Andrew Snowden MP: written questions 2025
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Defence: North WestMinistry of DefenceTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling existing defence-manufacturing clusters in the North West, including aerospace and advanced materials firms, to contribute to the planned ‘always on
Answer: We are committed to ensuring the Defence industry is an engine for growth through strengthened industrial relationships and domestic investment. As published in the UK Defence Footprint the North West region has seen £4.8 billion of Defence spending in 20...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWeapons: FactoriesMinistry of DefenceTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he used to determine the potential sites for the new munitions and energetics factories; and if he will publish the assessment methodology.
Answer: We are committed to ensuring the Defence industry is an engine for growth through strengthened industrial relationships and domestic investment. As published in the UK Defence Footprint the North West region has seen £4.8 billion of Defence spending in 20...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: WeatherDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure school closures due to extreme weather do not affect educational outcomes.
Answer: It is for individual settings and responsible bodies to decide on closures based on their own risk assessment. Closures should be a last resort, and the priority is to keep settings open where safe. The department’s guidance for schools includes informati...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: WeatherDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on support for schools in cases of (a) snow and (b) other extreme weather.
Answer: It is for individual settings and responsible bodies to decide on closures based on their own risk assessment. Closures should be a last resort, and the priority is to keep settings open where it is safe to do so.The department’s emergency planning guidan...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSelf-employed: TaxationTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92739More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that contractors have the same right to (a) settlement and (b) negotiated concession of their tax bills that are provided to large companies.
Answer: HMRC applies the law fairly and consistently in accordance with its published Litigation and Settlement Strategy (LSS). This ensures every taxpayer, no matter who they are, pays the tax due under the law.Central to the LSS is that HMRC will not settle a d...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBorders: Personal RecordsHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the government uses its Initial Status Analysis system to monitor the departure of British citizens from the UK, as well as non-citizens.
Answer: The passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement (DUA) between the Home Office and HMRC is Advance Passenger Information. This is essentially the passenger manifest for each flight or voyage, setting out the names and travel docum...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Information SharingHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what basis her Department re-personalised passenger name record data to share it with HMRC under the Data Usage Agreement: customer left UK data share pilot, published on 5 September 2024.
Answer: The passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement (DUA) between the Home Office and HMRC is Advance Passenger Information. This is essentially the passenger manifest for each flight or voyage, setting out the names and travel docum...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBorders: Personal RecordsHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) HMRC and (b) the Department for Work and Pension on the use of passenger name records.
Answer: The passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement (DUA) between the Home Office and HMRC is Advance Passenger Information. This is essentially the passenger manifest for each flight or voyage, setting out the names and travel docum...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAssessments: DyslexiaDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of exam support for students with dyslexia.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Fylde to the answer of 21 November 2025 to Question 90919.
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StrikesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients are not adversely affected by strike action.
Answer: Our priority is to keep patients as safe as possible during any industrial action. The National Health Service makes every effort through rigorous contingency planning to minimise the disruption of industrial action and its impact on patients and the publ...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: GraduatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that UK medical graduates are prioritised for training posts in the National Health Service.
Answer: As set out in our 10-Year Health Plan, published on 3 July, we will work across the Government to prioritise United Kingdom medical graduates for foundation training, and to prioritise UK medical graduates and other doctors who have worked in the National...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on overseas doctors competing for UK training posts.
Answer: The Department has regular discussions with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges about a range of issues, including recruitment to foundation and specialty training posts.
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: GraduatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the number of medical graduates who have been unable to secure training scheme posts in the last three years.
Answer: Upon entering the National Health Service after graduation, medical students enter a two-year period of foundation programme placements. The United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office has successfully allocated foundation programme places to all eligible ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBoiler Upgrade SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many applications for air-to-air heat pump grants have been received since the expansion of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
Answer: The Boiler Upgrade Scheme currently offers grants of £7,500 for hydronic heat pumps only – air and ground source. On 18 November, the Government published the response to the consultation, which closed on 11 June, on proposed amendments to the Boiler Upgr...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBoiler Upgrade SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the value for money of expanding the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to include air-to-air heat pumps and heat batteries compared to other low-carbon heating options.
Answer: The Government recognise that hydronic heat pumps may not be the most appropriate solution for all properties, especially those that currently have ‘dry’ (non-hydronic) space heating. Therefore, we are supporting air-to-air heat pumps under the Boiler Upg...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Information SharingHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement the Home Office made with HMRC for the customer left UK data share pilot.
Answer: The passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement (DUA) between the Home Office and HMRC is Advance Passenger Information. This is essentially the passenger manifest for each flight or voyage, setting out the names and travel docum...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: LancashireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92172More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the length of NHS waiting lists in (i) Fylde and (ii) Lancashire.
Answer: We are clear that the extent of waits for treatment is unacceptable, and cutting waiting lists is a key priority for the Government. We have committed to returning by March 2029 to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients s...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic HousesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her budget on the pubs and brewing sector.
Answer: The Chancellor will make decisions on Budget in the round and these will be announced in the usual way. The government does not comment on speculation outside of fiscal events.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness rates: Beer and Public HousesTreasuryTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91709More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she has make an assessment of the potential impact of reforming business rates on small pubs and breweries.
Answer: In April 2026, the Government will introduce permanently lower business rates multipliers for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values below £500,000. This permanent tax cut will ensure that eligible properties, including pub...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles were (a) seized and (b) crushed for fly-tipping offences in (i) Fylde, (ii) Lancashire, and (iii) England in the last 12 months.
Answer: Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping enforcement actions, including vehicles seized, to Defra, which are published annually here. This data is not available at a constituency level and does not include information on what happen...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delaying publishing provisional funding allocations will have any impact on schools’ and local authorities’ budget planning for 2026-27.
Answer: The department published the financial year 2026/27 schools and central school services national funding formula (NFF) on 19 November. High needs allocations will follow shortly.
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDroughts: LancashireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of prolonged dry weather on wildlife and natural habitats in (a) Fylde and (b) Lancashire.
Answer: Following the prolonged dry weather incident of 2025 the Environment Agency (EA) responded to numerous dry weather-related environmental incidents. These included incidents in: a) FyldeThe Fisheries Operations Team carried out a fish rescue at a pond near...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: MonitoringDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of local authorities currently use digital waste tracking services.
Answer: The Digital Waste Tracking Service goes live from April 2026 for waste receivers, with requirements to digitally track waste received becoming mandatory in October 2026. Waste operators currently use multiple systems – some paper based and others digital ...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordReservoirs: ConstructionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press notice entitled Government steps in to build first major reservoirs in 30 years, published on 29 May 2025. what progress she has made on buildi
Answer: The Price Review 2024 will deliver substantial, lasting, improvements through a £104bn upgrade for the water sector. The highest level of investment in the water sector since privatisation, this investment will be crucial to deliver the improvements requi...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: ImportsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the reforms announced in the Department for Education's press release entitled Schools to cut bills with Great British Energy solar panels, published on 17 November 2025, wh
Answer: ‘Homegrown’ ‘power refers to schools generating their own electricity from solar panel installations on their own buildings. Panels themselves are procured with support from Crown Commercial Services under strict controls and may include components source...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
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