Gideon Amos MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
FrackingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to review the technical definition of hydraulic fracturing in respect of (a) volume thresholds and (b) geological conditions to prevent onshore oil and gas extraction operati
Answer: Proppant squeezes are not currently defined in legislation as high volume hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction. We are committed to banning fracking for good and any future decision on national planning policy for fracking will take into account ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: StandardsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any respondents to the consultation on the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social Housing, updated on 30 September 2025, raised concerns about the reliance on continu
Answer: This government carefully considered responses to the consultation led by the previous government in respect of the Competence and Conduct Standard and has now published its response which can be found on gov.uk here. A small number of respondents raised ...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Artificial IntelligenceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any respondents to the consultation on the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social Housing, updated on 30 September 2025, raised concerns about the potential implicati
Answer: This government carefully considered responses to the consultation led by the previous government in respect of the Competence and Conduct Standard and has now published its response which can be found on gov.uk here. A small number of respondents raised ...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice of the Public Guardian: Fees and ChargesMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were exempt from Office of the Public Guardian deputyship fees in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is in the early stages of reviewing criteria for exemption and remission of fees, including in relation to the gross annual income threshold for a 50% remission of fees. Any proposed changes to current processes wil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice of the Public Guardian: Fees and ChargesMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance have (a) qualified for and (b) ceased to qualify for exemption from Office of the Public Guardian deputyship fees in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is in the early stages of reviewing criteria for exemption and remission of fees, including in relation to the gross annual income threshold for a 50% remission of fees. Any proposed changes to current processes wil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice of the Public Guardian: Fees and ChargesMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the gross annual income threshold for exemption from Office of the Public Guardian deputyship fees remaining unchanged for several years on low-income people
Answer: The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is in the early stages of reviewing criteria for exemption and remission of fees, including in relation to the gross annual income threshold for a 50% remission of fees. Any proposed changes to current processes wil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice of the Public Guardian: Fees and ChargesMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the gross annual income threshold for exemption from Office of the Public Guardian deputyship fees remaining unchanged for several years on people with incom
Answer: The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is in the early stages of reviewing criteria for exemption and remission of fees, including in relation to the gross annual income threshold for a 50% remission of fees. Any proposed changes to current processes wil...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPensions: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80485More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of including unused pension funds within the inheritance tax framework on (a) bereaved families and (b) incentives for retirement saving.
Answer: Most unused pension funds and death benefits payable from a pension will form part of a person's estate for inheritance tax purposes from 6 April 2027. This removes distortions resulting from changes that have been made to pensions tax policy over the las...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFloods: InsuranceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of residential properties built after 1 January 2009 in designated flood risk areas that are ineligible for support under the Flood
Answer: Flood Re does not apply to homes built after 2009, as that would be inconsistent with current planning policy. Planning policy is clear that inappropriate development in floodplains should be avoided. Where development is necessary in a flood risk area, i...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the eligibility criteria for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund to ensure that adoptive families whose children were not previously looked after by a local
Answer: The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) is targeted at children who were previously looked after by a local authority, as the local authority maintain a statutory responsibility to these children. Local authorities may still provide sup...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: SmugglingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect the (a) animal and (b) plant export sector from risks posed by illegal meat imports.
Answer: Defra is working with the Home Office, Border Force and Dover Port Health Authority to ensure that operations around detecting illegal meat imports are as effective as possible and have allocated this financial year £3.1 million to Dover Port Health Autho...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAfrican Swine FeverDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic impact of an outbreak of African swine fever on the (a) pig industry and (b) related exports.
Answer: An outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) could have a significant impact on the UK’s £8 billion pig industry, as well as its annual pork and pork product exports worth £600 million. Exact costs to industry and on trade would be determined by a number of f...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDairy Products and Meat: SmugglingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76472More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to strengthen deterrence of illegal personal imports of (a) meat and (b) dairy products following the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease i
Answer: In England, Border Force and port health officials seize and destroy illegal imports of meat and dairy products, and importers risk additional sanctions including financial penalties or prosecution. On 12 April 2025, Defra extended the ban on personal imp...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: Social Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending statutory guidance to improve access to social housing for survivors of domestic abuse with debt living in temp
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that those who need to escape from domestic abuse are given as much support and assistance as possible so that they are able to re-build their lives away from abuse and harm. On 24 September, the Prime Minister anno...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: Social Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to help prevent victims of financial abuse being barred from bidding on social housing when in temporary accommodation because of debt accr
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that those who need to escape from domestic abuse are given as much support and assistance as possible so that they are able to re-build their lives away from abuse and harm. On 24 September, the Prime Minister anno...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: FamiliesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73755More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have been living in emergency accommodation for longer than the six-week legal limit.
Answer: The Department publishes quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness in England, which can be found on gov.uk here. The latest quarterly data was published on 22 July 2025, covering January to March 2025. The number of under 18s in temporary accommodat...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: FamiliesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has put in place a process to track the distance that families have moved when placed in temporary accommodation out of their local authority area.
Answer: The Department publishes quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness in England, which can be found on gov.uk here. The latest quarterly data was published on 22 July 2025, covering January to March 2025. The number of under 18s in temporary accommodat...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: ChildrenMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the age breakdown is of children over the age of ten in temporary accommodation; and what steps she is taking to help ensure that the accommodation is suitable for children.
Answer: The Department publishes quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness in England, which can be found on gov.uk here. The latest quarterly data was published on 22 July 2025, covering January to March 2025. The number of under 18s in temporary accommodat...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: FamiliesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of families in temporary accommodation were placed outside their own local authority area in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The Department publishes quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness in England, which can be found on gov.uk here. The latest quarterly data was published on 22 July 2025, covering January to March 2025. The number of under 18s in temporary accommodat...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordReligion: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Review of Religious Education (a) considers a (i) broad and (ii) balanced range of (A) academic, (B) educational and (C) community perspectives and (b) is
Answer: The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment review, chaired by Becky Francis CBE. The Review aims to ensure a rich, broad, inclusive and innovative curriculum that readies young people for life and work. The Review is being inf...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWills: Court of ProtectionMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications to the Court of Protection for statutory wills were made in each of the last five years; and how many applications were granted in each of the last five years.
Answer: The latest published Court of Protection (COP) statistics on application and order volumes by type, are all available in the Family Court Statistics 2025 published quarterly in tables 20 and 21. Volumes of applications and orders relating to wills (applic...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWills: DisabilityMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to review the statutory will process to help ensure that it is accessible for (a) people with disabilities and (b) their families.
Answer: The Law Commission recently completed a substantial review of the Law of Wills, and its report “Modernising Wills Law” was published on 16 May 2025. A copy of the report can be found at: https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/wills/#3-Documents. The report provide...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: CharitiesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an estimate of financial damages caused to UK based (a) charities and (b) organisations (i) operating and (ii) owning property in Gaza since 7 October 2024.
Answer: The requested data is not held by the department.
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Taunton and WellingtonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the 2,000 GPs recruited through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme have been recruited in Taunton and Wellington constituency.
Answer: Data for July 2025 shows that since October 2024, 2,097 newly qualified general practitioners have been recruited through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, nine of which were recruited in the NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board, in which the Taunt...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Workers and Health Professions: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on ensuring that the new Health and Care Worker visa salary threshold does not undermine NHS workforce planning.
Answer: My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has regular discussions with My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department on a range of subjects, including immigration policy.From 9 April 2025, the minimum salary ...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
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