Callum Anderson MP: written questions 2025
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Revenue and CustomsTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80236More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria HMRC will use to prioritise enforcement on high-risk tax areas.
Answer: HMRC uses a risk-based approach to identify individuals and businesses for investigation, applying civil and criminal powers to tackle avoidance, evasion, and error. In 2024–25, this approach helped protect an estimated £48 billion in tax revenue. Its Str...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80235More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how HMRC will measure the potential impact of its digital services on levels of taxpayer compliance.
Answer: HMRC has a strategy to become a digital-first organisation with a minimum of 90% of interactions undertaken digitally by 2029 to 2030, as set out in the HMRC Transformation Roadmap. HMRC's Transformation Roadmap - GOV.UKAnnex A of the Roadmap sets out the...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: FinanceTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80234More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how her Department will allocate the £1 billion additional funding for HMRC across tax gap initiatives.
Answer: HMRC will allocate the additional funding at Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025 to close the tax gap predominately to frontline staff and digital services, including: 5,500 additional frontline compliance officers2,400 additional debt management...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: StandardsTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80233More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what metrics her Department will use to measure the success of HMRC’s transformation programme.
Answer: HMRC will use the metrics published in Annex A of HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap to measure the success of HMRC’s transformation programme. This is available online here: Annex A: HMRC's Transformation Roadmap metrics - GOV.UK
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Energy: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what financial targets his Department has set to ensure that Great British Energy is self-sustaining by 2030.
Answer: The government has set a target for Great British Energy to start generating a portfolio-level return from its commercial activities by 2030, in support of its longer-term goal to be profitable and its wider policy objectives. The government has also task...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what criteria will be used to determine community access to Great British Energy (a) capacity-building and (b) financial support.
Answer: Great British Energy is an operationally independent company and will make its own decisions on how it supports the community energy sector. We expect initial plans to be published as part of the Local Power Plan, which will be published in due course. Th...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the role Great British Energy will be in energy (a) planning and (b) consenting when acting as a co-developer.
Answer: Great British Energy (GBE) will invest in, own, and develop clean energy projects throughout all stages of their life cycle, from early development through to successful operation. This will include leading on developing projects itself, as well as being ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClean Energy: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the potential share of Great British Energy’s portfolio to be allocated to early-stage clean energy technologies by 2030.
Answer: Great British Energy will begin investing in projects this year – kickstarting its work in the development of nascent, clean energy technologies and helping to deliver a secure, clean homegrown energy supply for the UK that will support skilled jobs and s...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the 23 million (a) toothbrushes and (b) toothpastes will be provided to early years settings in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: The information is not available at constituency level. In 2025/26, Buckinghamshire Council and Milton Keynes City Council have received 5,544 toothbrushes for use in early years settings, 4,812 toothpastes and 3,660 toothbrushes for children to take home...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFluoride: Drinking WaterDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the extension of community water fluoridation (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) Milton Keynes.
Answer: Water fluoridation at levels recommended in the United Kingdom is a safe and effective intervention to reduce tooth decay and inequalities in dental health.The Government’s 10-Year Health Plan for National Health Service recovery and reform prioritises pr...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential return on funding for the the supervised brushing scheme in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: Supervised toothbrushing is an evidence-based intervention. The most recent assessment suggests that supervised toothbrushing schemes have a five-year return on investment of £3.06 for every £1 spent where the rate of decayed, missing due to decay, and fi...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has provided for supervised tooth brushing in early years settings in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: Funding for 2025/26 has been allocated at upper tier local authority level. For Buckinghamshire Council and Milton Keynes City Council this was £61,842.36 for supervised toothbrushing in early years settings. Further information is available at the follow...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what baseline data his Department holds on the number of hospital tooth extractions among 5-9 year olds in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) Buckinghamshire.
Answer: The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) publishes annual official statistics on tooth extractions, which include five- to nine-year-olds, that take place in a National Health Service hospital setting in England. The following table shows ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department applied to define deprived areas for the provision of free dental products in early years settings in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: National supervised toothbrushing programme funding and free dental products are based on the Office for National Statistics’ Indices of Multiple Deprivation mid-2020 population estimates. These were used to identify the number of three to five-year-olds ...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of 3-5 year olds who will join the supervised toothbrushing scheme in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency in each of the next five years.
Answer: The requested information is held at upper tier local authority rather than at constituency level. The national supervised toothbrushing programme targets 1,830 people aged between three- and five- years old living in the 20% most deprived Lower Super Out...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: BrazilDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed UK-Brazil trade measures on small and medium-sized businesses in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting small and medium sized businesses at the heart of our Growth Mission. Our recently published plan for small and medium sized businesses sets out a long-term approach for how we will help small and medium sized busine...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordExports: BrazilDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with his Brazilian counterpart on removing non-tariff barriers to UK exports.
Answer: I visited Brazil in September 2025 with the objective of strengthening our two-way trade. I signed agreements on customs, good regulatory practices and export credit aimed at tackling non-tariff barriers. I also progressed discussions on digital trade, mu...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Trade: BrazilDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department plans to take to identify UK priority sectors for trade expansion with Brazil.
Answer: The UK’s new Industrial Strategy sets out ambitious plans for eight growth-driving sectors - Advanced Manufacturing, Clean Energy Industries, Creative Industries, Defence, Digital and Technologies, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Professional and B...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80218More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how he monitors EU implementation of Trade and Co-operation Agreement provisions on energy market access.
Answer: The Government monitors EU implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, including provisions within the Energy Title, through the Agreement's established governance structures, in this case the Specialised Committee on Energy, the Trade Partners...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Performing ArtsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) visa, (b) work-permit, (c) transport and (d) administrative costs under the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on UK touring artists
Answer: This government recognises that touring in Europe has become more difficult for UK artists. We closely monitor the impact of current arrangements on the ability of UK performers and their crews to work and tour in Europe, including the additional time, co...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement on trade for small and medium-sized enterprises in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: Although the Department for Business and Trade has made no such specific assessment, it continuously monitors the impact of leaving the EU on costs to businesses across the UK through our business surveys, ONS reports, and other intelligence sources, as w...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Emissions: UK Relations with EUDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how he plans to (a) evaluate and (b) report on the linking of UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Answer: The Government will provide updates on negotiations where appropriate. Once any agreement is made to link the UK and EU ETS, the Government will consider the process to evaluate and report on the link consistent with the agreement reached, as well as with...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Relations with EU: QualificationsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms exist for monitoring mutual recognition of professional qualifications between the UK and EU under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Answer: The Trade and Cooperation Agreement contains provisions which allow the UK and EU to agree recognition of professional qualifications arrangements for specific sectors where this is jointly proposed by UK and EU regulators. The annual Trade Specialised Co...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAgricultural Products: UK Trade with EUDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she plans to assess progress towards establishing the proposed UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary zone under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Answer: This autumn we expect to start the detailed negotiations on the SPS agreement, as well as the other commitments from our summit in May Defra has established a programme to deliver the work required to implement a UK-EU SPS agreement. This is already part ...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76728More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of how many small businesses in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency are losing all Small Business Rates Relief when opening their second premises.
Answer: We are creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century.As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, a...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
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