Alison Bennett MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Personal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48279More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households receive multiple PIP awards.
Answer: 9% of households claimed Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in 2023-2024, with 10% of these households claiming multiple awards.Notes:Figures are for Great Britain, excluding Northern Ireland.Figures are for the 2023-24 financial year.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCarers Allowance and Personal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unpaid carers concurrently on Personal Independence Payments and Carers Allowance are expected to lose (a) PIP and (b) PIP and Carers Allowance.
Answer: The Department does not hold the data requested.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish an implementation plan alongside the policy paper entitled Reforming elective care for patients, published on 6 January 2025.
Answer: There are currently no plans to publish an implementation plan alongside the Elective Reform Plan.Our Elective Reform Plan sets out the productivity and reform efforts needed to return to the 18-week constitutional standard by the end of this Parliament, ...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint ReplacementsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who need joint replacement surgery are able to access treatment in all regions.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, including those waiting for joint replacement surgery.We understand the impact long waits can have on patients’ mental health, and we are committed to ensuring that people can access high quality ment...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint Replacements: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support for people waiting for joint replacement surgery.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, including those waiting for joint replacement surgery.We understand the impact long waits can have on patients’ mental health, and we are committed to ensuring that people can access high quality ment...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordOrthopaedics: Surgical HubsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the new surgical hubs will be focused solely on orthopaedic procedures.
Answer: There are no plans for any of the new hubs to focus solely on orthopaedic procedures, but five of the new surgical hubs will focus on orthopaedics procedures in addition to other specialties.The Elective Reform Plan committed to providing quicker access f...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help decarbonise schools.
Answer: The department is committed to supporting the UK net zero carbon targets. Since 2021, our own building standards require that all new school buildings we deliver are net zero carbon in operation and are adapted to climate change.The department is providin...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether people who started therapy funded by the Adoption and special guardianship support fund in 2024-25 will be permitted to carry over unused funds to fund therapy during the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: The adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) supports children previously in care who are under special guardianship orders, residency orders or child arrangements orders. We are not proposing wider eligibility changes at this point. The ASG...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the eligibility criteria for the Adoption and special guardianship support fund to include (a) kinship carers with informal childcare arrangeme
Answer: The adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) supports children previously in care who are under special guardianship orders, residency orders or child arrangements orders. We are not proposing wider eligibility changes at this point. The ASG...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish an implementation plan alongside the Elective Reform Plan.
Answer: There are currently no plans to publish an implementation plan alongside the Elective Reform Plan.Our Elective Reform Plan sets out the productivity and reform efforts needed to return to the 18-week constitutional standard by the end of this Parliament, ...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint ReplacementsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure people who need joint replacement surgery are able to access treatment where they live.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, including those waiting for joint replacement surgery. Too many people have been left in limbo, with their personal and professional lives on hold waiting for National Health Service treatment. We und...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint ReplacementsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to provide mental health support for people waiting for joint replacement surgery.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, including those waiting for joint replacement surgery. Too many people have been left in limbo, with their personal and professional lives on hold waiting for National Health Service treatment. We und...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordOrthopaedics: Surgical HubsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the new surgical hubs will be focused solely on orthopaedic procedures.
Answer: The Elective Reform Plan has committed to providing quicker access for patients to common surgical hub procedures by opening 17 new and expanded surgical hubs by June 2025 and ramping up the number of hubs over the next three years, so more operations can...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLower Thames Crossing: Environment ProtectionDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help protect (a) woodland and (b) natural habitats in the context of the construction of the lower Thames crossing.
Answer: The Minister for Local Transport’s considerations on the Lower Thames Crossing scheme are explained in the Decision Letter, published on the Planning Inspectorate website, and this sets out the proposed mitigations regarding habitats, including woodlands....
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that farmers are not undercut by imports from countries with lower animal welfare standards.
Answer: The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. This Government will uphold and protect our high environmental and animal welfare standards in future trade deals. We will promote ro...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBurnsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report entitled Saving Lives Is Not Enough, published by the British Burn Association in Augu
Answer: I note this report is from 2019, my officials will discuss this further with colleagues in the Department for Health and Social Care, and the National Fire Chiefs Council.
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 903504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle fly-tipping.
Answer: We are seeking powers in the Home Office’s Crime and Policing Bill to provide statutory enforcement guidance to help councils make full and proper use of their fly-tipping enforcement powers. These include fixed penalty notices of up to £1000, vehicle sei...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: Crimes against the PersonHome OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the benefits of extending protections for retail workers to retail delivery drivers in the Crime and Policing Bill.
Answer: Under the previous government, shop theft soared to record highs, with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers. We won’t stand for this because everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work. To tackle the unaccepta...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39289More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans she has to reduce the number of attacks on prison staff.
Answer: Staff must be able to expect a safe and decent work environment. We will not tolerate any violence against prison officers and prisoners who are violent towards staff will face the full consequences of their actions.The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: DeathMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39288More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she plans to take to reduce deaths in custody.
Answer: Every death in custody is a tragedy and we continue to do all we can to improve the safety of prisoners.The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigates the deaths of prisoners in custody. The investigations are a vital tool to ensure lessons are learned ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurniture and Furnishings (Fire Safety) RegulationsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Leader of the House on the timetable for bringing forward statutory instruments to make amendments to The Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988
Answer: I have not discussed this with the Leader of the House. As announced in the policy paper ‘The fire safety of domestic upholstered furniture’, published on January 22, the Government will bring forward amendments to the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Sa...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordInfant Foods: LabellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that retailers (a) provide (i) clear, (ii) accurate and (iii) impartial information on the nutritional sufficiency of infant formula products in (A) re
Answer: Infant feeding is critical to a baby’s healthy growth and development. The Government is committed to giving every child the best start in life and that includes helping families to access support to feed their baby.Whilst breastfeeding has significant he...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordInfant Foods: LabellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that healthcare settings provide (i) timely, (ii) clear, (iii) accurate and (iv) impartial information on the nutritional sufficiency of infant formula
Answer: Infant feeding is critical to a baby’s healthy growth and development. The Government is committed to giving every child the best start in life and that includes helping families to access support to feed their baby.Whilst breastfeeding has significant he...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBetter Care Fund: CarersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish funding by the Better Care Fund to support unpaid carers for (a) 2023 and (b) 2024, by region.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 March 2025 to Question 33291.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordConstruction: New BusinessesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will take steps with Companies House to create a database to enable consumers to check whether builders have previously liquidated their companies and opened new businesses under a ne
Answer: Companies House does not have any plans to build a specific database for the purpose outlined. Companies House is taking action to improve the quality of the information on the Register of Companies using powers made available by the Economic Crime and Co...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
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