Callum Anderson MP: written questions
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Developing Countries Trading SchemeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of seasonal tariffs under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme on UK business sectors.
Answer: The Developing Countries Trading Scheme entered into force in June 2023 following thorough consultation and analysis. This included consultation with private sector stakeholders on UK market sensitivities. Seasonal tariffs were subsequently removed for fo...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDeveloping Countries Trading SchemeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the Department intends to measure the economic impact of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme on UK importers.
Answer: The Department has not undertaken a further economic impact assessment following the launch of the DCTS. The Scheme provides UK businesses with the opportunity to diversify supply chains and reduce import costs by sourcing from DCTS countries, which benef...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDeveloping Countries Trading SchemeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential long-term tariff revenue impact of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
Answer: The Department has not undertaken a quantitative assessment of the future long-term tariff revenue impact of the DCTS. Before launching the DCTS, the Department estimated based on historical trade patterns, annual tariff savings of up to £770 million to U...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDeveloping Countries Trading Scheme: Sub-Saharan AfricaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role the Developing Countries Trading Scheme plays in the Department’s strategy for strengthening UK trading relationships in sub-Saharan Africa.
Answer: We are committed to our trading relationships across the continent of Africa, founded on partnerships and respect, to deliver mutual long-term benefit. Recent UK-Africa consultations demonstrated that African partners want increased trade with countries l...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDRIVE35 ProgrammeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms are in place to monitor delivery partners' performance in disbursing Drive35 programme funding.
Answer: DRIVE35 is delivered through the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and Innovate UK, part of UKRI. DRIVE35 programme funding dispersed by the programme’s delivery partners is monitored in line with Cabinet Office Grant Functional Standards to ensure comp...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDRIVE35 Programme: Small BusinessesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that SMEs can access funding opportunities under the Drive35 programme.
Answer: DRIVE35 will ensure the UK remains at the forefront of zero-emission vehicle manufacturing. It will support the latest R&D in strategic vehicle technologies, accelerate their commercial scale-up, and unlock investment across all aspects of automotive ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDRIVE35 ProgrammeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of the Drive35 programme to the UK's domestic supply chain resilience in the automotive sector.
Answer: DRIVE35 will ensure the UK remains at the forefront of zero-emission vehicle manufacturing It will support the latest research and development, accelerate commercial scale up, and unlock capital investment in zero emission vehicles, batteries, and the wid...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Security: ProcurementDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to (a) review and (b) update the list of strategically important sectors eligible for preferential national security procurement over the next three years.
Answer: As stated in the public consultation document at the end of last month, the Government is considering plans that will allow Ministers to designate certain UK specific services, works or goods as nationally important to protecting UK national security - as...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Security: FinanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that funds directed to UK-based suppliers under the national security initiative are (a) monitored and (b) reported.
Answer: Managing Public Money sets out expectations for all public services, including money spent procuring any goods and services. The standards are honesty, impartiality, openness, accountability, accuracy, fairness, integrity, transparency, objectivity, and r...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergenciesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67219More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he will report departmental progress against the commitments in the UK Government Resilience Action Plan.
Answer: The UK Government Resilience Action Plan is underpinned by well-established Cabinet Office governance structures, including the National Security Council (Resilience), which oversee the implementation and delivery of resilience matters across UK governmen...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergenciesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67218More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the role of local resilience forums are in delivering the objectives of the UK Government Resilience Action Plan.
Answer: The UK government recognises the foundational importance of Local Resilience Forums to our national resilience. The Resilience Action Plan sets out our plans to strengthen the public sector resilience system through the roll-out of further data to support...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: StandardsCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67217More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that resilience (a) standards and (b) benchmarks are applied consistently across government departments.
Answer: The UK Government Resilience Action Plan is underpinned by well-established Cabinet Office governance structures, including the National Security Council (Resilience), which oversee the implementation and delivery of resilience matters across UK governmen...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergenciesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67216More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria the Cabinet Office uses to prioritise national risks within the Government Resilience Framework.
Answer: The UK Government Resilience Action Plan takes an ‘all hazards’ approach, focusing on improving the general resilience of the nation to all risks, and investing in common systems and tools to respond. The wide range of specific risks the government plans ...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergenciesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67215More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what governance structures he has put in place to oversee the cross-government implementation of the UK Government Resilience Action Plan.
Answer: The UK Government Resilience Action Plan is underpinned by well-established Cabinet Office governance structures, including the National Security Council (Resilience), which oversee the implementation and delivery of resilience matters across UK governmen...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNew Businesses: FinanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the delivery partners for the £500 million fund for underrepresented entrepreneurs have appropriate (a) governance and (b) accountability mechanisms i
Answer: The £500 million programme of investment for entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups is a new initiative by the British Business Bank which has not yet opened for applications. This includes a £400m Investor Pathways Capital initiative, an addition of ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNew Businesses: FinanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the support delivered to underrepresented entrepreneurs through the £500 million investment programme.
Answer: The £500 million programme of investment for entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups is a new initiative by the British Business Bank which has not yet opened for applications. This includes a £400m Investor Pathways Capital initiative, an addition of ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNew Businesses: FinanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure the fair regional distribution of funding from the £500 million support package for underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Answer: The new funding for entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups will be fairly distributed across the UK. Since the British Business Bank's founding, the Bank has backed businesses in all nations and regions of the UK, helping to deliver significant econom...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with community groups on the knife crime amnesty initiative in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: The Government is operating extended surrender arrangements throughout July focused on Greater London, West Midlands and Greater Manchester, as the three highest areas of knife crime in England and Wales. These arrangements involve a mobile surrender van ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Flood and coastal erosion risk management: an investment plan for 2021 to 2027, published on 29 July 2021, what estimate his De
Answer: In the Buckingham and Bletchley Constituency, four projects have received, or have had funding allocated, within the current FCRM investment-plan period which is now due to end in March 2026. Projects include delivery of Natural Flood Management (NFM) in ...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on the prioritisation of flood resilience measures under the national investment programme in Buckingham and Bletchl
Answer: We are investing a record £2.65 billion in 2024/25 and 2025/26 to improve flood resilience by maintaining, repairing and building flood defences. The full list of over 700 schemes to benefit from fresh funding this year was announced on 31 March 2024 and ...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLiteracy: Pre-school EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is planning to take to monitor training uptake among early years staff for delivery of the revised phonics-based framework.
Answer: The writing framework builds on the success of the government’s reading framework and its focus on phonics teaching, which has seen 100,000 more children every year build strong foundations in reading.The writing framework is the department’s first step i...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLiteracy: Pre-school EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with early years providers on the implementation of the new phonics-inspired framework.
Answer: The writing framework builds on the success of the government’s reading framework and its focus on phonics teaching, which has seen 100,000 more children every year build strong foundations in reading.The writing framework is the department’s first step i...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that schemes funded through the flood investment programme are resilient to climate change risk scenarios.
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) Appraisal Guidance factors climate change allowances into the design of all FCERM schemes. This ensures that projects in the EA’s investment programme provide good value for m...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to review the impact of the increased water regulation budget on water company compliance by the end of the regulatory period.
Answer: This Government has been clear there is no excuse for poor performance, and we will not look the other way while companies routinely fail to meet agreed standards. Water companies must take seriously their role in meeting the public and regulators expecta...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOfwat: EnforcementDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with Ofwat on the use of its increased budget to help improve enforcement activity.
Answer: Ofwat delivers enforcement activities to secure companies’ compliance with their legal obligations and improve company behaviours in order to protect the interests of customers and the environment. Where companies are in breach of obligations that it enfo...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
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