David Chadwick MP: written questions
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Supermarkets: FinesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, on how many occasions has the Groceries Code Adjudicator imposed the maximum fine on a retailer for non-compliance since 2013.
Answer: Since 2013 the Groceries Code Adjudicator has not imposed a fine on a retailer for non-compliance. The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has a number of levers to deal with non-compliance and resolve disputes. Following an investigation into a regulated re...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFoodDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what engagement he has had with the Welsh Government to discuss the upcoming food strategy.
Answer: The UK’s food system is fully integrated across the four nations, though significant elements of food policy are devolved. Our strategy will therefore consider the food system across the whole of the UK, with the UK Government working closely with the Dev...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGroceries Code Adjudicator: StaffDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff work for the Groceries Code Adjudicator; and whether any of those staff are seconded from other Departments.
Answer: The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) is funded by a levy on the fourteen regulated retailers covered by the Groceries Supply Code of Practice. It does not employ its own staff but may make arrangements for staff to be seconded from any other public author...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that female-only medical conditions are included in medical training and research.
Answer: The General Medical Council (GMC) sets and enforces the standards that all doctors, Anaesthesia Associates, and Physician Associates must adhere to. The standard of training for doctors is the responsibility of the GMC, who set the outcome standards expec...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFraud: CommunicationsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what regulatory mechanisms are in place to help consumers verify the legitimacy of communications from (a) banks, (b) energy providers and (c) telecommunications companies to help prevent scams.
Answer: Although the Department of Business and Trade does not directly regulate these sectors, Companies House and the Insolvency Service supply data on UK registered companies to assist law enforcement targeting online fraud and other economic crimes. Furthermo...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Centre of Rail ExcellenceDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29759More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what role the Global Centre of Rail Excellence will have in supporting offline testing of new trains.
Answer: The Department of Transport continues to engage closely with the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in developing its proposal for world-class research, testing and certification site in South Wales. Department for Transport officials contribute thro...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Centre of Rail ExcellenceDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to use rail industry procurement to support the Global Centre of Rail Excellence opportunity.
Answer: The Department of Transport continues to engage closely with the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in developing its proposal for world-class research, testing and certification site in South Wales. Department for Transport officials contribute thro...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: ResearchDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking with the rail industry to ensure it can access a greater share of competitive research and development funding through UKRI and Horizon Europe.
Answer: Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) play a critical role in helping the rail industry reduce its emissions and costs, optimise operations, improve resilience and safety and enhance passenger experience. The Department of Transport continues to...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Centre of Rail ExcellenceDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with the Welsh Government to ensure that the opportunity of the Global Centre of Rail Excellence is maximised as part of its Industrial Strategy.
Answer: The Department of Transport continues to engage closely with the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in developing its proposal for world-class research, testing and certification site in South Wales. Department for Transport officials contribute thro...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Centre of Rail ExcellenceDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to help the Welsh Government ensure the Global Centre of Rail Excellence facility in South Wales is being supported to project completion.
Answer: The Department of Transport continues to engage closely with the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in developing its proposal for world-class research, testing and certification site in South Wales. Department for Transport officials contribute thro...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Investment in UK: WalesCabinet OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26763More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of Foreign Direct Investment in Wales by country.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 27th January is now available in the House Library.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: InfrastructureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that National Grid is taking improved action to regularly maintain infrastructure networks.
Answer: The maintenance of our electricity network is critical to deliver clean, secure power to homes and businesses across the country. Electricity network operators are private companies which build, own, operate, and maintain electricity network infrastructur...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: ShortagesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential economic impact of seeking unlicensed products as an alternative to Creon to mitigate ongoing pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy shortages on pharmac
Answer: There has been no assessment on the potential economic impact of seeking unlicensed products as an alternative to Creon.The Department is continuing to engage with suppliers of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) and special importers of unlicens...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: WalesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25543More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress National Grid Electricity Transmission have made on (a) proposals to connect the transmission grid in north Wales to the south and (b) agreements with generators on connection c
Answer: As a private transmission owner National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) develops project proposals in England and Wales where a transmission need is identified by the National Energy System Operator (NESO). In all proposals evidence demonstrating du...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVettingHome OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25542More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to provide additional support to police forces impacted by increased volumes of disclosure applications.
Answer: The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is operationally independent from the Home Office and works directly with police forces to process disclosure applications.Overall, police performance remains strong: the DBS sends approximately 3 million checks ea...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWelsh National Opera: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will have discussions with (a) Arts Council England and (b) Arts Council of Wales on a sustainable funding solution for the Welsh National Opera.
Answer: I have already held a series of productive meetings with the Wales Office, Welsh Government, Arts Council England, and Welsh National Opera to understand the issue in more detail and to see how, within the parameters of the arm’s length principle, DCMS ca...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRiver Wye: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on implementing the River Wye Action Plan.
Answer: This Government is actively progressing the next steps for the River Wye. This includes building stronger ties and working collaboratively with the Welsh Government, Environment Agency and Natural England, as well as local MPs, farmers, local community gr...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic LavatoriesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities to provide public conveniences.
Answer: Adequate provision of public conveniences is an important issue which local authorities are best suited to manage, given their firm understanding of the needs of their communities.Our English Devolution White Paper, published before Christmas, sets out ho...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic LavatoriesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a statutory duty to provide public conveniences.
Answer: Adequate provision of public conveniences is an important issue which local authorities are best suited to manage, given their firm understanding of the needs of their communities.Our English Devolution White Paper, published before Christmas, sets out ho...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Respiratory DiseasesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are receiving PIP as a result of having a lung condition; and whether breathlessness is taken into account when conducting a PIP assessment.
Answer: In October 2024, there were 107,697 claimants with a respiratory diseased who received Personal Independence Payment (PIP). These figures are for England and Wales only and exclude claimants with Special Rules for End of Life. This figure can be found in ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: PricesDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of varying fuel prices at nation-wide service station providers; and what steps she is taking to ensure equity for customers.
Answer: The local pricing of fuel at forecourts is a commercial matter for retailers. The Competition and Markets Authority has powers to monitor competition in the road fuel retail market. The government has committed to introduce legislation to implement Fuel F...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProject Gigabit: Brecon, Radnor and Cwm TaweDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much and what proportion of (a) Project Gigabit funding has been (i) spent on and (ii) allocated for and (b) additional funding announced in the press notice entitled Hundreds of th
Answer: Project Gigabit funding is not allocated at a constituency or regional level. Instead, it is targeted at premises across the UK that need it most, specifically those outside of suppliers' commercial plans.The latest Project Gigabit contracts announced on ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: Brecon, Radnor and Cwm TaweDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many properties are not connected to the national (a) gas and (b) electricity grid in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency.
Answer: The Department publishes estimates of the number of domestic properties not connected to the gas network in Great Britain by constituency. In 2023, an estimated 19,000 domestic properties (41%) in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency were not connecte...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPayment Methods: Visual ImpairmentTreasuryTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21887More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure the accessibility of touch screens for (a) card payment machines and (b) other services for people with visual impairments.
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring high standards of financial inclusion across the financial services sector. The Treasury continues to engage with UK Finance, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, and other ...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: InternetDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Government Digital Service's report entitled Accessibility monitoring of public sector websites and mobile apps from 2022 to 2024, published on 17 December 2024, w
Answer: The Government Digital Service (GDS) monitors the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile applications under The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Between January 2022 and September ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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