Jack Rankin MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
NHS Trusts: InnovationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of value-based procurement for MedTech innovation for (a) the New Hospital Programme and (b) current NHS sites; and what steps his Depar
Answer: The Department is developing Value Based Procurement (VBP) Standard Guidance to improve consistency in National Health Service procurement of medical technology in England, and to ensure taxpayer’s money delivers better outcomes for patients, staff and th...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: ConferencesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will be attending the European Regional Summit ahead of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties on
Answer: Our position on vaping is clear, that it is less harmful than smoking and can be an effective tool to help adults to stop smoking, but that non-smokers and young people should never vape. The Government has regularly set out this position on vaping at the...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: ConferencesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer of 25 July 2025 to Question 68895 on WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Conferences, what position his Department plans to set out on vaping at the Conference of Parti
Answer: Our position on vaping is clear, that it is less harmful than smoking and can be an effective tool to help adults to stop smoking, but that non-smokers and young people should never vape. The Government has regularly set out this position on vaping at the...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: ConferencesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2025 to Question 68895 on WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Conferences, what decision his Department has made on the Senior Civil Servant grades that w
Answer: Our position on vaping is clear, that it is less harmful than smoking and can be an effective tool to help adults to stop smoking, but that non-smokers and young people should never vape. The Government has regularly set out this position on vaping at the...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81725More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the potential (a) merits and (b) costs of (i) a total prohibition on advertising of nicotine and vaping products and (ii) other measures short of tot
Answer: Youth vaping has doubled in the past five years, and one in four 11 to 15-year-olds tried vaping in 2023. There has been a significant growth in the awareness of vaping promotion over recent years, with more than half of all children aged 11 to 17 years o...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81724More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's plans to introduce a prohibition on the advertising of vaping products and nicotine products, what other restrictions or alternatives to a blanket prohibition on
Answer: Youth vaping has doubled in the past five years, and one in four 11 to 15-year-olds tried vaping in 2023. There has been a significant growth in the awareness of vaping promotion over recent years, with more than half of all children aged 11 to 17 years o...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: WasteDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure a level playing field between companies who export plastic recycling and UK based plastic reprocessors.
Answer: The export of waste is subject to strict controls set out in UK legislation. Facilities receiving UK waste must be operated in accordance with human health and environmental protection standards that are broadly equivalent to those established in UK legis...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to prevent the closure of mechanical recycling sites.
Answer: The Collection and Packaging Reforms – Simpler Recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) and a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) – will help stimulate investment in recycling services across the UK. Defra is working with HMT on Plastic Pa...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of maintaining and keeping open the Jubilee River Channel in the last four years.
Answer: The Jubilee River is part of the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eaton Flood Alleviation Scheme which is operated and maintained by the Environment Agency. The cost of maintaining and keeping the Jubilee River channel open are difficult to extract from the overal...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: Public FootpathsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to repair and restore footbridges along the Jubilee River; and what estimate she has made of the associated cost to the taxpayer.
Answer: The Jubilee River is part of the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eaton Flood Alleviation Scheme which is operated and maintained by the Environment Agency. Footbridges along the Jubilee River are the responsibility of the respective local authorities including Bu...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the tilted balance in decision making is formally recognised as part of national planning policy; and what guidance his Department has issued to ensure consistent applica
Answer: Users of the National Planning Policy Framework sometimes describe the effect of paragraph 11d of the Framework as a ‘tilted balance’. However, the term itself does not form part of national planning policy. The Framework is a material consideration in de...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Plans and Neighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether borough local plans have precedence over parish level neighbourhood plans.
Answer: Once passed at referendum, neighbourhood plans form part of the development plan. Policies in a neighbourhood plan may become out of date, including if they conflict with policies in a local plan adopted after the making of the neighbourhood plan. In such...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Plans: Community Infrastructure LevyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Councils are able to use money from the Community Infrastructure Levy to refresh neighbourhood plans.
Answer: Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts must be used for the purposes which are set out in section 216 of the Planning Act 2008 and Part 7 of the CIL regulations. Local authorities must spend the levy on infrastructure needed to support the developme...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Plans: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the role of local plans in the planning system in the future.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 27 February 2025 (HCWS480).
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: FoodMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated average cost of a prisoner's breakfast is according to the latest available data.
Answer: Data about expenditure on food and specific meals is not held centrally. Prison food budgets are determined locally (by the Governor in public sector prisons or the Director in privately managed prisons). They are kept under review as part of normal non-p...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast Clubs: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the estimated average cost per child of breakfast food is at school breakfast clubs according to the latest available data.
Answer: The government is delivering on its pledge to provide a free breakfast club in every state-funded school with primary-aged children. This will ensure every child, regardless of their circumstances, has a supportive start to the school day.The department h...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEmpty Property: Council TaxMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the empty home premium applies to (a) retirement and (b) care properties where the tenant has passed away and ownership has fallen to an executor.
Answer: Local authorities have the discretionary power to charge a council tax premium on long-term empty dwellings in their area. Where the premium is in place, it applies to properties that have been unoccupied and substantially unfurnished for one or more year...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMetlen: SharesTreasuryTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73959More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of UK stamp duty on the level of share trading volumes in Metlen.
Answer: Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax are forecast to raise up to £5.1bn per year combined to help fund vital public services. The framework of the taxes contains many reliefs and exemptions which are designed to provide a boost to growth, liquidity, and ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestian AuthorityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK and Palestinian strategic cooperation: memorandum of understanding, published on 28 April 2025, what recent assessment he has m
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my response of 17 September to Question 74028.
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the Jubilee Flood Alleviation Channel.
Answer: The Jubilee Flood Alleviation Channel is part of the Maidenhead, Windsor, and Eton Flood Alleviation Scheme, protecting over 3000 properties in those areas. Since opening in 2002 it has successfully protected local communities from flooding on multiple oc...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMagistrates: Labour Turnover and RecruitmentMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to establish a multi-year recruitment and retention strategy for the magistracy.
Answer: In light of the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts and the Sentencing Review, Ministers are considering the implications for the magistracy, including how best to ensure sufficient capacity in magistrates’ courts to meet both current and future dem...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: ConferencesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to promote the UK’s Swap to Stop scheme at the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties.
Answer: The health advice is clear, that whilst vapes can be an effective quit aid for adult smokers, children and non-smokers should never vape. The Swap to Stop scheme is a national smoking cessation programme through which the Department provides adult smokers...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: ConferencesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representatives his Department plans to send to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties by (a) job title and (b) nam
Answer: The World Health Organization Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will take place in Geneva from Monday 17 to Saturday 22 November.The United Kingdom’s delegation will consist of officials from the Department of Health...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Heathrow AirportHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are employed by Border Force at Heathrow Airport.
Answer: In the interests of maintaining border security, Border Force does not routinely disclose information of a port-specific nature, and the requested national information is not available from published statistics.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: MoneyHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2025 to Question 50803 on Heathrow Airport: Money, how much cash was seized by the Border Force (a) at Heathrow Airport and (b) nationally in the last year for which f
Answer: In the interests of maintaining border security, Border Force does not routinely disclose information of a port-specific nature, and the requested national information is not available from published statistics.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
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