Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much grant funding has been allocated through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
Answer: The Department has allocated over £2.9 billion in grant funding through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme over the financial years 2020/21 to 2025/26. Further grants are currently being allocated for the financial years 2025/26 to 2027/28 from the ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Studios: BedfordshireDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any (a) land and (b) infrastructure used for the new Universal Studios Theme Park in Bedfordshire be acquired via compulsory purchase order.
Answer: At this early stage there is no land that is expected to be acquired via compulsory purchase order for the Universal Studios theme park or its associated transport infrastructure.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: BirminghamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cost was charged to the local authority by the Ministry of Defence for the military personnel tasked via military aid to the civilian authorities to support the refuse c
Answer: The government has been supporting Birmingham City Council in its efforts to address the backlog of waste that had been building up on the city’s streets, and significant progress has been made in the last fortnight. This support has included the three of...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: BirminghamMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46109More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which units were the military personnel tasked via military aid to the civilian authorities to support the refuse collection strike in Birmingham; and how many of each rank.
Answer: Following a Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request from the Ministry of Housing, Community, and Local Government, three military personnel deployed to support Birmingham City Council on 9 April for a period of seven days. These personnel wer...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: BirminghamMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many military personnel were tasked via military aid to the civilian authorities to support the refuse collection strike in Birmingham.
Answer: The government has been supporting Birmingham City Council in its efforts to address the backlog of waste that had been building up on the city’s streets, and significant progress has been made in the last fortnight. This support has included the three of...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: StandardsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing legislation to require local authorities to allocate social housing with flooring installed.
Answer: There is currently no legislation requiring social housing landlords, including local authorities, to provide floor coverings. This is discretionary and landlords are not required to remove floor coverings when a home is let to new tenants. My Department ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Studios: BedfordshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of using a Special Development Order in order to speed up delivery of the new Universal Studios Theme Park in Bedfordshire.
Answer: No proposal has been submitted to the Secretary of State. Should the Secretary of State receive such a proposal then she will consider the case on its individual merits.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPeatlands: Falkland IslandsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the carbon flux sequestration of peat lands in the Falkland Islands.
Answer: Defra is currently funding an R&D project to gather data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration in peatlands in the Falkland Islands. This will deliver scientifically robust data to improve our understanding of Falkland peatland GH...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: South Atlantic OceanDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has held with the Food and Agriculture Organisation on fisheries data collection in the South Atlantic since 5 July 2025.
Answer: Since July 2024 Defra Officials have provided relevant input to the development of the Agenda for the FAO sub-committee on fisheries management, through our regional representative. Furthermore, as previously set out in the response to PQ 43781 and 43782,...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: EnergyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of his Department's £95 million investment in energy efficiency and resilience measures across the NHS estate made through the National Energy Efficiency Fund in financial year 20
Answer: The NHS National Energy Efficiency Fund (NEEF) seeks to drive down trusts’ energy bills through targeted measures like LED lighting, Building Management Systems, and rooftop solar panels. These investments pay for themselves within a few years through red...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Carbon EmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date Integrated Care Boards will be expected to decarbonise in accordance with their Green Plans; and how this will be monitored.
Answer: Green plans set out the key actions each trust and integrated care board (ICB) will take to deliver emissions reductions and support resilience to climate impacts over three-year periods. This work supports the delivery of the National Health Service’s sy...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: Carbon EmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date will NHS Trusts be expected to decarbonise in accordance with their Green Plans; and how this will be monitored.
Answer: Green plans set out the key actions each trust and integrated care board (ICB) will take to deliver emissions reductions and support resilience to climate impacts over three-year periods. This work supports the delivery of the National Health Service’s sy...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in which order of priority will the hospitals in the New Hospital Programme be started.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care set out a credible and deliverable plan and sequencing for the hospital schemes in the New Hospital Programme (NHP) on 20 January 2025, following the conclusion of the review of the NHP....
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Average EarningsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 42329 on General Practitioners: Finance, what the average salary was within the earnings data used in the staff market forces factor element of th
Answer: The Market Forces Factor used in the Carr-Hill formula is the difference in relative earnings due to geographical location alone, after removing the modelled impact on earnings differences across the country due to differences in the industry, occupation ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 44058 on General Practitioners: Pay, what plans he has to update the Market Forces Factor in the Carr-Hill formula with modelled earnings by geogr
Answer: The Department has no immediate plans to update the Market Forces Factor in the Carr-Hill formula.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 44058 on General Practitioners: Pay, how regularly the New Earnings Survey is published by the Office for National Statistics.
Answer: The New Earnings Survey has now been replaced with the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, which is carried out annually. It provides information about the levels, distribution, and make-up of earnings and paid hours worked for employees in all industrie...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMortality RatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43400, from what year is the national average death rate for each age group taken.
Answer: The death rates used by the Office for National Statistics to calculate the standardised mortality ratio for those aged under 65 years old are for the years 1996 to 2000 combined.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMortality Rates: HuntingdonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43400 on GP Practice lists, what the national average death rate is for each age group for all wards in Huntingdon constituency.
Answer: The standardised mortality ratio for those aged under 65 years old was calculated by the Office for National Statistics as a special exercise. The death rates for each age group were not provided.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostate Cancer on the Government’s approach to tackling the illness.
Answer: The Government has had no recent discussions with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on prostate cancer.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArgentina: AntarcticForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of Argentinian activity in Antarctica on (a) the environment, (b) British interests and (c) international interests.
Answer: The Antarctic Treaty preserves Antarctica as a place of peace and science and ensures international cooperation. The Treaty requires Parties to share advance notice of their plans in Antarctica and all activities are subject to environmental impact assess...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAntarctica: RussiaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of Russian activity in Antarctica on (a) the environment, (b) British interests and (c) international interests.
Answer: The Antarctic Treaty preserves Antarctica as a place of peace and science. An original Treaty signatory, Russia remains active in Antarctica. The Treaty requires Parties to share advance notice of their plans in Antarctica and all activities are subject t...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAntarctica: ChinaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of Chinese activity in Antarctica on (a) the environment, (b) British interests and (c) international interests.
Answer: The Antarctic Treaty, of which the UK and China are members, preserves Antarctica as a place of peace and science. While there is growing global interest in the economic potential of Antarctica, the Treaty ensures all parties adhere to high environmental ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGreenland: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43796, whether the topic of US interest in claiming Greenland was discussed.
Answer: I met Greenlandic Foreign Minister Motzfeldt at the Arctic Circle Assembly on 18 October 2024 in Iceland, and on 13 January 2025 in London. We discussed a range of bilateral and Arctic issues. We do not publish the minutes of diplomatic meetings.As per my...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGreenland: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43796, what the dates were of the two meetings with Greenland’s Foreign Minister.
Answer: I met Greenlandic Foreign Minister Motzfeldt at the Arctic Circle Assembly on 18 October 2024 in Iceland, and on 13 January 2025 in London. We discussed a range of bilateral and Arctic issues. We do not publish the minutes of diplomatic meetings.As per my...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGreenland: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43796 on Greenland: Sovereignty, if he will publish the minutes of his two meetings with Greenland's Foreign Minister.
Answer: I met Greenlandic Foreign Minister Motzfeldt at the Arctic Circle Assembly on 18 October 2024 in Iceland, and on 13 January 2025 in London. We discussed a range of bilateral and Arctic issues. We do not publish the minutes of diplomatic meetings.As per my...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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