Jacob Collier MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs: RehabilitationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure?that local authorities meet the ambition that 2% of the drug and alcohol treatment population?are accessing residential treatment.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for assessing local need for alcohol and drug prevention and treatment in their area, including residential treatment, and for commissioning services to meet these needs. The Department set an ambition that 2% of the drug...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
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Coronavirus: Medical Treatments and VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) adequacy of the eligibility criteria for (i) free covid-19 vaccinations and (ii) access to covid-19 antiviral treatments for people with lun
Answer: The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The primary aim of the national COVID-19 vaccination programme remains th...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
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Driving Tests: StaffDepartment for TransportTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's joint press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, which areas the military drivi
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has accepted the resource of Defence Driving Examiners (DDEs), to be based at the driving test centres with the highest demand near their MOD base or home location.
Answered 20 Nov 2025
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Driving Tests: ApplicationsDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of restricting the resale of driving tests on (a) levels of access to and (b) the cost of driving tests.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) understands the impact, including the financial implications, the reselling of practical driving tests is having on learner drivers.On 28 May, DVSA launched a public consultation on improving the rules for bo...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
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Transport: PlanningDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on their use of her Department's connectivity tool in (a) plan-making and (b) decision-taking.
Answer: The Connectivity Tool was launched on 26 June and is free to use by all local authorities via the gov.uk website. The tool is jointly badged with the MHCLG and has been explicitly designed in collaboration with local authorities to help inform their plans...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
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Business: EqualityWomen and EqualitiesTabled 2 Jun 2025Awaiting answerUIN 56602More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what estimate she has made of the cost to businesses of implementing the proposed EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
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Great British Railways: EqualityDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56601More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost to Great British Railways of implementing the proposed EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations.
Answer: Work is underway to design the form and functions of Great British Railways. Set up costs and future budgets will be confirmed in due course.
Answered 10 Jun 2025
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Restart SchemeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Restart Scheme.
Answer: The Department undertook a mixed-method, multi-strand evaluation of the Restart Scheme, delivered by external research providers Learning and Work Institute (L&W) and Ipsos. The research comprised three strands: a longitudinal cohort study, a survey o...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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Universal Credit: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people not in receipt of the Personal Independence Payment daily living component will lose their entitlement to the health element of Universal Credit after the abolition of the work capability
Answer: Our Pathways to Work Green Paper set out why we are scrapping the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). We want to end the binary categorisation of groups and labelling as either ‘can or can’t work’. Instead, any extra financial support for health conditions ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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Universal Credit: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants under the age of 25 (a) live outside of their family home and (b) do not receive financial support fro
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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Affordable Housing: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help build more affordable accommodation for young people living in supported housing.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to my answer to Question UIN 11383 on 31 October 2024.
Answered 29 Jan 2025
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HomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to gather accurate data on the number of people sofa surfing.
Answer: The English Housing Survey does not collect data on the number of sofa surfers, but does collect data on households who hosted someone in the previous 12 months who would have otherwise been homeless, and publishes these statistics annually.The total numb...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
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