Anna Dixon MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Debts: Developing CountriesTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76171More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to support representations of developing nations in international discussions on global sovereign debt.
Answer: The UK government is committed to supporting and working closely with developing nations in international discussions on global sovereign debt. The UK government engages with our partners through various multilateral fora, including the G20, the Paris Clu...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for publishing the outcome of the technical consultation on the reform of planning committees.
Answer: We are considering responses to the consultation in question and will publish a response in due course.
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBuilding Regulations: AccessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for introducing the technical consultation on the M4(2) requirement in building regulations.
Answer: Housing is one of this Government’s top priorities. Everyone deserves to live in a decent home that is suitable for them and meets their needs. The revised National Planning Policy Framework, published on 12 December 2024, requires local planning authorit...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 56485 on Children: Maintenance, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of aligning the child maintenance responsibilities of those who rec
Answer: The child maintenance calculation is designed to be fair and proportionate and broadly represent an amount that the paying parent would spend on the child as if they were still living with them. The calculation takes the paying parent’s gross income into ...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: IndiaTreasuryTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64942More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish an economic impact assessment on the potential impact of the National Insurance exemption for Indian nationals posted temporarily to the UK under the UK–India Free Trade Agreement on (a) wages, (
Answer: The OBR will certify the impact of the trade deal including the Double Contributions Convention in the usual way at a fiscal event, once the deal is finalised and ratified. The agreement to negotiate a Double Contributions Convention was made in the conte...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures Hubs: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to extend the Young Futures Programme to include young people up to the age of 25.
Answer: Young Futures Hubs will build on the success of existing infrastructure and provision, with the government establishing a number of early adopter hubs, the locations of which will be determined by where they will have the most impact. The multi-year Spend...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures Hubs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) capital and (b) revenue funding will be allocated for Young Futures Hubs.
Answer: Young Futures Hubs will build on the success of existing infrastructure and provision, with the government establishing a number of early adopter hubs, the locations of which will be determined by where they will have the most impact. The multi-year Spend...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP claims are fraudulent; how many existing PIP claimants are expected to lose their allowance as a result of proposed changes to limit eligibility to those scoring at least four poi
Answer: Information on Fraud and Error in the Benefit System, including Personal Independence Payment, is published here.Information on the impacts changes to PIP have been published here: Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill publications - Par...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) which stakeholders he has consulted and (b) what data sources he has used to develop the basis of the adult social care resource formula.
Answer: It is important that the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula accurately reflects the relative need for services to ensure funding is allocated to the places that need it most and to enable all local authorities to focus on improving adult social care...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the assessment framework used for commissioning the adult social care resource formula focuses on outcomes.
Answer: It is important that the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula accurately reflects the relative need for services to ensure funding is allocated to the places that need it most and to enable all local authorities to focus on improving adult social care...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to encourage businesses to use pin pads that are accessible to people with sight impairments.
Answer: The government expects people who provide goods, services, and facilities to members of the public, to anticipate the requirements of disabled customers and the adjustments that may have to be made for them, in line with the Equality Act 2010.In April, th...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to extend the time limit on exceptions to council tax premiums for category G properties to cover the full period for which a property is being act
Answer: The government has published guidance on the implementation of council tax premiums and exceptions to those premiums. This is available gov.uk here. The government does not have any plans to change the exceptions to the council tax premiums.
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that multi academy trust executives are paid appropriately; and what action was taken by the 37 trusts her Department issued with outlier pay challenge letters in O
Answer: The 37 academy trusts listed in the October 2024 publication on GOV.UK were engaged with on executive pay to ensure compliance with the Academy Trust Handbook.The Academy Trust Handbook requires that:An academy trust’s board of trustees ensures its decisi...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of mental health staff that will be placed in schools; and what assessment he has made of the level of qualification that will be required by those staff mem
Answer: We are working closely with local commissioners to deliver mental health support teams in schools in England so they cover 100% of pupils by 2029/30. NHSE have estimated that around 2,400 Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) are placed throughout ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many claims to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund were rejected as a result of the total fund limit being reached in 2024-2025; and how many claims made in 2024-25 exceeded the new limits fo
Answer: No claims to the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) were rejected as a result of the total fund limit being reached in 2024/25.Applications exceeding £3,000 were made for 4,832 children in 2024/25. This figure may include some double c...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers' PensionsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15144 on Teachers: Workplace Pension, what the updated planned timetable is for resolving the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value
Answer: The scheme administrator has made significant progress to reduce the backlog of Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) figures that built up whilst the necessary guidance was developed following the Transitional Protection (McCloud) remedy taking effect.Th...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOrganic Farming: StandardsTreasuryTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56492More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of offering (a) enhanced and (b) conditional Agricultural Property Relief on (i) land farmed with certified organic production standards and (ii) farms maki
Answer: There are no plans to change the qualifying conditions for agricultural property relief to distinguish between conventional and organic farming. The Government is supporting organic farming, along with other environmentally friendly farming techniques, th...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDebt Collection: RegulationMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of statutory regulation for the bailiff industry.
Answer: Whilst most enforcement agencies have already signed up to the Enforcement Conduct Board’s (ECB) voluntary accreditation scheme, the Government believes that it is necessary to take action so that all enforcement agents, High Court Enforcement Officer and...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: AccessDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to access (a) music concerts and (b) other live events.
Answer: The Government supports the Arts Councils of each UK nation and Ireland and the British Film Institute in launching All In, a free, UK wide arts access scheme. This scheme will help remove barriers for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people in music ven...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEl Salvador: DetaineesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic pressure his Department has exerted on the El Salvador government to ensure that the human rights of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca
Answer: The UK continues to urge the authorities in El Salvador to establish an exit strategy from the current State of Exception and ensure respect for human rights, including ensuring that prisoners are treated in line with international human rights standards ...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who receive the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit contribute an adequate share of child maintenance respons
Answer: The child maintenance calculation is designed to be fair for the paying parent, while ensuring they contribute a significant proportion of their income to support their children. A banding system ensures that the very lowest earners and those on prescrib...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 31102 on Driving Licences: Young People, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the root causes of the proportion of incidents involving young vict
Answer: My department is developing our Road Safety Strategy and will set out more details in due course. THINK!, the Government’s flagship road safety campaign, aims to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on the roads in England and Wales by...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEvents Industry: First AidDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 3rd April 2025 on Question 44192 on Events Industry: First Aid, when his Department plans to publish the updated Event Healthcare Standard; and whether he is taking steps to c
Answer: Following the Manchester Arena Inquiry Volume Two report recommendations the government committed to develop an Event Healthcare Standard. This guidance will support the Care Quality Commission’s regulation of the provision of treatment of disease, disord...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Disability and WomenForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to conduct an Equalities Impact Assessment of the potential impact of reductions to Official Development Assistance on (a) disability inclusion and (b) women
Answer: Decisions on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be used are being worked through as part of the ongoing Spending Review, based on various factors including impact assessments. Equality Impact Assessments - which consider impacts on ...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEvents Industry: First AidHome OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what specific first aid equipment will be required under Martyn’s Law for (a) venues and (b) events; and whether there will be different requirements based on (i) venue size and (ii) risk level.
Answer: The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act requires those responsible for certain premises and events to consider how they would respond to a terrorist attack. In addition, appropriate steps to reduce vulnerability to terrorist attacks must also be consid...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
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