Helen Maguire MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
General Practitioners: RetirementDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the merits of (a) incentivising GPs nearing retirement to remain in the profession and (b) incentivising retired GPs to return to practice.
Answer: We will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan to create a workforce ready to deliver a transformed service. They will be more empowered, more flexible and more fulfilled.The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RetirementDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of GPs expected to retire by 2030; and whether the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan accounts for shortages in (a) the South East and (b) other region
Answer: No estimate has been made of the number of general practitioners (GPs) expected to retire by 2030. A GP's decision to retire can be influenced by many factors. Therefore, we do not have the data to make forecasts.In May 2025, there were 691 more full time...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: SurreyDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase train (a) affordability, (b) reliability and (c) frequency in Surrey.
Answer: As announced in January, Pay As You Go will be rolled out to 49 further stations in the South East, this year, including Ashtead and Leatherhead within the Epsom and Ewell constituency. This will give passengers simper, easier, and more flexible ways to t...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit BillDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Universal Credit Bill on claimants with (a) fluctuating conditions and (b) mental health conditions.
Answer: No such assessment has been carried out. The Bill will not alter the existing Work Capability Assessment.
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the sources of PFAS pollution in UK rivers.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) has been co-ordinating a programme of work to better understand the presence of PFAS in the environment and develop a risk-based approach to manage identified risks.
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the public health risks associated with PFAS contamination in drinking water; and if he will publish a list of affected catchment areas
Answer: Since August 2024, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) guidance has set a guideline limit of 100 nanograms for the sum of 48 named PFAS. The limit was agreed with the UK Health Security Agency to be a robust level with an appropriate margin to ensure ou...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHuman Papillomavirus: Epsom and EwellDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the target HPV vaccination rate for Epsom and Ewell constituency was in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25; what the actual vaccination rate was in those periods; and whether his Department plans to
Answer: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage is presented for England at national, National Health Service commissioning region, and local authority levels. Data is not gathered at constituency level. Vaccine coverage data for the routine school-aged HPV i...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSecurity Action for EuropeMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has agreed a timeline by which the UK will be able to access the Security Action for Europe fund; and whether a proportion of contracts available to the UK has been agreed.
Answer: The UK and the EU have set out our joint ambition to swiftly explore the potential for enhanced cooperation under the SAFE instrument. The specific terms of UK participation will be subject to discussions on a bilateral agreement; we do not wish to pre-em...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Social ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce delays in adult social care assessments for hospital discharge.
Answer: The Urgent and Emergency Care plan for 2025/26, published by NHS England, has set a priority that hospitals should tackle the delays in patients waiting to be discharged. The plan asks systems to set local performance targets by discharge pathway and elim...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce legally binding targets for the reduction of untreated sewage discharges into chalk streams.
Answer: Our Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan targets improvements at 75% of high-priority sites, including chalk streams. This ensures that they are prioritised for improvement from the £11 billion investment to upgrade nearly 3,000 storm overflows across...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: Epsom and EwellDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children eligible for free school meals who are not currently receiving them in Epsom and Ewell constituency.
Answer: This government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and tackling child poverty. We have now announced that we are extending free school meals (FSM) to all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit from September 2026. This ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLGBT Financial Recognition SchemeMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65547More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has set a target number of days by which individual applications to the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme need to have been assessed by.
Answer: Due to the unique nature of each application, and the need to assess each on a case-by-case basis, the Ministry of Defence is unable to set a target number of days by which individual applications to the LGBT Veterans Financial Recognition Scheme need to ...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax Reduction SchemesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who migrate from income-related Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit are not affected by reductions in Council Tax
Answer: Councils are required to provide a Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) scheme to support low-income households. Support for working age households, including the treatment of benefits, is designed by councils in consultation with their residents, taking into...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Reactors: DecommissioningMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of dismantling Pressurized Water Reactor nuclear reactors on redundant submarines at (a) Devonport and (b) Rosyth dockyards; and what recent discussions
Answer: It is not possible to provide an assured cost estimate to dismantle the Pressurised Water Reactors on the decommissioned submarines at Devonport and Rosyth. Once the demonstrator submarine, SWIFTSURE, has achieved full dismantling in 2026 the Department w...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIran: Nuclear WeaponsMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of how close Iran is to making nuclear weapons; and what discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on this.
Answer: The Government is carefully monitoring the current situation in Iran, and continues to work closely with our allies. The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published its report on national security issues relating to Iran on 10 July 2025 which incl...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth Western RailwayDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to return the frequency of South Western Railway trains in Surrey back to pre-Covid levels following renationalisation.
Answer: Passenger demand has not yet grown back to pre-Covid levels. However, the Department and South Western Railway (SWR) are in regular discussion regarding service provision, which aim to balance the needs of both passenger and taxpayer. Following the introd...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSouth Western Railway: Rolling StockDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to speed up the rollout of South Western Railway Arterio trains in Surrey following renationalisation.
Answer: The new Managing Director, Lawrence Bowman, has been tasked with drawing up a plan to introduce the new Class 701 Arterio fleet. South Western Railway (SWR) has accelerated the Arterio rollout with five additional units introduced since the transfer to pu...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Data CentresDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help mitigate the environmental impacts of AI data centres in relation to the target of Net Zero by 2050.
Answer: The Government’s forecasts for data centre demand to 2030 are consistent with its Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. The Government expects to be able to meet this demand through its plans to increase renewable power capacity, other low carbon generation and f...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal, Social, Health and Economic EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered making relationships, sex and health education mandatory in (a) sixth form colleges and (b) other further education institutions.
Answer: Relationships and sex education (RSE) is at the core of the personal development tutorial system in post-16 settings that enables students to discuss important issues relating to their lives as active adult citizens.As well as learning about British value...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal, Social, Health and Economic EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending existing provisions for mandatory Relationships, Sex and Health Education under the Children and Social Work Act 2017 to ensure everyone u
Answer: Relationships and sex education (RSE) is at the core of the personal development tutorial system in post-16 settings that enables students to discuss important issues relating to their lives as active adult citizens.As well as learning about British value...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: Standing ChargesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64288More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to review standing charges on electricity bills for households on prepayment meters.
Answer: The Government knows that too much of the burden of the bill is placed on standing charges. We are committed to lowering the cost of standing charges and have worked constructively with the regulator, Ofgem, on this issue. Ofgem have been considering how ...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRivers: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is available to local environmental groups undertaking citizen science river testing.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) recognises the value of citizen science data, and the additional insight it can provide to complement its monitoring and assessment work. With Spending Review funding, the EA is collaborating with citizen science groups in obse...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current NHS dentist vacancy rate is in Surrey; and what steps he is taking to ensure equitable dental care access in Epsom and Ewell constituency.
Answer: In 2024, there was a 20% vacancy rate for NHS dentists in the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB), which includes the Epsom and Ewell constituency. We do not hold data at constituency level. More data is available at the following link:https://w...
Answered 25 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64285More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much bus companies are reimbursed per journey for disabled bus pass holders; and whether this is a fixed rate across regions.
Answer: Reimbursement rates under the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) are not typically split between disabled and older passholders. However, the average rate of reimbursement for both statutory and discretionary concessionary journeys in 20...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2024 to Question 19410 on General Practitioners: Labour Turnover, what estimate he has made of the number of GPs on ICB funded training schemes which are equivalen
Answer: Data on integrated care board (ICB) funded training schemes, their equivalent to the General Practice Fellowship scheme and the Supporting Mentors scheme, or the numbers of staff benefitting from these schemes is not held centrally.While NHS England provi...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
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