Written answers

Thursday, 12 September 2024

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Whipps Cross Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September to Question 3677 on Whipps Cross Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance, whether he plans to provide...

    • Obesity: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of online advertising regulations for prescription weight loss drugs.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Data Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has shared official documents classified as official sensitive or higher with any individuals, not including Alan Milburn, who...

      Genito-urinary Medicine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new Sexual Health Strategy.

      Streptococcus: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8936 on Streptococcus: Screening, when he expects to receive the response of...

      Prostate Cancer: Screening

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of introducing national screening for prostate cancer.

      Care Quality Commission: Inspections

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to end the use of one or two word ratings used by the Care Quality Commission.

      Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme does not include people who are 80 or older.

      Cervical Cancer: Older People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing women over the age of 65 to request a cervical smear.

      Pharmacy: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the main differences will be between the (a) existing scope of the Pharmacy First programme and (b) proposed scope of the Community...

      Dental Services: Ashfield

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) provide funding and (b) improve access to NHS dental practices in Ashfield constituency.

      Hospices: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for hospices.

      Mental Health Services: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in...

      General Practitioners: Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to review the GP contract.

      Mental Health Services: Prisons

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve mental health services in prison and (b) ensure continuity with previous mental health interventions.

      Dental Services: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the previous Government's commitment to deliver fluoride varnish treatments to more than 165,000 children in...

      Dental Services: Rural Areas

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to dentistry in rural areas.

      Mental Health Services: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of neurodevelopmental assessments for children in (a) England and (b) Norfolk.

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Trapping

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is his planned timescale for introducing legislation to ban the use of snares in England.

    • Daniel Shaw

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter of 24 June 2024 from the UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the...

      Flood Control: Hertfordshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has allocated funding for flood defences in Hertfordshire.

      Flood Control: Cambridgeshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the risk of flooding in the Fens in East Cambridgeshire.

      Plants: Imports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the adequacy of EU export regulations for preventing the importation...

      Bluetongue Disease: South Suffolk

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the spread of bluetongue disease on South Suffolk constituency.

      Horticulture: Peat

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector.

      Land Drainage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for implementing Schedule 3 of the Flood & Water Management Act 2010; and if he will...

      Thames Water: Billing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed increases to water bills by Thames Water in the period to...

      Plastics: EU Law

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the Bridge to Busan declaration.

      Sewage: Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of sewage discharges into waterways there have been in Dunstable and Leighton...

      Water Charges: Infrastructure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that proposed increases to consumer water bills are used for infrastructure investment.

      Water Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that water companies reduce water bills; and what steps he is taking to ensure that water...

      Flood Control: Loughborough

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Flood Resilience Task Force is taking to help protect communities in Loughborough constituency from flood damage.

      Animal Welfare: South West

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the increase in animal cruelty incidents in the South...

      Fisheries

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect fishing grounds in the context of the increase in (a) offshore wind energy...

      Neonicotinoids: Water

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to reduce the levels of fipronil and imidacloprid in UK waters.

      Hunting

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to end trail hunting.

      Asian Longhorned Tick

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect (a) the food supply chain, (b) livestock and (c) public health from the Asian longhorned tick.

      Plastics: Treaties

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to send a representative from his Department to the fourth intergovernmental negotiation meeting for the...

      BSE: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the (a) efficacy and (b) adequacy of the Over Thirty Months Scheme for cattle.

      Air Pollution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the National Air Control Programme.

      Hunting

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a timeline to bring forward legislative measures to end trail hunting.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Iraq: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) diplomatic steps his Department is taking to help tackle and (b) recent discussions he has had with the...

    • Iraq: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with (a) the US and (b) other international partners to help (i) tackle the...

      Iraq: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Iranian-backed militias on the stability of the...

      Alaa Abdel Fattah

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Egyptian counterpart on the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

      Uganda: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the current political situation in...

      Foreign Relations: China

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report entitled China: The top...

      China: National Security

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the report entitled China: The top ten priorities for early Labour government action published...

      Bangladesh: Press Freedom

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Bangladeshi counterparts on the safety of journalists.

      Venezuela: Elections

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has taken recent steps to call on the Venezuelan National Election Council to publish the voting...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on compliance with (a) the UN Convention...

      Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of changes in the level of (a)...

      Israel: Arms Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement entitled Middle East Update of 2 September 2024, Official Report, column 37,...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on (a) escalating violence, (b) compliance with...

      Western Sahara: Politics and Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western...

      Israel: Arms Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement of 2 September 2024 on Middle East Update, Official Report, column 37, if he...

      Gaza: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement entitled Middle East Update of 2 September 2024, Official Report, column 37,...

      Israel: Arms Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral contribution of 2 September 2024 on Middle East, Official Report, column 37, what...

      Yazidis: Genocide

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to help ensure the perpetrators of genocide and other crimes against Yazidis in 2014 are...

      Sudan: Humanitarian Situation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking as penholder on Sudan to support the development of options for the deployment...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Propriety and Constitution Group

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the role of the Propriety and Constitution Group is in his Department’s relationship with the Civil Service Commission.

    • Lord Alli

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Prime Minister, (b) the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, (c) a civil servant, (d) a special adviser (i) requested and (ii)...

      Civil Service Commission: Secondment

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which team in the Cabinet Office discharges statutory or contractual duties owed to Cabinet Office employees by the Cabinet Office as their employer...

      Civil Service Commission: Conflict of Interests

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what policies the Civil Service Commission has in place to avoid conflicts of interest when investigating its sponsoring department.

      Overseas Trade: Taiwan

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of trade was between the UK and Taiwan in (a) each year since 2020 and (b) the latest period for which data is available.

      Kate Owen

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the terms were for the secondment of Kate Owen as Interim Chief Executive of the Civil Service Commission; and when the secondment will end.

  • Department for Transport

    • Railway Stations: Huntingdon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of building a new railway station at Alconbury Weald in Huntingdon constituency.

    • M25: A3

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with National Highways on (a) the expected completion date for works on the Painshill junction of the M25 and A3...

      Railways: Aldershot

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to improve train services in Aldershot constituency.

      Bus Services: Aldershot

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she (a) is taking and (b) plans to take steps to help ensure that councils provide access to bus services for isolated communities in...

      Roads: Aldershot

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that potholes are fixed promptly in Aldershot constituency.

      Driving Tests: Buckinghamshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for practical driving tests in Buckinghamshire.

  • Treasury

    • Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what business rate reliefs will be available in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 to (i) pubs, (ii) restaurants and (iii) nightclubs; and what the thresholds and...

    • Treasury: Civil Servants

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the civil service grade is of the Head of Business Engagement in her Department.

      Treasury: Directors

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the non-executive directors are in her Department.

      Freight: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2024 to Question 3923 Parcels: Northern Ireland, what new mechanisms for business to business her Department...

      Private Education: Business Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September to Question 3748 on Private Education: Business Rates, what estimate she has made of the amount of revenue that will...

      Private Education: VAT

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the imposition of VAT on independent school fees on the number of children who are home schooled.

      Private Education: VAT

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is providing the Office for Budget Responsibility with input assumptions on (a) the price elasticity of demand for independent...

      Tax Burden

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to reduce the tax burden on working people.

      Wealth: Taxation

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a wealth tax.

      Public Houses: Business Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Valuation Office Agency takes account of the (a) presence and (b) size of a pub garden when valuing a pub for business rates; and whether the...

      Private Education: VAT

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the maximum number of pupils that could move from independent to state schools for there to be a net increase in...

      Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information the Valuation Office Agency holds on the number of hereditaments there are with the (a) 227 Public Houses/Pub Restaurants (Inc. Lodge)...

      Shisha Bars

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what Special Category code the Valuation Office Agency classifies shisha bars; and how many shisha bars there are in each local authority in England.

      Private Education: Business Rates

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the average annual cost per school of abolishing business rates relief for fee-paying schools.

      Income Tax: Tax Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the amount of revenue that removal of the personal allowance from additional rate taxpayers would raise.

      Voluntary Organisations: Mileage Allowances

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has she made of the potential impact of uprating mileage allowance scheme rates on the travel costs of people working in the...

      Private Education: Special Educational Needs

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether children in independent schools on waiting lists for an educational, health and care plan assessment will have VAT added to school fees.

  • Department for Education

    • Children: Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to help alleviate child poverty in Sherwood Forest constituency.

    • Children in Care: Education and Mental Health

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by Kinship entitled Forgotten: Support...

      Department for Education: Communication

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.

      Training: Taxation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing proposals for a growth and skills levy.

      Apprentices: Knowsley

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships have started in Knowsley constituency in each of the last 10 years.

      Apprentices: Gateshead Central and Whickham

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships started in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency in each of the last five years.

      Business and Criminology: BTEC Qualifications

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students took the (a) BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Business and (b) WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma in Criminology in (i) Brighton and Hove...

      Local Skills Improvement Plans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue (a) funding and (b) support for Local Skills Improvement Plans.

      Higher Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support a sustainable funding model for Higher Education.

      Skills England: Chambers of Commerce

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to include the Chambers of Commerce in the Skills England programme.

      Further Education: Teachers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the retention of teachers in further education colleges.

      Keele University: Domestic Visits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to visit (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and (b) Keele University.

      Further Education: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for the further education sector.

      Students: Loans

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing measures to support students with the cost of student loans.

      Further Education: Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of levels of pay in further education institutions on recruitment and retention.

      Education: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the three years eligibility period for home fees for (a) UK nationals returning...

      Local Government Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding of the (a) High Needs Block of the Dedicated Schools Grant and (b) servicing of the debt...

      Private Education: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will take steps to support children who receive bursaries and scholarships at independent schools who are adversely affected by...

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    • Armed Forces: Right to Buy Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of how many (a) serving armed forces personnel and (b) veterans have benefitted from the...

    • Housing: Young People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of restricting the sale of a proportion of new homes to those...

      Housing: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to take steps to upgrade roads to enable housing targets to be met.

      Holiday Accommodation: Cities of London and Westminster

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of short-term lets in Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

      Investment Opportunity Fund

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the Investment Opportunity Fund on trends in (a)...

      Right to Buy Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will review the Right to Buy policy for social housing.

      Housing: Bricks

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to mandate that swift bricks are required to be added to all new houses.

      Buildings: Insulation

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on levels of prevalence of aluminium composite material cladding on buildings in...

      Homelessness

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for (a) establishing and (b) the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group on...

      Temporary Accommodation: Costs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the potential cost to local authorities for providing temporary accommodation...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit: Hampshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are recipients of Universal Credit in (a) Aldershot constituency and (b) Hampshire.

    • Universal Credit: Aldershot

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims were subject to deductions in Aldershot constituency in the most recent month for which data is available.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the proposed saving is from the reduction in the franchise of the Winter Fuel Payment.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) claimed and (b) were eligible to claim Pension Credit in each of the last three financial years.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing a Winter Fuel Payment for older people (a) based on Council Tax Band and...

      Winter Fuel Payment: Arundel and South Downs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will be affected by the decision to amend the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel...

      Winter Fuel Payment: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with Ministers in the Department for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive on (a) eligibility for the...

      Winter Fuel Payment: Gosport

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of households in Gosport constituency who will lose their winter fuel payment.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled You could get Pension Credit: Week of Action to drive take up, published on 1...

      State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total uprated value of the State Pension will be from 1 April 2025, by constituency.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people previously entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment in winter 2024-25 will not receive one due to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment...

      Winter Fuel Payment: South Suffolk

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Suffolk constituency are in receipt of the Winter Fuel Allowance.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending Winter Fuel Payment eligibility to people receiving Attendance Allowance.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled You could get Pension Credit – Week of Action to drive take up,...

      State Retirement Pensions and Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who will be in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment by constituency from 1 April 2025; and...

      Pension Credit: East Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to encourage pension credit take up in (a) Leicestershire and (b) the East Midlands.

      Winter Fuel Payment: Low Incomes and Vulnerable Adults

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the universal entitlement to Winter Fuel Payments on (a)...

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of expanding eligibility for the winter fuel payment to include low-income households not in...

      Winter Fuel Payment: Eligibility

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the equality impact assessment for changes to winter fuel payment entitlement.

      Pension Credit: Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of all people eligible for Pension Credit claiming it.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential (a) impact of non-take up of Pension Credit by eligible people on their ability to meet...

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people eligible for Pension Credit to claim it.

      Winter Fuel Payment: Carers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of how many unpaid carers of state pension age will be affected by the removal of the universal entitlement...

      State Retirement Pensions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to move those in receipt of the old state pension to the new one to help prevent financial hardship in winter 2024-25.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Explanatory Memorandum on the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024, what was the (a) evidential basis was...

      Pension Credit: South Ribble

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency; and if she will make an estimate of the number of people who...

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the administrative cost to her Department will be to means-test Winter Fuel payments.

      Winter Fuel Payment: South Ribble

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Ribble constituency received a winter fuel payment in the 2023-24 financial year.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the campaign to increase the uptake of Pension Credit on proposed savings from...

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the time it will take to ensure all eligible individuals receive Pension Credit.

      Pensioners: Income

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners who have an income lower than the (a) minimum and (b) living wage.

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 12 August 2024, to Question HL421 on Employment, whether a strengthened equality impact assessment has been produced...

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of asking local authorities to contact every pensioner on Housing Benefit to encourage...

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024, whether (a) a regulatory impact assessment, (b) an equality impact...

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his deadline is for writing to Housing Benefit claimants on taking up Pension Credit; and what further steps he plans to take in respect...

      Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to take steps to enable people who are unable to claim Pension Credit to receive the Winter Fuel Payment.

      Pension Credit

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of the State Pension were (a) in receipt of and (b) eligible for Pension Credit on 3...

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of the decision to change eligibility requirements for the winter fuel payment on the...

      Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payment: Liverpool Riverside

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners living in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty that are not in receipt of Pension...

      Youth Services: Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential role of (a) small and medium sized enterprises and (b) community interest companies in helping...

      Winter Fuel Payment: Motor Neurone Disease

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changing eligibility requirements for the winter fuel payment on the...

      Pension Credit: Aylesbury

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of pensioners eligible for Pension Credit in Aylesbury constituency; and what steps she is...

      Means-tested Benefits and Winter Fuel Payment: North West Norfolk

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in North West Norfolk constituency (a) received winter fuel payments and (b) were eligible for (i) pension credit and (ii)...

      Winter Fuel Payment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Table 2 of the policy paper published on 29 July 2024 entitled Fixing the foundations: public spending audit 2024-25,...

  • Ministry of Justice

  • Northern Ireland Office

    • Patrick Finucane

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 3049 on Patrick Finucane, if he will publish copies of his letters to (a) Mrs Finucane...

    • Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to appoint a new Veterans’ Commissioner for Northern Ireland.

      Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner

      To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will make the Northern Ireland Veterans Commissioner a full time post.

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Army Reserve: Northern Ireland

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the employment tribunal decision entitled Major C Milroy v Advocate-General for Scotland of 5 August 2024, reference 4103202/2020,...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Foster Care: Conditions of Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to give worker status to foster carers.

    • Strike Ballots

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of ending the Trade Union Act 2016 requirement for industrial action ballot thresholds on...

      Public Sector: Trade Unions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2024 to Question 902 on Public sector: trade unions, whether it is the Government's policy to (a) amend and...

      Conditions of Employment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the planned Fair Work Agency will take to strengthen the enforcement of workplace rights.

      F-35 Aircraft: Israel

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Written Statement of 2 September 2024, HCWS64, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in other countries...

      UK Trade with EU: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with businesses that trade with the EU on the potential impact of inconsistent application of border controls on...

      Arms Trade: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what capacity his Department has for monitoring the end-user destination of arms exported under the Open General license regime; and what...

      Arms Trade: Exports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether it is possible to introduce restrictions under the Open General export licensing regime to prevent export of arms to countries deemed...

      Employment: Endometriosis and Periods

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Employment Bill will include (a) endometriosis and (b) other menstrual health conditions.

  • Attorney General

    • Crown Prosecution Service

      To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases awaiting charging decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service, broken down by (a) whether they are (i) summary only, (ii)...

    • Knives: Crime

      To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Nuclear Power: Supply Chains

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the development of a UK nuclear supply chain.

    • Nuclear Power

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of nuclear energy to his net zero goals in 2050; and if he will provide a...

      Wylfa Power Station

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it remains his Department's policy that Wylfa is the preferred site for a large-scale nuclear development.

      Small Modular Reactors: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to announce the results of the Small Modular Reactor competition.

      Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Trustees on potential reforms to the Mineworkers Pensions...

      Mineworkers' Pension Scheme

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to (a) review the surplus arrangements and (b) transfer the investment reserve fund to members of the...

      Nuclear Power Stations: Construction

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many responses were received in relation to the Prior Information Notice issued to explore building a further large-scale...

      Insulation: Housing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how he determines schedules for insulating homes of pensioners.

  • Home Office

    • Immigration Controls: Lincolnshire

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many raids were carried out by Border Force in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in each of the last...

    • Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of an increase in the annual budget of Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue...

      Police: Contact

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) monitor and (b) maintain standards of police conduct.

      Anti-social Behaviour and Noise: Shipley

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) anti-social behaviour and (b) noise disturbances in Shipley constituency.

      Gloucestershire Constabulary: Police Community Support Officers

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for additional Police Community Support Officers being in post in Gloucestershire constabulary.

      Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff at the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority work in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Health Services: Research

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to all members of the House of Lords on 8 August, who will be conducting the...

    • Infant Foods: Labelling

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the accuracy and compliance of baby milk powder labels with existing regulatory requirements, and what plans they have to bring...

      General Practitioners

      To ask His Majesty's Government what support they offer to general practitioners in meeting the demands placed on them.

      General Practitioners: Vacancies

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many vacancies are currently available for general practitioners in primary care, and how many newly qualified general practitioners are seeking appointment.

      Autism: Diagnosis

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve (1) the diagnosis of autism, and (2) support for those who are assessed as having autism.

  • Leader of the House of Lords

    • House of Lords: Reform

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 30 July, what plans they have to consult on their proposals to reform this House; when any such...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Treaties: Dispute Resolution

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to assess whether current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms within treaties to which the UK is a signatory have produced...

    • Arms Trade: Israel

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many licences for arms export to Israel were granted in (1) July, and (2) August; and how those numbers compare to the number granted in the first...

      Industrial Strategy Council

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to convene the Industrial Strategy Council announced in the King's Speech on 17 July; and what will be the process of appointing members to the council.

  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

    • Solar Power: Land Use

      To ask His Majesty's Government what consultation and information gathering on food security and rural employment they undertook prior to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

    • Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the results of the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6, which allocated 1.63 per cent of the total megawatts available to applicants from...

      Wind Power: Seas and Oceans

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the results for floating offshore wind project applications in the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6, on what basis were (1) 400 megawatts of...

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