Edward Morello MP: written questions 2025
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Restaurants: West DorsetDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support restaurants in West Dorset constituency.
Answer: Hospitality businesses, including those in West Dorset, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth and social cohension across the UK.We recently launched a licensing taskforce to reduce red tape and barriers t...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that funds allocated for resident care in retirement homes are used for the purpose intended.
Answer: To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care, the Government has made available up to £3.7 billion of additional funding for social care authorities in 2025/26, which includes an £880 million increase in the Social Care Gr...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordVoluntary ContributionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken to process voluntary National Insurance contributions for people who contacted her Department before 5 April 2025.
Answer: The Department has doubled the number of people supporting this important activity and is pursuing digital routes to support processing Voluntary National Insurance Contributions.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational InsuranceTreasuryTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48325More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to extend the deadline for voluntary National Insurance contributions.
Answer: Individuals can pay voluntary National Insurance contributions for up to six years in arrears to fill gaps in their National Insurance record. Transitional arrangements to the new State Pension introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in 2...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordVoluntary ContributionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to communicate with people who did not receive responses to their queries on voluntary National Insurance contributions before 5 April 2025.
Answer: The Department is currently calling customers who registered an interest in Voluntary National Insurance Contributions before 5th April, where they may have a gap to fill. Where no further pension enhancement is possible, we may write to customers instead...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: NursesDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the provision of paediatric nursing support in SEND educational settings.
Answer: Individual schools are responsible for decisions about their staffing. Information on the school workforce, including the number of support staff employed by schools, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is avai...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: NursesDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a national standard for paediatric nurse staffing levels in SEND schools.
Answer: Individual schools are responsible for decisions about their staffing. Information on the school workforce, including the number of support staff employed by schools, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is avai...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: NursesDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the recruitment and retention of paediatric nurses in SEND schools.
Answer: Individual schools are responsible for decisions about their staffing. Information on the school workforce, including the number of support staff employed by schools, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is avai...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: NursesDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of paediatric nurses employed in SEND schools in England.
Answer: As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, 73 people were employed in state-funded special schools in England with a role of ‘nurse’. This is an increase from 66 in 2022 and 56 in 2021.The figures provided are based on staff roles a...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to incorporate road safety education into the national primary school curriculum.
Answer: Primary and secondary schools are free to teach about road safety as part of their duty to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, and many do so through their personal, social, health and economic education provision, alongside the statutory relationshi...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources her Department provides to primary schools to teach road safety effectively.
Answer: Primary and secondary schools are free to teach about road safety as part of their duty to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, and many do so through their personal, social, health and economic education provision, alongside the statutory relationshi...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic OffencesHome OfficeTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of police funding levels on the frequency of speeding incidents in an area.
Answer: The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.6 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement.How the police allocate their resou...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: West DorsetHome OfficeTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to increase visible policing in areas with high rates of road traffic offences in West Dorset constituency.
Answer: The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.6 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement.How the police allocate their resou...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: Rural AreasHome OfficeTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that police forces effectively allocate resources to help tackle speeding in rural communities.
Answer: The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.6 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement.How the police allocate their resou...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: LightingDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to issue updated guidance to local authorities on balancing carbon reduction initiatives with pedestrian and road user safety in relation to street lighting.
Answer: The management of street lighting in England is the responsibility of local highway authorities, such as Dorset Council. They have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the public highways in their charge, including street lighting....
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: LightingDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of street lighting reductions on road safety in West Dorset.
Answer: The management of street lighting in England is the responsibility of local highway authorities, such as Dorset Council. They have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the public highways in their charge, including street lighting....
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services and Railways: TimetablesDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to ensure synchronisation between bus and train timetables.
Answer: The Government knows that a modern, integrated public transport network is vital to providing access to services for all users of the system and keeping communities connected. The Government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December to put th...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic TransportDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has considered the specific needs of vulnerable populations in coordinating public transport schedules.
Answer: The Government knows that a modern, integrated public transport network is vital to providing access to services for all users of the system and keeping communities connected. The Government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December to put th...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services and Railways: West DorsetDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities to align bus and train services in West Dorset for improved accessibility.
Answer: The Government knows that a modern, integrated public transport network is vital to providing access to services for all users of the system and keeping communities connected. The Government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December to put th...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Bus ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department issues guidance on ensuring that bus replacement services have sufficient capacity to accommodate passengers from cancelled train services.
Answer: Train operating companies are subject to a number of requirements relating to the provision of rail replacement services. The Office of Rail and Road hold train operating companies to account against their obligations under the passenger information licen...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Bus ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department monitors the adequacy of bus replacement services for meeting demand during train service disruptions.
Answer: Train operating companies are subject to a number of requirements relating to the provision of rail replacement services. The Office of Rail and Road hold train operating companies to account against their obligations under the passenger information licen...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Labour TurnoverDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of staff turnover on the quality of care in retirement homes.
Answer: The Department continues to monitor adult social care (ASC) workforce capacity, bringing together national data sets from Skills for Care’s monthly tracking data, the Capacity Tracker tool which collates data from all ASC providers regulated by the Care Q...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48050More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact recent discussions with representatives from the (a) pub and (b) brewing industries on (i) the levels of duty payable on beer and (ii) fiscal support for those industries have had on her policy decisions
Answer: Treasury ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations on departmental business are pub...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48049More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with representatives from the (a) pub and (b) brewing industries on (i) the levels of duty payable on beer and (ii) fiscal support for those industries.
Answer: Treasury ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations on departmental business are pub...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that fire and rescue services have the expertise required to meet the regulatory requirements on that sector.
Answer: It is the role of Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRA) to hold Fire and Rescue Services to account. There are a number of different FRA governance models (for example mayoral authorities, Police Fire and Crime Commissioners and standalone FRAs). However, all...
Answered 2 May 2025
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