Helen Hayes MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Mental Health Services: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS Talking Therapy trainees and (b) Band 7 CBT therapist posts have been created in (i) Lambeth and (ii) Southwark in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table attached shows the growth in the relevant subsection of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce over the five years to 2024. The high intensity workforce, which includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapists, increased by 2,582 between 2019...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of Band 7 CBT therapist posts created in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table attached shows the growth in the relevant subsection of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce over the five years to 2024. The high intensity workforce, which includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapists, increased by 2,582 between 2019...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of applications for NHS Talking Therapies trainee positions.
Answer: The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98545More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of potential conflicts of interest for individuals and companies awarded contracts to deliver the Behaviour and Attendance Ambassador's Programme.
Answer: The regional improvement for standards and excellence Attendance and Behaviour Hubs programme launched in September 2025. The department is appointing up to 90 lead schools with excellent attendance and behaviour practice who will work closely with other ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98544More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the Equality Impacts Assessment made of the Behaviour and Attendance Ambassador's Programme.
Answer: The regional improvement for standards and excellence Attendance and Behaviour Hubs programme launched in September 2025. The department is appointing up to 90 lead schools with excellent attendance and behaviour practice who will work closely with other ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98543More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the performance of her Department's Behaviour and Attendance Ambassadors Programme, with reference to absence and exclusions of pupils with SEND or mental ill health.
Answer: The regional improvement for standards and excellence Attendance and Behaviour Hubs programme launched in September 2025. The department is appointing up to 90 lead schools with excellent attendance and behaviour practice who will work closely with other ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95696More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps with the Department for Transport to improve emissions monitoring and enforcement mechanisms to prevent future breaches of vehicle emissions law.
Answer: Since 2016, the Department has greatly increased oversight of emissions tests and established the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) Market Surveillance Unit (MSU) to test vehicle emissions and investigate suspicious practice in the real world...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDiesel Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential lessons learned from other countries on tackling historic diesel emissions; and how this informs the UK’s approach to integrating tran
Answer: Transport policy, including on diesel vehicle emissions, is led by the Department for Transport (DfT). The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) engages regularly with DfT on climate change mitigation, including consideration of diesel vehic...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to include measures within future energy and climate plans to offset or remediate the environmental and public-health impacts of illegally high vehicle emissions.
Answer: The Government’s Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan (CBGDP), published in October, made clear that transport decarbonisation policies and proposals will also drive further air quality improvements, principally through surface transport electrification...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential health and social impacts of illegal vehicle emissions on communities living in areas that already breach air-quality standards; and how those findings i
Answer: Defeat devices are illegal, misleading for drivers and can have negative health impacts on the public. The Department for Transport has not conducted a specific assessment of the potential health and social impacts of illegal vehicle emissions on communit...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has held with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Secretary of State for Transport regarding cross-government action to address illegal
Answer: The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) engages regularly with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Secretary of State for Transport (DfT) on climate change mitigation. Transport policy, in...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDiesel Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that emissions from non-compliant diesel vehicles are fully accounted for in the modelling and monitoring underpinning the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.
Answer: Emissions projections for diesel vehicles used in the recently published Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan account for the difference between reported vehicle CO2 emissions, tested using the World Light Duty Test Procedure, and emissions from vehicle...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDiesel Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of non-compliant diesel vehicles on the UK’s ability to meet its legally binding carbon budgets and net-zero targets.
Answer: Emissions projections for diesel vehicles used in carbon budgets modelling account for the difference between reported vehicle CO2 emissions, tested currently using the World Light Duty Test Procedure, and emissions from vehicles operating in ‘real-world’...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of illegally high vehicle emissions arising from the use of defeat devices to overall UK nitrogen oxide and greenhouse gas emissions levels.
Answer: Defeat devices are illegal, misleading for drivers and can have negative health impacts on the public. The Department for Transport has not conducted a specific assessment of the contribution of illegally high vehicle emissions arising from the use of def...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures HubsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects the national rollout of Young Futures Hubs to begin.
Answer: The design and implementation of the rollout to a total of 50 Young Futures Hubs will be informed by our work with early adopters this financial year. We will set out more details in due course.
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures HubsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what cross party work is taking place on the development of Young Futures Hubs.
Answer: I regularly engage with Parliamentary colleagues to drive the youth agenda, including Young Futures Hubs. Young Futures Hubs will leverage local understanding of services in each area to improve support for young people at community level, increasing oppo...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures HubsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department will confirm the areas who will be an early adopter for Young Futures Hubs.
Answer: The eight Young Futures Hubs early adopter Local Authority areas will be announced shortly.
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDiesel Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure the recall of diesel vehicles found to use defeat devices.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s Market Surveillance Unit (MSU) is investigating cases of possible non-compliant diesel emissions in cars and vans. The investigations aim to ensure any non-compliance found is fixed as soon as reasonably possible,...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDiesel Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to investigate the use of defeat devices in diesel vehicles.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s Market Surveillance Unit (MSU) is investigating cases of possible non-compliant diesel emissions in cars and vans. The investigations aim to ensure any non-compliance found is fixed as soon as reasonably possible,...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: CamerasHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to reform the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process for safety cameras to allow single units to carry out multiple functions.
Answer: We keep the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process under continuous review to ensure it is sufficient to assure equipment is sufficiently robust for evidential purposes.My officials are currently carrying out a comprehensive review to update the HOTA st...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: InnovationHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to ensure the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process is able to respond quickly to emerging technologies.
Answer: We keep the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process under continuous review to ensure it is sufficient to assure equipment is sufficiently robust for evidential purposes.My officials are currently carrying out a comprehensive review to update the HOTA st...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSafety: CamerasHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to speed up the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process for safety cameras.
Answer: We keep the Home Office Type Approval (HOTA) process under continuous review to ensure it is sufficient to assure equipment is sufficiently robust for evidential purposes.My officials are currently carrying out a comprehensive review to update the HOTA st...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademic Technology Approval Scheme: StandardsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what is the longest waiting time for a Academic Technology Approval Scheme application to be processed was in the last 12 months.
Answer: Most Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) applications are straight forward and 98% of applications during the past year were processed within 30 working days. Between 1 January 2025 to 13 November 2025, the Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademic Technology Approval SchemeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many outstanding applications for Academic Technology Approval Scheme applications have waited for longer than 30 working days.
Answer: Most Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) applications are straight forward and 98% of applications during the past year were processed within 30 working days. Between 1 January 2025 to 13 November 2025, the Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademic Technology Approval SchemeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the current average waiting time for Academic Technology Approval Scheme applications to be processed is.
Answer: Most Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) applications are straight forward and 98% of applications during the past year were processed within 30 working days. Between 1 January 2025 to 13 November 2025, the Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
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