Helen Maguire MP: written questions

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Hospitals: 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
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Rivers: 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
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Free 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
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LGBT 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
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Council 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
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Nuclear 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
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Iran: 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
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South 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
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South 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
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