Ian Byrne MP: written questions
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Animal Experiments: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will end the issuing of licences for experiments involving (a) dogs, (b) cats and (c) non-human primates under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Answer: This Government is committed to the development of non-animal alternatives and will publish a strategy later this year. However, in limited circumstances where there is no non-animal alternative, procedures are required to deliver benefits to people, anim...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to (a) divest public funds from fossil fuels and (b) support community-owned renewable energy initiatives.
Answer: As part of our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, we are delivering the largest public investment in clean energy and nature recovery in UK history which will cut bills, provide energy security, create jobs, and boost growth. At COP29, The...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Belém Action Mechanism.
Answer: We are committed to working with all Parties to secure outcomes across the COP30 negotiations, including on just transitions, which are a critical opportunity to ensure that workers and communities benefit from the economic transition to net zero. Ahead o...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bring forward proposals to strengthen the Hunting Act 2004 by (a) removing exemptions, (b) introducing custodial sentence
Answer: This Government is committed to enacting a ban on trail hunting in line with our manifesto commitment. Work to determine the best approach for doing so is ongoing and a consultation seeking views on how to deliver a full ban will be held early next year. ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptoassetsTreasuryTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83964More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered introducing legislation to adopt a composite no gain, no loss framework to align the tax treatment of crypto-asset lending and staking with traditional financial instruments; and what prog
Answer: The government has engaged in detail with industry on the tax treatment for the lending and staking of cryptoassets, following the previous consultation on this issue. The government will be responding to the industry in due course.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancers: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming National Cancer Plan for England will include (a) targets to improve the early diagnosis of (i) myeloma and (ii) other blood cancers, and steps to (b) reduce the number of G
Answer: Early diagnosis is a key focus of the National Cancer Plan. It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, to improve outcom...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Young PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to introduce free bus travel for people under the age of 22; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of transport costs on young people’s access to education, traini
Answer: The Government knows how important affordable and reliable bus services are in enabling people to get to education, work and access vital services. On 1 January, we introduced a £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London to help passengers conti...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLivestock: Animal HousingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to bring forward a public consultation on (a) banning the use of cages and (b) close confinement systems for farmed animals; and if she will make it her po
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 29 April 2025 to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, PQ UIN 47556.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: NeurodiversityDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that UK airports provide autism-friendly (a) facilities and (b) support; and whether she plans to introduce national standards for accessibility provision for neuro
Answer: Aviation must be accessible to all. To support this, the Department for Transport established the Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group, which published 19 recommendations on 16 July to improve aviation accessibility. Two of these focus on non-visi...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Pedestrian AreasDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of legal powers held by councils to tackle pavement-parked cars.
Answer: The Department has been considering all the views expressed in response to the 2020 pavement parking consultation and is currently working through the policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. We will announce the next steps and publish...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPoultry: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of allowing the practice of carrying chickens by their legs.
Answer: The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 resolved a discrepancy by bringing the legislation in-line with long-standing statutory guidance. The regulations reinforce the guidance that one-leg catching is unacceptable, by specifically...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon BudgetsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the revised Carbon Budget Delivery Plan on the international commitment to cut carbon emissions by over two-thirds by 2030.
Answer: We are delivering an updated plan that sets out the policy package out to the end of Carbon Budget 6 in 2037 for all sectors of the economy. This will outline the policies and proposals needed to deliver Carbon Budgets 4-6 and our international commitment...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChemicals: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a national chemicals regulator.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency between them regulate the UK’s chemicals regimes.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordInfant Mortality: Bereavement CounsellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all bereaved parents who need specialist psychological support following (a) pregnancy and (b) baby loss can access it (i) at any time and (ii) fr
Answer: Experiencing pregnancy or baby loss can be extremely difficult and traumatic. We are determined to make sure all bereaved parents, regardless of where they live, have access to specialist psychological support, free of charge through the National Health S...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Inquiries: Legal RepresentationCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69919More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much from the public purse has been spent on legal representation in public inquests and inquiries in each year between 2020 and July 2025.
Answer: For statutory inquiries, section 40 of the Inquiries Act 2005 gives the Chair the power to award funding for legal representation subject to conditions imposed by the Sponsoring Minister. Details of these costs and of the cost of an inquiry’s legal suppor...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPlants: Disease ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2025 to Question 49250 on Plants: Disease Control, what assessment he has made of the the potential impact of the UPOV 1991 convention on small holder a
Answer: Signatories to the 1991 UPOV convention are part of a global plant variety protection system. UPOV’s mission is to encourage the development of new plant varieties for the benefit of society. The assurance that intellectual property will be respected enc...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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