Charlie Dewhirst MP: written questions
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Special Advisers: PayCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22188More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, November 2024, published on 28 November 2024, for what reason his Department has not published the list o
Answer: As was the case under the previous administration, annual reports on special advisers relate to the preceding financial year.The Annual Report on Special Advisers published on 28 November 2024, therefore relates to the 2023/24 financial year.The 2025 Annu...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOfficial Residences: Government Art CollectionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16604 on 11 Downing Street: Art Works, if she will publish a corresponding list of the reference numbers of Government Art Collection works t
Answer: No. It is standard practice, as followed by the previous government, for new ministers to select works from the Government Art Collection for their ministerial offices. All such changes of displays of works from the Government Art Collection constitute 'b...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Codes of PracticeCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22186More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 15193 on Ministers: Code of Practice, for what reason the Prime Minister included the previously removed duty for ministers to comply with international law
Answer: The reference has been reinserted into the Ministerial Code to provide clarity. This does not place any new duties on ministers; it brings together duties which exist elsewhere.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: Press ConferencesCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22185More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who provided the lectern used by the Prime Minister for his press conference at Pinewood Studios on 5 December 2024.
Answer: The lectern was loaned by the Labour Party.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: 48 GroupCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22184More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has issued guidance to Cabinet colleagues on engagement with the 48 Group.
Answer: No guidance has been issued on engagement with the 48 Group specifically. The Cabinet Office routinely assesses information pertaining to external bodies and groups to guide Ministerial engagement.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2024 to Question 18268 on Firearms: Licensing, when she last held discussions with (a) the police, (b) gun control groups, (c) the British Shooting Sports Council
Answer: The Home Office regularly meets with the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for firearms licensing and other officers.We also meet with representatives of other relevant stakeholder groups from time to time, including most recently, on 13th January 2025...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20405More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief on the profitability of farming businesses.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. It is expected that up to around 2...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: SubsidiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the delinked basic payment scheme on the profitability of farming businesses.
Answer: The Government has committed to support farmers through a farming budget of £5 billion over two years, including £2.4 billion in 2025/26. Accelerating the phase out of Direct Payments will allow us to focus more of this funding on Environmental Land Manag...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironmental Land Management SchemesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department had with farmers before freezing the capital grant scheme.
Answer: The Capital Grants scheme has been closed to new agreements following unprecedented demand this Autumn, which would use all the available funding. We are forecast to spend more on capital grants this year than ever before. This is only possible because we...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: SubsidiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of accelerated changes to delinked payments on farming businesses.
Answer: The Government has committed to support farmers through a farming budget of £5 billion over two years, including £2.4 billion in 2025/26. Accelerating the phase out of Direct Payments will allow us to focus more of this funding on Environmental Land Manag...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Government AssistanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support people affected by changes made to (a) agricultural property relief, (b) Business Property Relief and (c) capital grants at the Autu
Answer: From 6 April 2026, 0% inheritance tax will be due on the first £1 million of combined agricultural and business property. Above this amount, landowners will access 50% relief from inheritance tax and will pay inheritance tax at a reduced effective rate up...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: Land UseDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 901855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the development of large-scale solar farms.
Answer: As outlined in the clean power action plan last week, solar power will be vital to meeting our mission and bringing down energy bills for good. Solar is one of the cheapest and most-readily available sources of energy we have, and whilst rooftop and other...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordInland Border Facilities: AshfordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the overall (a) capital and (b) running costs are of the Inland Border Facility at Sevington; and what the budget is for that facility.
Answer: This is commercially sensitive information and therefore may not be released. We are planning to publish some information regarding operating costs in the near future. The information will be published on GOV.UK.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the firearms licensing departments that have taken a year or more to process applications for (a) grants and (b) renewals in each of the last five years.
Answer: The issuing of firearms certificates and the efficiency of police forces is a matter for individual Chief Constables, who are held to account by Police and Crime Commissioners.However, the performance of forces in this space is being actively monitored by...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sound moderators are held on firearms certificates.
Answer: The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of sound moderators.The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/firearm-certi...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) efficiency of the National Firearms Licensing Management System; and whether her Department plans to update the system.
Answer: We keep the effectiveness of the National Firearms Licensing Management System under review.The system was introduced in 2007 and we are now working with policing partners to consider options for updating it to provide police forces with enhanced function...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: FirearmsHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of GPs who have downloaded the IT update to allow the placement of markers on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders.
Answer: It is a requirement that all applicants for a firearms licence must provide relevant medical information to the police with their application, and this is supported by a new digital firearms marker which is placed on the patient/licence holder’s medical r...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: FirearmsHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require General Practitioners to place a marker on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders.
Answer: It is a requirement that all applicants for a firearms licence must provide relevant medical information to the police with their application, and this is supported by a new digital firearms marker which is placed on the patient/licence holder’s medical r...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had meetings with representatives of (a) police, (b) gun control groups, (c) British Shooting Sports Council and (d) British Association for Shooting and Conservation to discuss firear
Answer: Home Office Ministers and officials meet with representatives of the police, the shooting community, gun control groups and others from time to time and will continue to do so.This helps to ensure that all relevant views are taken into account in ensuring...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: AustraliaTreasuryTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17993More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with her Australian counterpart on the impact of excise tax for tobacco products on (a) consumer and (b) organised crime group behaviour.
Answer: No discussions have taken place with Australian ministers on these issues.
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: SalesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential increase in illegal tobacco sales as a consequence of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
Answer: Evidence shows that when we have previously introduced targeted tobacco control measures, they have had a positive impact on tackling the problems of illicit tobacco. Consumption of illicit cigarettes has gone from 15 billion cigarettes in 2000/2001 to 1....
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: SalesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government will take steps to support the mental health of shopkeepers responsible with enforcing the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
Answer: Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and ill health. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will put us on track to a smoke-free United Kingdom, helping to reduce 80,000 preventable deaths, reduce the burden on the National Health Service...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTobacco: SalesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the potential increase in incidents of (a) violent crime, (b) physical abuse and (c) verbal intimidation against shopkeepers as a result of a generational ban on toba
Answer: Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and ill health. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will put us on track to a smoke-free United Kingdom, helping to reduce 80,000 preventable deaths, reduce the burden on the National Health Service...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMinisters: Official CarsTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17676More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has been provided use of a vehicle for official Ministerial travel from outside the Government Car Service.
Answer: We do not comment on the specific arrangements in place for the Chancellor because of security.
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16833More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of mitigations from proposed changes to (a) Agricultural Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief for farmers over 70 years old.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. It is expected that up to around 2...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
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