Caroline Voaden MP: written questions
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Written questions
Trade Agreements: European UnionCabinet OfficeTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65091More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the UK-EU summit agreements.
Answer: At the first UK-EU Summit, the Government agreed a substantial package to take forward our new Strategic Partnership with the EU. We are proceeding swiftly with technical negotiations to implement these commitments. We will keep Parliament updated on sign...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the postgraduate loan repayment threshold to be in line with the National Minimum Wage.
Answer: The government keeps the student finance system under continuous review to ensure it remains fair, sustainable and delivers value for students, universities and the wider economy.The postgraduate loans schemes were introduced to help remove the financial ...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSwimming PoolsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the viability of public swimming pools.
Answer: The Government recognises that sports clubs and facilities, including swimming pools, are important to communities up and down the country. Everyone, no matter who they are or where they live, should have access to them and opportunities to participate in...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMortgages: Private Rented HousingTreasuryTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63368More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure buy-to-let mortgage products are available for landlords renting to vulnerable tenants.
Answer: The Government welcomes innovation in the mortgage market and continues to work with the sector to improve housing provisions and the safeguards in place for the vulnerable. The availability and design of buy-to-let mortgages is a commercial decision for ...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: Rural AreasDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 904844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve transport services in rural areas.
Answer: This Government knows that integrated public transport is vital to keeping communities connected. We also know that in rural and semi-rural areas, bus services can be a lifeline for many and can be the only means of accessing services, including other mod...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Charges: Social TariffsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofwat on the standardisation of social tariff schemes for water bills.
Answer: All water companies have a range of measures in place for people who struggle to pay for their water and wastewater services, including social tariffs, WaterSure, payment breaks and holidays, and debt management support. The Government is working with ind...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that care home fee rates set by local authorities include (a) the economic situation, (b) workforce and (c) inflation.
Answer: We recognise the importance of local authority fee rates to adult social care providers, which meet the costs of delivering care and enable providers to recruit and retain staff. We have therefore provided the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund to...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: DisciplineDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure school behaviour policies are (a) inclusive and (b) supportive of children with speech and language challenges.
Answer: All schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy which outlines effective strategies that will encourage good behaviour. Any policy must be lawful, proportionate and reasonable and comply with the school’s duties under the Equality Act 2010 and ...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56062More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of putting transitional arrangements in place for changes to inheritance tax rules for family businesses.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advantages available to ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56059More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support small family businesses that are affected by recent Inheritance Tax changes.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advantages available to ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Charges: PensionersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the impact of increased water bills on pensioners.
Answer: For too long, investment has not kept pace with the challenges of an ageing infrastructure system, a rapidly growing population and climate change. Whilst it is never wanted, bills will therefore now need to rise to invest in our crumbling infrastructure ...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDyslexia: Further EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support adults with dyslexia to access further education.
Answer: All education and training providers, including further education colleges and other related service providers, have a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people, including those with dyslexia, so they are not placed at a substantial disadvan...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: QuotasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which companies were granted additional quota through the quota application mechanism in 2025; and what (a) environmental, (b) social and (c) economic outcomes are expected from each.
Answer: In 2025, a total of 8,658.8 tonnes of additional quota was awarded to fish producer organisations as part of the quota application mechanism trial (QAM). Applications were based on an environmental, social, and economic scoring criteria. Eastern England F...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPE and Sport PremiumDepartment for EducationTabled 7 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to extend PE and Sport Premium Funding beyond 2024-25.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for South Devon to the answer of 23 April 2025 to Question 36699.
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: Young PeopleHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to (a) ensure young perpetrators of anti-social behaviour are arrested and charged and (b) prevent them from reoffending.
Answer: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers they can use to respond to anti-social behaviour (ASB), including the civil injunction which can be iss...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46438More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2025 to Question 44061 on Water Restoration Fund, how environmental (a) fines and (b) penalties collected from (i) water and (ii) sewerage companies
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund, which launched in April last year, is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. The Water Restoration Fund funding is based on water company fin...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: Young PeopleHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46437More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure police officers have adequate powers to tackle anti-social behaviour committed by people under 18 years old.
Answer: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers they can use to respond to anti-social behaviour (ASB), including the civil injunction which can be iss...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the reinvestment of environmental (a) fines and (b) penalties collected from (i) water and (ii) sewerage companies since November 2023 through the Water Restorati
Answer: The Water Restoration Fund is reinvesting funding based on water company environmental fines and penalties into projects to improve the water environment. The Water Restoration Fund funding is based on water company fines and penalties from April 2022 unt...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Parks: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding he has allocated to support National Parks in England in 2025-26.
Answer: In 25/26 the Government is providing £44.8 million resource funding to the 10 National Park Authorities, alongside £15 million capital investment. Projects in National Parks will also receive funding through extensions to our Farming in Protected Landscap...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Park HomesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the energy price cap to park home owners.
Answer: Due to the physical set-up of these residences, the majority of consumers living on park home sites will continue to receive their energy via a non-domestic contract and will not have their own meter. This means that the energy price cap will not apply to...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure all staff working with children and young people have the appropriate training to identify and support children with speech, language and communication challenges.
Answer: All teachers are teachers of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). High quality teaching is central to ensuring that pupils with SEND are given the best possible opportunity to achieve in their education, and early language skills are vital t...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start Scheme: South DevonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families are using the Healthy Start scheme in the South Devon constituency.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures for the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at ...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPensioners: Local Housing AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support pensioners in receipt of Local Housing Allowance who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs.
Answer: The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum housing support for tenants (including pensioners) in the private rented sector. LHA rates are not intended to cover all rents in all areas. The increase to LHA rates in April 2024 cost an additiona...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPark HomesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support park home residents.
Answer: The government provides park home residents with free independent advice about their rights through the government-funded Leasehold Advisory Service. We are also supporting park home residents with their household bills. The government has extended the Ho...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Adoption and special guardianship support fund beyond March 2025.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for South Devon to the answer of 12 March 2025 to 35389.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
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