Caroline Dinenage MP: written questions
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Written questions
Plastics: Chewing GumDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations of the Just one ocean policy brief entitled, Plastic chewing gum: a hidden micro
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential implications for policies of the recommendations made in the Just one ocean policy brief entitled, Plastic chewing gum: a hidden microplastic health hazard and plastic polluter. The Government is currently cons...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFertility: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to update regulations in the fertility industry.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published Modernising Fertility Law in November 2023, which made a number of recommendations for legislative change, including around its regulatory powers. Ministers have met with the HFEA Chair and...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordConfectionery: VATTreasuryTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61750More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance she is providing to sweetshop businesses on VAT applied to freeze-dried products.
Answer: Guidance on which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes can be found in VAT Notice 701/14 Food products on GOV.UK. Confectionery is covered at paragraph 3.6. Businesses which have read the guidance and are still unsure...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Children's PlayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that NHS England's guidance entitled Play well – resources for health play services for England, published on 2 June 2025, is policy across the NHS.
Answer: We recognise the importance of supporting and maintaining children’s right to play, as games and active play in all settings build social skills and support children’s well-being.To ensure that children’s right to play is maintained and supported in healt...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Children's PlayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that children's right to play is (a) maintained and (b) supported in healthcare settings.
Answer: We recognise the importance of supporting and maintaining children’s right to play, as games and active play in all settings build social skills and support children’s well-being.To ensure that children’s right to play is maintained and supported in healt...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility ScootersDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to include mobility scooters within the scope of dangerous (a) driving and (b) cycling legislation.
Answer: While we keep the scope of the dangerous driving and cycling legislation under review, we do not currently have any plans to extend this to mobility scooters.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility ScootersDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department provides to mobility scooter users who use public roads.
Answer: The Department has developed a comprehensive guide for users of mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs, including legal requirements and relevant Highway Code information. This is available online at www.gov.uk/government/publications/mobility-scooters...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility Scooters: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of casualties involving mobility scooters.
Answer: The table below shows the number of casualties, split by casualty severity, that resulted from road injury collisions involving at least one mobility scooter in Great Britain, for the most recent ten-year period that data is available for. It should be no...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility Scooters: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were injured in collisions with mobility scooters in 2024.
Answer: Figures on the number of collisions involving mobility scooters for 2024 are not yet available as these statistics have not yet been published. These figures will be available following the publication of “Reported road casualties Great Britain, annual re...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will respond to the recommendations of the Safer Streets for All report by Living Streets and the Bikeability Trust, published on 19 May 2025.
Answer: The Department welcomes the findings of this report and will consider its recommendations carefully as we develop our future plans for active travel and road safety.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to consider the recommendations of the Safer Streets for All report by Living Streets and the Bikeability Trust, published on 19 May 2025, in the Road Safety Strategy.
Answer: The Department welcomes the findings of this report and will consider its recommendations carefully as we develop our future plans for active travel and road safety.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the Safer Streets for All report by Living Streets and the Bikeability Trust, published on 19 May 2025
Answer: The Department welcomes the findings of this report and will consider its recommendations carefully as we develop our future plans for active travel and road safety.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: UltrasonicsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make it his policy to ensure that integrated care boards recommend high-intensity focused ultrasound to people with localised prostate cancer outside London.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has developed interventional procedures guidance on high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for prostate cancer and focal therapy using HIFU for localised prostate cancer. This type o...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUltrasonics: HampshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that high-intensity focused ultrasound is available to patients in Hampshire.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, including in Hampshire. This means making sure that patients, including those waiting to receive high-intensity focused ultrasound, are seen on time and ensuring that people have the best possible exp...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in Adoption and Special Guardianship Support funding on (a) the policy mission entitled Break Down Barriers to Opportunity and (b) children'
Answer: The department always assesses the impact of changes on vulnerable children across the country. This includes reviewing the Equalities Impact Assessment, which will be deposited in the House Libraries in due course.The funding available through the Adopti...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: GosportDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the average reduction in Adoption and Special Guardianship Support funding for kinship carers who can no longer access match-funding in exceptional cases in Gosport constituency.
Answer: The department always assesses the impact of changes on vulnerable children across the country. This includes reviewing the Equalities Impact Assessment, which will be deposited in the House Libraries in due course.The funding available through the Adopti...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: GosportDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of a reduction in Adoption and Special Guardianship Support funding on the mental health outcomes of children in adoptive and kinship placements in Gosport.
Answer: The department always assesses the impact of changes on vulnerable children across the country. This includes reviewing the Equalities Impact Assessment, which will be deposited in the House Libraries in due course.The funding available through the Adopti...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: GosportDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of a reduction in Adoption and Special Guardianship Support funding on the number of kinship children able to access therapeutic support services in Gosport.
Answer: The department always assesses the impact of changes on vulnerable children across the country. This includes reviewing the Equalities Impact Assessment, which will be deposited in the House Libraries in due course.The funding available through the Adopti...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMayors: Inland WaterwaysMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her plans for English devolution will give Mayors powers over waterborne transport networks.
Answer: The government understands how important maritime transport is in the Solent region, and the role that waterborne transport networks play in the local transport strategy. Chapter 3 of the English Devolution White Paper sets out the responsibilities of str...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Centre for Arts and Music EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how young people will be able to use the National Centre for Arts and Music Education.
Answer: On 18 March, the department announced our intention to launch a new National Centre for Arts and Music Education.The National Centre will support the delivery of high-quality arts education in schools, including through online training, local partnership ...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Centre for Arts and Music EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding she has allocated to the National Centre for Arts and Music Education.
Answer: On 18 March, the department announced our intention to launch a new National Centre for Arts and Music Education.The National Centre will support the delivery of high-quality arts education in schools, including through online training, local partnership ...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Centre for Arts and Music EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) duties and (b) responsibilities of the delivery lead for the National Centre for Arts and Music Education will be; and what assets they will (i) manage and (ii) own.
Answer: On 18 March, the department announced our intention to launch a new National Centre for Arts and Music Education.The National Centre will support the delivery of high-quality arts education in schools, including through online training, local partnership ...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadcasting: InfrastructureDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of terrestrial television and radio services on the resilience of communications infrastructure.
Answer: The Government understands how important it is that everyone can access information in times of national emergency. Television and radio both play an important role in providing such access in a range of different emergency scenarios, including scenarios ...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTelevision: Digital BroadcastingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the reliability of (a) digital terrestrial television and (b) IPTV.
Answer: The Government’s project on the future of TV distribution is seeking to understand how people receive their television now and in the next decade. We want audiences to continue to receive consistent levels of service regardless of how they receive their t...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: Armed ForcesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the length of time GPs take to process medical records for the armed forces.
Answer: We are working across Government to increase efficiency in general practices (GPs) and the patient experience by removing red tape and streamlining, or removing, requests to GPs for medical evidence where possible, aiming to free up more GP time to care f...
Answered 19 May 2025
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