Bernard Jenkin MP: written questions
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Written questions
Liverpool Street StationDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 63966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station on the surrounding heritage buildings.
Answer: The initial plans brought forward by a previous developer have now been replaced by a revised scheme. This new approach seeks to address heritage concerns while preserving the benefits of commercial development. Crucially, it enables significant improveme...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLiverpool Street Station: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station on the economy.
Answer: The redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station will enable £500m investment in the busiest station in the UK at no cost to the taxpayer. Officials in my Department are engaged with Network Rail Property and Planning teams around the redevelopment proposal...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of local government reorganisation in Essex.
Answer: The overall case for local government reorganisation is set out the English Devolution White Paper.A PWC 2020 report estimated that reorganisation of the then 25 two-tier areas to a single unitary would have a one-off cost of £400 million, with the potent...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office and Prime Minister: StaffCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27507More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) officials and (b) advisers are employed by (i) his Department and (ii) Number 10 Downing Street.
Answer: Data on the number of officials in the Cabinet Office is published monthly at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-workforce-management-data-2023-to-2024 and Business Unit level data including for Business Units in Number 10 Downing S...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: Essex and SuffolkDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 6 January 2026 on Health and Adult Social Care Reform, Official Report, Column 597, where new diagnostic centres in (a) Essex and (b) Suffolk will be based.
Answer: The Elective Reform Plan, published on 6 January 2025, sets out that we will deliver additional community diagnostic centre (CDC) capacity in 2025/26 by expanding a number of existing CDCs and building up to five new ones. Capital investment agreed at the...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: Skilled WorkersDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the (a) level of skilled labour and (b) extent of the shortage of the particular skills required to deliver the proposed upgrades to the National Grid electrici
Answer: Reinforcing Great Britain’s electricity network to meet net zero will require a range of skills in engineering, IT professionals, physical scientist and environmental professionals, project managers, chartered surveyors and quality control, metal working ...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUnitary CouncilsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, what the evidential basis is that unitary councils save mo
Answer: The Case For Local Government Reorganisation in the English Devolution White Paper, states “In 2020 a PwC report, “Evaluating the importance of scale in proposals for local government reorganisation”, for the County Councils Network, estimated that reorga...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOfgem: PublicationsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what definition his Department uses for socio-economic welfare, the context of publications by Ofgem.
Answer: Socio-economic welfare is a standard economic tool that aims to identify how much better off the country would be if an improvement is made by tracing the effects on the economy. In this regard, Ofgem uses the same definitions of welfare as used in other ...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIncentivesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to implement a British jobs bonus scheme; and how much he plans to allocate to each year of the scheme.
Answer: The Government has launched the Clean Industry Bonus, an addition to Contract for Difference (CfD) payments for fixed and floating offshore wind developers who invest in their supply chains. The budget for the Bonus will be £27m per gigawatt of offshore w...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAUKUSMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the fire in a submarine construction facility in Barrow-in-Furness on delivery of the AUKUS submarine programme.
Answer: I refer the right hon. Member to the written statement I laid in the House on 30 October 2024 on this issue. The UK remains committed to delivering the SSN-AUKUS Optimal Pathway announced by the three leaders of the AUKUS nations in March 2023. The UK’s c...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSelect CommitteesCabinet OfficeTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12023More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to the First Report of the Liaison Committee of 2023-24 on Promoting national strategy: How select committee scrutiny can improve strategic thinking in Whitehall, HC 31, published on 29
Answer: The Government looks forward to discussing this report with the incoming Liaison Committee Chair once elected.
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordList of Ministerial ResponsibilitiesCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7397More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason an updated version of the transparency data entitled Government ministers and responsibilities has not yet been published; and when he plans to publish an updated version.
Answer: A new List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be published shortly.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
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