Clive Lewis MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Infected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20990More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to introduce further regulations to enable the Infected Blood Compensation Authority to issue payments to the affected.
Answer: Subject to Parliamentary approval, I am aiming for the second set of Infected Blood regulations to be in force by 31st March 2025.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) governance and (b) performance of the water industry in England meets the UK's obligations under the Aarhus Convention.
Answer: The Government is committed to the effective implementation of our international obligations under the Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters. The United Kingdom is not currently sub...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: NorfolkMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times prisons in Norfolk operated an (a) amber and (b) red regime in each the last 10 years.
Answer: As this information demonstrates, the new Government inherited a criminal justice system in crisis, with prisons on the point of collapse.All public sector prisons have systems in place for the day-to-day management of staff resources and regime delivery,...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: AccountabilityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department or water companies will appoint members to consumer water panels.
Answer: For too long customers have not been at the heart of the objectives of water companies. This Government believes the interests of customers should be clearly represented and they should play a key role in holding water companies to account on their perfor...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: AccountabilityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2024 to Question 2947 on Water Companies: Accountability, when he expects the consumer water panels to be established.
Answer: For too long customers have not been at the heart of the objectives of water companies. This Government believes the interests of customers should be clearly represented and they should play a key role in holding water companies to account on their perfor...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrudential Regulation Authority: EnforcementTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19720More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 17571 on Fossil Fuels: Insurance, whether the Prudential Regulation Authority is responsible for enforcing the (a) development and (b) implementation of transiti
Answer: The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is responsible for overseeing the prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions in the UK, ensuring their safety, soundness, and compliance with regulatory standards. Responsibility for regulator...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFossil Fuels: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19719More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2024 to Question 17571 on Fossil Fuels: Insurance, whether her Department has taken steps with the Prudential Regulation Authority to ensure Lloyd’s of London’s underwriting acti
Answer: The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is responsible for overseeing the prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions in the UK, ensuring their safety, soundness, and compliance with regulatory standards. Responsibility for regulator...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2024 to Question 17570 on Pension Funds: Environment Protection, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a legal obligation for UK-based p
Answer: As set out in our answer of 9 December to Question 17570, in line with their fiduciary duty trustees of pension schemes have a responsibility to consider and review their approach to investment, stewardship and voting in light of the climate risks to thei...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: SewersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of new housing targets on sewerage infrastructure.
Answer: I refer my Hon Friend to my answer to Question UIN 9948 on 23 October 2024.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFossil Fuels: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17571More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to prevent insurers underwriting fossil fuel projects.
Answer: This Government is committed to delivering the UK’s legal and international climate commitments. Clean power by 2030 and accelerating to net zero is a key mission of this Government and essential to credible, long-term economic growth. Insurers make comme...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of whether the divestment of pension funds from insurance companies that are not compliant with the UK’s climate commitments is a part of fiduciary duty.
Answer: Trustees have a fiduciary duty to make investment decisions in members’ best interests. Climate-related risk and opportunity is one of the major categories of financial factors of which trustees need to take account, in line with their fiduciary duty. The...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordIsrael: F-35 AircraftMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 15836, whether any F-35 components manufactured in Britain are designed specifically for use by the Israeli air force.
Answer: F-35 components are designed for use by all three variants of F-35 aircraft. The UK manufactures components for all F-35 variants.
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901601More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to help ensure that the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy supports the wider economy.
Answer: Financial services is central to the government’s modern industrial strategy due to the key role it plays in financing growth across the economy. The Chancellor’s Mansion House speech set out how the government will work with the sector to deliver sustain...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the rate of employers' National Insurance contributions on (a) social enterprises and (b) v
Answer: At the recent Budget, the government took a number of difficult decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the foundations on public finances, fund public services, and restore economic stability.Ministers have met with representatives from the volunt...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordIsrael: F-35 AircraftMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether F-35 components were sent from RAF Marham to Israel between October 2023 and August 2024.
Answer: At the request of the US led F-35 Programme, there were 14 transfers of F-35 components from RAF Marham to Israel between October 2023 and August 2024. The transferred components are the property of the US Department of Defense.In keeping with the Governm...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNagorno Karabakh: RefugeesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Government's policy is on (a) the right of return and (b) civil rights protections for ethnic Armenians displayed from the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Answer: The Government has encouraged the Azerbaijani authorities to provide clarity on the rights and security of ethnic Armenians displaced by conflict who wish to return to the region. We commend the efforts of the Armenian government, which has supported thos...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordArmenia: AzerbaijanForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to respond to recent alleged reports of violence against ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijan.
Answer: We are not aware of any recent reports of alleged violence against ethnic Armenians by Azerbaijan. However, we are clear that peaceful negotiation is the only route to a lasting resolution of the longstanding conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and w...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: Climate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9485 on Water Companies: Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the adequacy of how Ofwat is carrying out
Answer: As an independent regulator, Ofwat carries out its statutory duties autonomously from the Government and instead is directly accountable to Parliament. The department therefore does not routinely monitor or assess how Ofwat carries out its duties. An Inde...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 8935 on Hospices: Children, what his planned timetable is for a decision on the future of that funding.
Answer: While 2023/24 marked the final year of the Children’s Hospice Grant in its previous format, in 2024/25, NHS England continued to provide an additional £25 million of funding for children and young people’s hospices, maintaining the level of grant funding ...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10743More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date applications for interim payments of £100,000 to the estates of deceased people whose deaths have not yet been recognised by a previous interim payment will open.
Answer: The process under which estates can apply for interim compensation payments opened on 24th October. These payments are to be made to the estates of deceased infected persons, where interim payments have not already been received, in those cases where the ...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: Climate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring Ofwat to monitor climate adaptation and mitigation requirements for water companies.
Answer: Under section 2 of The Water Industry Act 1991, Ofwat must carry out their statutory duties to further their resilience objectives: to secure the long-term resilience of water companies’ water supply and wastewater systems; and to secure that they take st...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Advisory ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the evidential basis supporting her statement that trials of employment advisers giving CV and interview advice in hospitals has produced dramatic results.
Answer: Based on over 20 years of research, the Individual Placement and Support employment model is internationally recognised as the most effective way to support people with mental health problems to gain and keep paid employment. Individual Placement and Supp...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSleeping RoughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether funding for the Rough Sleeping Initiative will continue after April 2025.
Answer: The Government is committed to addressing current high levels of rough sleeping and deliver long term solutions. We will look at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with mayors and councils across the country t...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8842More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the National Wealth Fund's statement of strategic priorities will include (a) meeting net zero targets and (b) the promotion of poverty reduction.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will operate at arm’s length from the government. The government will provide the National Wealth Fund with a new framework of investment principles and a statement of strategic priorities in the coming months.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8841More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's planned timetable is for introducing legislation to establish the National Wealth Fund.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund (NWF) has been established and can operate under the UK Infrastructure Bank Act 2023. The government will bring forward new legislation when parliamentary time allows to broaden its mandate beyond infrastructure and cement its pos...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
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