Henry Tufnell MP: written questions
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Written questions
Legal Aid Agency: CybersecurityMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Legal Aid Agency’s digital systems are cyber-secure.
Answer: The recent data breach is the result of heinous criminal activity, but it was enabled by the fragility of the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) IT systems as a result of the long years of underinvestment under the last Conservative Government. By contrast, since t...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Legal Aid Agency is taking to engage with local legal aid providers to increase legal aid provision.
Answer: It is vital that those who need legal aid—some of the most vulnerable people in our society—can access it wherever they live.The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) monitors provider numbers in each procurement area and across all categories of law. It takes operation...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the safe passage of aid to Gaza; and what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the Madleen vessel.
Answer: We are aware of the interception of the Madleen and the arrest of its passengers by Israeli Naval Forces on 09 June. We note that this happened without serious incident or injury to any passenger.Over the weekend and last week, we pressed the Israeli auth...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRestless Legs Syndrome: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 56598 on Restless Legs Syndrome: Medical Treatments, whether he plans to make such an assessment.
Answer: The Department has no plans to make such an assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has an established prioritisation process overseen by a prioritisation board, for the identification of priorities for guidance developmen...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: ReconstructionForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on implementing the Arab Plan for the reconstruction of Gaza.
Answer: The Foreign Secretary welcomed the Arab initiative of a Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza, alongside Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and Italy on 8 March. However, reconstruction can only fully begin once there is a long-term ceasefire. To pr...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordIsraeli Settlements: SanctionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) imposing further sanctions on settlers in the West Bank and (b) restricting goods, trade and investment in Israeli
Answer: We are deeply concerned by the levels of violence towards settlers in the West Bank and continue to urge the Government of Israel to take action to hold violence to account. On 10 June 2025, together with international partners Australia, Canada, New Zeal...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to push for the removal of restrictions on humanitarian access and aid to Gaza.
Answer: As I made clear to the house on 4 June, Israel's unjustified block on aid into Gaza needs to end. It is inhumane. The Foreign Secretary recently announced that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new free trade agreement and w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLetter Boxes: StandardsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make the British standard entitled BS EN 13724:2013 Postal services: apertures
Answer: Guidance on letterplate specifications for developers are referenced in Approved Document Q (ADQ), but the Government has recently published a Frequently Asked Question alongside ADQ on gov.uk here, providing developers with further guidance on letterbox ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLetter BoxesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of prohibiting low-level letterboxes.
Answer: Guidance on letterplate specifications for developers are referenced in Approved Document Q (ADQ), but the Government has recently published a Frequently Asked Question alongside ADQ on gov.uk here, providing developers with further guidance on letterbox ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPostal Workers: Health and SafetyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of low-level letterboxes on postal workers.
Answer: Guidance on letterplate specifications for developers are referenced in Approved Document Q (ADQ), but the Government has recently published a Frequently Asked Question alongside ADQ on gov.uk here, providing developers with further guidance on letterbox ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPostal Workers: Health and SafetyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of protecting postal workers against the health and safety risks posed by low-level letterboxes.
Answer: Guidance on letterplate specifications for developers are referenced in Approved Document Q (ADQ), but the Government has recently published a Frequently Asked Question alongside ADQ on gov.uk here, providing developers with further guidance on letterbox ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLetter BoxesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with housing developers on the minimum height for letterboxes in new build homes.
Answer: Guidance on letterplate specifications for developers are referenced in Approved Document Q (ADQ), but the Government has recently published a Frequently Asked Question alongside ADQ on gov.uk here, providing developers with further guidance on letterbox ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRestless Legs Syndrome: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to consult people with restless legs syndrome in the development of (a) policy and (b) clinical treatment guidelines.
Answer: Involving the relevant patient advocacy organisations, including people with lived experience of restless legs syndrome, is central to developing our policies for the National Health Service, to improve patients’ experience of services. The consultation o...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRestless Legs Syndrome: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56598More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he made of the use of dopamine agonists as a first-line treatment for restless legs syndrome (RLS) before the NICE guidance was updated in February 2025; and what steps he is taking
Answer: No assessment has been made. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has not developed any guidelines on the diagnosis and/or management of restless leg syndrome (RLS) but has commissioned a Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) on the diagnosis ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: IsraelForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54120More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on implementing a two-state solution in the region.
Answer: The Government regularly raises that a long-lasting ceasefire is the only credible pathway towards a sustainable peace, a two-state solution and the reconstruction of Gaza with counterparts in the Israeli Government. The Foreign Secretary last raised this...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average appeal waiting times are for legal aid cases by (a) represented and (b) unrepresented cases.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. The unit cost of processing an application is not specifically tracked or recorded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), nor is the operating expenditure relating to exceptional case funding (ECF) recorded separat...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the amount spent by the Legal Aid Agency on processing exceptional case funding in the 2024-25 financial year, broken down by (a) category of law and (b) case complexity.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. The unit cost of processing an application is not specifically tracked or recorded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), nor is the operating expenditure relating to exceptional case funding (ECF) recorded separat...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of Legal Aid exceptional case funding was spent on (a) the means test assessment process and (b) operational costs in the last financial year.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. The unit cost of processing an application is not specifically tracked or recorded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), nor is the operating expenditure relating to exceptional case funding (ECF) recorded separat...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: PembrokeshireDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47945More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Pembrokeshire.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it works hard to reduce car practical driving test waiting times. On the 23 April, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared before the Transport S...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) potential impact of Physical Infrastructure Access fees on the rollout of full fibre broadband to rural areas by Alternative Net
Answer: The government is committed to delivering 2030 nationwide gigabit connectivity, including in rural areas. The government's strategy supports market entry and expansion by alternative network operators via access to Openreach’s ducts, poles, and other util...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that Physical Infrastructure Access fees structures enable the wider roll out of full fibre broadband to rural areas.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering 2030 nationwide gigabit connectivity, including in rural areas. The government's strategy supports market entry and expansion by alternative network operators via access to Openreach’s ducts, poles, and other util...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce civil court backlogs.
Answer: The courts, as the cornerstone of the civil justice system, play a crucial role in supporting economic growth, enabling businesses and citizens to resolve disputes in a timely fashion and uphold their rights.Though most civil claims made in the county cou...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Proceedings: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract started less than five cases by each (a) local authority and (b) area of law in the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The requested information can be found in the attached table.Data for 2024-2025 is a year-to-date figure reflective of the work reported between 1 April 2024 to 31 January, inclusive. As such it is not directly comparable with 2022-23 and 2023-24. Please ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Proceedings: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract started zero cases by each (a) local authority and (b) area of law in the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The requested information can be found in the attached table.Data for 2024-2025 is a year-to-date figure reflective of the work reported between 1 April 2024 to 31 January, inclusive. As such it is not directly comparable with 2022-23 and 2023-24. Please ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: ConservationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what support his department is providing to members of the public who have concerns regarding the quality of insulation and energy efficiency measures fitted through government schemes such a
Answer: All installations under Government energy efficiency schemes, including the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, must be carried out by a TrustMark registered business. Installations of low carbon measures must be carried out in accordance with the Mic...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
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