Damian Hinds MP: written questions
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General PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 124063More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion GPs were not in General Practice in England one year after receipt of their Certificate of Completion of Training in each of the most recent five years for which data a
Answer: Thanks to actions taken by the Government, we have the highest number of fully qualified general practitioners (GPs) since 2015, at 30,038 full time equivalent in February 2026. Leaver rates also remain low by historical standards, at 7.5% in December 202...
Answered 13 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to issue to local planning authorities guidance on the recommended mix of dwelling sizes in new housing developments in light of recent changes in the birth rate
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 33286 on 3 March 2025.
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: Business RatesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 116734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the change in business rates liability for the university sector in 2026/7 relative to 2024/5.
Answer: Information about business rates, including changes that will come into effect on 1 April 2026, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/introduction-to-business-rates.As universities are independent of government, they are responsible for understanding the ...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 116733More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the change in business rates liability for the further education college sector in 2026/7 relative to 2024/5.
Answer: At the Budget, the VOA announced updated property values from the 2026 revaluation. This revaluation is the first since the pandemic, which has led to significant increases in rateable values for some properties as they recover from the pandemic. In recog...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Business RatesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 116732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her Answer of 12 January 2026 to Question 104726 on Department for Education: Business Rates, what estimate she has made of the change in business rates liability for the 2026-27 financial year comp
Answer: Claims for national non-domestic rates for schools are processed on a reactive basis by the department, once all claims have been submitted for payment. Claims can be made and adjusted for up to six years, which means that levels of payment and reimbursem...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Business RatesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 116731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 12 January 2026 to Question 104726 on Department for Education: Business Rates, what was the level of (a) payment and (b) reimbursement of business rates in (a) her Department an
Answer: Claims for national non-domestic rates for schools are processed on a reactive basis by the department, once all claims have been submitted for payment. Claims can be made and adjusted for up to six years, which means that levels of payment and reimbursem...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are any changes of circumstances or residency, other than moving to secondary school or college, which could trigger the ‘change of educational phase’ provisions in the EHCP reforms she outlined i
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether in areas with middle schools, a pupil transitioning to Middle school or from Middle school will count as a change in phase of education for the purposes of the EHCP reforms she outlined in February 2026
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSchools: HampshireDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the effect of the changes outlined in the February 2026 white paper to the school funding formula on average per-pupil funding in (a) Hampshire (b) the East Hampshire parliamentary
Answer: The distribution of additional funding for schools in the Inclusive Mainstream Fund for the 2026/27 financial year will be confirmed shortly.
Answered 23 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of currently-projected local authorities’ SEND deficits she expects to be covered from the central government funds when the Statutory Override ends at the end of 2027-28.
Answer: We have set out plans to address local authorities’ high needs-related dedicated schools grant deficits up to the end of 2025/26, providing grants to cover 90% of each council’s deficit. Grants will be paid once councils have produced and received approva...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department's estimate of local authorities’ projected SEND deficits in 2028/29 assumes that 6.8% of pupils will have an EHCP in the academic year 2027/8, 7.3% in academic year 2028/9 and 7.7% in aca
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility, as the independent authority, publishes estimates of future spend.From 2028/29, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) spending will be covered by the overall government departmental expenditure limit budge...
Answered 8 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the total historic SEND deficits accrued in local authorities in England up to the end of (a) 2024/5 and (b) 2025/6; and what estimate she has made of the level of funding that wil
Answer: We have set out plans to address Dedicated Schools Grant deficits up to the end of 2025/26, providing grants to cover 90% of each council’s deficit as at 31 March 2026, once they have produced and received approval for a strong plan to drive sustained and...
Answered 8 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordDedicated Schools GrantDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what projection she has made of the deficit in the High Needs block budgets of English councils between now and the start of FY 2028/9.
Answer: The department has set out plans for a reformed special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in the recent Schools White Paper. Our assessment of future SEND spending will be updated following the SEND consultation. From 2028/29, SEND spending...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDedicated Schools Grant: DebtsDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the write-off of 90 per cent of the High Needs block debts of English councils on the amount of SEND funding to be absorbed into her Department's Resource
Answer: The High Needs Stability Grant is concerned with historic spending and will have no impact on pressures in 2028/29. From the 2028/29 financial year, the government has confirmed that special educational needs and disabilities pressure will be absorbed wit...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Secondary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's publications entitled 10-year plan to revitalise schools and colleges for every child, and Education estates strategy: a decade of national renewal, published on 11 February 2
Answer: In the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) consultation, the department set out our ambition that, in time, every secondary school will have an inclusion base. In every year of this parliament, core funding for schools and SEND is expected t...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Secondary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's publications entitled 10-year plan to revitalise schools and colleges for every child, and Education estates strategy: a decade of national renewal, published on 11 February 2
Answer: In our consultation on special educational needs and disabilities, the department has set out our ambition that, in time, every secondary school will have an inclusion base.Where new places are needed, this will be supported by the £3.7 billion in high ne...
Answered 27 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Secondary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's announcement of 11 February 2026 entitled 10-year plan to revitalise schools and colleges for every child, how many and what proportion of secondary schools do not have an inc
Answer: The number of state-funded secondary schools with resourced provision or special educational needs units, as of January 2025, was 485. This represents 14% of all state-funded secondary schools.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: Business RatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on community pharmacies of (a) business rates revaluation from April 2026 and (b) their exclusion from RHL reliefs.
Answer: The Government recognises that pharmacies are an integral ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.In 2025/26, funding for the core community pharmacy contractual framework has been increa...
Answered 18 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average cost to a non-Levy-paying firm of employing an 18-year old apprentice in the first year of their apprenticeship, paid at the legal minimum hourly rate for a 37.5
Answer: Minimum wage rates are reviewed annually and the government considers the independent advice of the Low Pay Commission when setting minimum wage rates.Regarding wage costs, apprentices are entitled to the apprentice rate if they are either aged under 19 o...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112115More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average cost to a non-Levy-paying firm of employing an 19-year old apprentice in the second year of their apprenticeship, paid at the legal minimum hourly rate for a 37.
Answer: Minimum wage rates are reviewed annually and the government considers the independent advice of the Low Pay Commission when setting minimum wage rates.Regarding wage costs, apprentices are entitled to the apprentice rate if they are either aged under 19 o...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average cost to a non-Levy-paying firm of employing an 19-year old apprentice in the first year of their apprenticeship, paid at the legal minimum hourly rate for a 37.5
Answer: Minimum wage rates are reviewed annually and the government considers the independent advice of the Low Pay Commission when setting minimum wage rates.Regarding wage costs, apprentices are entitled to the apprentice rate if they are either aged under 19 o...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112113More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of apprentices aged (a) 21 or under and (b) 24 or under were subject to a 100% reduction in apprenticeship training cost in (i) 2023-4 (ii) 2024-5 financial year.
Answer: The apprenticeship funding rules for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years, which include information on employer co-investment, are published here Apprenticeship funding rules - GOV.UK.Since April 2024, the government has fully funded apprenticeship tra...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of apprentices employed by non-Levy-paying employers were subject to a (a) 100% (b) 95% (c) any other reduction in apprenticeship training costs.
Answer: The apprenticeship funding rules for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years, which include information on employer co-investment, are published here Apprenticeship funding rules - GOV.UK.Since April 2024, the government has fully funded apprenticeship tra...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordApprenticeship LevyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of apprentice-employing non-Levy-paying firms received an Apprenticeship Levy Transfer from a Levy-paying firm in 2023-4 financial year.
Answer: The total number of non-levy employers that received a transfer from a levy-paying employer in the 2023-24 financial year is 6,348. The proportion of non-levy employers that had an active apprenticeship service account that received a payment in the 2023-...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordApprentices: CostsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average cost to a non-Levy-paying firm of employing an 18-year old apprentice in the second year of their apprenticeship, paid at the legal minimum hourly rate for a 37.
Answer: Minimum wage rates are reviewed annually and the government considers the independent advice of the Low Pay Commission when setting minimum wage rates.Past, present and future minimum wage rates are published here, National Minimum Wage and National Livin...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
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