Helen Morgan MP: written questions 2025
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Agriculture: 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
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employers' National Insurance contributions on specialist colleges.
Answer: The department is receiving compensation in recognition of the increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs) paid by institutions it funds, including colleges, schools and other state-funded special educational needs and disabilities provision. Work...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSewers: Property DevelopmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it compulsory for developers to form agreements with water companies for the adoption of new-build drainage systems.
Answer: Section 42 of the Flood and Water Management Act has not yet been implemented in England. Should it be implemented, all new sewerage will be built to an agreed standard and automatically adopted. The powers to adopt existing sewerage have now expired. The...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written QuestionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23497More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question 20371 on Sewers: Private Sector, tabled on 16 December 2024.
Answer: A response to Question 20371 is being prepared and will be provided as soon as possible. I apologise for the delay in responding to the Honourable Member.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ReformDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his statement of 6 January 2025 on Health and Social Care Reform, Official Report, column 597, what his definition is of working class areas.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving health outcomes across geographies and demographic groups to ensure that there is no two-tier system for healthcare in this country, where those who can afford it pay to go private, and those who cannot are left be...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Rural AreasDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his statement of 6 January 2025 on Health and Social Care Reform, Official Report, columns 595 to 598, what steps he is taking to ensure equal access to healthcare in rural and ur
Answer: The Government recognises the health inequalities faced by rural communities in England, particularly around access to healthcare services. In response, we are working closely across the department, with NHS England and regional Directors of Public Health...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordResident Doctors: Physician AssociatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing a Physician Associate to Junior Doctor conversion course.
Answer: There is no training pathway specifically designed for a physician associate to become a doctor in the United Kingdom. To become a doctor in the UK, an individual is required to complete either an undergraduate degree or a graduate-entry programme in medi...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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