Freddie van Mierlo MP: written questions 2025
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Antenatal Care: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to (a) improve access to antenatal care education for women and families and (b) ensure that high-quality (a) information and (b) information on birthing is delivered during
Answer: Maternity services are commissioned by integrated care boards (ICBs), and it is the responsibility of local commissioners to ensure services, including antenatal education, are designed to be accessible and high-quality. As was set out in the 2025/26 Nati...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ReviewsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the inclusion of Oxford University Hospitals Trust in the rapid review of NHS maternity services.
Answer: The investigation will carry out rapid reviews of up to ten trusts with specific issues. The process of determining which trusts to review is ongoing, and once decided, they will be announced as soon as possible.
Answered 8 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordSwimming: WaterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Designate a bathing water: guidance on how to apply, updated on 15 May 2025, for what reason applications cannot include organised
Answer: As per the criteria set out on GOV.UK, for a site to be eligible for designation as a bathing water, it must be used by an average of at least 100 bathers a day during the bathing season (15 May to 30 September). User surveys must be taken at a site to ev...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jul 2025WithdrawnUIN 68617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of recent changes to National Insurance Contributions on the financial viability of early years settings.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support NHS Trusts with (a) additional pharmacist staff salaries, (b) the cost of additional monitoring blood tests and (c) additional service delivery costs when new dru
Answer: The 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme, published on 4 April 2025, governs transactions between providers and commissioners of secondary healthcare by setting the rules for determining the amount payable for the provision of healthcare services. In short, it defi...
Answered 4 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordSwimming: WaterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63716 on Bathing Water, what kind of epidemiological studies she is carrying out in relation to wider reforms.
Answer: We have begun policy development and research on how best to implement the wider reforms as consulted on last year. These are expanding the definition of a ‘bather’ and introducing the use of multiple monitoring points at bathing sites. Policy development...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWater: ReformDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 63264 on Water: Reform, what her planned timetable is for the implementation of wider reform one.
Answer: In November 2024, the Government, jointly with the Welsh Government, consulted on Reforms to The Bathing Water Regulations 2013, in the first shake-up to the Bathing Water Regulations since they were introduced. We have begun policy development and resear...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68247More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent changes to National Insurance contributions on the financial viability of early years settings.
Answer: It is the government’s ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life.Despite tough decisions to get public finances back on track, the government is cont...
Answered 1 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce noise cameras.
Answer: Further to my response to PQ66815, the Department does not currently have plans to introduce noise cameras but is keeping up to date with any advancements in this technology. It is ultimately for local authorities and the police to consider what the most ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHarassment: Public ServiceHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) help tackle online harassment and (b) improve protection for people in public life.
Answer: As Chair of the Defending Democracy Taskforce, I want to be clear: the harassment or intimidation of elected representatives - whether online or in person - is never acceptable. The work we are taking forward includes working across Government with the po...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has conducted a review of the consistency of early years funding implementation across local authorities in England.
Answer: The department will review early years funding, including the early years national funding formulae, consulting on a set of changes by summer 2026. We will review how funding is distributed both nationally and locally to ensure the funding system is fair ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating SEND funding to schools on the basis of their current cohort of pupils rather than the cohort in a previous academic year.
Answer: The schools national funding formula (NFF) operates on a lag, where schools are funded based on their pupils in the previous October census. This helps to give schools more certainty over funding levels, to aid their planning, and is particularly importan...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordStamp Duties: First Time BuyersTreasuryTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66816More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of recent changes to stamp duty thresholds on the number of first time buyers entering the property market.
Answer: Recent changes to stamp duty thresholds on 1 April 2025 were the result of policy introduced by the previous government. HMRC analysis estimates that there will be 4,000-6,000 fewer first-time buyer transactions per year between 2025/26-2029/30 as a resul...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 64334 on Roads: Noise, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the installation of noise cameras, following the 2022 trial.
Answer: The Department for Transport conducted roadside trials of noise camera technology between October 2022 and February 2023. Reports of these trials, including detailed assessment of the technology’s performance and potential merits, were published on 17 Mar...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: OxfordshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the requirement upon Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to make savings of £99 million this year on the delivery of health servi
Answer: Like many other trusts, the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust overspent against their own plan in 2024/25, despite receiving significant additional support to deliver that plan. We can no longer accept overspends as standard. It is critical...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to increase the powers of (a) enforcement and (b) collection of the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is committed to ensuring separated parents support their children financially, taking robust enforcement action against those who do not. If someone chooses not to pay their maintenance themselves, the CMS has administr...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the collection of late payments by the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: The Government is dedicated to ensuring parents meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply. Where parents fail to pa...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to simplify early years funding for parents and guardians.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, improving opportunity for every child and work choices for every parent. This is key to the government’s Plan for Change, which starts with...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: LitterDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Highways England's roadside litter clearing duties.
Answer: The Government sets National Highways performance targets on litter as part of its Road Investment Strategies. These are based on the percentage of the Strategic Road Network where litter conditions are graded at B or above under the Department for Enviro...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordVamoroloneDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 62450 on Vamorolone, which NHS Trusts have submitted prior approval forms.
Answer: The National Health Service trusts which have submitted prior approval forms are as follows:Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust;Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust;Guy's ...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64334More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the levels of noise pollution on roads (a) in Oxfordshire and (b) nationally.
Answer: The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is responsible for creating noise maps as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. The Department for Transport has not therefore made its own estimates. DEFRA’s...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOccupational Therapy: Disabled Facilities GrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS occupational therapists involved in Disabled Facilities Grants for (a) children and (b) other people.
Answer: Occupational therapists play an important role in delivering the Disabled Facilities Grant at a local level by assessing older and disabled people’s needs, recommending home adaptations, and ensuring the suitability of proposed solutions.Decisions about r...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordThames Valley Police: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of overall funding allocated to Thames Valley Police; and whether she plans to review regional difference in police (a) pay and (b) allow
Answer: The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides an overall increase of up to £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement. Thames Valley Police will receive up to £627.4 million, an increase of up to £40.8 million from 2024-25.The Police Remu...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordThames Valley Police: PayHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the South East allowance for police officers in Thames Valley Police.
Answer: The Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) and Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) make recommendations to the Government on the appropriate level of pay and allowances for police officers.The pay review bodies gather and invite parties to submit evidence ...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that early years providers are not disadvantaged by restrictions on charging flexibility for funded childcare hours.
Answer: It is this government’s ambition that all families have access to high-quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.Government funding for the entitlements does ...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
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