Damian Hinds MP: written questions 2025
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Food: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 May 2025 on Childhood Obesity, HCWS652, what his distinction is between a product and a brand.
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.Advertising restrictions for less healthy food or dr...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 May 2025 on Childhood Obesity, HCWS652, whether the output of TV channels not viewed as live broadcast TV will count as (a) TV and (b) online.
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.Advertising restrictions for less healthy food or dr...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNational School Breakfast Programme: Pilot SchemesDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56756More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) set up, (b) other one-off, (c) food, (d) staffing and (e) other operating cost funding has been allocated to schools for school breakfast pilots in total; and what estimate she has made of the (i)
Answer: At the Autumn Budget 2024, the government tripled its investment in breakfast clubs to over £30 million in the 2025/26 financial year to help ensure children are ready to learn at the start of the school day.From the start of the 2025 summer term, the fir...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of school funding that is directly related to the number of pupils.
Answer: Every year the department publishes the schools’ costs technical note to help the sector to understand school costs and funding. Our analysis considers pupil demographic changes alongside other factors.The department allocates most mainstream funding thro...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordApprenticeship Levy: Health Services and Social ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56182More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the contribution from the apprenticeship levy to level 7 apprenticeships provided by (a) the NHS and (b) other bodies in the health and social care sector to apprentices (i) under
Answer: The apprenticeship levy is collected by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from all UK employers with a pay bill above £3 million. HMRC publish overall levy receipts at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmrc-tax-and-nics-receipts-for-the-uk....
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordApprenticeship Levy: Education and Social ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the contribution from the apprenticeship levy to level 7 apprenticeships provided by (a) schools, (b) other bodies in the education sector and (c) bodies in the children’s social c
Answer: The apprenticeship levy is collected by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from all UK employers with a pay bill above £3 million. HMRC publish overall levy receipts at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmrc-tax-and-nics-receipts-for-the-uk....
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the effectiveness of the change in the real terms per pupil funding measure as an indicator of growth or otherwise in school budgets when pupil numbers are declining.
Answer: Every year the department publishes the schools’ costs technical note to help the sector to understand school costs and funding. Our analysis considers pupil demographic changes alongside other factors.The department allocates most mainstream funding thro...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of school costs that is directly related to the number of pupils.
Answer: Every year the department publishes the schools’ costs technical note to help the sector to understand school costs and funding. Our analysis considers pupil demographic changes alongside other factors.The department allocates most mainstream funding thro...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that internet filtering systems used in education settings are independently accredited.
Answer: All schools and colleges must have regard to ‘Keeping children safe in education’, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2. This guidance already makes clear that schools and colleges sh...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of internet filtering systems used in schools.
Answer: All schools and colleges must have regard to ‘Keeping children safe in education’, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2. This guidance already makes clear that schools and colleges sh...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the recruitment of 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects will be split across (a) mainstream schools (b) special schools and (c) other educational settings.
Answer: High quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child and young person’s outcome in schools and colleges. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break dow...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the School workforce in England figures, published in June 2024 will be the baseline against which she will measure progress towards recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects.
Answer: High quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child and young person’s outcome in schools and colleges. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break dow...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordApprentices: Personal Care ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship starts there were in the hair and beauty sector in (a) 2023-4 and (b) 2024-5; and what estimate she has made of the number of apprenticeship starts expected in the hair and beauty sector
Answer: The number of hair and beauty related apprenticeship starts in England is published in the apprenticeship accredited official statistics publication, which can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/aab77...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: BasingstokeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 52225 on Hospitals: Basingstoke, what is the timescale for the short form business case for the purchase of land near Junction 7 of the M3.
Answer: The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has confirmed the budget allocation for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s land purchase in this financial year. This does include a budget cap which is based on an estimate of what is expected to be required to co...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: BasingstokeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 52225, whether there is a (a) budget cap, (b) indicative range and (c) best estimate of the money allocated in this financial year's capital budget
Answer: The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has confirmed the budget allocation for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s land purchase in this financial year. This does include a budget cap which is based on an estimate of what is expected to be required to co...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53032More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Almost million more pupils get access to mental health support, published on 16 May 2025, whether the next phase of the implementation sche
Answer: Almost one million more young people will have access to mental health support in school this year. Previous plans to expand mental health support in schools were unfunded. By confirming this new investment, six in 10 pupils will have access to a mental h...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: DisinformationDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on the (a) scope, (b) function and (c) remit of the proposed advisory committee on disinformation and misinformation in Section 152 of the Online
Answer: The Online Safety Act provides clear requirements for the Committee’s responsibilities: advising Ofcom on how providers should address mis- and disinformation, and how Ofcom should exercise their transparency powers and fulfil their statutory duty to prom...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: BasingstokeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) capital funding and (b) revenue funding has been allocated for the purchase of land near Junction 7 of the M3 for development of a new hospital for Basingstoke and North Hampshire.
Answer: The New Hospital Programme confirmed to the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 7 May that it has included provision for the purchase of land for their scheme in this financial year’s capital budget. Revenue budget is not expected to be needed.The...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: ChildrenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will hold discussions with online service platforms on the potential merits of taking steps to ensure that children between 13 and 15 years of age cannot (a) change family safety
Answer: The government has high expectations there will be significant change in online experiences for children, as services start to comply with their duties under the Online Safety Act. Ofcom stands ready to act against services who fall short in protecting us...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49332More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the policy paper entitled Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education, updated 22 January 2025, what steps her Department is taking with the education sector to develop effective and
Answer: In August 2024 the government announced the content store, which is a £3 million data library funded by the Department for Science and Technology. It will be used to provide large language artificial intelligence (AI) models with high-quality educational ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the policy paper entitled Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education, updated 22 January 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the use of generative AI by sch
Answer: The department is working to develop the evidence base for the safe and effective use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education, including interventions to ensure teachers are equipped and supported to promote safe and appropriate use of AI....
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: UniformsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, whether a branded lanyard ribbon will count toward the proposed limit on the number of branded school uniform items.
Answer: This measure limits the number of compulsory branded items of uniform that schools can require to three or under. Secondary schools and middle schools will have the option to include an additional compulsory branded item if one of those items is a tie.The...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBusesDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on trends in the level of usage of coach transport (a) over time and (b) by sector.
Answer: The National Travel Survey asks individuals how frequently they use different modes of transport. Reported frequency of use of coach travel is as follows:Frequency of use of coach or express bus: England, 2003 onwards Less than once a year or neverO...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17083 on Mental Health Services: Schools, whether planned aspects of provision of access to a specialist mental health professional in every s
Answer: The Government has committed to expanding Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges to reach 100% coverage by 2029/30. As the programme matures, the Department of Health and Social Care will work with the Department for Education to cons...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAssessmentsDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her Department’s policy that public examinations are handwritten other than (a) for candidates with (i) special educational needs and (ii) disabilities and (b) for practical skills.
Answer: The majority of GCSE and A level examinations are handwritten in England. The department has been working closely with Ofqual, the independent regulator of qualifications and assessments, to consider the potential benefits and risks of greater use of onsc...
Answered 6 May 2025
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