Daisy Cooper MP: written questions
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West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Domestic VisitsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2024 to Question 404 on Watford Hospital: Construction, whether he plans to visit West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust before 4 July 2025.
Answer: Ministers regularly consider visits across the country to see the impact of their policy areas. Any plans to visit specific locations will be notified to the relevant Members of Parliament in advance.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of (a) NHS Capital and (b) District Valuer Services rules in meeting demand for new primary care facilities.
Answer: The Government is committed to fixing the front door of the National Health Service, and this includes working with providers to deliver the primary care infrastructure required to enable a Neighbourhood Health Service.Capital spending is set to increase ...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordKidney DiseasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the UK becoming a signatory to the World Health Organisation's resolution entitled Reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases through th
Answer: The United Kingdom actively engaged in negotiations on the World Health Organization (WHO) resolution, Reducing the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through the Promotion of Kidney Health and Strengthening Prevention and Control of Kidney Diseas...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWatford Hospital: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding has been allocated for the enabling works for Watford General Hospital.
Answer: As announced following the review of the New Hospital Programme, Watford General Hospital will be delivered in Wave 2. Enabling works, including the Outline Business Case for the Watford General Hospital scheme, will be taken forward by West Hertfordshire...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 December 2024 to Question 20389 on NHS: Workplace Pensions, how many full time equivalent staff NHSBSA have allocated to administer the remedy implementation for those
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has allocated 112 working-time equivalent staff to administer the public service pensions remedy (‘McCloud’) immediate choice for retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme. This number is flexible and, as the w...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefuges: Public TransportDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the affordability of public transport for (a) women and (b) children residing in women's refuges.
Answer: Delivering safe and affordable public transport are key considerations for the Government and our ambitious reforms of the bus system and railway will ensure services better meet the needs of communities. The Department supports the Rail Delivery Group fu...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefuges: Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has provided funding to children's therapists to support families residing in women's refuges.
Answer: This government is committed to tackling violence against women and girls and supporting victims of domestic abuse, including children.Since 2021, local authorities in England have had a duty under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 to ensure victims and their c...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Domestic AbuseDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making tutoring available to children who are temporarily out of school as a result of moving out of area to seek refuge from domestic violence.
Answer: Under section 19 of the Education Act 1996, local authorities must arrange suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who would not receive suitable education without such provision. This applies whether the child is on the admissi...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Domestic AbuseDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time was for children fleeing domestic abuse to be allocated a school place in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: Children living in a refuge are, among a number of other categories of vulnerable and hard-to-place children, eligible for consideration under the fair access protocol. Where a child is referred to the protocol, they must be allocated a school place withi...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Pedestrian AreasDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to (a) the consultation Managing Pavement Parking, published 31 August 2020 and (b) the update on 29 June 2023 that feedback was being evaluated, whether she plans to publish further information
Answer: The Department has been considering all the views expressed in response to the consultation in 2020 and is currently working through the policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. As soon as the Government has decided its preferred way f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRented Housing: MouldMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of modern dehumidifying technologies can play on tackling damp and mould in the social and private rented housing sectors.
Answer: The government has published consolidated guidance for social and private landlords relating to the health impacts of damp and mould and what actions they should consider when responding to reports of it. Whether or not dehumidifiers form part of the way ...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRents: Shared OwnershipMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on rent increases for those shared ownership properties not purchased from a registered social lan
Answer: The government requires that all leases for shared ownership properties funded with government grant, regardless of whether the shared ownership provider is a registered social landlord, must include a clause limiting rent increases to a maximum of RPI +0...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoyal Mail: Workplace PensionsCabinet OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34653More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of times Capita has made overpayments in relation to (a) tax-free lump sums and (b) regular pension payments for people taking their pension benefits from the
Answer: Capita, the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme administrator, has made the following overpayments: 2019202020212022202320242025 to 3/3/2025(a)tax-free lump sums497149060(b)regular pension payments3276171378190921 Capita has carried out several data corr...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSurrogacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January to Question 25639 on Surrogacy, whether he plans to respond to the Law Commission’s report on surrogacy in this Parliament.
Answer: The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health will be writing to the chairs of the Law Commissions of England and Wales and Scotland shortly, to follow up their meeting on 5 November.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElizabeth EmblemCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33080More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will launch a consultation on extending the eligibility for the Elizabeth Emblem medal to people who are left severely injured and medically retired in the course of undertaking eligible public service.
Answer: The government recognises the invaluable contribution of emergency service workers to the people of the United Kingdom. Those that lose their lives as a result of their duties are now rightly honoured with the award of the Elizabeth Emblem. There are no c...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 8712 on Animal Welfare, what steps he plans to take to help improve animal welfare.
Answer: This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation. In our manifesto we laid out that we will ban trail hunting, ban the importation of hunting trophies, end puppy smuggling and farming...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProbation: StaffMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who complete the Professional Qualification in Probation remain in the Probation Service for at least five years after qualifying.
Answer: There were 648 staff who completed their Professional Qualification in Probation (PQIP) qualification between January 2018 and December 2019. 571 (88%) of these could be matched to subsequent HMPPS employment records. 415 (73%) of those that could be matc...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProbation OfficersMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who complete the Professional Qualification in Probation then receive one of their preferred work placements as a qualified Probation Officer.
Answer: The allocation of trainee Probation Officers (PQIPs) into their first Probation Officer role as a Newly Qualified Officer is completed locally by the Probation Region. We do not hold data on this centrally to share. PQIPs are asked to identify three Proba...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPornography ReviewDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Bertin Review will consider the differences between the online and offline regulation of pornographic content.
Answer: The Independent Pornography Review assessed the effectiveness of current pornography legislation, regulation and enforcement. This included considering the difference in regulation for pornography online versus ‘offline’.The Review has now concluded, and ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPassports: BabiesHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for new-born out of country passport applications.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate costThe published processing guidance for children by ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to notify eligible Ukrainians on the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme.
Answer: To promote and raise awareness of the Ukraine Permission Extention scheme, the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), alongside trusted partners, have run 9 community outreach events in London, Liverpool, Manche...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPassports: British National (Overseas)Home OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for passports for children born outside the UK.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate costWhere no further information is required, His Maje...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has received representations about extending the Adoption and special guardianship support fund to ensure it covers 12 months of therapeutic support.
Answer: No representations have been received on this issue. Under the current guidelines for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, applications for therapeutic support can already be submitted for up to a 12 month period. This has allowed children ...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFractures: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 25911 on Fractures: Health Services, if he will set targets for making fracture liaison services available for all NHS trusts.
Answer: Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) are a globally recognised care model and can reduce the risk of refracture for people at risk of osteoporosis by up to 40%. They can play a vital role in improving quality of life and increasing the number of years that can...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Partnerships: MarriageWomen and EqualitiesTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32163More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to allow opposite sex civil partners to convert their partnerships into a marriage without requiring a dissolution order.
Answer: In 2019, when civil partnerships were made available for opposite-sex couples in England and Wales, the Government ran a public consultation on the future of conversion rights between marriage and civil partnerships for both opposite and same-sex couples ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
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