Claire Hanna MP: written questions
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Cybersecurity: Northern IrelandDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49063More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including Northern Ireland as an eligible region for Cyber Local funding in 2025-26.
Answer: As of April 2025, the way that Devolved Administrations (DAs) receive funding for cyber security has changed. Previously ringfenced cyber budgets will be absorbed into departmental baselines and provided directly to DAs in their overall HM Treasury settle...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Severe Disability PremiumDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to apply for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal from the Upper Tribunal judgement Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC).
Answer: In relation to the recent judgment in Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC), the Secretary of State will not be seeking permission to appeal the outcome.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Expenditure: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48188More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be a Barnett consequential for Northern Ireland following the roll out of free breakfast clubs in England.
Answer: At Phase 1 of the 2025 Spending Review, over £30 million was allocated to the Department for Education to fund breakfast clubs in 2025-26. The Barnett formula was applied in the usual way to changes in the Department for Education’s Delegated Expenditure ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: Written QuestionsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to answer Question 41236 on BBC Radio: Ireland.
Answer: An answer was provided to the Hon Member on 22nd April. I apologise for the delay.
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJournalism: QualificationsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions his Department has had with the National Council for the Training of Journalists on establishing a mutual recognition of professional qualifications agreement with the Republic of Irel
Answer: The UK government encourages regulators and industry bodies to engage with their counterparts in the Republic of Ireland to ensure professionals are able to practise in both jurisdictions. Independent UK regulators and industry bodies are responsible for ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to hold consultation events in Northern Ireland on the Pathways to work Green Paper.
Answer: We are committed to putting the views and voices of disabled people and people with health conditions at the heart of everything we do. In the Green Paper, we have announced that we will set up collaboration committees to develop parts of our reforms furt...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLibya: IRAForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he is taking steps to compensate victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism.
Answer: The Government reiterates its sympathy for UK victims of Qaddafi-sponsored terrorism, and indeed all victims of the Troubles. The UK's position with regards to victims of Libyan-sponsored Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorism is that it is the responsibil...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSafe Hands Plans: InsolvencyTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41597More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the final report by the Complaints Commissioner entitled The FCA’s handling of Safe Hands Plans Limited, published on 11 March 2025, if she will make recommendations to the Financial Conduct Author
Answer: I am sympathetic to all the Safe Hands customers who have lost money, following the collapse of the firm in 2022. Once concerns were raised about the funeral plan market, the Government legislated to bring all pre-paid funeral plan providers and intermedi...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTourism: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 903492More
Question: What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on promoting tourism in Northern Ireland.
Answer: We all recognise the importance of tourism to Northern Ireland, and I am working with Cabinet colleagues and the Executive to support a thriving and competitive economy, including drawing on the many wonderful things there are to see and do in Northern Ir...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBBC Radio: IrelandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41236More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the cessation of BBC Sounds coverage outside of the UK on listeners living in border counties on the Island of Ireland.
Answer: The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of the Government, and decisions on how it discharges its obligations, such as its changes to its BBC Sounds service, are a matter for the BBC. The Government has therefore not assessed the potential im...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChoirs: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41228More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the orchestra tax relief to include choirs.
Answer: The Government supports the creative industries, including orchestras, through funding and through the tax system. Orchestra Tax Relief (OTR) provides tax relief on productions costs and provided £33 million of support in 2022-23. To qualify for OTR, a co...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: TaxationTreasuryTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40391More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to increase the childcare tax free cap in line with inflation.
Answer: The £2,000 Tax-Free Childcare top-up, which can be claimed per year and per child up to age 11 (and £4,000 per disabled child, up to age 16), was set at this level because it strikes the right balance between helping parents with their childcare costs, an...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth Fund: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39973More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the National Wealth Fund investment in Northern Ireland.
Answer: HM Treasury ministers and officials engage regularly with the Northern Ireland Executive. The Chancellor met the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on 12 September 2024 and discussed how to deliver economic growth in Northern Ire...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to include a legislative consent motion with legislative proposals to lower the voting age to allow 16 and 17 year olds in Northern Ireland to vote in (a) As
Answer: The Government has given a clear commitment to lower the voting age to 16 at all non-devolved elections, which includes Assembly and local elections in Northern Ireland. As elections are an excepted matter under Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will ensure that Northern Ireland is included in legislative proposals to lower the voting age for UK elections.
Answer: This Government will legislate to lower the voting age to 16 during this Parliament for all non-devolved elections across the UK, including elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland local government elections.
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDemonstrations: Tower of LondonHome OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to enable access to safe protest around the Tower of London.
Answer: The management of protests is an operational decision for the police.The Government fully support the police to ensure that the right to protest can be exercised in a lawful way.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Workers: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential for exploitation of migrant care worker visas being tied to individual employers; and whether she h
Answer: The Government condemns the exploitation of international care workers by rogue employers in the adult social care sector and continues to take robust action against this unscrupulous behaviour.We have recently implemented a prohibition on Skilled Worker ...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of industrial action by Northern Ireland immigration practitioners; and what steps she plans to take to ensure that asylum c
Answer: All asylum claims will continue to be assessed on an individual basis, in line with published policies.The Home Office continues to invest in a programme of transformation and business improvement initiatives to focus on speeding up decision making, reduc...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34656More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to locate GRS Research Government Scheme Jobs in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Government Social Research Profession (GSR) is made up of over 2,500 members living and working across the four nations of the UK in devolved administrations, departments, and arm’s lengths bodies. There are members of GSR located in Northern Ireland....
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: Northern IrelandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has written to her counterpart in the new Irish government on the creation of a unique IP address for Northern Ireland residents.
Answer: Further to my response of 14 October 2024 to question 6604, my officials have subsequently discussed the issue of geoblocking with their counterparts in both the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish Government. Those discussions are ongoing. Following...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Estate: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32204More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what outcomes relating to building inclusive communities and economic growth The Crown Estate has delivered in Northern Ireland.
Answer: As custodians of the seabed, The Crown Estate plays a crucial role in supporting Northern Ireland’s energy strategy, which aims to deliver 1GW of electricity from offshore wind from 2030, enough to power about a million homes. This initiative, outlined in...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Estate: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32203More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Crown Estate plans to extend Net Zero housing pilots to Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Crown Estate is currently trialling net zero carbon homes through three demonstration projects aimed at improving home quality and energy security. These projects involve developing 200 homes across three sites in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Ches...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Estate: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32185More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is the total value of (a) retail and (b) commercial assets owned by the Crown Estate in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Crown Estate’s assets in Northern Ireland predominantly fall under the coastal, marine or cable asset classes. The total value of these asset classes is currently £25,970,540 across telecommunication cables, coastal, interconnectors, pipelines, power ...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Estate: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32183More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue the Crown Estate has generated from rents paid by (a) public authorities and (b) councils in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
Answer: The revenue The Crown Estate has generated from rents paid by public authorities in Northern Ireland is as follows: in 2020 the figure was £64,231.19, in 2021 the figure was £ 55,251.06, in 2022 the figure was £56,915.66, in 2023 the figure was £56,689.16...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Valproate Spectrum DisorderDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a national redress scheme for (a) mothers and (b) children living with fetal valproate syndrome.
Answer: The Government is carefully considering the valuable work done by the Patient Safety Commissioner and the resulting Hughes Report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. We will be providing an update to the Patie...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
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