Ian Sollom MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Motor Neurone DiseaseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to genetic testing for people with motor neurone disease.
Answer: Genomic testing in the National Health Service in England is provided through the NHS Genomic Medicine Service (GMS). Testing is directed by the National Genomic Test Directory, which sets out the eligibility criteria for patients to access testing.Genomi...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish details on (a) the process for the work of the PIP review and (b) how (i) individuals and (ii) groups can participate in that review.
Answer: To ensure lived experience is at the heart of its work, the Timms Review will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, clinicians, carers, experts, MPs and others. We have also confirmed that a majority of the Review’s l...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people and (b) groups have been consulted during summer 2025 as part of the PIP review.
Answer: To date, I have met with representatives from more than 50 organisations including representatives of disabled people’s organisations, disability, welfare and carers’ charities, think tanks, co-production experts and more. I am grateful to all of those wh...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which groups he has consulted during summer 2025 as part of the PIP review.
Answer: To date, I have met with representatives from more than 50 organisations including representatives of disabled people’s organisations, disability, welfare and carers’ charities, think tanks, co-production experts and more. I am grateful to all of those wh...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress he has made on the design of the PIP review.
Answer: The Timms Review will be co-produced with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, carers, clinicians, experts, MPs and other stakeholders, to ensure that expertise from a wide range of perspectives is drawn upon. On 30 October, I announced...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Carers and Lone ParentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department has issued to work coaches on (a) tailoring (i) work and (ii) work search requirements for a (A) single parent and (B) lead carer down from a maximum of 30 hours a week to r
Answer: Work coaches have access to up-to-date guidance which includes information on tailoring work and work search categories for single parents and lead carers in a way that takes account of their circumstances. In certain circumstances the requirement to unde...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: Rented HousingWomen and EqualitiesTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77775More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Improving disabled people's access to let residential premises: reasonable adjustments to common parts, a new duty, which closed on 18 Augus
Answer: The 2022 consultation was conducted by the previous Government and responses are being considered.
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPremium BondsTreasuryTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77774More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) assistance claiming premium bond prizes, (b) information supplied to the public on possession of premium bonds and (c) efforts made by National Savings and Investm
Answer: NS&I provides comprehensive information on its website and through its call centre on the purchasing and administration of Premium Bonds, including helping Premium Bond holders trace new and unclaimed prizes, and their original investment. NS&I al...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFood PovertyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) minimally-processed and (b) nutritious foods for (i) families and (ii) children and young people in food poverty.
Answer: Tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and its commitment to raising the healthiest generation of children in history. The Department is working closely with the Child Poverty Taskforce to ...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74009More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fee structures on UK manufacturers’ investment in sustainable fibre-based composite packaging in
Answer: In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector or material type. Since January 2025 the Recyclab...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made on the development of a national youth strategy; what discussions she has had with youth sector organisations on its design; and how she plans to ensure that young peop
Answer: We are co-producing the National Youth Strategy in partnership with young people and cross-sector experts to set out a new long-term vision for young people and an action plan for delivering this. We have set up a Youth Advisory Group and an Expert Adviso...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBailMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) median, (b) mean and (c) 90th percentile for time on electronically-monitored remand by magistrates' courts was for people found guilty and sentenced to immediate custody in each year between 2018 an
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBailMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) median, (b) mean and (c) 90th percentile for time on electronically-monitored remand by magistrates' courts was for people found guilty and given non-custodial sentences in each year between 2018 and
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBailMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into electronically-monitored court bail by magistrates' courts in each year between 2018 and 2024; how many of those were (a) later found not guilty and (b) had charges not proceede
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Crown Courts in England and Wales in each year from 2018 to 2024; of these people, for each year how many were guilty and sentenced to immediate custody; and f
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73457More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Crown Courts in England and Wales in each year from 2018-2024; of these people, how many were guilty but given a non-custodial sentence; and what was the (a) m
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73456More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Crown Courts in England and Wales in each year from 2018-2024; of these people, how many were not guilty of charges for which remanded or not proceeded against
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales in each calendar year from 2018 to 2024; of these people, for each year how many were guilty and sentenced to immediat
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72813More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales in each calendar year from 2018 to 2024; of these people, for each year, how many were guilty but given a non-custodia
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRemand in CustodyMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were remanded into prison custody by Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales in each calendar year from 2018 to 2024; of these people, for each year how many were not guilty of charges for which
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of those remanded in custody and bailed together with details of the final sentence at criminal courts in England and Wales in the remands data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Sta...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordJudges: Public AppointmentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the Judicial Appointments Commission fulfils its statutory duty to (a) appoint solely on merit (b) avoid discrimination in the appointing of judges.
Answer: The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is independent from government. It has a statutory duty under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 to select candidates solely on merit, to select only people of good character, and to have regard to the need to en...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: LicensingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its response to the consultation entitled The licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England, published on 3 September 2023.
Answer: The Department published its response to the consultation entitled The licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England on 7 August 2025. The response is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/licensing-of-non-...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: St Neots and Mid CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) non-regulated and (b) non-medical practitioners performing aesthetic procedures on the health and safety of people in St Neots and Mid C
Answer: The Department published its response to the consultation entitled The licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England on 7 August 2025. The response is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/licensing-of-non-...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Disability AidsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of cuts to funding for non-specialist software under the Disabled Students’ Allowance on costs for universities to support disabled students.
Answer: The department has not withdrawn funding for assistive technology under the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA). Students who require assistive software and training due to their disability will continue to receive support through DSA. Universities remain ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Disability AidsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the criteria for universities to meet to ensure appropriate reasonable adjustments for disabled students, following the withdrawal of Assistive Technology funding; and whether these cr
Answer: The department has not withdrawn funding for assistive technology under the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA). Students who require assistive software and training due to their disability will continue to receive support through DSA. Universities remain ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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