Grahame Morris MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Department for Transport: StaffDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials in her Department are employed to oversee the work of (a) Shadow GBR (b) HS2 Ltd and (c) train operating companies.
Answer: Shadow GBR consists of the three leaders of Network Rail, DfT Operator Limited (DfTO), and the Department for Transport’s Rail Services Group working together with the Chair, Laura Shoaf CBE. At present seven officials in the Department are employed to mo...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNetwork Rail: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of Network Rail’s increased in national insurance contributions.
Answer: Before the National Insurance increase announcement in the budget, Network Rail’s estimated National Insurance payment was £1.26bn for the remaining four years of Control Period 7 (2025/26 – 2028/29). Following the budget, it’s now anticipated to increase...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailway SignalsDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of Network Rail’s signalling framework contracts.
Answer: Network Rail is responsible for the frameworks governing train signalling systems. In April 2024, Network Rail announced a £4bn, 10-year signalling framework - the Train Control Systems Framework (TCSF). The framework runs from 2024 until 2034 of which £3...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Optical FibresDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Network Rail plans to announce the preferred bidder for Project Reach.
Answer: Subject to the Project Reach business case going through DfT approval, Network Rail plans to announce the parties involved in any contract signature. Neos Networks has, however, separately made an announcement on their website stating they are in exclusiv...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: ExpenditureDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the amount spent by her Department on rail enhancements in each year of control period (a) five, (b) six and (c) seven.
Answer: Rail enhancements in England and Wales have been delivered through the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline since Control Period six (CP6), prior to that they were delivered directly through Network Rail. The following has been spent on enhancements in each...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) debt levels and (b) regulated asset base gearing by UK airports.
Answer: The UK aviation sector operates predominantly within the private market, and decisions regarding asset financing are at the discretion of individual airports and their owners. Heathrow Airport is unique amongst UK airports in maintaining an active Regulat...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: PayMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the level of pay rise required by prison officers for salaries to be at the same real-terms levels as they were in 2010.
Answer: Pay for Prison Officers is informed by independent recommendations made by the Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB).HMPPS’ written evidence to the PSPRB for 2025/26 was published on 10 December 2025. This noted that the rate of economic growth since the...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: PayMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of prison officer salaries given the levels of (a) risk and (b) stress of this role.
Answer: Prison Service staff are some of our finest public servants. Despite their hard work, the Prison Service has been under immense pressure due to an increasing population and ageing estate.One of the first things this Government did upon coming into office ...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: PayMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of prison officer salary levels on staff retention rates.
Answer: The 2024/25 Prison Service pay award delivered a pay rise of at 5% for all Band 3 – 5 Prison Officers on modernised terms and conditions. This brings the starting salary for an entry level officer (on the national rate, 39 hours with unsocial hours) from ...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on enforcement of the Seafarers Wages Act 2023.
Answer: Officials from the Department for Transport and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have regular meetings to discuss enforcement of the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023. Department for Transport officials held a training session for Maritime and Coastguard Agency...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMaritime and Coastguard Agency: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s annual budget was in each year between 2018-19 and 2024-25.
Answer: The MCA’s annual budget each year from 2018/19 – 2024/25 as follows: SourceResource Budget £Capital Budget £Total Budget £2024-2025Parliamentary Main Supply Estimate443,73521,842465,5772023-2024Parliamentary Supply Estimate416,59439,479456,0732022-2023Par...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOrgreaveHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on launching an inquiry into the events at Orgreave during the miners strike.
Answer: The Home Secretary and the Minister of State for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention have met with the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, and the Home Office is developing plans to deliver on the Government’s manifesto commitment to ensure, through an i...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: LiberiaDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects the Marine Accident Investigation Branch to publish its report into the loss of a crew member on the Liberian flagged drill rig jack up vessel Valaris 121 on 22 January 2023.
Answer: The Liberian registered Valaris 121, a mobile drilling rig, was under tow outside United Kingdom territorial waters when the accident took place. In line with the International Maritime Organization’s Casualty Investigation Code (the Code), as the flag St...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: LiberiaDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she expects the Health and Safety Executive to publish its report into the loss of a crew member on the Liberian flagged drill rig jack up vessel Valaris 121 on 22 January 2023.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive Energy Division, having completed their investigation, on 20 November 2024 submitted a report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. Once the Procurator Fiscal has reviewed the report and due process has been fo...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: Corporation TaxTreasuryTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24835More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list the oil and gas fields that qualified for relief from corporation tax on decommissioning expenditure in the offshore oil and gas sector in each financial year between 2013-14 and 2024-25.
Answer: It is a long-standing convention that the government does not discuss individual taxpayers, and so the government cannot discuss the tax history of individual oil and gas fields. Companies operating oil and gas fields in the UK and on the UK Continental S...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: EmploymentDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs in the decommissioning sector of the offshore oil and gas industry in each financial year from 2013-14 and 2024-25.
Answer: No such estimates have been made. The planning and delivery of decommissioning is often integrated into the organisational capabilities of upstream oil and gas operators and supply chain companies. It is therefore difficult to determine how many of this w...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: Corporation TaxDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the document entitled UKCS Decommissioning Cost and Performance Update 2024, published on 16 June 2024, whether the estimates of the annual cost of decommissioning offshore
Answer: The decommissioning cost estimates referred to, which are published by the North Sea Transition Authority, are pre-tax. Any annual relief on corporation tax granted for decommissioning expenditure in the oil and gas sector has not been applied.
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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