Al Pinkerton MP: written questions 2025
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Secondary Education: Surrey HeathDepartment for EducationTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with Surrey County Council on providing clear guidance for feeder school arrangements for secondary schools in the Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Admission arrangements are set and applied locally. Provided they are lawful and comply with the school admissions code, it is for the school’s admission authority to decide what admissions criteria to set, and how they are applied. The admission authorit...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: Surrey HeathDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage people to transition to greener forms of transport in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Since the beginning of this parliament, the Department has provided the following transport funding to Surrey County Council: Over £32 million of highways maintenance funding, an increase of 36% increase compared to what they received in 2024/25. £12 mill...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: Surrey HeathDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52513More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department provides for transport projects in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Since the beginning of this parliament, the Department has provided the following transport funding to Surrey County Council: Over £32 million of highways maintenance funding, an increase of 36% increase compared to what they received in 2024/25. £12 mill...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: Surrey HeathDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52512More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of bus service provision in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The government is committed to seeing better, more reliable bus services delivered right across England. The government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December as part of its ambitious plan for bus reform. The Bill puts the power over local...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Surrey HeathDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52511More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on modes of transport used by commuters in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The Department holds information on the usual method of travel to work from the Travel to work, England and Wales: Census 2021 publication by the Office for National Statistics. According to this data, 46% of people in employment in the Surrey Heath const...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: Surrey HeathDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve bus connectivity in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The government is committed to seeing better, more reliable bus services delivered right across England. The government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December as part of its ambitious plan for bus reform. The Bill puts the power over local...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBuilding Safety Regulator: Disclosure of InformationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of promoting transparency from the Building Safety Regulator through the regular publication of performance data o
Answer: The Department and the Building Safety Regulator recognise the value to the sector in providing performance data. From this quarter, BSR will be publishing quarterly data demonstrating the volumes of applications received, recorded outcomes and decision t...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: ME/CFSWomen and EqualitiesTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52508More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to protect people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from discrimination by employers in Surrey.
Answer: The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as ‘a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’. The Act defines ‘long-term’ as having lasted, or likely to ...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Surrey HeathHome OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle violence against police officers in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Our police officers and staff perform vital roles every day in serving and protecting the public, often in challenging and dangerous circumstances, we will not tolerate them facing violence and abuse.The Government is committed to supporting Chief Constab...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Crimes of ViolenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce assaults on (a) doctors and (b) nurses in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Everyone working in the National Health Service has a fundamental right to be safe at work. There is a zero-tolerance approach to any incidents of violence against NHS staff.Individual employers are responsible for the health and safety of their staff, an...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: DiscriminationDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of discriminatory language in schools in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The department is clear that any incident of discrimination and derogatory language is unacceptable and should be dealt with quickly and effectively by schools. All members of the school community are responsible for creating a positive, safe environment ...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordExploitation: Surrey HeathHome OfficeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help protect children from criminal exploitation in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Tackling the criminal exploitation of children is an important strand of our work to halve knife crime under the Safer Streets Mission. Prevention and early intervention to stop young people being drawn into crime is an integral part of that mission inclu...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLiteracy: Surrey HeathDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of literacy education in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.The English Hubs programme sup...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLiteracy: Surrey HeathDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve literacy education in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.The English Hubs programme sup...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Sclerosis: Surrey HeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of multiple sclerosis care in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: There are initiatives to support better care for patients with neurological conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, across England, including in the Surrey Heath constituency. These include the Getting It Right First Time Programme for Neurology, and the ...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Sclerosis: Surrey HeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with multiple sclerosis in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: There are initiatives to support better care for patients with neurological conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, across England, including in the Surrey Heath constituency. These include the Getting It Right First Time Programme for Neurology, and the ...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Pastoral CareDepartment for EducationTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support pastoral teams in schools in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: Schools have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of their pupils and are best placed to decide what pastoral support to provide based on the needs of their pupils, making the best use of their funding and taking the best available evidence-based a...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The department recognises the incredibly important role designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) play in keeping children and young people safe in schools. We support them to do this through our robust safeguarding framework, ‘Keeping children safe in educati...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCars: Surrey HeathHome OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce car theft in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: This Government is determined to drive down vehicle crime and are working with the automotive industry and the police to ensure the strongest response possible to this damaging crime.Through the Crime and Policing Bill, we have introduced measures to ban ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCars: Surrey HeathHome OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce car-related crimes in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: This Government is determined to drive down vehicle crime and are working with the automotive industry and the police to ensure the strongest response possible to this damaging crime.Through the Crime and Policing Bill, we have introduced measures to ban ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the number of specialty training places for doctors in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it, across all of the country.To reform the National Health Service and make it fit for the future, we have launched a 10-Y...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCity Deals and Local Growth Deals: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress he has made on the implementation of City and Growth Deals in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The UK Government is investing £617m through the four City and Growth Deals which cover the whole of Northern Ireland.My officials meet regularly with their counterparts from the Northern Ireland Department of Finance to discuss delivery of each of the fo...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Northern IrelandDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the US-UK trade deal on Northern Ireland businesses.
Answer: The UK-US economic deal protects jobs in the automotive, steel, aluminium, pharmaceutical and aerospace sectors - sectors that directly employ over 320,000 people across the UK including Northern Ireland. What we have agreed will provide the foundation fo...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: Surrey HeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support ADHD awareness initiatives in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to creating a more inclusive society where neurodiverse people, including those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are supported to thrive.NHS England has established an ADHD taskforce which is working to bri...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023Northern Ireland OfficeTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent progress his Department has made on repealing the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.
Answer: The Government has already begun the process of repealing and replacing the previous Government's Legacy Act. On 4 December 2024, I laid a proposed draft remedial order before Parliament that, if adopted, will remove from the Act a number of provisions th...
Answered 16 May 2025
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