Alex Burghart MP: written questions 2024
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Terrorism: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 8847 on Terrorism: Northern Ireland, for what reason he will not publish the details of these requests.
Answer: There is no obligation to publish details of the requests the government receives for public inquiries. I do not intend to do so, especially as there are victims, survivors and families at the heart of those requests, who should be treated with respect an...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTuring SchemeDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the most up-to-date figures for the (a) number of applications, (b) number of placements and (c) location of placements for the Turing Scheme.
Answer: The figures for the number of Turing Scheme applications and placements were recently published on GOV.UK and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/turing-scheme-funding-and-assessment-outcomes-2024-to-2025.For the 2024/25 academic...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWindsor FrameworkNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on establishing a strengthened independent review of th
Answer: The Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024 introduced new legal requirements on the conduct of an independent review of the Windsor Framework. The commissioning of an Independent Review is dependent on the outcome o...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWindsor FrameworkNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on establishing an independent monitoring panel.
Answer: On 19 September, I announced that Aidan Reilly, Anna Jerzewska and Alastair Hamilton will be the members of the Independent Monitoring Panel. As set out in the Command Paper, the Panel will monitor and report on the implementation of the Windsor Framework...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWindsor FrameworkNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on establishing ministerial structures to (a) monitor a
Answer: Matters related to European affairs may be considered by Government Ministers at the Europe Cabinet Committee. These arrangements are complemented by interdepartmental structures to manage the implementation of the Windsor Framework and any issues arising...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterinary Services: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on ensuring continued supply of necessary veterinary me
Answer: The Government’s priority is to secure the long-term sustainable supply of veterinary medicines in Northern Ireland and we are continuing to progress urgent work on this. We have re-established the Veterinary Medicines Working Group to advise the Governme...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElections: Proof of IdentityNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Armed Forces Veteran Cards can now be used as Voter ID in forthcoming elections in Northern Ireland.
Answer: Legislation is required to add documents to the list of ID documents that may be produced in Northern Ireland polling stations in order to vote. The Government intends to legislate to add the HM Forces Veteran Card to the Northern Ireland voter identity d...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on setting out how public authorities should have speci
Answer: Consistent with the commitments made in Safeguarding the Union, the Government published statutory guidance to public authorities on upholding their legal duties to have special regard to the UK internal market on 30 September.
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraph 43(m) of the publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on developing legislative prop
Answer: The Government confirmed at the end of September that we would no longer proceed with the introduction of mandatory GB-wide ‘not for EU’ labelling from the beginning of October 2024, as originally proposed. We will put in place the legislative powers nece...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPlants: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what recent progress his Department has made on removing prohibitions on shrubs and trees.
Answer: Since the publication of the Safeguarding the Union Command Paper, bans have been lifted on five species of plant including hazel, wild privet and linden. The Commission has published a further seven commodity risk assessments for other species, following...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on ensuring there will be no checks when goods move wit
Answer: As set out in the Command Paper, as we transition to the UK internal market system we are focused on ensuring the smooth flow of trade through a risk-based and intelligence-led approach to tackling criminality, abuse of the scheme, smuggling and disease r...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on establishing a UK Internal Market Guarantee.
Answer: The UK Internal Market Guarantee will apply to the operation of the UK internal market system when it is given effect next year. As envisaged in the Command Paper, this will be overseen by the Independent Monitoring Panel, the appointments to which were c...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on replacing the green lane with a UK internal market s
Answer: The Government is continuing, as set out in the Command Paper, to take steps to give effect to the internal market system. More than 9,000 businesses are registered for the existing UK Internal Market Scheme, which enables them to move goods from Great Br...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October to Question 7835 on Terrorism: Northern Ireland, if he will publish details of all requests for public inquiries that he has considered.
Answer: I do not intend to publish details of the requests I receive for public inquiries. I have written to those whose requests I have recently considered.
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: VATTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8846More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the VAT status is of further education colleges.
Answer: Education services supplied by an “eligible body” are exempt from VAT. For VAT purposes, an “eligible body” broadly refers to most regulated, publicly funded, or not-for-profit education providers. This means no VAT is charged on supplies of education mad...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWindsor FrameworkNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the measures set out in paragr
Answer: The Government is committed to taking all steps necessary to protect the UK internal market. We continue to make significant progress on measures set out in paragraph 43 of the Safeguarding the Union Command Paper. Recent progress includes confirmation of...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNumeracy: Adult EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Multiply maths initiative.
Answer: Multiply is the government’s UK wide programme for improving adult numeracy. Multiply provision spans from supporting to build confidence with numbers through to full maths qualifications.The department provides funding to all local areas in England to de...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSkills BootcampsDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many skills bootcamps have been delivered in each of the last three years, by (a) local authority area and (b) discipline.
Answer: The department is awaiting finalised data for the 2023/24 financial year from providers so cannot provide data for this year.The department has published separate reports on the implementation of Skills Bootcamps for the 2022/23 (Wave 3) and 2021/22 (Wave...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2024 to Question 5643 on Terrorism: Northern Ireland, how many requests for public inquiries he is considering.
Answer: I have recently considered several requests for public inquiries and decided to ask all the families involved to get in touch with the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR). The Government will consider any further req...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023Northern Ireland OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he plans to appeal against the judgment of the Belfast Court of Appeal in the challenge to the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, delivered on 20 September 2024.
Answer: On 7 October 2024, I laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament providing the Government’s initial response to the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal’s judgment in Dillon & Others. The statement can be found here: https://questions-statements.pa...
Answered 9 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: VATTreasuryTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6418More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will give further education corporations the same VAT status as Multi Academy Trusts and 16 to 19 Free Schools.
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boardin...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: ProcurementCabinet OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6417More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 37 of his Department's publication entitled Transforming public procurement, what progress has been made on readying the Central Digital Platform.
Answer: The Central Digital Platform is an online system that will be established by the Procurement Act 2023 to improve transparency and efficiency in public procurement. The Central Digital Platform is currently being developed and will be operational and ready...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: BuildingsCabinet OfficeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6416More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to use 36 Whitehall.
Answer: The 36 Whitehall building is not in use and there are no current plans to bring it back into use.
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordModernaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made with Moderna on the (a) manufacture of mRNA vaccines in the UK, (b) establishment of a global clinical trials base and (c) investment in UK-based research and development
Answer: As part of the Moderna-UK Strategic Partnership signed in December 2022, Moderna is building an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre will support the United Kingdom to be more resilient ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordT-levelsDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her oral statement of 24 July 2024, Official Record, col 697, on Education and Opportunity, what plans her Department has to consult (a) external stakeholders and (b) people who have undertake
Answer: The department is committed to working to break down barriers to opportunity, harnessing talent and driving growth. In July this year, my Right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced that the department is undertaking an internal revi...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
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