Helen Morgan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Drugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to introduce a national strategy to reduce the exploitation of children in county lines drug trafficking.
Answer: A crucial part of our Safer Streets mission is tackling the gangs that entice children and young people into crime. That includes those who run county lines through violence and exploitation.An estimated 14,000 children are identified as at risk or involv...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAvian Influenza: InsuranceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers insure against the risk of avian influenza outbreaks.
Answer: The UK poultry sector is highly resilient and adaptable and continues to supply healthy and affordable products in spite of the many challenges it has faced in recent years including the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and avian influenza outbreaks....
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAvian Influenza: CompensationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of compensation protocols for birds culled to control avian influenza.
Answer: Compensation paid for birds culled by HM Government for disease control purposes is designed to promote prompt reporting of suspicion of disease and is only payable for healthy birds as set out in the Animal Health Act 1981. There is no compensation avail...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAvian Influenza: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support businesses impacted by outbreaks of avian influenza.
Answer: The UK poultry sector is highly resilient, adaptable and continues to supply healthy and affordable products in spite of the many challenges it has faced in recent years including the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and Avian Influenza outbreaks. In...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish (a) a year by year forecast of expected investment in the New Hospitals Programme and (b) the projected total budget for that programme.
Answer: As set out in our New Hospital Programme: plan for implementation, the exact profile of funding for the New Hospital Programme will be confirmed in rolling five-year waves at regular Spending Reviews. Further information on the plan for implementation is ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people employed by his Department have worked on (a) the review into the New Hospital Programme and (b) the New Hospital Programme in each year since 2019.
Answer: The review into the New Hospital Programme (NHP) was led by a Director from the NHP team in the Department of Health and Social Care. They were supported by several officials from within the NHP sponsor team in the Department of Health and Social Care alo...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's (a) capital and (b) non-capital spend is on the New Hospitals Programme.
Answer: As set out in our New Hospital Programme: plan for implementation, the exact profile of funding for the New Hospital Programme will be confirmed in rolling five-year waves at regular Spending Reviews. Further information on the plan for implementation is ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) capital and (b) non-capital spend on the New Hospital Programme by hospital trusts that are part of waves 2 and 3.
Answer: As set out in our New Hospital Programme: plan for implementation, the exact profile of funding for the New Hospital Programme will be confirmed in rolling five-year waves at regular Spending Reviews. Further information on the plan for implementation is ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's projected completion dates are for each project delivered by the New Hospital Programme.
Answer: Expected completion dates for schemes in the New Hospital Programme will be confirmed following the approval of a Full Business Case, as set out in HM Treasury’s Green Book, and as is usual for large infrastructure projects.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of Homes England’s investment programmes was spent in rural settlements with a population of 3,000 or fewer in each of the last three years.
Answer: Homes England do not publish a breakdown of rural housing spend or delivery for the Affordable Homes Programme. The Local Authority Housing Statistics [footnote 8] collects the number of new build and acquisitions in populations of less than 3,000. In 202...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of Homes England's Affordable Homes Programme was invested in new affordable homes in rural settlements with a population of 3,000 or fewer in each of the last th
Answer: Homes England publish allocations data for the 2021-2026 Affordable Homes Programme. This can be found on gov.uk here.With regard to their Continuous Market Engagement (CME) activity to the end of March 2023, Homes England made allocations for 1,862 homes...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of completions funded by Homes England's Affordable Homes Programme were in rural settlements with (a) a population of 3,000 or fewer and (b) schemes of 15 dwelli
Answer: Homes England publish allocations data for the 2021-2026 Affordable Homes Programme. This can be found on gov.uk here.With regard to their Continuous Market Engagement (CME) activity to the end of March 2023, Homes England made allocations for 1,862 homes...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of completions funded by Homes England's Affordable Homes Programme were in rural settlements with a population of 3,000 or fewer in each of the last three years.
Answer: Homes England publish allocations data for the 2021-2026 Affordable Homes Programme. This can be found on gov.uk here.With regard to their Continuous Market Engagement (CME) activity to the end of March 2023, Homes England made allocations for 1,862 homes...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to include contractual obligations for organisations receiving public funding for biomedical research and development to ensure (a) equitable and (b) affordable access to thei
Answer: Contracts for researchers funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) have mechanisms to ensure the effective dissemination of research outputs. They also adhere to the NIHR Open Access Policy to ensure academic research is publis...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that councils have adequate resources to enforce planning decisions.
Answer: The government appreciate that planning departments across the country are experiencing challenges with recruitment, retention, and skills gaps and that in many cases these issues are having a negative impact on service delivery.At the Budget, the Chancel...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support she is providing to local authorities to ensure best practice highway maintenance.
Answer: This Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to enabling local highway authorities to maintain and renew the local highway network. In addition to the funding that the Department provides to local highway authorities,...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled, Seven million more potholes to be filled next year as public urged to report roads in need of repair, published on 20 December 2024, what criteria her
Answer: The Department will provide more details shortly of the criteria that local authorities will need to meet to unlock the full funding uplift in 2025/26. In short, they are likely to be required to comply with certain reporting requirements; toprovide the D...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the quality of road repairs in Shropshire.
Answer: This Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to enabling local highway authorities to maintain and renew their local highway networks. At Budget 2024, the Chancellor announced an extra £500 million for local highway m...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 January 2025 to Question 20325 on Flood Control: Finance, when his Department plans to begin the consultation on a review of the formula that allocates floo
Answer: We will launch a consultation in the coming months which will include a review of the existing flood funding formula to ensure that the challenges facing businesses and rural and coastal communities are adequately taken into account when delivering flood ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: FloodsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers affected by flooding who have not received payments under the Farming Recovery Fund.
Answer: The Government inherited flood assets in their worst condition on record following years of underinvestment by the previous Government – only 92% of the Environment Agency’s 38,000 high consequence assets are currently at required condition. To ensure we ...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Farming Recovery Fund, if he will publish (a) the number of individual payments made by and (b) total costs of those payment to each local authority area for each
Answer: Farming Recovery Fund payments are made directly to farmers. The Farming Recovery Fund is activated by the Government of the day and has been activated in 2015, 2019, 2020 and again in 2024 depending on the scale and impacts of the flooding, these are det...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that all eligible communities receive funding under the Frequently Flooded Allowance.
Answer: Protecting all communities around the country from flooding is one of the Secretary of State’s five core priorities. We will invest £2.4 billion in 2024/25 and 2025/26 to improve flood resilience, by building, maintaining, and repairing flood defences. Th...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what payments have been made under the Frequently Flooded Allowance; and (a) where and (b) when each payment was made.
Answer: The list of projects to receive funding from the first round of the Frequently Flooded Allowance was announced under the previous Government in 2023 and can be found at Frequently Flooded Allowance: Funding for repeatedly flooded communities - GOV.UK. The...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood ControlMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Flood Recovery Framework has been activated in each of the last 10 years; which local authorities were eligible for support on each occasion; and how much was paid to ea
Answer: The Flood Recovery Framework (the Framework) has been activated on four separate occasions in the last 10 years. The Framework was activated in November 2019, February 2020, following Storm Babet in October 2023 and Storm Henk in January 2024.For each act...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 15 January 2025 on Winter Update, if he will publish a list of the locations of the 24 critical incidents declared in the week of 6 January 2025.
Answer: On 7 January 2025, there were a total of 24 active critical incidents reported, as referenced by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in his oral statement of 15 January 2025. The following table shows a list of the 24 Nati...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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