Gideon Amos MP: written questions
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Written questions
Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the she is taking to help support the rescue and rehoming of mutilated animals.
Answer: The Government recognises the essential service that rescue and rehoming centres provide, often on a voluntary basis, to animals, including those that have suffered from mutilation. Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, it is illegal to carry out a non-exemp...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: OverpaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118033More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the findings of the Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments published in November 2025, what assessment he has made of the proportionality and fairness of enforcement acti
Answer: The Government inherited a system where some busy carers, already struggling under a huge weight of caring responsibilities, found themselves with unexpected debts due to overpayments of CA. The Independent Review, undertaken by Liz Sayce, showed that som...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHeart Pacemakers: SafetyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been affected by the recall of certain Boston Scientific CRT-P pacemakers (a) nationally and (b) within Somerset; what assessment has been made of the potential impact of thi
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is closely monitoring the Boston Scientific Accolade Field Safety Corrective Action (FSCA) to ensure it progresses safely.The FSCA affects 13,969 pacemaker patients at 153 sites in the United ...
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHeart Pacemakers: SafetyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recall of certain Boston Scientific CRT-P pacemakers on NHS services; and what steps are being taken to support affected patie
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is closely monitoring the Boston Scientific Accolade Field Safety Corrective Action (FSCA) to ensure it progresses safely.The FSCA affects 13,969 pacemaker patients at 153 sites in the United ...
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCommonhold and Leasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any changes have been made to the draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill following representations from external stakeholders.
Answer: No changes have been made to the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill since its publication on 27 January 2026.
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCommonhold and Leasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has received written representations from major freeholders on the proposed Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill since 17 July 2024.
Answer: My Department has received representations from a range of external stakeholders regarding the government’s leasehold and commonhold reform agenda. These have included representations from freeholders and trade bodies representing them.
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Domestic AbuseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what monitoring his Department is carrying out to capture data on local authorities not exempting domestic abuse survivors from local connection tests for social housing.
Answer: The government has taken action to remove barriers for victims of domestic abuse to access social housing.Regulations, which came into force on 10 July 2025, mean that victims of domestic abuse moving as a result of that abuse will no longer need to meet ...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Domestic AbuseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the exemption from local connection tests for social housing for domestic abuse survivors is enforced by local authorities.
Answer: The government has taken action to remove barriers for victims of domestic abuse to access social housing.Regulations, which came into force on 10 July 2025, mean that victims of domestic abuse moving as a result of that abuse will no longer need to meet ...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Domestic AbuseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department will publish the toolkit on homelessness prevention and support for survivors of domestic abuse; and what engagement his Department has held with the domestic
Answer: My Department will publish the toolkit on homelessness prevention and support for survivors of domestic abuse over the coming year. The toolkit will draw on the Whole Housing Approach piloted by Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse and our evaluation ...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department will publish updated statutory guidance on social housing allocations.
Answer: As announced in our National Plan to End Homelessness which was published on 11 December last year and can be found on gov.uk here, we will work with stakeholders to review and update statutory guidance on social housing allocations to ensure that allocat...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Environment Agency has made of the potential impact of the reformed flood funding rules annou
Answer: The Environment Agency is delivering the Government’s Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) Investment Programme of flood and coastal defences, investing £2.65 billion over 2024/5 and 2025/6 with a target of 52,000 properties better protected. A new th...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion and Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112920More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many completed flood and coastal erosion risk management capital schemes have undergone formal post-project appraisal in each of the last five financial years; and what proportion
Answer: Every individual project is managed following the Gateway process set out in the Government Functional Standard for Project Delivery. As a project nears completion, Project Managers are required to test the readiness for service (Gateway 4) and then check...
Answered 24 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate the Environment Agency has made of the annual funding required to maintain all flood defence assets at their target condition grade, and what the actual expenditure has b
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) assets play a critical role protecting communities from the impacts of flooding. The EA has an annual programme of around 110,000 asset inspections, which can increase in-year to 165,0...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordFlood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flood defence asset inspections the Environment Agency carried out in each of the last five financial years; and what proportion of flood defence assets have been inspected at
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) assets play a critical role protecting communities from the impacts of flooding. The EA has an annual programme of around 110,000 asset inspections, which can increase in-year to 165,0...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordFlood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environment Agency flood defence assets recorded a change in condition grade between consecutive inspections in each of the last five financial years, broken down by whether c
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) assets play a critical role protecting communities from the impacts of flooding. The EA has an annual programme of around 110,000 asset inspections, which can increase in-year to 165,0...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordFlood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112916More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environment Agency flood defence assets were at each condition grade (1 to 5) in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The Environment Agency’s (EA) Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) assets play a critical role protecting communities from the impacts of flooding. The EA has an annual programme of around 110,000 asset inspections, which can increase in-year to 165,0...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will review the Universal Credit capital rules that reduce or remove entitlement for claimants with savings above £6,000 and £16,000, in cases where a claimant has a lifelong disabilit
Answer: The current system already permits people with capital between £6,000 and £16,000 to receive means-tested support through a tapered reduction in entitlement to Universal Credit. It also includes a specific capital disregard for funds that are required for...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112904More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will extend business rates exemptions to nurseries delivering Government-funded childcare places, comparable to the exemptions recently announced for pubs and to those that apply to schools and academies.
Answer: Business rates are a broad-based tax on the value of non-domestic properties, including nurseries. At the Budget, the Government announced a £4.3 billion support package announced at the Budget to support ratepayers across all sectors seeing bill increase...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on adopted children, children living under Special Guardianship Orders, and their families of the reductions to the Adoption and Special Guardians
Answer: The revised criteria for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) were introduced in April 2025 and were designed to ensure support for all those applying for ASGSF funding. An equalities impact assessment was published in July 2025.Anal...
Answered 24 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: Taunton and WellingtonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110598More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of residential properties built in Taunton and Wellington constituency in each year from 2009.
Answer: My Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply. This includes estimates of new homes built in each local authority, in each fina...
Answered 11 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 2 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of aligning Section 2 shotgun licensing with Section 1 firearms licensing on (a) participation in shooting sports and (b) rural businesses; whether
Answer: The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February 2025, included a commitment to having a public consultation on strengthening the licensing controls on shotguns to bring them more into line with the controls on...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHighway Code: PublicityDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to expand the Highway Code awareness campaign beyond London; and what plans her Department has to help ensure similar campaigns are extended to (a) Somerset, (b) rural areas
Answer: Following updates to the Highway Code in 2022, the department ran THINK! advertising campaigns nationally to raise awareness of the changes. Local authorities are responsible for delivering road safety education and have a statutory duty to take steps bot...
Answered 6 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordChildcare: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review the eligibility rules for receiving 30 hours of free childcare.
Answer: It is our 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. We are delivering more support to working families than ev...
Answered 10 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordMaternity Pay: ChildcareDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of statutory maternity pay rates that do not allow parents to receive 30 hours of free childcare on the ability of those parents to access childcare;
Answer: The 30 hours free childcare entitlement aims to support parents to return to work or to take on more hours if they wish. To be eligible, each working parent in a household must expect to earn the equivalent of 16 hours a week at National Minimum/Living Wa...
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordRoyal Mail: Delivery ServicesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of Royal Mail delivery services in Wellington, Somerset; what steps Royal Mail is taking to increase staffing levels and improve delivery
Answer: Ofcom, as the independent regulator of postal services, has powers to investigate and take enforcement action should Royal Mail fail to achieve its obligations without good justification. It is for Royal Mail, as an independent business, to determine the ...
Answered 3 Feb 2026
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