Ian Sollom MP: written questions
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Schools: Physical Education and SportsDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help schools deliver (a) physical education and (b) school sports initiatives.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire to the answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 36741.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Physical EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the infrastructure available to provide (a) physical education and (b) outdoor activities in schools.
Answer: Physical education (PE) is a foundation subject that is compulsory at all four key stages in the national curriculum. As part of the national curriculum, pupils should be taught in key stages two, three and four to take part in outdoor and adventurous act...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Job CreationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has (a) evaluated the effectiveness and (b) undertaken a lessons learned review of the Green Jobs Delivery Group.
Answer: We have been building on the progress that the Green Jobs Delivery Group previously made by setting up the Office for Clean Energy Jobs (OCEJ). The OCEJ has been created to ensure that clean energy jobs are abundant, high quality, paid fairly, and have fa...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to encourage the (a) reuse and (b) repair of items to help create a circular economy.
Answer: This Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. We have convened a Circular Economy Taskforce, comprising experts from industry, academia, and civil society, to help develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England. The Strategy will m...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Job CreationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Office for Clean Energy Jobs makes use of the research and evidence collected by the Green Jobs Delivery Group.
Answer: The Office for Clean Energy Jobs is committed to ensuring that research and evidence gathered by the former Green Jobs Delivery Group directly inform its initiatives. In December 2024 we published the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan, accompanied by an Annex ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSkills EnglandDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Skills England’s report entitled Skills England: driving growth and widening opportunities, published on 24 September 2024, what steps she has taken to support cross-departmental working by Sk
Answer: In September 2024, Skills England published their first report, titled, ‘Skills England: Driving Growth and Widening Opportunities’. This report sets out Skills England’s role, the key skills challenges that limit economic growth and opportunity, and an i...
Answered 23 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues ahead of the publication of the Immigration White Paper.
Answer: The Home Secretary is in regular dialogue with colleagues about all aspects of her responsibilities within the Government’s Plan for Change.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to p.57 of the report by The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award entitled Youth Voices, published 23 July 2024, if she will make it her policy to ensure that the views of young people are re
Answer: This Government recognises the value of effective youth participation in decision making at all levels. We understand this leads to impactful policy locally, regionally and nationally.Youth consultation opportunities are being held across various governme...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHormone Replacement Therapy: ShortagesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with pharmaceutical companies on taking steps to ensure an adequate supply of hormone replacement therapies for women experiencing the menopause.
Answer: The Department manages medicine supply issues at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. Information on stock levels within Cambridgeshire is not held centrally.Previously, there have been issues with the supply...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHormone Replacement Therapy: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to hormone replacement therapies for women experiencing the menopause in Cambridgeshire.
Answer: The Department manages medicine supply issues at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. Information on stock levels within Cambridgeshire is not held centrally.Previously, there have been issues with the supply...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChemistry: Vocational EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government taking to open up technical and vocational pathways for people to access training and employment in the chemical sciences sector.
Answer: The government is developing a comprehensive strategy for post‐16 education and skills, to break down barriers to opportunity, support the development of a skilled workforce in all sectors, including the chemical sciences sector, and drive economic growth...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChemistry: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve chemistry education; and whether she has plans for the subject to focus on (a) green skills, (b) digital skills and (c) transferrable skills alongside technical knowledge.
Answer: High and rising school standards are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. The government also recognises that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) su...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: UniformsTreasuryTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30733More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 26623 on Schools: Uniforms, what is the evidential basis to support that (a) expanding the existing relief may not reduce the price of school uniforms and (b) VA
Answer: There is a wide range of academic research into how VAT changes affect prices, which supports the conclusion that pass-through is typically only partial. This includes, for example, an International Monetary Fund study which examined the pass through of V...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: St Neots and Mid CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support NHS dentistry in St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild den...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSkills EnglandDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times she has met with the Interim Chair of Skills England since their appointment.
Answer: Since their appointment in July, the Interim Chair of Skills England, Richard Pennycook, has met my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education six times and my noble Friend, the Minister for Skills five times. In addition, the Interim Chair h...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support intermediate and advanced apprenticeships.
Answer: This government has a driving mission to break down barriers to opportunity. Meeting the skills needs of the next decade is central to delivering all of the government's five missions on economic growth, opportunity for all, a stronger NHS, safer streets,...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education of 30 January 2025 in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Public Bill Committee (Eighth sitting), Offici
Answer: New section 436C(1) of the Education Act 1996 lists the information legally required to be provided by parents of children who are eligible for inclusion on a local authority’s ‘Children Not in School’ register. This information is their child’s name, dat...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education during the Eighth sitting of the Public Bill Committee on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on Thursda
Answer: New section 436C(1) of the Education Act 1996 lists the information legally required to be provided by parents of children who are eligible for inclusion on a local authority’s ‘Children Not in School’ register. This information is their child’s name, dat...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether parents will be legally obliged to provide all information listed in inserted section 436C in Clause 25 of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to local authorities.
Answer: New section 436C(1) of the Education Act 1996 lists the information legally required to be provided by parents of children who are eligible for inclusion on a local authority’s ‘Children Not in School’ register. This information is their child’s name, dat...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSkills England: AccountabilityDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Skills England is accountable to Parliament.
Answer: It is intended for Skills England to become an Executive Agency of the Department for Education. As with all other Executive Agencies, Skills England will be required to have robust governance arrangements and clear lines of accountability, including to p...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-sport Grassroots Facilities ProgrammeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 26625 on Multi-sport Grassroots Facilities Programme, if she will publish the 521 projects that remain incomplete.
Answer: The Government published a list of funded Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities projects on 8th October 2024 on Gov.uk. The lists can be found here and include funded projects that are either due to start, in progress or complete.We are committed to publishin...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: MathematicsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with universities on the importance maintaining the provision of maths.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, recognises the critical importance of mathematics provision at universities. English universities are independent, autonomous institutions and are therefore free to choose which courses they run....
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: MathematicsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to maintain provision of maths at universities of all tariff levels.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, recognises the critical importance of mathematics provision at universities. English universities are independent, autonomous institutions and are therefore free to choose which courses they run....
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: MathematicsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the importance of maths provision at universities of all tariff levels.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, recognises the critical importance of mathematics provision at universities. English universities are independent, autonomous institutions and are therefore free to choose which courses they run....
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will continue funding the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund after March 2025.
Answer: The department will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on how we will allocate the budget for the next financial year. All decisions regarding the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund are being made as part of these discussions, a...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
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