Chris Coghlan MP: written questions 2026
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Written questions
Schools: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to schools on criminals targeting schools and using AI tools to create child sexual abuse material of pupils.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Eastleigh to the answer of 2 June 2026 to Question 3915.
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to review place funding for special schools.
Answer: The department has published a schools white paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving, alongside a consultation on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reform, called Putting Children and Young People First. We have also published a summary ...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will share the (i) June and (ii) September 2026 allocation of Sustainable Farming Incentive funding with the National Farmers' Union.
Answer: The Government will announce the budget for the 2026 Sustainable Farming Incentive shortly.
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6239More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of potential harm to looked-after children if weaknesses in ePEP systems lead to data breaches or inadequate safeguarding of their personal information.
Answer: Statutory guidance for Virtual School Heads (VSHs) sets out what Personal Education Plans (PEPs) must cover and the outcomes they should support. The department does not mandate, endorse or have oversight of any specific electronic PEP (ePEP) platforms. D...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will work with the ICO and CCS to review safeguarding risks posed by current ePEP platforms and consider mandatory independent cybersecurity audits and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit compliance
Answer: Statutory guidance for Virtual School Heads (VSHs) sets out what Personal Education Plans (PEPs) must cover and the outcomes they should support. The department does not mandate, endorse or have oversight of any specific electronic PEP (ePEP) platforms. D...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6235More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to issue requiring Virtual School Heads to conduct appropriate due diligence and Data Protection Impact Assessments on third-party ePEP providers.
Answer: Statutory guidance for Virtual School Heads (VSHs) sets out what Personal Education Plans (PEPs) must cover and the outcomes they should support. The department does not mandate, endorse or have oversight of any specific electronic PEP (ePEP) platforms. D...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all electronic Personal Education Plan systems used by local authority Virtual Schools meet robust national minimum security and data protection standards, particularly f
Answer: Statutory guidance for Virtual School Heads (VSHs) sets out what Personal Education Plans (PEPs) must cover and the outcomes they should support. The department does not mandate, endorse or have oversight of any specific electronic PEP (ePEP) platforms. D...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordArmy: OfficersMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Late Entry Officers were commissioned in the last year, and of those how many were employed in in Welfare, QM, MTO, RCMO and training officer roles.
Answer: There were 263 Late Entry Officers who commissioned from the Army Regular Other Ranks to Army Regular Officers from 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025. Of those who commissioned from the Army Other Ranks to All Officers in 2025 how many have been employed...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordArmy: OfficersMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Late Entry Officers are employed in (a) each of the Army’s 32 infantry battalions and (b) in Welfare, QM, MTO, RCMO and training officer roles.
Answer: The number of Late Entry Officers employed in Regular Army Infantry Battalions as at 1 January 2026 can be found in the attached table. The total Number of Late Entry Officers across all Arms/Services employed in Welfare, QM, MTO, RCMO and Training Office...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with social media platforms, such as TikTok, on compliance with UK GDPR regarding the use of default opt-in settings for training generative AI models on us
Answer: The Government regularly engages with social media platforms but has not discussed this particular issue with TikTok.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), as the UK’s independent data protection regulator, is responsible for monitoring and enforcin...
Answered 26 May 2026
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceHome OfficeTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Rt Hon Member for Dorking and Horley will receive a response to his correspondence dated 27 April 2026 on an International Letter of Request for the late Police Constable, Hannah Byrne.
Answer: The Minister for Security will respond in due course.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number PlatesDepartment for TransportTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with police forces, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other enforcement bodies on the impact of the legality of the manufacture, sale and fitting of flip plates and similar
Answer: The law states that number plates must be displayed vertically and must be easily distinguishable in normal daylight conditions. It is an offence to either obscure a vehicle registration number or fail to display a number plate in accordance with the lega...
Answered 29 May 2026
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number PlatesDepartment for TransportTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to prohibit the manufacture, sale and fitting of flip plates and similar devices allowing vehicle registratio
Answer: The law states that number plates must be displayed vertically and must be easily distinguishable in normal daylight conditions. It is an offence to either obscure a vehicle registration number or fail to display a number plate in accordance with the lega...
Answered 29 May 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: TestingDepartment for TransportTabled 15 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will require the publication of disaggregated MOT failure statistics identifying major defects relating specifically to exhaust noise separately from other categories.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) regularly publishes data on MOT failures by vehicle type and failure category. Vehicle noise is included within ‘noise, emissions and leaks’. The full MOT dataset is also available on GOV.UK in anonymised f...
Answered 21 May 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: TestingDepartment for TransportTabled 15 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of requiring decibel readings of exhaust noises to be recorded during the MOT test for motorcycles and other road vehicles.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) regularly publishes data on MOT failures by vehicle type and failure category. Vehicle noise is included within ‘noise, emissions and leaks’. The full MOT dataset is also available on GOV.UK in anonymised f...
Answered 21 May 2026
Original Parliament recordTake-away Food: VATTreasuryTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 643More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the current 20% VAT rate on independent hot food retailers; and if she will consider aligning the VAT treatment of hot takeaway food with that of cold takeaway foo
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK's second largest tax, forecast to raise £180 billion in 2025/26. Hot takeaway food is subject to the 20 per cent standard rate of ...
Answered 20 May 2026
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Workplace PensionsCabinet OfficeTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 642More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 108514 on Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions, what steps he is taking to support those pensioners not yet receiving their civil service pension and facing fina
Answer: The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government. The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension ...
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: Mental HealthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for support mechanisms for frontline NHS workers (a) that experience abuse and (b) whose patients disclose emotionally difficult topics to them.
Answer: Everyone working in the National Health Service has a fundamental right to be safe at work. Individual employers are responsible for the health and safety of their staff, and they put in place measures, including, security, training, and emotional support...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordDogs: InsuranceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that owners of dogs on the Index of Exempted Dogs can maintain the continuous third-party public liability insurance following the withdra
Answer: Defra is working to ensure owners of banned breed dogs can remain compliant with the legal requirement to hold third-party public liability insurance beyond 1 July 2026. Defra has published guidance on the GOV.UK page and contacted all registered owners t...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127572More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 15 October 2025 report Investing in the NHS: empowering the sector to drive productivity, renewal and growth, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the report
Answer: The Government welcomes the report Investing in the NHS: empowering the sector to drive productivity, renewal and growth and recognises the case it makes for unlocking additional investment in National Health Service infrastructure, including through stro...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that privacy protections do not prevent public scrutiny of political donors.
Answer: The government is strengthening the rules on political donations to increase transparency and accountability, protect against foreign or illicit influence, and maintain public confidence in our democratic system. Reportable donations are already published...
Answered 22 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordWarm Homes PlanDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 126904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Warm Homes Plan’s funding allocation on the retention of the skilled retrofit workforce; and what steps he is taking to
Answer: The Warm Homes Plan will create 180,000 high-quality jobs in energy efficiency and clean heating by 2030. Chapter Six of the plan outlines the actions that the Government will be taking to support and facilitate growth, jobs and innovation. This includes ...
Answered 21 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: National SecurityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 126160More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what urgent steps she will take to protect national security further to her Department's publication entitled National security assessment on global ecosystems, updated on 2 February 2
Answer: On 20 January, the Government published the Nature Security Assessment which examined the potential impacts that may arise from global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. The assessment reinforces the importance of protecting nature as a foundati...
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordRussia: ShippingMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 126159More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Secretary of State for Transport's correspondence entitled The growing risks to maritime safety, published 26 January 2026, what assessment his Department has made of the security implicatio
Answer: Deterring and disrupting the Russian shadow fleet is a priority for the UK, and we are working closely with our allies and partners to do so including sharing information through the Joint Maritime Security Centre. The Royal Navy constantly monitors activ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordElectric Bicycles: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 126069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to review the legal requirements for e-bike identification and rider accountability, in light of the challenges in prosecuting riders involved in serious collisions with pedestrian
Answer: Only e-bikes that comply with the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle (EAPC) Regulations 1983 are legal to use on the roads. While the Government has no plans to introduce new rider identification requirements for road legal bikes, it is the case that e-bik...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
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