Adrian Ramsay MP: written questions
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NHS: InfrastructureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure capital investment in NHS estate and infrastructure supports improvements in climate resilience.
Answer: We recognise the importance of increasing the climate resilience of the National Health Service estate and infrastructure. NHS trusts are responsible for maintaining their estate, including adapting premises to reduce the risks associated with climate cha...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet Protocol: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the retirement of the Public Switched Telephone Network and the transition to VoIP landline services, particularly during power o
Answer: The number of major incidents on the PSTN (affecting 500 or more customers) has been increasing. In 2024, there was a 45% increase compared to the previous year. In 2024/25 there were over 2,600 major incidents on the PSTN. VoIP landline services are more...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: SurveysDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Adult Oral Health Survey 2023, published 9 December 2025.
Answer: The Adult Oral Health Survey 2023 provides the first picture of adult oral health in England for more than a decade. It provides further evidence of the need for dental contract reform.We are taking forward significant changes to the National Health Servi...
Answered 20 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHussam Abu SafiyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to her Israeli counterpart on the case of Palestinian doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 6 August to question 68153.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRights of Way: Forests and RiversDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 83666, how new permanent legal rights of public access will be created through proposals for nine new river walks and three new na
Answer: Our nine new river walks and three new national forests will both increase available natural space and make it more accessible. We are progressing plans to deliver nine new National River Walks across England, one in each region, to enhance access to natu...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRights of Way: DisabilityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 on the rights of disabled people to access the outdoors.
Answer: This Government is supportive of the provision within section 147ZA of the 1980 Act that enables an authority to work with landowners and relevant parties to replace or improve existing structures so that they can be used more easily by individuals that m...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made representations to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on ensuring that the statutory duties of local highway authorities for the
Answer: The Secretary of State has regular discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a range of issues. The Government has no plans at this stage to integrate local highway authorities’ statutory duties for public ri...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPoultry: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will include proposals to end the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry, including through the adoption of in-ovo sexing technology in the her Department
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 9 July 2025 to the hon. Member for Stockport, PQ UIN 64121.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEquality: Codes of PracticeWomen and EqualitiesTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92379More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her timetable is for reaching a decision on whether to approve the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations; and if she will lay the
Answer: The EHRC has revised its Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations following the consultation and submitted it to the Minister for Women and Equalities on 4 September 2025. This is a long and legally complex document which will have...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetically Modified Organisms: PlantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the Devolved administrations can prevent unlabelled precision-bred seeds and plant reproductive materials marketed in England from entering
Answer: Defra is working with the organic sector to prepare for the medium and longer term by discussing non-legislative options for supply chain coexistence. This includes facilitating discussions between experts to establish which measures, currently used by th...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetically Modified Organisms: PlantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90011More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the certification bodies for (a) organic and (b) conventional non-GMO seeds providers can prevent unlabelled precision-bred seeds and
Answer: Defra is working with the organic sector to prepare for the medium and longer term by discussing non-legislative options for supply chain coexistence. This includes facilitating discussions between experts to establish which measures, currently used by th...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetically Modified Organisms: PlantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on consumer (a) transparency and (b) trust if precision bred seeds and plant reproductive materials are labelled but the
Answer: The UK maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels, whether that be mandatory or voluntary, so that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy. For Precision Breeding, Defra has established additional measures ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetically Modified Organisms: PlantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90009More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to enact (a) a mandatory Precision Bred Variety List for England and (b) mandatory labelling of precision-bred seeds and plant reproductive materials before the Genet
Answer: For the main agricultural and vegetable plant varieties, a variety must be registered on the Great Britain (GB), or Northern Ireland (NI) variety lists before seed can be marketed. To implement the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, a new, ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: NationalisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full the (a) modelling and (b) assumptions underpinning her Department's £100?billion estimate of nationalising the water sector.
Answer: Defra has estimated the cost of nationalising the water sector to be around £100 billion. We have published in full the assumptions and methodology informing our estimate here: Nationalising the water sector: how we assessed the cost - GOV.UK.
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnaestheticsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report from the Royal College of Anaesthetists entitled Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025: Key Interim Findings, pu
Answer: No assessment has been made. Officials have noted the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ report. As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, published in July 2025, over the next three years we will create 1,000 new specialty training posts with a focus on specia...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: UK Trade with EUDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to maintain animal welfare standards in the context of negotiations with the EU on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement.
Answer: The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to retain our own rules. It is too soon to discuss the details of the SPS agreement, which is subject to negotiation. We have been clear with the EU about the importance of establis...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAarhus ConventionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her department intends to respond to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee's report to the Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention on Decision VII/8s, publishe
Answer: The United Kingdom Government recognises the important role played by the Compliance Committee in making recommendations to promote compliance with the Aarhus Convention. The UK is considering the Committee's recommendations in the run up to the Aarhus Co...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAarhus ConventionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Aarhus Convention’s Compliance Committee finding that the UK is non-compliant with the Convention on the Governme
Answer: The United Kingdom Government recognises the important role played by the Compliance Committee in making recommendations to promote compliance with the Aarhus Convention. The UK is considering the Committee's recommendations in the run up to the Aarhus Co...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Minister for Water and Flooding, dated 15 October 2025, if she will make it her policy to introduce measures before the r
Answer: Defra is taking forward action on climate adaptation including developing stronger adaptation objectives, improving governance through the cross Government senior officials forum, the Climate Resilience Steering Board, enhancing monitoring and evaluation,...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, entitled advice on the UK’s adaptation objectives, published on 15 October 2025,
Answer: Defra is taking forward action on climate adaptation including developing stronger adaptation objectives, improving governance through the cross Government senior officials forum, the Climate Resilience Steering Board, enhancing monitoring and evaluation,...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the change in the number of dental appointments available in the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board area in 2025-26 compared to 2024-25.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. Activity within the National Health Service dental contract is measured through Courses of Treatment delivered, rather than the number of appointments. The NHS Business Services Authority publishes Dental S...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking during the transition to the NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board to ensure that the level of the dental workforce meets any change in demand in the Eas
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have a critical role to play in the future as strategic commissioners, and this is going to be central to realising the ambitions that have been set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. Any proposed changes to the ICBs in the east...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Waveney ValleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many golden hellos for new dentists have been allocated to Waveney Valley constituency.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have started to recruit posts through the Golden Hello Scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.We do not hold Golden Hello ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDevonport Dockyard: Radioactive WasteMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether nuclear waste is due to be offloaded at Devonport.
Answer: Yes. The offload of radioactive materials at Devonport predominantly occurs through the maintenance, upkeep or refit work on our in-service submarines or the removal of radioactive materials from decommissioned submarines stored at Devonport. All such mat...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFish Farming: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce species-specific slaughter legislation for farmed fish.
Answer: Since publication of the Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing a GB-wide joint government-industry working group on farmed trout has been examining the issues raised in the report. This co-design w...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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