Callum Anderson MP: written questions
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Small Businesses: ApprenticesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department plans to collect to assess the effectiveness of its targeted support to help SMEs offer apprenticeships.
Answer: Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are important to the economy and to apprenticeships. They provide valuable opportunities for younger apprentices and apprentices from disadvantaged areas.The department collects and publishes data on apprenticeship...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans the Department has to publish impact assessments of regulatory changes affecting small businesses.
Answer: Impact assessments are generally required for all the Government’s interventions of a regulatory nature that affect the private sector and-or civil society organisation or public services. The Better Regulation Framework requires regulatory provisions wit...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what methodology his Department plans to use to quantify the (a) time and (b) cost savings to SMEs from regulatory reform.
Answer: The government has committed to cut the administrative costs of regulation to business by 25% by the end of this Parliament. By focusing on reducing administrative costs, we will ensure that regulations achieve their policy objectives in the most efficien...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria his Department plans to use to identify regulatory reporting requirements suitable for (a) simplification and (b) removal.
Answer: The Department for Business and Trade is undertaking a review to simplify and streamline the UK’s non-financial reporting framework. When considering what reporting can be simplified and removed whether the disclosure leads to decision-useful information ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many regulations affecting SMEs are under review as part of the SME Regulation Review.
Answer: Earlier this year, the Prime Minister announced that government will cut administrative costs of regulation to all business, including SMEs, by 25% by the end of this Parliament. We are working across government to deliver this target to make it easier to...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Capital InvestmentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what modelling his Department has undertaken on the anticipated economic impact of expanding SME access to growth capital.
Answer: The economic impacts of increased access to capital are modelled by the British Business Bank drawing on independent evaluation evidence. The Bank models impact on job creation and economic output in the form of incremental gross value added (GVA).Over it...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: LoansDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans are in place to monitor the geographic distribution of SME lending facilitated by British Business Bank schemes.
Answer: Where possible, finance facilitated by the British Business Bank is mapped to a postcode level. Much of this data is published: for instance, the number and value of Start Up Loans data is published on the BBB website every quarter. Geographic data is als...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStock MarketTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71690More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans she has to measure the effectiveness of the Listings Taskforce in increasing the number of UK and international firms listing on UK markets.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStock Market: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71689More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Benchmarks Regulation reform on (a) market confidence and (b) cross-border data interoperability.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital Markets: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71688More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the effectiveness of the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System will be assessed in supporting firms to raise pre-IPO capital.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital MarketsTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71687More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the barriers faced by UK-domiciled high-growth firms seeking to transition from private to public capital markets.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for InvestmentTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71686More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Office for Investment: Financial Services engages systematically with (a) devolved Administrations and (b) regional investment bodies.
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Foreign Investment in UKTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71685More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has established metrics for evaluating the impact of the concierge service on foreign direct investment into UK financial services.
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for InvestmentTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71684More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the regulatory co-ordination mechanisms in place between the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to support the operations of the Offic
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital Markets: Asia-Pacific RegionTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71683More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to align the implementation of Overseas Recognition Regimes with the UK's financial services trade objectives in Asia-Pacific markets.
Answer: At Mansion House, HM Treasury published revised guidance on the UK’s approach to the unilateral recognition of overseas jurisdictions’ regulation of financial services, known as Overseas Recognition Regimes (ORRs). ORRs will replace the ‘equivalence’ regi...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Economic Partnership AgreementsTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71682More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the barriers to expanding the financial services provisions within existing Economic Partnership Agreements.
Answer: The Government published its Trade Strategy on 26 June, setting out its plan to stimulate economic growth in a rapidly changing global landscape. The Strategy sets out that the Government will consult with governments and businesses on expanding our Econo...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: BuckinghamshireDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Early Years Pupil Premium funding is aligned with the Government’s quality improvement objectives in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) Milton Keynes.
Answer: The government is taking coordinated steps to ensure that early years pupil premium (EYPP) aligns with broader quality improvement objectives in early years education.Through the department’s Best Start in Life strategy, we are ensuring families across th...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: BuckinghamshireCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71680More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to support the development of local strategic delivery plans for early childhood outcomes under the Test, Learn and Grow programme in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) Milton Keynes
Answer: The Test, Learn & Grow programme is modelling and scaling an approach to public service reform and mission delivery that closes gaps between policy, delivery and service users, and speeds up learning and improvement. In July, the Programme announced t...
Answered 26 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that new mental health staff are deployed in areas of greatest demand in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that is there when people need it, the Government is recruiting an additional 8,500 mental health workers to help ease pressure on busy mental health services across ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the NHS dental workforce that will be required in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency in each of the next five years.
Answer: We will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan and will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to deliver the best care for patients, when they need it.
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLondon Stock Exchange: Foreign CompaniesTreasuryTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68850More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered the potential merits of mandating the Listings Taskforce to consider sector-specific listing challenges for those priority areas identified in the Industrial Strategy.
Answer: The government is taking forward an ambitious programme of reforms to reinvigorate capital markets and ensure the UK is the best place for all firms to start, scale and list. As the Chancellor announced at Mansion House on 15 July, the government will est...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: Planning PermissionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what comparative assessment he has made of the average time taken for planning decisions for solar farm applications in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) nationally.
Answer: Nationally Significant Infrastructure decisions are taken by this department and the majority of solar farm applications have been taken within the statutory deadline, although extensions are occasionally required. This department does not hold informatio...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: Planning PermissionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure consistency in his planning decisions on applications for solar farm with proposed generating capacity above 50 MW.
Answer: Decisions on consent applications for ‘nationally significant’ projects are made in accordance with legislation set out in the Planning Act 2008, and the relevant National Policy Statement made in accordance with that Act. For solar, this is the Renewable...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Environment ProtectionTreasuryTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68490More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to align the National Wealth Fund’s investment mandate with emerging international definitions of transition finance.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund is represented on the Strategic Steering Group of the Transition Finance Council which is considering how to build the UK’s transition finance market, including guidelines for credible transition finance. In the Statement of Strat...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Environment ProtectionTreasuryTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68489More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with institutional investors on the barriers to scaling transition finance in priority sectors of the UK economy.
Answer: The government is prioritising the growth of the transition finance market to seize the opportunities for UK financial services firms and support decarbonisation. The Transition Finance Market Review (TFMR) identified a number of barriers to scaling trans...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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