Written answers

Friday, 10 March 2023

  • Department for Transport

    • Department for Transport: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department’s publication of workforce management information for the months of March and April 2022, for what reasons...

  • Department for Education

    • Academies: Admissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints he received of maladministration by academy admission authority appeal panels in each of the last five years; and what the average...

    • Children's Social Care Independent Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the independent report entitled the independent review of children’s social care: final report, published 23 May 2022, what...

      Carers: Leave

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2022 to Question 69827 on Carers: Leave, what progress her Department has made on creating an allowance and a new...

      Free School Meals: Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will include in her Department's guidance for schools and local authorities on free school meals how (a) local authorities and (b) schools...

      Children's Social Care Independent Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2023 to Question 148681 on Children in Care: Equality, which organisations attended the roundtable discussions...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Autism: South of England

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of health commissioners for (a) identifying local demand and (b) implementing the...

    • Skin Diseases: Telemedicine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help (a) increase the dermatology workforce and (b) ensure that patients with inflammatory skin...

      Breasts: Plastic Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the date PIP implants were reintroduced to the UK.

      Industrial Diseases and Long Covid: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of Government funding for research into (a) occupational disease...

      Health Services: Long Covid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support for healthcare workers suffering from Long Covid.

      Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Clinical Trials

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the standard time is for a coordinated response by MHRA for clinical trails; and what the performance has been against that standard...

      Birth Rate

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with his Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the decline in the birth rate on the (a) delivery of...

      Social Services: Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with technology companies on how they could help support domiciliary social care provision.

      Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Clinical Trials

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the overall effectiveness of the MHRA in supporting and evaluating clinical trials in the UK;...

      Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many phase one inspectors were employed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in each January since 2019.

      Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps Department has taken to increase awareness of Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes amongst NHS staff.

      Patients: Digital Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of using digital technology to help patients stay safe in their homes;...

      General Practitioners: Closures

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2023 to Question 147335 on General Practitioners: Contracts, how many general practice closures...

      Skin Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance by NHS England entitled The two-week wait skin cancer pathway, published on 4 April 2022, whether his...

      Birth Rate

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the decline in the birth rate.

      Health Services: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve access to primary care in rural areas.

      Mental Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his statement of 24 January 2023 on Government Action on Major Conditions and Diseases, HCWS514, whether his Department...

      Influenza: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish the service specification for childhood influenza vaccination as part of School Aged Immunisation...

      Gynaecology: Statistics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed the potential merits of collecting data on ethnicity and age for those presenting with menstrual...

  • Church Commissioners

    • Cemeteries: Vandalism

      To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what discussions he has had with representatives of the arch-diocese of Jerusalem on damage to graves at the...

    • Churches: Rural Areas

      To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, with reference to the Office for National Statistics classifications for land use in rural and urban areas,...

      Question

      To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of local authority grant funding available to parish churches...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Miscarriages of Justice: Compensation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department can provide data on the (a) number of claimants (b) number of successful claimants and (c) the total awarded in compensation for a...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Forests: Climate Change

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the article in Nature entitled Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed...

    • EU Law: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Windsor Framework, published on 27 February 2023, CP 806, what EU VAT rules and requirements...

      EU Law: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Windsor Framework, published on 27 February 2023, CP 806, how many pages of EU law and...

      Windsor Framework

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Windsor Framework, published on 27 February 2023, CP 806, under what circumstances the UK...

      Windsor Framework

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Windsor Framework, published on 27 February 2023, CP 806, in what way disputes between the...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Cost of Living Payments: Stockport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will receive the second cost of living payment in Stockport constituency.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Highly Protected Marine Areas Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to set targets on the designation of additional Highly Protected Marine Areas.

    • Highly Protected Marine Areas Review

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to bring forward proposals for further Highly Protected Marine Areas.

      Sewage: Shellfish

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has produced an impact assessment on the impact of sewage dumping by water companies on shellfish.

      Dogs: Animal Breeding

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licensed dog breeders there were in England as of 1 March 2023; and how many of those breed more than three litters...

      Sewage: Wildlife

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has produced an impact assessment of sewage dumping by water companies on British wildlife.

      Animal Welfare: Electronic Training Aids

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Cruel electric shock collars for pets to be banned, published on...

      Animal Welfare: Fish Farming

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2023 to Question 139212 on Animal Welfare: Fish Farming, what her planned timetable is...

      Packaging: Recycling

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help make it easier to recycle packaging waste.

      Animal Welfare: Public Consultation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2023 to Question 110866 on Animal Welfare: Public Consultation, when she plans to hold...

      Animal Welfare: Voluntary Organisations

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of animal welfare standards in (a) animal sanctuaries and (b)...

      Rivers: Water Abstraction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many licenses or permits to abstract water from chalk streams were given to each water company in each year since 2015.

      Environment Agency: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many employees of the Environment Agency were working on water pollution in each year since 2015.

      Chemicals: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish (a) the survey conducted by HSE of British-based suppliers and retailers of articles about their duties...

      Chemicals: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many chemical substances have been registered through UK REACH under its grandfathering process as of 1 March 2023; and...

      Chemicals: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff work on UK REACH in (a) the Health and Safety Executive, (b) her Department, (c) the...

      Environment Protection: Electronic Cigarettes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of disposable vapes on the environment; and if she will make an...

      Hygiene: Waste Disposal

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2022 to Question 95918 on Hygiene: Waste Disposal, if the peer review of the work has...

      Camping Sites: National Parks

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve public awareness of permissive wild camping rights in National Parks.

      Chemicals: Regulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many novel, non-grandfathered substances are registered with UK REACH; how many and what proportion of these...

  • Home Office

    • Visas: Foreign Investment in UK

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people received UK citizenship through the Tier 1 Investor Visa between 30 June 2008 and 6 April 2015.

    • Police Custody: Death

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled I can’t breathe: Race, death and British Policing, published by Inquest on 20 February, what...

      Police: Racial Discrimination

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Inquest's report entitled I can’t breathe: Race, death & British policing, published on 20 February 2023,...

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were housed in hotels in the UK in each of the last 12 months; what the average length of...

      Asylum

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on how many people have claimed asylum after arriving in land-based vehicles in each of the last 12 months.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

    • Technology: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the source of the £250 million funding for artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and engineering biology...

    • Science: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23, page 300, what assessment she had made of the consequences...

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Sizewell C Power Station: Investment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with pensions schemes including (a) BT and (b) NatWest on investing in Sizewell C nuclear...

  • Treasury

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Local Government Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what their total financial contribution to local authorities in England will be in the financial year 2023–24 for (1) revenue spending, (2) capital...

    • Freeports: Wales

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for establishing of Free Ports in Wales.

      Listed Buildings: Solar Power

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the consent regime for the installation of solar panels on Listed Buildings.

  • Treasury

    • Pension Funds: Advisory Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to adopt the Competition and Market Authority’s recommendation of December 2018 to make investment consultants advising on pension funds...

    • Stamp Duty Reserve Tax

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to update the Stamp Duty Reserve Tax legislation so that the growth market exemption applies to regulated recognised growth markets that...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Islamic State

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to a Daesh member being convicted of genocide by the German Federal Court of Justice, what plans they have to recognise the Daesh atrocities as genocide.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Fruit and Vegetables: Shortages

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the causes of fruit and vegetable shortages in UK shops.

    • Gun Sports: Lead

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the paper by R E Green, M A Taggart, D J Pain, et al ‘Voluntary transition by hunters and game meat suppliers from lead to non-lead shotgun...

      Roads: Pollution

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of pollution caused by surface water runoff from highways into the sewers; and what plans they have to hold the...

      Plants and Seeds: Imports

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether, under the Windsor Framework, individuals in Northern Ireland will be able to import seeds and plants from Great Britain.

      Sugar Beet

      To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the rate of Virus Yellows in sugar beet.

      Soil: Sustainable Development

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support farmers and growers in using nutrient cycling to build soil resilience.

      Seed Potatoes: UK Trade with EU

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on restoring the export and import of seed potatoes between the UK and EU.

      Fisheries: South Atlantic Ocean

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote a regional fisheries agreement for the South Atlantic.

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