Anneliese Dodds MP: written questions 2025
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Energy Company Obligation: Cost EffectivenessDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the value for money of the Energy Company Obligation scheme.
Answer: The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) requires energy suppliers to fund energy efficiency and heating upgrades in eligible homes, with costs recovered through consumer bills. Since 2013, 4.2 million measures have been installed in 2.5 million homes. ECO4’s ...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Service ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compliance by social landlords with guidance that service charge increases are restricted in line with rent increases.
Answer: The government does not regulate the level of service charges for social housing tenants.Our policy statement on social housing rents states that Registered Providers of social housing should endeavour to keep any service charge increases for tenants with...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTerritorial Army: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether past experience of depression is used as a criterion within the online recruitment process for selecting potential future members of the territorial army.
Answer: The Defence Secretary has undertaken to review the current recruitment policies and has already announced several changes to prior outdated approaches. An update to Joint Service Publication (JSP) 950 Leaflet 6-7-7, which sets out the Medical Employment S...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTerritorial Army: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether experiencing acne (a) in the past and (b) at present is used as a criterion within the online recruitment process for selecting potential future members of the territorial army.
Answer: The Government inherited a recruitment crisis from the last Government.The Defence Secretary has undertaken to review the current recruitment policies and has already announced several changes to prior outdated approaches. An update to Joint Service Publi...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Humanitarian SituationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held recent discussions with his G20 counterparts on the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
Answer: Sudan is a personal priority for the Foreign Secretary, who chaired the London Sudan Conference on 15 April. The conference was co-hosted by the AU, EU, France and Germany, and all G20 counterparts. It was also attended by G20 members including Canada, Sa...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Food InsecurityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to United Nations World Food Programme press release entitled Tens of millions at risk of extreme hunger and starvation as unprecedented funding crisis spirals
Answer: The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is the largest and most severe globally. Tens of millions of people require life-saving aid with almost 640,000 people projected to be experiencing catastrophic famine conditions. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Of...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Sanitary ProductsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 17.7 of the NHS Standard Contract 2024/25 Service Conditions, published in February 2024, what steps her Department is taking to offer reusable period products.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of women and girls being able to access the care they need for their reproductive health, including period products.Since 2019 it has been a requirement in the NHS Standard Contract that the National Health Service...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Sanitary ProductsDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Period product scheme for schools and colleges, published 9 September 2024, what methods she uses to highlight to eligible schools and colleges the availabil
Answer: The period product scheme provides a wide range of products for organisations to choose from. These include environmentally friendly tampons and pads, alongside reusable products such as menstrual cups and period pants. Schools and colleges know their lea...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Sanitary ProductsDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41920More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Period product scheme for schools and colleges, published 9 September 2024, what proportion of organisations have ordered (a) environmentally friendly and (b
Answer: The period product scheme provides a wide range of products for organisations to choose from. These include environmentally friendly tampons and pads, alongside reusable products such as menstrual cups and period pants. Schools and colleges know their lea...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSanitary Products: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the environmental impact of disposable period products and (a) environmentally friendly and (b) reusable products.
Answer: Defra has not carried out a comparative assessment of the environmental impact of different types of period products.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Instruction: ChildrenDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Under 17 Car Club on the geographical scope of the Pathfinder Initiative; and whether she has plans to hold such discussions.
Answer: The Secretary of State for Transport has not had any discussions with the Under 17 Car Club but the Government welcomes initiatives to help young people drive safely.
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Medical RecordsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which projects using NHS data undertaken by (a) Novartis, (b) IQVIA, (c) AstraZeneca, (d) Merck, (e) Novo Nordisk, (f) GSK, (g) Roche and (h) Janssen-Cilag have adopted the (i) no value sharing, (i
Answer: The Department and the National Health Service in England are moving to a system of “data access as default” for secondary uses of NHS data, which is being supported by the implementation of Secure Data Environments (SDEs). This means that NHS data is inc...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCars: EquipmentDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that all cars should include an emergency glass hammer.
Answer: The carriage by motorists of emergency equipment such as first aid kits, warning triangles, high visibility jackets and escape tools is not generally prescribed in law. The Highway Code recommends the carriage of many items of emergency equipment and my ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving: Young PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport on 28 January 2025 in the debate on Road Safety: Young Drivers, Official Report, Column 49-51WH, what steps sh
Answer: As work progresses on the new road safety strategy, we are considering measures, including those in the Driver2020 project, and assessing their potential impacts to tackle the root causes of young driver collisions without unfairly penalising young driver...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving: Young PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport on 28 January 2025 in the debate on Road Safety: Young Drivers, Official Report, Column 49-51WH, which (a) cha
Answer: The Government's flagship road safety campaign, THINK!, aims to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads. THINK! plays an important role in raising awareness of risky driving behaviours amongst young people. This has recently ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving: Young PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for the Future of Roads in the debate on Road Safety: Young Drivers on 28 January 2025, Official Report, column 49WH, whether she has made an assessment o
Answer: As work progresses on the new road safety strategy, we are considering measures, including those in the Driver2020 project, and assessing their potential impacts to tackle the root causes of young driver collisions without unfairly penalising young driver...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving: Young PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for the Future of Roads in the debate on Road Safety: Young Drivers on 28 January 2025, Official Report, column 49WH, which interventions examined by the
Answer: As work progresses on the new road safety strategy, we are considering measures, including those in the Driver2020 project, and assessing their potential impacts to tackle the root causes of young driver collisions without unfairly penalising young driver...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
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