Andrew Snowden MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Defence: Skilled WorkersMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2024 to Question 12181 on Typhoon Aircraft: Procurement, what steps he is taking to ensure that skilled workers in the defence sector are retained.
Answer: This Government is committed to bringing forward a Defence Industrial Strategy which ensures the imperatives of national security and a high-growth economy are aligned. The defence sector, including the combat air sector, provides highly skilled jobs acro...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to roll out further Clinical Diagnostic Centres.
Answer: Approximately £1.5 billion of additional capital funding has been allocated in the budget for 2025/26, to support National Health Service performance across secondary and emergency care, and to begin to deliver against the Government's three strategic shi...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13834More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will issue guidance on whether film and television productions that use generative artificial intelligence qualify for (a) the Independent Film Tax Credit and (b) rate relief for VFX spend.
Answer: From 1 April 2025, films with a UK lead writer or director and budgets of under £15 million will be able to claim an enhanced 53% rate of Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC), known as the Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC). Generative artificial intell...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Government DepartmentsTreasuryTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13796More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed increases in employer's national insurance contributions on future trends in the cost to the public purse of Government contracts with private secto
Answer: At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor announced that the rate of Employer National Insurance contributions will increase from 13.8% to 15% from 6 April 2025. In order to raise the revenue required to fund public services and restore economic stability, dif...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Armed ConflictMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, following the Chancellor's commitment of £3 billion a year for the Ukraine war effort, what similar commitment does this budget make for our continued support of Israel's war effort.
Answer: A resolution to this conflict has been a priority since day one of this Government. An immediate ceasefire is just the first step towards a lasting solution to the crisis. The UK continues to fund our operational presence in Middle East to support regiona...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSouth Fylde Line: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will include the South Fylde Passing Loop Project in new rail infrastructure spending.
Answer: Following the closure of the Restoring Your Railway (RYR) programme, the Department is now reviewing its portfolio, including proposals for the South Fylde line. There is currently no DfT funding allocated to develop this project any further, but we encou...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12185More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.51 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, what guidance her Department issues to small business farmers who wish to keep an inherited family farm.
Answer: The Government has published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-are-the-changes-to-agricultural-property-relief#:~:text=From%206%20April%202026%2C%20the,rather%20than%20the%20standard%2...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FyldeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department plans to provide for flood defences in Fylde constituency in the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: Across England, we will invest £2.4 billion over the next two years to improve flood resilience, by maintaining, repairing and building flood defences. The list of projects to receive Government funding in 2025/26 will be consented over the coming months ...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: FyldeDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12182More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to provide additional funding to increase the number of school places in Fylde before January 2025, in the context of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.
Answer: The department has already set out funding allocations for all schools in the current year. The removal for the school fees exemption to VAT does not change those allocations.The government has also set out that it expects the number of additional pupils ...
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTyphoon Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department's budget for 2025-26 includes 24 Typhoon jets.
Answer: Budget allocations for 2025-26 will be set in the usual way and informed by the findings of the Strategic Defence Review.
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordRegeneration: FyldeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding is available for the redevelopment of town centres in Fylde constituency.
Answer: The Government will set out its long-term vision for local growth at the muti-year spending review in the Spring. This will end the approach of Local Authorities and MCAs bidding against each other for growth funds, targeting funding where it is needed mo...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
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