Daisy Cooper MP: written questions
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Luton AirportDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department sought legal advice on the compatibility of its decision to expand Luton Airport on the UK's commitments under the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Answer: The full reasons for the Secretary of State’s decision on 3 April 2025 to grant consent to the London Luton Airport Expansion scheme, including consideration of carbon emissions and the Paris climate accord, are set out in her decision letter which is pub...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: ChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including postgraduate students in the eligibility criteria for the (a) Childcare Grant and (b) Parent Learners Allowance.
Answer: Postgraduate master’s and doctoral loans are intended as a contribution to the cost of study. They can be used by students according to their personal circumstances to cover the costs of fees and living costs, including for childcare. The Childcare Grant ...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: ChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43164More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including postgraduate students in receipt of (a) stipends and (b) bursaries in the eligibility criteria for free childcare.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.To be eligible for the working parent entitlement, both par...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2025 to Question 28599 on Doctors: Training, if he will conduct a review of the selection process for medical specialty training places with a view to giving p
Answer: Working with NHS England, we continue to keep the selection process for all applicants to medical speciality training under review.NHS England launched an extensive engagement and listening exercise to help shape the future of postgraduate medical trainin...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department provides to support services for the children of alcoholics.
Answer: Our mission-based approach will ensure that every child has the best start in life and that we create the healthiest generation of children ever. This includes supporting the children of parents with alcohol problems and other adverse childhood experience...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that air pollution levels near (a) schools, (b) hospitals and (c) GP surgeries do not exceed the World Health Organisation's recommended limits.
Answer: This Government is committed to continue reducing everyone’s exposure to air pollution. We are developing a series of further interventions to reduce emissions from key sources. We have set a Population Exposure Reduction Target for PM2.5, which will cont...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Pollution: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of air pollution on children’s health.
Answer: Children can be susceptible to the health effects from long and short-term exposure to air pollution. The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants published advice on susceptibility to air pollution in March 2025. They concluded that, based on t...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Plans: Gardens TrustMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 39567 on Local Plans: Gardens Trust, what criteria was applied to the decision to remove the Gardens Trust as a statutory plan
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 10 March 2025 (HCWS510).
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of adopting intelligent booking systems to maximise the utilisation of the NHS property estate.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential merits of adopting intelligent booking systems to maximise the utilisation of the National Health Service’s property estate. NHS trusts decide locally how best to manage their estate.Data for the occupancy and ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the NHS of (a) unused and (b) underused clinical (i) buildings and (ii) rooms.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential merits of adopting intelligent booking systems to maximise the utilisation of the National Health Service’s property estate. NHS trusts decide locally how best to manage their estate.Data for the occupancy and ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) occupancy and (b) utilisation rates of clinical rooms in the NHS estate was in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential merits of adopting intelligent booking systems to maximise the utilisation of the National Health Service’s property estate. NHS trusts decide locally how best to manage their estate.Data for the occupancy and ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for naturalisation as a British citizen took longer than the six month service standard in the latest reporting period for which data is available.
Answer: The information requested is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/passports-and-citizenship-data-q4-2024.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRipple Energy: ConsumersDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with (a) Ripple Energy and (b) the administrators of Ripple Energy on protections for the customers of Ripple Energy’s cooperative energy projects.
Answer: Details of Ministers' and Permanent Secretaries' meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether she plans to publish guidance for parish and town councils on how to engage with her
Answer: Town and parish councils are the first tier of local government and play a crucial role in community engagement and provide key local services.The English Devolution White Paper emphasises the value of governance on a community scale and that the governme...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Energy: LogosDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much his Department spent on redesigning the logo for Great British Energy in 2025.
Answer: Great British Energy’s branding and logo were developed in-house with government resources.
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Business PremisesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 903395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of guidance issued by District Valuer Services on the availability of city centre GP premises.
Answer: GP premises costs are reimbursed by the NHS. Any increase in charges by the landlord impacts the cost of providing primary care in that locality. The District Valuer Service offers independent advice on appropriate level of market rent, considering the bu...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTitanium SalicylateDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made any recent assessment of the security of the supply chain of titanium salicylate.
Answer: The Department works in partnership with industry, the National Health Service, and the wider health system to assess any potential issues across the medical supply chain. The Department was notified of the discontinuation of metanium nappy rash ointment,...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Plans: Gardens TrustMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions The Gardens Trust has (a) not provided a timely response to a request for feedback and (b) provided feedback that was in conflict with matters settled in th
Answer: The Garden Trust publish data on their work as a statutory consultee as part of their annual general meeting reports. Their 2023/24 Conservation Committee Report, which can be found here, makes clear that in the year to April 2024, they received 1733 stat...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what basis the NHS Business Services Authority decided that expected eligibility to make a choice to revert to legacy scheme benefits under the McCloud remedy should not be considered a disclosu
Answer: All members of the NHS Pension Scheme who are affected by the McCloud remedy were contacted by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in January 2024 to inform them that they are eligible to make a benefit choice. Further information to enable this ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received notification from the NHS Business Services Authority that they will not be able to meet the 31 March 2025 deadline to provide eligible retired members of the NHS Pension Sc
Answer: The answer I gave on 31 December 2024 to the Hon. Member for Lewes to Question 20389 set out that the Department does not expect that the majority of affected retired members will receive their remediable service statement until after April 2025. It also ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme who are eligible to make a choice to revert to legacy benefits can present evidence to the NHS Business Services Authority of financial difficulty
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is prioritising the provision of remediable service statements to those cohorts of NHS Pension Scheme members affected by the public service pensions remedy, the McCloud remedy, who are most likely to receive h...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what process the NHS Business Services Authority identifies retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme who are in the greatest financial difficulty for the purposes of inviting them to make an im
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority has identified NHS Pension Scheme members whose records indicate that they are more likely to have been affected by age discrimination during the McCloud remedy period. Factors considered in making this assessment inclu...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing NHS Pension Scheme members in receipt of pension benefits to choose to revert to legacy scheme benefits if they can evidence financia
Answer: The NHS Pension Scheme is delivered by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). NHSBSA is prioritising the issuance of remediable service statements to cohorts of NHS Pension Scheme members affected by the public service pensions remedy (‘McCloud’) w...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefuges: Bus ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March to Question 36781 on Refuges: Public Transport, what progress she has made on plans she has to explore targeted options for affordable bus travel for (a) women and (b) childre
Answer: The government is investing over £150 million to deliver a £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London from 1 January until 31 December 2025 to help millions of people. In addition, the government has confirmed £955 million for the 2025 to 2026 f...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmunosuppression: Preventive MedicineDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to prophylactics for immunocompromised people for whom vaccines are not effective.
Answer: Decisions about what medicines to prescribe are made by the doctor or healthcare professional responsible for that part of the patient’s care, working with their patient to decide on the best course of treatment with the provision of the most clinically a...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
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