Andrew Snowden MP: written questions 2025
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Rents: LancashireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77759More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to introduce rent controls in Lancashire.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 56269 on 10 June 2025.
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Relations: LancashireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take with local authorities to encourage social cohesion at a neighbourhood level in Lancashire.
Answer: The government has recently announced the Pride in Place programme, which will support up to 244 of Great Britain’s most in-need neighbourhoods with up to £20 million each over the next decade. Our long-term investment is designed not only to address depr...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSecond Homes: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing local authority discretion to waive the Council Tax premium on second homes in cases where the second proper
Answer: Decisions on whether to apply council tax premiums are a matter for individual councils. Where a council chooses to implement a premium, they have the discretionary power to set their own local exceptions to premiums, or provide discounts where they consi...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77247More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 Sep 2025 to Question 73585 on Asylum: Housing, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Government procurement rules are adhered to in the issuing of contracts to
Answer: All commercial contracts are subject to normal government procurement rules.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Emergency CallsHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of police workforce shortages on response times to emergency calls.
Answer: The Government’s Safer Streets Mission sets a clear expectation for policing to deliver safer communities and improved public confidence. We are committed to giving forces the resources they need to keep the public safe.The 2025-26 final police funding se...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 Sep 2025 to Question 73585 on Asylum: Housing, what steps her Department is taking to ensure there is no conflict of interest when allocating contracts for asylum accommoda
Answer: All commercial contracts are subject to normal government procurement rules.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 Sep 2025 to Question 73585 on Asylum: Housing, what mechanisms exist for members of the public to report perceived conflicts of interest in the allocation of contracts to p
Answer: All commercial contracts are subject to normal government procurement rules.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 73585 on Asylum: Housing, what her policy is on the administration of asylum accommodation contracts relating to people who both oversee contract
Answer: All commercial contracts are subject to normal government procurement rules.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 66726, what recent estimate she has made of the number of student nurses in England who are ineligible for the 30 hours of funded childcare due to their status
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change. We are delivering more support to working families than ev...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Health ProfessionsDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a cross-departmental taskforce to review the adequacy of childcare provision for (a) student nurses and (b) other parents in full-time heal
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.Where student parents are not eligible for 30 hours funded ...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: Labour TurnoverDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure childcare policy supports the recruitment and retention of student nurses as part of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, updated on 22 April 2024.
Answer: The Department for Education provides the primary funding support package for English domiciled students in higher education through the student loans system. Eligible students can also apply for the Childcare Grant and Parents’ Learning Allowance.The Dep...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77239More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making student nurses eligible for the 30 hours of free childcare.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.Students who work in addition to their studies and earn the...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Vocational EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out the level of childcare support his Department provides for (a) student nurses and (b) other essential vocational trainees; and what plans she has to increase that level of support.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.Students who work in addition to their studies and earn the...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 66726 on Childcare: Eligibility, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the eligibility criteria to take account of the
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.Students who work in addition to their studies and earn the...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Domestic VisitsCabinet OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76884More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many visits by Ministers in his Department took place in constituencies represented by (a) Labour, (b) Conservative and (c) other hon. Members in the period between 4 July 2024 and 2 July 2025.
Answer: This information isn’t centrally held.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTable Office: StaffHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76883More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2025 to Question on Table Office: Financing, if the Commission will make an assessment of the potential merits of tem
Answer: The tabling of questions is driven by demand from Members and it is therefore difficult to predict peak periods of activity. The Chamber and Participation Team keeps under review appropriate staffing levels for the procedural offices, taking account of Me...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTable Office: StaffHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76882More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2025 to Question 30400 on Table Office: Finance, if the Commission will review the staffing levels for the Table Offi
Answer: There are currently no plans to review staffing levels for the Table Office. The Chamber and Participation Team keeps under review appropriate staffing levels for the procedural offices, taking account of Member demand but mindful of the fact that the Hou...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDouble JeopardyMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the threshold for reopening cases under the exception to the double jeopardy rule introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Answer: The Government recognises the fundamental importance of the rule against double jeopardy, as well as the need, in exceptional cases, to correct serious miscarriages of justice. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 permits a retrial only in cases involving the mo...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: TelemedicineDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of virtual GP appointments.
Answer: We are expanding capacity in general practice (GP) which will help deliver more virtual and face-to-face appointments to patients.In October 2024, we invested £82 million into the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme to support the recruitment of an addi...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Proscribed OrganisationsHome OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been refused entry to the UK on the basis of their support for proscribed terrorist groups since 2020.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGreta ThunbergHome OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September to Question 75385 on Greta Thunberg, whether public expressions of support for the proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action are considered relevant to an asse
Answer: A person does not need to have a criminal conviction to be refused admission on non-conducive grounds. Examples of where a person’s presence may be non-conducive to the public good include where the person is a threat to national security, including invol...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: RepatriationHome OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries have had access to UK visas restricted due to non-compliance with migrant return agreements; and what criteria were used in these decisions.
Answer: Visa penalties, as outlined in section 70 of Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (Nationality And Borders Act 2022), may be imposed on a country which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, does not cooperate with the UK in relation to the return of its ...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the increase in illegal working arrests involved people who had originally entered the UK on work visas.
Answer: The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of individuals with no right to work in the UK.The specific information requested is not readily available from published statistics and could only ...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: VisasHome OfficeTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visa sponsor licence revocations were (a) subsequently overturned and (b) appealed successfully from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office does publish data on the numbers ...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: PollinatorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the £500 million estimate of the value of pollination services to UK agriculture was calculated.
Answer: Bees and other pollinators play an essential role in our £100 billion food industry. The latest estimated value of insect pollination on UK crops fruit, vegetable and oil seed rape production is around £630 million per year. This estimate is based on incr...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
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