Ben Maguire MP: written questions 2025
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Schools: ComplaintsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of standardising complaint procedures for (a) schools and (b) trusts to ensure that (i) parents and (ii) guardians have the same opportunity to
Answer: The department is working closely with the Improving Education Together group to improve the complaints system. We are exploring how to reset the relationship between schools and parents through encouraging informal resolution, reducing duplication, and c...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Arrangements Orders: GrandparentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to legislate to protect the rights of children to communicate with (a) grandparents and (b) others members of extended family in cases where (i) one and (ii) both parents seek to prev
Answer: I acknowledge and respect that grandparents and other extended family members often play an important role in children’s lives and can provide stability in families, particularly where parents are separating.Any contact with the child should always be in ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ParkingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of hospital parking costs on (a) recruitment and (b) retention of NHS staff who commute long distances in (a) North Cornwall constitu
Answer: Decisions on the provision of car parking are made locally by National Health Service organisations, including considering how they affect local recruitment and the retention of their staff. These decisions will need to reflect the local geography and env...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ParkingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that NHS bank staff are offered the same discounted parking arrangements as other hospital employees.
Answer: Decisions on the provision of car parking are made locally by National Health Service organisations, including considering how they affect local recruitment and the retention of their staff. These decisions will need to reflect the local geography and env...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ParkingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the costs of hospital parking for NHS bank staff working shifts at NHS Trusts.
Answer: Decisions on the provision of car parking are made locally by National Health Service organisations, including considering how they affect local recruitment and the retention of their staff. These decisions will need to reflect the local geography and env...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPatients: SafetyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department guarantee safe services for patients when a Hospital Trust is regularly at OPEL 4.
Answer: The National Health Service’s operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) framework provides a standardised approach to support an effective, integrated, and coordinated response to acute trust operational pressures. This includes the actions locally, ...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department has provided to Hospital Trusts that reach Opel 4.
Answer: The National Health Service’s operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) framework provides a standardised approach to support an effective, integrated, and coordinated response to acute trust operational pressures. This includes the actions locally, ...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDartmoor LineDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Dartmoor Railway Line into (a) North Cornwall constituency, (b) Launceston and (c) Bude.
Answer: The Government recognises the transport challenges faced by rural communities, including those in North Cornwall. While there are currently no plans to reintroduce rail services to North Cornwall, we encourage local authorities and transport providers, in...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: North CornwallDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82911More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of rail connectivity in North Cornwall constituency.
Answer: The Government recognises the transport challenges faced by rural communities, including those in North Cornwall. While there are currently no plans to reintroduce rail services to North Cornwall, we encourage local authorities and transport providers, in...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLobsters: CornwallDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of designating Cornish lobster as a protected product under the Protected Geographical Indication framework.
Answer: The Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) framework plays a vital role in championing food and drink products that are regionally distinct and nationally important, helping to preserve heritage, support rural economies, and promote high-quality British ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InternetHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing (a) device-based and (b) operating system-based safeguards to prevent live-streamed child sexual abuse.
Answer: The Government is unequivocal in its commitment to protecting children from all forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse. This includes work to combat livestreamed abuse and ensuring that offenders cannot use technology to harm children with impunity....
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InternetHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) prevent and (b) limit UK-based offenders from (i) creating demand for, (ii) accessing and (iii) viewing live-streamed child sexual abuse.
Answer: The Government is unequivocal in its commitment to protecting children from all forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse. This includes work to combat livestreamed abuse and ensuring that offenders cannot use technology to harm children with impunity....
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InternetHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of UK-based live-streaming of child sexual abuse.
Answer: The Government is unequivocal in its commitment to protecting children from all forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse. This includes work to combat livestreamed abuse and ensuring that offenders cannot use technology to harm children with impunity....
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: FinesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total amount received from water companies in (a) fines and (b) penalties since the Spending Review 2023; and what steps she has taken to e
Answer: £109 million in fines and penalties has been applied against water companies since October 2023. This includes the £104.5 million fine issued by Ofwat to Thames Water for breaches of rules relating to the company’s wastewater operations. In June this Gove...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: FinesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a list of schemes where fines levied against water companies (a) have been reinvested to clean up UK waters and (b) are programmed to be reinvested to clean up UK w
Answer: In June this Government announced that fines and penalties levied against water companies for environmental breaches, will be reinvested into future local environmental projects across the country to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas. These could includ...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76210More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of allowing incidental off-sales of beer and cider from draught duty paid containers on pubs in rural communities.
Answer: Draught beer and cider now pay 13.9% less in duty than their packaged equivalents – an increase of over 50% on the previous draught discount of 9.2%. This took a penny of duty off a typical strength pint. The core objective of this relief is to recognise ...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76209More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to (a) implement and (b) administer the proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief under the inheritance tax regime, including any
Answer: I refer to the answer given on 5 September 2025 to PQ UIN 70546.https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-08-29/70546
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOwner Occupation: BatsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to issue guidance for homeowners who discover bats in their property.
Answer: All bats, including their breeding sites and resting places, are protected under UK and international law. This strict legal protection makes it an offence to deliberately capture, injure, or kill bats; to damage or destroy a breeding or resting place; or...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: BatsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that homeowners with bats on their property can conduct (a) urgent structural and (b) safety repairs while respecting bat conservation rul
Answer: Defra is committed to ensuring that homeowners can maintain safe living environments while upholding England’s strong legal protections for bats. We continue to work with Natural England and conservation organisations to streamline licensing processes and...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of specialty training posts for UK-trained doctors.
Answer: As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan published in July, over the next three years we will create 1,000 new speciality training posts with a focus on specialities where there is greatest need.The 10-Year Health Plan also set out that we will work across g...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) doctors completing GP training and (b) available GP posts.
Answer: NHS England produces regular forecasts of the numbers of doctors due to complete General Practitioner (GP) training. Latest data show that for 2025/26, 1,964 doctors completed GP training between 1 April and 21 August 2025 with a further 2,733 doctors for...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cancer early diagnosis targets are appropriate for blood cancers.
Answer: The Department remains committed to the early diagnosis of cancer and to improving outcomes for patients. However, we recognise that there is more to be done to ensure that patients with harder to stage cancers, such as blood cancer, receive fast and earl...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSaudi Arabia: Capital PunishmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Saudi counterpart on the cases of seven Egyptian nationals facing execution for non-lethal drug offences.
Answer: The UK strongly opposes the death penalty in all countries and circumstances. We regularly discuss human rights with the Saudi authorities, including individual cases of concern. I raised the cases of several Egyptian nationals with the Saudi authorities ...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Ombudsman ServiceTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73534More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to maintain the Financial Ombudsman Service’s remit when considering complaints.
Answer: The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) plays an important role in providing consumers with a cost-free and quick route to resolve disputes with financial services firms. My recent review of the FOS concluded that the framework in which it operates has resu...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOutdoor Education: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will hold discussions with (a) universities and (b) students' unions on introducing (i) safety frameworks, (ii) standardised risk assessments, (iii) training and (iv) a duty to report incident
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for North Cornwall to the answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 54501.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
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