UK-based scientists who have been informed by the European Research...

      Driverless Vehicles: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the £66 million of R&D expenditure to support the commercial deployment of connected and...

      Heating: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the £100 of support for households which do not use main gas to heat their homes announced by...

      Heating: Government Assistance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the £100 of support for households which do not use main gas to heat their homes announced by...

      Energy: Conservation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public money has been (a) spent on and (b) allocated to improving the energy efficiency of (a) homes, (b)...

      Energy Bill Relief Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department takes to ensure energy producers pass the Government subsidy provided as part of the Energy...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to ensure that electricity suppliers have the appropriate information about which homes are not...

      Nuclear Installations: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer to Question 45194 on Ukraine: Nuclear Installations, what discussions he has had Ukrainian...

      Question

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in view of the Government's Net Zero Strategy, what steps he is taking to help facilitate the timely development of...

      Business: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of an exemption from the energy plan subsidy for illuminated...

      Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of alternative funding models for the Public...

      Energy: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether green levies will be moved from energy bills to general taxation.

      Fracking: Licensing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the process by which petroleum Exploration and development licenses will be granted; and whether...

      Fracking: North Yorkshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fracking on levels of water availability in Yorkshire.

      Fracking: North Yorkshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to prohibit fracking in (a) York Central constituency, (b) York, (c) the boundary of the...

      Business: Energy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria his Department will use to assess which businesses qualify for energy costs support after six months due...

      Help to Grow Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer on 21 September 2022 to Question 48327 on Help to Grow Schemes, when his Department plans to...

      Pay Settlements

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer oral contribution of 23 September 2022 on the floor of the House,...

      Office for Product Safety and Standards: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full time equivalent staff are employed by the Office for Product Safety and Standards as on 21 September 2022.

      Small Businesses: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the number of small to medium-sized enterprises that have closed down since (a) January...

      Fuel Oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Prices

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to ensure that off-grid energy users are able to receive equal support as people people on-grid...

      District Heating: Price Caps

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether heat network customers are included in the £100 additional payment outlined in the Growth Plan 2022, as...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Adult Social Care Discharge Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the £500 million winter adult social care discharge fund announced by Government will be funded from existing health and...

    • Adult Social Care Discharge Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care when her Department plans to publish the allocation of the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to each NHS Trust.

      Mental Capacity: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has conducted an equality impact assessment on the operation of Deprivation of Liberty Orders.

      Evusheld

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the announcement on 12 August 2022 that Government will not be procuring any doses of Evusheld at this time, what the...

      General Practitioners: Working Hours

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the publication General Practice Workforce, published by NHS Digital on 31 August 2022, what assessment she has made of...

  • Department for Education

    • Apprentices: Taxation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much apprenticeship levy did educational providers (a) spend, and (b) return to treasury in each financial year since 2017/18.

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Office for Veterans' Affairs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Office for Veterans Affairs on Ben Parkinson's case in the context of the Sunday Times...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • State Retirement Pensions: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason eligible pensioners who have experienced delays in receiving their State Pension invitation do not have the option to apply...

    • Pension Credit: Publicity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on Pension Credit awareness campaigns in each since 1 January 2019.

      Pension Credit: Electronic Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times was the online pension credit toolkit was accessed in each year since 1 January 2019.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Animals: Overseas Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the possibility of a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to overcome regulatory barriers to...

    • Water Supply: Weather

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the extreme weather during summer 2022, what steps his Department is taking to ensure sufficient domestic...

      Incinerators

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to manage the capacity of existing waste incinerators throughout the country so that...

      Deposit Return Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria will he use to assess the effectiveness of the Deposit Return Scheme proposals in delivering maximum...

      Deposit Return Schemes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken during its establishment of the Deposit Return Scheme to ensure that it is fairly and...

      Horticulture: Peat

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the ban on the use of peat in horticulture announced by the Government in September 2022, which plants he...

  • Home Office

    • Drugs: Organised Crime

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to New support for victims of county lines exploitation, published on 24 September 2022, how much funding will be allocated...

    • Anti-social Behaviour: Motor Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of how many off-road (a) motorbikes and (b) cars have been involved in reports of antisocial behaviour in...

      Police: Recruitment

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the plan announced on 5 September 2019 to recruit 20,000 new police officers, by when she expects this target to be met.

      Cars: Theft

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of car thefts in England in the last three years.

      Fire and Rescue Services: Industrial Disputes

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken recent steps to ensure that fire service employers hold discussions with representatives of the Fire...

      Terrorism: Stop and Search

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a person has been stopped and searched under Section 47A of the Terrorism Act 2000 in (a) Romford, (b) Havering.

      HM Passport Office: Lost Property

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications of situations where HM Passport Office has lost supporting documents for first-time adult...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Local Government Finance: Blackpool

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what additional funding was provided to Blackpool Council (a) to support businesses, and b) for public service provision...

    • Parking: Codes of Practice

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the Private Parking Code of Practice will come into force.

      Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that levelling up funding, such as the Future High Street Fund, helps to ensure adequate...

      Buildings: Solar Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to allow installation of solar panels as a permitted development right in (a) domestic...

      Leasehold: Reform

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department intends to introduce legislation to enact the second phase of leasehold reform within this Parliament.

      Community Development: Religion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, which Minister in his Department is responsible for faith community engagement.

      Housing: Fire Prevention

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when the full unsafe building remediation contract between his Department and participating developers, which was due to...

      Help to Buy Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many people have taken part in the Help to Buy scheme.

  • Scotland Office

    • Innovation and Spaceflight: Scotland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of increasing support for Scotland's space exploration and...

    • Ports: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of trade and biosecurity controls at the ports of Cairnryan and Stranraer.

      Tax Rates and Bands: Scotland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) the Scottish Government on tax rates in Scotland and other parts of the UK.

  • Cabinet Office

    • Christopher Pincher

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2022 to Question 47378, whether steps were taken to assess whether communications were made by his Department to...

  • Treasury

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • Queen's Awards for Voluntary Service: Lancashire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish a list the organisations that have received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the boroughs of (a)...

    • Casinos: Licensing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential economic impact of reducing the licensing requirements on casinos.

      Arts: Industry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish the Creative Industries Sector Vision.

      5G and 6G: Blackpool

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department has made available to support the rollout of 5g and 6g broadband in Blackpool.

  • Women and Equalities

    • Ministerial Responsibility

      To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the change in ministerial title from Minister for Women and Equalities to Minister for...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • EU External Relations

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal made by the President of France on 9 May for the creation of a new "European political community" to promote...

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