Esther McVey MP: written questions 2025

Written questions

• Coronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23741More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22602 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, for what reason the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency does not intend to publish this info

  Answer: It is routine practice for regulatory authorities to ask developers of new medicines and vaccines technical questions based on their data submissions. These technical questions can cover a range of issues, including commercially confidential issues such a...

  Answered 20 Jan 2025

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• Planning: Nature ConservationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23740More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure biodiversity net gain is not used to override protections afforded to Local Wildlife Sites and other designated nature sites.

  Answer: Development is restricted on sites which are designated for environmental or amenity value, and the National Planning Policy Framework requires local plans to identify, map and safeguard components of local wildlife-rich habitats and wider ecological netw...

  Answered 22 Jan 2025

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• Planning: Nature ConservationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23739More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of planning protections afforded to Local Wildlife Sites in the in the update to the National Planning Policy Framework.

  Answer: The powers secured through the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 would allow Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment to be replaced with a new framework of Environmental Outcomes Reports.The government is committed to s...

  Answered 22 Jan 2025

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• Coronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22602More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.6 of the minutes of the Covid-19 Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group held on 18 November 2020, if he will publish (a) the 36 questions posed by the Medicines and

  Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency does not intend to publish these questions, or any subsequent responses received from the manufacturers.

  Answered 13 Jan 2025

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