Alex Brewer MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Estate Agents: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward regulations for estate agents to help improve accountability for people who breach ethical standards.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN PQ 49125 on 7 May 2025
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordObesity: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure people who obtain weight loss injections through (a) private providers and (b) online services are able to safely dispose of used needles.
Answer: It is important for needles to be disposed of safely, as inappropriate disposal methods create a risk of accidental needle-stick injuries to pharmacy or general practice staff, waste management operatives, and other members of the public, potentially lead...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse and Stalking: VictimsHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that survivors of (a) domestic violence and (b) stalking are given (i) regular and (ii) timely updates on their case to equip them to safeguard themselves from
Answer: Tackling violence against women and girls is a top priority for this Government and our manifesto set out an unprecedented mission to halve it in a decade.The Victims' Code is statutory guidance that sets out the minimum level of service that victims of c...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDiscrimination: WomenHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making misogyny a hate crime.
Answer: Tackling misogyny, both online and offline, is central to our mission to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade. We will address the drivers and root causes of VAWG as part of our upcoming cross-Government Strategy, due to be published ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBabies: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on the recommended frequency of infant head measurements.
Answer: Department officials have spoken to colleagues at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) about its guidance on infant measurements following a meeting between my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and H...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Development: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure adequate funding for Natural England to protect biodiversity on new housing developments.
Answer: For the 2025-2026 financial year, Natural England received a total of £248 million funding from Defra to deliver their strategic aim of recovering nature for growth, health and security. In addition to this the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local G...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: FinesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the (a) fines and (b) other penalties levied on water companies will be used for projects to clean chalk streams.
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund, which launched in April 2024, was established to reinvest water company environmental fines and penalties back into projects to improve the water environment. A total of £11 million, based on fines and penalties from April 2022...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Energy: North East HampshireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support community energy initiatives in North East Hampshire constituency.
Answer: Great British Energy (GBE) will deliver a step change in investment in local and community energy projects, putting communities at the heart of the energy transition as owners and partners in clean energy projects across the UK. In 2025/26, we have made £...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on animal sentience.
Answer: The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 already recognises vertebrate animals, decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings. The Act created an accountability mechanism which aims to ensure that UK Ministers have due regard to their welf...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66791More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to implement the recommendations in the Chalk Stream Recovery Pack for the (a) Loddon, (b) Whitewater and (c) Lyde rivers in North East Hampshire constituency.
Answer: Over the next five years water companies will spend more than £2 billion to deliver over 1,000 actions for chalk stream restoration and reduce their abstraction from chalk streams by 126 million litres per day. The Government is investing £1.8 million thr...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the annual investment in partnership projects to improve chalk catchments will support the National Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy.
Answer: Over the next five years water companies will spend more than £2 billion to deliver over 1,000 actions for chalk stream restoration and reduce their abstraction from chalk streams by 126 million litres per day. The Government is investing £1.8 million thr...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Young PeopleDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to (a) understand and (b) help tackle the threats posed by artificial intelligence to young people through social media platforms.
Answer: Protecting children is at the heart of the Online Safety Act.The Act’s duties apply to AI generated content in the same way as to ‘real’ content - AI generated content is regulated where it is shared on an in-scope service and is either illegal content or...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBank ServicesTreasuryTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction of face to face banking options for all customers who find digital and telephone banking difficult to access.
Answer: Although digital banking is now widely used, with 93% of people making use of mobile or online services last year, the Government recognises that the ability to access cash and in-person banking support remains essential for many. This is why we have secu...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPost Offices: BasingstokeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to support the re-opening of Basingstoke Post Office.
Answer: The Government is committed to strengthening the post office network, in consultation with postmasters, trade unions and customers. It provides critical services that are valued by communities across the whole of the UK.Although there will be variations i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, whether she plans to allocate more funding to police forces to help them reduce the time taken to allocate police officers to inv
Answer: Chief Constables are responsible for determining the allocation of resources for operational policing and managing their response times, in line with the priorities set out by their Police and Crime Commissioner.His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: StandardsHome OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the adequacy of the time taken for police officers to be allocated to investigate reported crimes.
Answer: Chief Constables are responsible for determining the allocation of resources for operational policing and managing their response times, in line with the priorities set out by their Police and Crime Commissioner.His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic AbuseHome OfficeTabled 5 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of (a) coercive control. (b) financial abuse and (c) other forms of non physical domestic abuse.
Answer: The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 introduced a statutory definition of domestic abuse, encompassing not only physical violence but also emotional, coercive, and controlling behaviour, and economic abuse. The statutory guidance on controlling or coercive behavio...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFlats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Building Safety Act on the (a) qualified and non-qualified status of flats, (b) the length of remedia
Answer: The Building Safety Act 2022 (the Act) provided protections for certain leaseholders from the costs of remedying certain historical safety defects which might otherwise be recovered from leaseholders via the service charge. The definition of “qualifying l...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture, Practices and Ethics of the Press InquiryDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to (a) implement the recommendations made by the Leveson Inquiry and (b) support victims of press misinformation.
Answer: The Leveson Inquiry led to the establishment of a strengthened, self-regulatory system for the press, this includes the creation of the Press Recognition Panel, by Royal Charter. There are also two press regulators, the Independent Press Standards Organis...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChronic Illnesses: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle medicine shortages in (a) North East Hampshire constituency and (b) other rural areas for (i) Parkinson's, (ii) epilepsy and (iii) other chronic c
Answer: The Department is working with industry to help resolve intermittent supply issues with some epilepsy and Parkinson’s Disease medications. As a result of ongoing activity and intensive work, including directing suppliers to expedite deliveries, most issue...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: South EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) scans, (b) medical records and (c) treatment plans are transferred effectively between medical centres in (i) Hampshire and (ii) Surrey.
Answer: Ensuring that information on diagnoses and treatment can be shared between services is vital to the provision of safe and effective health care. Improving this will enable enhanced quality of care and safety for patients, and better informed clinical and ...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make his policy to direct bilateral Official Development Assistance spending in Pakistan towards marginalised groups.
Answer: In Financial Year 24/25, the UK delivered over £100 million of bilateral ODA in Pakistan in different sectors including Health, Education, Climate, Human Rights and Economic growth. All our development programmes are well aligned with the sustainable deve...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWar Pensions: AppealsMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for war pensions which were denied were subsequently overturned on appeal in each of the last three years.
Answer: The number of overturned War Pension entitlement appeals from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2024: Financial Year2021-222022-232023-24Allowed130125110 Sources: War Pensions Computer System (WPCS)Figures include both first claims to pension and further condition...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: ComplaintsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to improve the Child Maintenance Service's complaints procedure.
Answer: DWP introduced a single tier complaint model in 2020-2021 to ensure the process of making a complaint in DWP was simple and consistent for our customers. The single tier model put complaints handling back into specialist complaints teams, enabling the Dep...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the accuracy of the Child Maintenance Service system for assessing payments for (a) paying and (b) receiving parents.
Answer: Information about the paying parent's gross income is taken directly from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the latest tax year available. This allows calculations to be made quickly and accurately. Any income subject to income tax, including bonuses and ...
Answered 15 May 2025
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