James Naish MP: written questions 2026
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Student Unions: Hate Crime and RadicalismDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to add additional regulatory requirements for students’ unions in relation to tackling extremism and hate incidents on campus.
Answer: The department is clear that all students should be able to study in an environment that is safe and free from harassment and intimidation.The department is strengthening protections for students and staff from extremism and intimidation on campus through...
Answered 26 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordStudent Unions: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Charity Commission on oversight of students’ unions’ compliance with their legal duties.
Answer: Students’ unions that are registered charities are regulated by the Charity Commission and are required to comply with charity law and fulfil their legal duties as trustees.The department engages regularly with regulators and sector bodies on matters affe...
Answered 26 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Hate CrimeDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to require universities to report incidents of antisemitism and other hate crimes to the Office for Students.
Answer: The government is clear that antisemitism has no place in higher education (HE).HE providers are autonomous institutions and are responsible for preventing and responding to harassment, hate crime and discrimination. The Office for Students (OfS), as the ...
Answered 26 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Hate CrimeDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing enforceable minimum standards for universities’ investigation of hate crime incidents.
Answer: Higher education (HE) providers are autonomous institutions and are responsible for investigating incidents that occur within their communities. The government expects providers to have effective procedures in place to prevent and respond to hate crime, h...
Answered 26 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure car insurance companies notify customers of insurance cost rises.
Answer: The cross-government taskforce on motor insurance was formed in October 2024, to fulfil the government’s commitment to tackling the soaring cost of motor insurance in the UK. Government departments and regulators are acting to address the broader factors ...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department is taking to help lower car insurance costs.
Answer: The cross-government taskforce on motor insurance was formed in October 2024, to fulfil the government’s commitment to tackling the soaring cost of motor insurance in the UK. Government departments and regulators are acting to address the broader factors ...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: SoftwareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department tracks current levels of NHS app usage across different patient groups.
Answer: We track current levels of NHS App usage through the NHS App Management Information monthly publication. This is broken down by integrated care board and region, rather than demographic or patient group.Future work will explore how to get more detailed da...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: SoftwareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase use of the NHS app.
Answer: The National Health Service is taking a coordinated approach to increase NHS App use by supporting frontline promotion, and is addressing barriers particularly in deprived communities. Although 29% of people over 13 years old in England access the NHS App...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: Widowed PeopleHome OfficeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10986More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support police officer (a) widows and (b) widowers who have lost their partner in active duty.
Answer: Where a serving officer dies, the existing police pension and injury benefit schemes provide a range of financial support for their families.As part of the Police Covenant, the National Police Wellbeing Service has produced a suite of digital support tool...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: Workplace PensionsHome OfficeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the National Association of Retired Police Officers’ Love or Money campaign; and whether her Department
Answer: Serving police officers have access to the 2015 police pension scheme, which provides life-long survivor benefits for spouses, civil partners and unmarried partners, including those who remarry or cohabit after losing a spouse. All eligible police officer...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: Workplace PensionsHome OfficeTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 20 May 2025 to Question 52060, whether her Department has plans to amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 to allow widows to continue to receive pension income foll
Answer: With reference to the response given to UIN 52060, there are currently no plans to make any further changes to benefits accrued in the 1987 police scheme.
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordInland WaterwaysDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect the health of people using inland waters for recreation.
Answer: The Government will bring forward legislation through the Clean Water Bill, announced in the King’s Speech on 13 May, to deliver major reforms to the water system. Public health will be at the heart of these reforms, alongside measures to strengthen regul...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordInland WaterwaysDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to inland waters for recreational users.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of providing access to the outdoors for people’s health and wellbeing. Public access onto around 3,400 miles of our regulated inland waterways, including several of the larger rivers, is available through the lice...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHoliday Play Schemes: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to work with local authorities to extend one-to-one support funding to include holiday clubs.
Answer: The government is committed to improving access to childcare for all children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This financial year, the department has provided £12.9 million to strengthen local authorities’ capacity...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordExtended Services: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with local authorities to extend one-to-one support funding to include breakfast and after-school clubs, including to support parents and improve access for children with SEN
Answer: The government is committed to improving access to childcare for all children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This financial year, the department has provided £12.9 million to strengthen local authorities’ capacity...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the level of transparency and accountability in the distribution of Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme funding at the local level.
Answer: NHS England and the integrated care boards are responsible for the allocation and distribution of Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) funding to primary care networks (PCNs). This system is applied consistently across the National Health Service ...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to reform Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme funding.
Answer: NHS England and the integrated care boards are responsible for the allocation and distribution of Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) funding to primary care networks (PCNs). This system is applied consistently across the National Health Service ...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNursing AssociatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support nursing associates.
Answer: Decisions on the employment of nursing associates are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts which manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deliver safe ...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all new pharmacy graduates from September 2026 are able to independently prescribe.
Answer: The Government recently announced a £340 million uplift to community pharmacy funding, a 10% increase, recognising the essential role pharmacies play in supporting patients and the wider National Health Service. As part of this, we are funding the rollout...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to expand the Community Pharmacy Independent Prescriber programme in 2026-27 financial year.
Answer: The Government recently announced a £340 million uplift to community pharmacy funding, a 10% increase, recognising the essential role pharmacies play in supporting patients and the wider National Health Service. As part of this, we are funding the rollout...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Community Pharmacy Independent Prescriber trials in Nottinghamshire.
Answer: The Government recently announced a £340 million uplift to community pharmacy funding, a 10% increase, recognising the essential role pharmacies play in supporting patients and the wider National Health Service. As part of this, we are funding the rollout...
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDemocratic Republic of the Congo: EbolaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are safeguarded from the Ebola outbreak.
Answer: Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HCWS60), the Minister of State for International Development visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDemocratic Republic of the Congo: EbolaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to pre-emptively position humanitarian support for countries bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the current Ebola outbreak
Answer: Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HCWS60), the Minister of State for International Development visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDemocratic Republic of the Congo: EbolaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps she is taking with international partners to improve humanitarian access to areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo affected by the Ebola outbreak
Answer: Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HCWS60), the Minister of State for International Development visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDemocratic Republic of the Congo: EbolaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 5556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps her Department is taking to ensure safe and unrestricted humanitarian access in areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo affected by the Ebola outb
Answer: Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HCWS60), the Minister of State for International Development visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
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