Gideon Amos MP: written questions
147 published records · newest first.
Written questions
African 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
Original Parliament recordCare Workers and Health Professions: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the Health and Care Worker visa salary threshold on the delivery of (a) NHS and (b) social care services in (i) Somer
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
Original Parliament recordCare Workers and Health Professions: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that internationally recruited health and care workers on Band 3 salaries will be able to renew their visas after the proposed salary threshold increase.
Answer: Salary thresholds are an important way of ensuring those coming to work in the UK are able to support themselves. These workers do not have access to public funds so it is important a rate is set which will ensure people are earning sufficient income with...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Workers and Health Professions: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of health and social care staff will be unable to renew their visas as a result of the new salary threshold for Health and Care visas (a) nationally and (b)
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
Original Parliament recordCare Workers and Health Professions: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take into account NHS-agreed pay scales when setting salary thresholds for Health and Care Worker visa renewals.
Answer: Salary thresholds are an important way of ensuring those coming to work in the UK are able to support themselves. These workers do not have access to public funds so it is important a rate is set which will ensure people are earning sufficient income with...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTribunals: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of tribunal hearings that have been (a) delayed and (b) cancelled due to annual limits on the number of sitting days by fee-paid judges in (i) total, (ii) the I
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the number of tribunal hearings that have been delayed or cancelled specifically due to annual limits on the number of sitting days by fee-paid judges. While tribunal performance statistics are published qu...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTribunals: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of (a) the annual sitting cap for fee-paid judges and (b) judicial availability in the (i) tribunal system, (ii) Immigration and Asylum Chambe
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the number of tribunal hearings that have been delayed or cancelled specifically due to annual limits on the number of sitting days by fee-paid judges. While tribunal performance statistics are published qu...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCourts: Working HoursMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court sitting days were allocated in (a) Taunton and (b) the UK in each of the last five years.
Answer: In Taunton, the following allocations were made:Allocation and Outturn for For Years 2021 – 2026 CrownYearAllocationActual25/2644881, Apr-May24/2542846523/2431646122/2343931521/22450430 CivilYearAllocationActual25/2616236, Apr-Jun24/2515811923/2418114022/...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he plans to?respond to the correspondence (a) dated 28 April 2025 and (b) its follow-up dated 19 June 2025, concerning ABCD Bethlehem.
Answer: Apologies for the delay in responding to the hon. Member's correspondence, I issued a response to the hon. Member on 11 July 2025.
Answered 29 Jul 2025
Original Parliament record
Published records only — not a full account of an MP’s work. How we work →