Callum Anderson MP: written questions
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Government 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
Original Parliament recordOfwat: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the water regulation budget on Ofwat’s regulatory capacity.
Answer: Ofwat is the independent economic regulator for the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. Ofwat is directly accountable to Parliament, and its duties are set out in the Water Industry Act 1991. Ofwat is primarily a levy funded regulator raisin...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Investment in UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to monitor the timeline of the implementation of private sector investment projects arising from the UK–Japan business summit.
Answer: Japan is an important economic partner, with more than 1,200 Japanese owned companies in the UK, supporting over 150,000 jobs across the UK On 7 March, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds visited Tokyo for the ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordInvestment: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of the private sector investment announced at the UK–Japan business summit on businesses in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: Japan is an important economic partner, with more than 1,200 Japanese owned companies in the UK, supporting over 150,000 jobs across the UK On 7 March, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds visited Tokyo for the ...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFarmers: GrantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to help support tenant farmers to access the capital grants scheme.
Answer: Defra reopened the Capital Grants offer from 3rd July, with £150 million available for this new round, allowing farmers to buy equipment or services that help them make environmental improvements. We have made the offer as accessible as possible to tenant...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: RegulationTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66387More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK's implementation of Pillar Two (a) remains compatible with the future side-by-side system agreed by G7 partners and (b) avoids creating additional compliance
Answer: The Chancellor, alongside her G7 counterparts, has reached an understanding on a proposed path forward for the global minimum tax, Pillar 2 of the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).The G7 published a statement...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMultinational Companies: Taxation and Trade CompetitivenessTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66386More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the G7 side-by-side approach on the (a) effective tax rate and (b) competitiveness of UK-headed multinationals.
Answer: The Chancellor, alongside her G7 counterparts, has reached an understanding on a proposed path forward for the global minimum tax, Pillar 2 of the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).The G7 published a statement...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordInvestment: TaiwanDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) semiconductors, (b) offshore wind and (c) digital infrastructure in further bilateral investment co-operation unde
Answer: As set out in the UK’s Trade Strategy, flexible trading arrangements and partnerships, such as the UK-Taiwan Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP), are a valuable part of our toolkit.The Investment Pillar of the ETP, along with the Digital Trade and Energy &am...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordInvestment: TaiwanDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to publish a roadmap for the implementation of the commitments made under the investment pillar of the UK–Taiwan Enhanced Trade Partnership.
Answer: As set out in the UK’s Trade Strategy, flexible trading arrangements and partnerships, such as the UK-Taiwan Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP), are a valuable part of our toolkit.The Investment Pillar of the ETP, along with the Digital Trade and Energy &am...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: TaiwanDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department will take to encourage (a) awareness and (b) take-up of UK Export Finance products by SMEs planning to trade with Taiwan.
Answer: In addition to its suite of products to help SMEs export, UK Export Finance (UKEF) has a network of Export Finance Managers (EFMs) around the whole of the UK who can provide information to exporters of all sizes on a range of subjects, including trading a...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLife Sciences: Small BusinessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department plans to develop to help support life sciences SMEs to prepare evidence dossiers that will be compatible with Innovator Passport standards to enable rapid access to NHS
Answer: The Department and NHS England are committed to reducing procurement friction to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The development of the Innovator Passport will include close engagement with industry, including SMEs, to ensure that the a...
Answered 28 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the press release by EDF entitled EDF announces the principle of investment in Sizewell C project with a view to the final investment decision, published on 8 July 2025, wha
Answer: EDF has announced it will in principle invest into Sizewell C such that its stake in the project would be 12.5% following a final investment decision (FID). Details of the commercial structure of Sizewell C are commercially sensitive as we conclude the ca...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
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