Ian Lavery MP: written questions 2025
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Palliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a new national strategy for palliative and end-of-life care.
Answer: The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England.The MSF will drive improvements in the services that patients and their families receive at the end of life and will enable integrated care boar...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Private Finance InitiativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish his Department’s business case on new private finance in the NHS.
Answer: The Department has no plans to publish the Neighbourhood Health Centre (NHC) Public Private Partnership (PPP) Feasibility Programme Business Case. Publication is not standard practice for business cases outside of the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Private Finance InitiativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of renegotiating current private finance debt to reduce future payouts.
Answer: Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts are not held by the Department. Contracts are held between the local National Health Service trust and their respective private finance company. The contracts were let for a prescribed period of time, with the te...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Health Centres: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of funding neighbourhood health centres through alternative, non-private finance means.
Answer: At the Autumn Budget, we announced our commitment to deliver 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) through the NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild Programme. This will deliver NHCs through a mixture of refurbishments, to expand and improve sites over the next thr...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the impact of (a) changes in patient need, (b) drug prices, (c) inflation and (d) changes in the level of private finance debt on the budget for the NHS in each of the
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington on 1 December 2025 to Question 93637.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has issued guidance to (a) schools and (b) educational establishments to make them aware of potential concerns with Colours Play Sand.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to communicate concerns of potential harmful substances in Educational Colours Rainbow Sand.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data he holds on how many packs of educational colours rainbow sand was sold before it was no longer available.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is available to schools to tackle the challenges faced by pupils living in poverty, including access to (a) free school meals, (b) mental health services and (c) after-school programmes in the Nort
Answer: We are supporting schools to tackle the challenges faced by pupils in poverty. As part of this support, schools will receive pupil premium funding worth over £3 billion in the 2025/26 financial year to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged p...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Education: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are in place to ensure that children from low-income families in the North East have access to high-quality early years education; and what additional support is being provided to reduce dispariti
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change commits to giving children the best start in life. From age 2, children in low-income families, those with education, health and care plans, and looked-after children are eligible for 15 hours of funded early education.Dis...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether they plan to increase or redistribute funding to schools in the North East.
Answer: The schools national funding formula (NFF) is used to allocate core funding for mainstream schools in England. We have now published the NFF for 2026/27, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-for-schools-and-h...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products among nursing staff on (a) reproductive and (b) other long-term h
Answer: As per our response to questions PQ87515, PQ84145, and PQ84445 on 11 November 2025, the Government has not commissioned any research on the reproductive health outcomes or long-term health effects of the occupational exposure of nursing staff to hazardous...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHazardous Substances: Health ProfessionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to require NHS employers to provide ongoing (a) training and (b) health surveillance for all staff who (i) handle and (ii) otherwise may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products; and
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84444.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: SafetyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to promote the use of (a) biological safety cabinets, (b) closed-system drug-transfer devices and (c) engineering controls in healthcare settings; and whether she plans to pr
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84144.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHazardous Substances: RegulationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to review the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations to ensure that hazardous medicinal products with reprotoxic effects are controlled to the same standard as (a)
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84440.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CybersecurityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how the cyber risk to Government has changed in the last 5 years; how his Department's approach to cyber security has changed in that time; and what assessment he has made of how the Go
Answer: Our approach to tackling Government cyber risk is driven by the 2022 Government Cyber Security Strategy which sets a clear target for critical functions to be hardened to cyber attack by 2025.We have made important steps in understanding and mitigating ri...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CybersecurityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department plans to be able to meet its target for the Government to be cyber resilient by the end of 2025.
Answer: Our approach to tackling Government cyber risk is driven by the 2022 Government Cyber Security Strategy which sets a clear target for critical functions to be hardened to cyber attack by 2025.We have made important steps in understanding and mitigating ri...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: DiscriminationDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle misogyny in schools.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for for Blyth and Ashington to the answer of 19 September 2025 to Question 76624.
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRacial Hatred and Religious Hatred: Blyth and AshingtonHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) race and (b) religious hate crimes took place in Blyth and Ashington constituency between September (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025.
Answer: The Home Office publishes official statistics on hate crimes at the Police Force Area level. The latest published information for the year ending March 2024, including for Northumbria Police, can be found here: Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending M...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for victims to wait for cases to be heard.
Answer: This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. It is unacceptable that victims and witnesses are waiting years for justice. We are committed to creating a more sustainable justice system, in which victims and the public can have confidence....
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to educate communities on the rise of far right extremism.
Answer: This Government takes extremism seriously and has been clear that we will tackle far right extremism head on. We make no apology for that. We are committed to ensuring we have the required tools and powers needed to address this issue. Efforts to counter ...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestine Action: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for protesting the proscription of Palestine Action.
Answer: The Government is absolutely clear that support for proscribed organisations is unacceptable. Anyone expressing support for a proscribed organisation should expect to be investigated by the police.To be clear, those who want to oppose the proscription of ...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: ProsecutionsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 905697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of prosecutions of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Answer: In the year ending 30 June 2025, 83 persons were tried for terrorism-related offences, an increase of 5 compared with the year ending June 2024 and 16 more than the average over the last 10 years (67). 80 of those 83 (96%) persons tried were convicted. Co...
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure an adequate supply of ADHD medication.
Answer: The Department has worked closely with industry stakeholders and, following extensive collaborative efforts, previous issues have been resolved, and all strengths of lisdexamfetamine, atomoxetine capsules, atomoxetine oral solution, guanfacine prolonged-r...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDeveloping Countries: DebtsTreasuryTabled 18 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69022More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to help amend UN frameworks to tackle global debt.
Answer: Tackling unsustainable debt in low-income countries is a key development priority for this government. We are working closely with partners to strengthen and speed up the G20 common framework, and to enhance debt transparency for debtor and creditors. We ...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
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