Alex Mayer MP: written questions
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Business: Market TownsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support business and trade in market towns.
Answer: Government values the historic role of market towns in the economic and social life of the United Kingdom and is focused on its plan to breathe life back into our high streets.This means addressing anti-social behaviour and crime, stamping out late paymen...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnion Learning FundDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the decision to end the Union Learning Fund.
Answer: The department recognises the role that the Union Learning Fund (ULF) played in encouraging greater take up of learning in the workplace. Government funding for ULF ceased in March 2021.The Adult Skills Fund is now 60% devolved to Combined Authorities. De...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: ConservationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to promote the awareness of energy-saving benefits through regular energy examinations for (a) businesses and (b) households.
Answer: Mandatory energy audits required under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme provide large businesses with cost-effective ways to save energy and reduce bills. Our Business Energy Advice Service pilot in the West Midlands is also delivering subsidised ene...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWarm Homes Plan: Central HeatingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25034More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to include updating circulator pumps in the Warm Homes Plan.
Answer: There are currently no plans to update Ecodesign regulations for circulator pumps. We are currently aligned with EU circulator regulations; however the Government will assess all new EU regulation on a case-by-case basis and will consider aligning where w...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25033More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists have been recruited via the dental recruitment incentive scheme in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) the East of England.
Answer: Within the NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (ICB), five dentists have been recruited under the dental recruitment incentive scheme. In the East of England in total, 11 dentists have been recruited under the dental recruitmen...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccination: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25032More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the speed of the delivery of the school vaccination programme.
Answer: The National Health Service is supporting catch-up efforts to return the coverage of school aged vaccination programmes back to their pre-pandemic levels. School aged immunisation service providers are commissioned to deliver a 100% offer for adolescent v...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Works: UtilitiesDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25031More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of utility companies completing street works late in each local authority in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answer: My department does not have the data available to make a detailed assessment of the costs of congestion from overrunning works. If works do overrun, local authorities are able to impose charges of up to £10,000 per day to cover the costs of congestion. We...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Works: UtilitiesDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring utility companies to coordinate the digging up of roads and pavements.
Answer: My Department issues statutory guidance in the form of the Co-ordination Code of Practice as we know that effective planning and coordination of works can reduce congestion and impacts of works on local communities. Highway authorities have a duty to co-o...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of direct trains from London Euston to Leighton Buzzard have been cancelled in the last six months, listed by (a) day of the week and (b) time of day.
Answer: The percentage of trains cancelled on the London Euston - Leighton Buzzard route over the last six months was approximately four per cent. Cancellations were higher on Mondays at six per cent, 235 trains cancelled out of 3653, and lower on Tuesdays and Th...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBuses: SalesDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Ending the sale of new, non-zero emission buses, coaches and minibuses, what the end sale date is for diesel coaches.
Answer: In spring 2022 the Department held a call for evidence about the decarbonisation of coaches, alongside a consultation on ending the sale of new, non-zero emission buses. An end of sale date has not been set for coaches.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood ReDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Flood Re scheme to non-owner occupiers.
Answer: The Flood Re scheme allows for insurers to offer discounted premiums to leasehold or landlord owned properties consisting of three or less units where the freeholder/landlord lives in the property. As larger blocks, of four or more units, are classified a...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will outline his Department’s planned timetable for reviewing the funding formula for flood defences.
Answer: We will launch a consultation in the coming months which will include a review of the existing flood funding formula to ensure that the challenges facing businesses and rural and coastal communities are adequately taken into account when delivering flood ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23569More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s annual report 2023, published on 17 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to increase compliance with (a) legislation and (b) li
Answer: The Regulator’s annual report details the range of ways in which it detects instances of non-compliance and seeks to drive greater compliance with the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) and licence conditions.The Regulator conducts regular on-...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s annual report 2023, published on 17 December 2024, for what reasons has there been an increase in incidents involving failure to provide adeq
Answer: The Home Office takes non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 very seriously. The numbers of non-compliance cases vary in any given year. The total number of non-compliance cases reduced from 175 to 169 cases from 2022-23. Between...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPatients: TravelDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many penalty charge notices have been issued against patient transport service vehicles in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answer: The data requested is not held centrally.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support patients adversely impacted by pelvic mesh implants.
Answer: There are nine specialist mesh centres across England, ensuring that women in every region with complications due to mesh inserted for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse gets the right support. Each mesh centre is led by a multi-disciplinary team t...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23565More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the second stage of the process evaluation of the Active Travel Fund Tranche 2 will take place.
Answer: The Department recently published both stages 1 and 2 of the Active Travel Fund tranche 2 process evaluation. Active Travel England will continue to work with the University of Westminster and Sustrans to consider further evaluation of government investme...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBuses: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23564More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the number of bus incidents where driver fatigue was identified as an issue in (a) 2024 and (b) the last five years for which data is available.
Answer: The Department publishes statistics on road collisions and casualties involving personal injury reported by police via the data collection system known as STATS19.Within this system, reporting police officers can assign up to 6 factors which, in their opi...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23563More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many open access applications (a) were approved in 2024 and (b) are awaiting a decision from the Office of Rail and Road.
Answer: The Office of Rail and Road has confirmed to us that in 2024 they approved 2 applications from Open Access operators to provide completely new services and approved a further 8 applications from existing Open Access operators to either continue or make sm...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Control: FloodsDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roads were closed during flooding in (a) Bedfordshire, (b) the East of England and (c) nationally in (i) 2024 and (ii) the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The Department recognises the profound importance of our country’s road network in moving people, goods, and services around the country. The impact of closing roads will vary greatly depending on the roads in question and on the scale and severity of the...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the proportion of rail journeys eligible for discounts through the 2025 Rail Sale.
Answer: Over two million tickets at discounts of up to 50 per cent are available for purchase as part of the Rail Sale. Train operating companies have decided on a commercial basis, the proportion of tickets available at discounted prices on their services.
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of local authorities franchising bus services on smaller bus operators.
Answer: The Bus Services Act 2017 contains a duty for local authorities to make a statement on how they will facilitate participation from small and medium sized operators in service provision as part of the franchising process.The Department, as part of the Impa...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ICTDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20346 on Bus Services: ICT, if she will take steps to ensure all new buses include charging points.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering better bus services, and wants to make them a strong choice for passengers. Local bus operators have responsibility for managing and maintaining their bus fleets, and we expect them to consider how best to improve...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBuses: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a single Public Service Operator licence for each traffic area in England.
Answer: Under current arrangements, licensing for Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators in Great Britain is divided into eight traffic areas. No entity can hold more than one PSV licence in any single traffic area (except in the case of Special Restricted licenc...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBuses: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Public Service Vehicle operator licences were issued in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answer: The Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain collect annual data on the number of active and newly issued public service vehicle (PSV) operator licences and the vehicles authorised to operate under these licences. The number of new PSV operator licences is...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
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