Callum Anderson MP: written questions 2025
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Business Rates: Buckingham and BletchleyTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76727More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of proposed business rates reforms on the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
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
Original Parliament recordMortgagesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76726More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of allowing lenders to offer mortgages of over 4.5 times buyers’ income on the financial stability of mortgage lenders.
Answer: The loan-to-income (LTI) flow limit restricts the share of new mortgages that lenders can issue at or above 4.5 times a borrower’s income. It is set by the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC), which is responsible for identifying and addres...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: First Time BuyersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76725More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that new affordable housing built under the plan for 1.5 million homes will be accessible to first-time buyers whose deposit is less than 10 pe
Answer: The affordability challenges facing prospective first-time buyers mean that too many people are now locked out of homeownership. In addition to increasing the supply of homes of all tenures, the government is supporting people into home ownership, includi...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ExportsTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76724More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in (a) the UK and (b) Buckingham and Bletchley constituency have exported to China in the last three years.
Answer: HMRC releases information as Official Statistics called the Trade in Goods by Business Characteristics, which is available via gov.uk. (www.uktradeinfo.com). Trade in Goods by Business Characteristics includes exports to certain pre-selected Partner Count...
Answered 18 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Barriers: ChinaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what trade barriers his Department has identified in the Chinese market in (a) healthcare, (b) automotive and (c) professional services sectors.
Answer: We have identified the following challenges: in healthcare, complex regulatory approval processes for medicines and medical devices; in automotive, certification requirements, consumption taxes and tariffs; and in professional services firms face restrict...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPesticidesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of pesticides used under emergency authorisations will be subject to risk assessments under the new guidance.
Answer: The new guidance applies to all applications for emergency authorisation of pesticides. All such applications will therefore be subject to assessments of risks to people, animals and the environment, including risks to pollinators.
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBees: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what methodology her Department plans to use to assess the effectiveness of the revised emergency authorisation guidance in reducing harm to bee populations.
Answer: Defra has developed a Pesticide Load Indicator which combines data on quantities used with data on the properties of each pesticide. The indicator illustrates trends in the potential pressure on the environment arising from the use of pesticides. The metr...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPesticidesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has set any quantitative targets for the reduction in emergency-authorised pesticide applications that risk harming pollinators, following the publication of the
Answer: The new guidance makes clear that risks to people, animals and the environment, including risks to pollinators, will be taken fully into account. No pesticide will be granted an emergency authorisation unless the benefits outweigh those risks. The legisla...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what resources his Department has provided to facilitate the participation by GP practices in the Advice and Guidance scheme in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency since 1 April 2025.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) were instructed to invite all general practices to participate in the enhanced service specification for General Practice Requests for Advice and Guidance (A&G) 2025/26, which sees practices entitled to claim a £20 fee pe...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GP practices had signed up to the Advice and Guidance scheme by 30 April 2025 in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: The specific information requested is not held centrally by the Department as it is held at individual integrated care board (ICB) level. Buckingham and Bletchley constituency is served by two different ICBs, namely Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & West...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average reduction in waiting time achieved through the Advice and Guidance scheme was for patients registered with GP practices in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency in April 2025.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the average reduction in waiting time as a result of Advice and Guidance in April 2025 for patients in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: International CooperationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what role UK diplomatic posts in the Gulf region will play in monitoring and supporting implementation of the enhanced partnership with the United Arab Emirates on illicit fi
Answer: The UK-UAE Partnership to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows, chaired by the Home Office, is a cross-governmental effort to strengthen operational cooperation and disrupt financial crime. A senior UAE delegation visited the UK on 2 and 3 September to advance ...
Answered 7 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: United Arab EmiratesHome OfficeTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes are in place to review the effectiveness of the new co-operation with the United Arab Emirates in disrupting cross-border money laundering and terrorist financing activities.
Answer: The UK-UAE Partnership to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows is long-standing. Engagement to strengthen international cooperation on illicit finance is a Government-wide approach, and cooperation between the UK and UAE includes cross-Department Ministerial ov...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: International CooperationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of how the UK-UAE partnership on illicit finance will interact with multilateral initiatives such as the Financial Action Task Force.
Answer: The UK-UAE Partnership to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows, chaired by the Home Office, is a cross-governmental effort to strengthen operational cooperation and disrupt financial crime. A senior UAE delegation visited the UK on 2 and 3 September to advance ...
Answered 7 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: United Arab EmiratesHome OfficeTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the partnership with the United Arab Emirates on tackling illicit finance is aligned with the objectives set out in the UK’s Economic Crime Plan, 202
Answer: The UK-UAE Illicit Finance Partnership incorporates objectives from the Economic Crime Plan 2 (ECP2), which sets the UK’s whole-system response to economic crime. Strong progress was made against ECP2 objectives during the UK-UAE Illicit Finance Dialogue ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of households in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency that remain without access to central government-supported flood re
Answer: Flood Resilience Measures include Natural Flood Management, Property Flood Resilience (PFR), and Sustainable Drainage Systems. These can be effective at reducing the impacts of flooding but are always considered against a range of flood risk management op...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFuture Combat Air System: ResearchMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he plans to spend annually on research and development associated with the (a) Future Combat Air System and (b) Global Combat Air Programme in the next five years.
Answer: The forthcoming ten-year Defence Investment Plan will outline the Department’s spending plans in line with the Strategic Defence Review and Spending Review outcomes.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Industry and Technical Excellence CollegesMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has established a (a) monitoring and (b) evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of (i) Defence Growth Deals and (ii) Defence Technical Excellence Colleges.
Answer: Each Defence Growth Deal will be bespoke to their location and we will work with devolved and local Governments, industry and academia to shape the Deals in a way that is best for that area. This includes developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks th...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Technical Excellence CollegesMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that training curricula for the new Defence Technical Excellence Colleges align with capability requirements identified in the Strategic Defence Review.
Answer: Defence Technical Excellence Colleges will be recognised for their high-quality provision, including in training curricula, for skills important to the defence sector, including those identified through the Strategic Defence Review and Defence Industrial ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: IndustryMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of the Defence Industrial Strategy on (a) regional and (b) sectoral employment figures in (i) cyber-security, (ii) submarine engineering, (iii) aerosp
Answer: The Ministry of Defence has not released specific public estimates regarding the regional and sectoral employment impacts of the Defence Industrial Strategy. However, the Defence Industrial Strategy focuses on creating high-skilled jobs and fostering grow...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: PatientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients will be evacuated under the Gaza Medical Evacuation Scheme; and what his planned timetable is for those evacuations.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Members to My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s Written Statement to the House on 1 September 2025, available at the following link:https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/202...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department plans to use to identify young people at risk of falling out of (a) education, (b) employment and (c) training for enrolment in the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Answer: As part of our plan to Get Britain Working, we will launch a new Youth Guarantee for all young people aged 18-21 in England to ensure that they can access quality training opportunities, an apprenticeship or help to find work. To identify young people at ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSummer Internship ProgrammeCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73242More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, over what timeframe his Department plans to evaluate the outcomes of the Summer Internship Programme for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
Answer: Our first cohort of interns will be joining in Summer 2026 so we anticipate impacts will begin to be visible on the Autumn 2027 Fast Stream intake as participating students graduate from university and seek to join the programme. We will continue to publi...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSummer Internship ProgrammeCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73241More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess eligibility for the Summer Internship Programme for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
Answer: The refocused Fast Stream Summer Internship scheme will give talented undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds the opportunity to see what a career in the Civil Service is like. We will assess eligibility for the summer internship scheme based...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: BuckinghamshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73064More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding was allocated to local partnerships in Buckinghamshire in the last rural and wildlife crime funding settlement.
Answer: Defra does not provide financial allocations to local partnerships for tackling wildlife crime but instead provides funding directly at the national level, to the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), and in 2025/26 is providing £424,000. Home Office, simi...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
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