Helen Maguire MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Duke of Edinburgh's Award SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help increase participation in the Duke of Edinburgh award.
Answer: I met with the Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award in November 2024 and have visited the DofE Award in June 2025. DCMS is providing £1.5 million of funding in FY 25/26 to support Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision schoo...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the minimum unit of dental activity rates to help tackle recruitment issues for practices.
Answer: A minimum Unit of Dental Activity (UDA) value of £28 is in place to support practices with historically low UDA rates. There are differential UDA rates across England, and integrated care boards have the flexibility to set the UDA rate locally, which may ...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve underperforming NHS dental contract holders in Surrey.
Answer: The Government wants to ensure that every penny we allocate for dentistry is spent on dentistry, and that the ringfenced dental budget is spent on the patients who need it most.Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning primary care services...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of children who have been seen by an NHS dentist in Surrey in line with the national average.
Answer: The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Epsom and Ewell constituency...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of adults who have been seen by an NHS dentist in Surrey in line with the national average.
Answer: The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to the integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. For the Epsom and Ewell constituency...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordYemen: Internally Displaced PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support internally displaced people in Yemen living in (a) overcrowded and (b) flood-prone settlements with limited access to (i)
Answer: Yemen remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crises including with 4.8 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The UK provided £144 million in humanitarian aid in financial year 2024/2025 and is currently the largest donor to the Yemen Humanit...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordYemen: Disease ControlForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential risks of (a) cholera and (b) other waterborne diseases among internally displaced populations in Yemen; and what steps she is ta
Answer: Yemen remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crises including with 4.8 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The UK provided £144 million in humanitarian aid in financial year 2024/2025 and is currently the largest donor to the Yemen Humanit...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordYemen: Internally Displaced PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with (a) international partners and (b) UN agencies to help tackle the (i) humanitarian and (ii) protection needs of internally displaced
Answer: Yemen remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crises including with 4.8 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The UK provided £144 million in humanitarian aid in financial year 2024/2025 and is currently the largest donor to the Yemen Humanit...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming national cancer plan will include specific (a) targets and (b) actions for (i) brain, (ii) liver, (iii) lung, (iv) oesophageal, (v) pancreatic and (vi) stomach cancer.
Answer: Reducing the number of lives lost to cancer is a key aim of the National Cancer Plan. Having consulted with key stakeholders and patient groups, I confirm that the plan will be published early in the new year. The plan will include further details on how ...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLiver Diseases and Liver Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to launch public awareness campaigns to promote earlier recognition of (a) liver disease and (b) liver cancer symptoms.
Answer: Awareness of liver disease can be raised by providing information to the public and by supporting health and care professionals to discuss liver disease with their patients. The NHS.UK website provides the public with essential information on the types of...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLiver Cancer and Liver Diseases: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with liver (b) cirrhosis, (b) advanced liver disease and (c) those at high risk of liver cancer receive systematic (i) surveillance an
Answer: As part of a program to transform liver disease outcomes we will work with partners, including the British Liver Trust, to raise awareness and address the stigma related to hazardous and harmful levels of alcohol use, obesity, and viral hepatitis, which a...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Cancer: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of research funding allocated to pancreatic cancer given its rates of (a) mortality, (b) survival and (c) late diagnosis; and whether h
Answer: The Department invests over £1.6 billion each year on research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and in 2024/25, spent £141,649,374 on cancer research, signalling its high priority. This include...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: VictimsMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to increase support for victims of domestic abuse.
Answer: The Government is absolutely committed to tackling domestic abuse and halving violence against women and girls in a decade. We are strengthening protections for victims, improving law enforcement responses, and ensuring perpetrators are held to account.Th...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: ProsecutionsAttorney GeneralTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82616More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of prosecutions for domestic abuse related offences.
Answer: Domestic Abuse (DA) causes severe and lasting harm to victims. Bringing perpetrators of these crimes to justice is a top priority for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).In partnership with the National Police Chiefs Council, the CPS launched the Domestic...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Epsom and EwellDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs in Epsom and Ewell constituency are not employed on the General Medical Services British Medical Association model contract.
Answer: The Department does not centrally hold data on the employment contracts of individual salaried general practitioners (GPs), as GP practices are self-employed contractors to the National Health Service.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of stipulating that GP practices only receive the uplift to the Global Sum if that funding is passed onto employees.
Answer: General practices (GP) are independent businesses, contracted to provide National Health Services. Every year we consult the profession regarding what services GPs will provide and the funding they will receive in return for these services.We are investin...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEU Nationals: DiscriminationCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82613More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens Rights Survey 2025, published on 1 October 2025, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle discrimination in (a) work and (b) publ
Answer: The UK takes seriously its obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement, including those set out in Article 23 on equal treatment of EU citizens and in Article 24 on the rights of workers. EU nationals with a status under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) are...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRespiratory Diseases: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the impact of chronic respiratory conditions on the NHS in winter 2025-26.
Answer: NHS England, working with the Department, the UK Health Security Agency, and other partners, is taking action to reduce the impact of respiratory conditions on the National Health Service this winter. This includes robust, consistent infection prevention ...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her US counterpart on increasing US arms support to Ukraine.
Answer: The UK fully supports President Trump's efforts to end this war and we are in regular contact with the US, Ukraine and our other partners to secure a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary most recently discussed our efforts in Ukraine w...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: UkraineForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82610More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support her Department is giving to Ukraine to help tackle Russia's increasing use of drones.
Answer: The UK has invested £600 million this year to accelerate drone delivery to Ukraine. At the Ukraine Defence Contact Group on 15 October, the Defence Secretary announced that the UK had delivered over 85,000 drones to Ukraine in the past six months. These d...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military families and (b) veterans will be served by the forces first housing scheme.
Answer: The Forces First approach will mean more Service personnel have access to the high-quality homes and home-ownership opportunities they deserve and will form part of the upcoming Defence Housing Strategy. This approach will be applied by agreement with loc...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: PricesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to tackle food price inflation.
Answer: Defra regularly engages with farmers, manufacturers and retailers to monitor the drivers of food price inflation and to encourage efficiency and fairness across the food supply chain. Alongside this, the department’s food strategy is developing policies t...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPollution: Environment AgencyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of pollution incidents did the Environment Agency attend in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) responds to approximately 15,000 environmental incidents every year. Environmental incidents include environment management (pollution), waterways, fisheries, and water resources incidents. For each reported incident they asses...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIran: Politics and GovernmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to (a) help stop executions and (b) promote the democratic movement in Iran.
Answer: The UK opposes the death penalty in all circumstance as a matter of principle. We have repeatedly called on Iran to establish an immediate moratorium on executions, including at the UN Third Committee on 9 October. We continue to play an integral role in ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Community Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of embedding specialist dementia Admiral Nurses within neighbourhood health teams.
Answer: Neighbourhood Health Services will bring together teams of professionals, including nurses, doctors, social care workers, pharmacists, health visitors, and more, closer to people’s homes, to work together to provide comprehensive care in the community.We ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
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