Christine Jardine MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
House of Commons: WomenHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55464More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Responden
Answer: The House administration has reviewed its policies, services and provisions and has not found that any immediate changes are required as a consequence of the judgment.These will be further reviewed following publication of the full Equality and Human Righ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to support (a) transgender and (b) gender-diverse pupils in schools.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.The government has set out its expectation that organisations follow the clarity the ruling provides. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has already committed...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Transgender PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) [2025] UKSC 16 on transgender people ac
Answer: The National Health Service provides a comprehensive service, available to all patients including transgender patients. This principle is established as part of the NHS Constitution and the Supreme Court ruling does not impact this commitment.We are clear...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCandidates: WomenWomen and EqualitiesTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55456More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) [2025] UKSC 16 on political parties’ use of all-wo
Answer: The Supreme Court Judgment was clear that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, biological sex determines whether a person is a woman or not. Accordingly, in relation to the Equality Act 2010’s provisions allowing political parties to use all-women s...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Waiting ListsDepartment for TransportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the average waiting time for a practical driving test in the UK.
Answer: As of April 2025, the average waiting time for a car practical driving test in Great Britain was 22.3 weeks. The attached Excel document shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre in Scotland, as of 26 May ...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Waiting ListsDepartment for TransportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55447More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for driving tests.
Answer: As of April 2025, the average waiting time for a car practical driving test in Great Britain was 22.3 weeks. The attached Excel document shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre in Scotland, as of 26 May ...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: ScotlandDepartment for TransportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the waiting time for a practical driving test is at each of the test centres in Scotland.
Answer: As of April 2025, the average waiting time for a car practical driving test in Great Britain was 22.3 weeks. The attached Excel document shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre in Scotland, as of 26 May ...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving TestsDepartment for TransportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent the reselling of block-booked driving tests.
Answer: As of April 2025, the average waiting time for a car practical driving test in Great Britain was 22.3 weeks. The attached Excel document shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre in Scotland, as of 26 May ...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChiropracticDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report published by the University of York entitled The Impact of Chiropractors on Workplace Productivity in NHS MSK Pa
Answer: No assessment has been made on the potential implications for policies of the report published by the University of York entitled The Impact of Chiropractors on Workplace Productivity in NHS MSK Pathways.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChiropracticDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of integrating chiropractic care into the National Musculoskeletal health strategy.
Answer: NHS England does not nationally commission chiropractic care as it is a complementary and alternative medicine. There are no plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of integrating chiropractic care into centrally commissioned National Health S...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: SafetyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Online Safety Act 2023 on (a) small websites, (b) personal blogs and (c) community forums.
Answer: Under the Online Safety Act, in-scope user-to-user and search services must risk assess for content that is illegal and harmful to children. Ofcom, the independent regulator for this regime, set out what steps small, low-risk providers need to take to ful...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Overseas Territories: CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the meeting of the UK and Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council between 19 and 21 November 2024, what progress has been made on the implementation
Answer: Work is ongoing to improve beneficial ownership transparency in the Overseas Territories. At the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) in November 2024, the Falkland Islands and Saint Helena committed to join Montserrat and Gibraltar in implementing fully publi...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Visual ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure blind and partially sighted people have access to health information in an accessible format.
Answer: Under the Equality Act 2010, health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged. Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers are ex...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Edinburgh and Greater LondonDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason her Department has chosen to decline to support more open access services along the Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley via Newcastle route.
Answer: As detailed in the 4 February response to the Office of Rail and Road, the Department did not support Lumo’s applications to operate additional Open Access services between London Kings Cross and Newcastle, and to extend existing Newcastle/Edinburgh servi...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Workplace PensionsHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to address the pension shortfalls experienced by police officers who, affected by the McCloud judgement, are classified as being in Immediate Detriment.
Answer: While the Home Office has responsibility for overarching policy and legislative changes to the police pension regulations in England & Wales, the police pension scheme is locally administered by individual police forces. The Home Office is working wit...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 902780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help increase the availability of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Answer: We have committed £200m funding in the Autumn budget to support charging infrastructure rollout. This is on top of over £6 billion in private investment committed out to 2030, and bolsters existing grants and funding to support chargepoint installation. T...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Sexual HarassmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 902663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help protect female members of the armed forces from sexual harassment.
Answer: Sexual Harassment has no place in our Armed Forces. Every individual must be treated with dignity and respect. We have a Zero Tolerance policy in Defence – unacceptable behaviour of any kind is not tolerated people will be held accountable. All criminal b...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: EssexTreasuryTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26057More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2024 to Question 11845 on Employers’ Contributions: Essex, whether she plans to (a) collect and (b) publish data on the number of (i) businesses and (ii) employers impacted by ch
Answer: HMRC monitors Employer National Insurance Contributions through receipts monitoring, and information collected from Real Time Information returns.Receipts are published via the monthly HMRC tax and National Insurance receipts publication: https://www.gov....
Answered 30 Jan 2025
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