Jayne Kirkham MP: written questions 2025
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InsecticidesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of making (a) fipronil and (b) imidacloprid prescription-only.
Answer: Parasiticides containing imidacloprid and fipronil play a crucial role in protecting animal and human health against fleas, ticks, and the diseases they spread. The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) also acknowledges concerns raised about their prese...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFarms: Permitted Development RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to ensure the effectiveness of permitted development rights for farms.
Answer: The government continues to keep permitted development rights under review.
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: CornwallDepartment for TransportTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time is for a practical driving test in Cornwall.
Answer: The table below shows the average waiting time in weeks for driving test centres (DTCs) that serve customers in Cornwall, as of 5 May 2025. DTCAverage waiting time as of the 5 May 2025 (in weeks).Bodmin24Cambourne24Launceston24
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how she plans to support listed places of worship with repairs and renovation after the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme ends.
Answer: Future Government spending is a matter for the 2025 Spending Review.
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: Truro and FalmouthDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which listed places of worship have received grants under the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme in Truro and Falmouth constituency.
Answer: Reliable data from before 2022 is not available, but since August 2022, 16 listed places of worship have received awards to a total value of £126,888.95 through the grant scheme in the Truro and Falmouth constituency. These were Truro Cathedral receiving ...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLeaseholdMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to prevent long leases from becoming assured shorthold tenancies.
Answer: The Renters’ Rights Bill will abolish assured shorthold tenancies, so most private rented sector tenancies will be assured tenancies in future. The Bill will also exclude leases over 21 years in length from the assured tenancy regime. This will mean that ...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Free School Meals and Health Start SchemeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of registering eligible households for (a) free school meal and (b) NHS Healthy Start entitlements through the Universal Credit system.
Answer: No such assessment has been made. The Universal Credit system permits Department for Education to check eligibility for Free School Meals and Department of Health and Social Care to check a citizen’s entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the qualifying earnings threshold for free school meals on levels of child poverty in (a) Truro and Falmouth constituency, (b) the south
Answer: The government is committed to delivering an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty by tackling the root causes and giving every child the best start in life. To support this, a new Ministerial taskforce has been set up to begin work on a Child Povert...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is her Department's policy on the renewal of the holiday activities food programme beyond the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme supports disadvantaged children and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving socialisation and benefitting their health and well...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling Holiday Activities and Food programme providers to make their programmes open access if they are located in areas of high deprivation.
Answer: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme supports disadvantaged children and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving socialisation and benefitting their health and well...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has assessed the potential merits of enabling local authorities to expand eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to ensure that children who are (a) living in poverty and
Answer: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme supports disadvantaged children and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving socialisation and benefitting their health and well...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of training convenience store staff and managers on the (a) administration and (b) acceptance of NHS Healthy Start cards.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) runs the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Retailers do not need to register to be part of the Healthy Start scheme. Retailers can accept Healthy Start card payments where they sell eligible Hea...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that everyone entitled to NHS Healthy Start is registered to receive it.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Those eligible for Healthy Start must apply to the NHSBSA to receive Healthy Start payments.All applicants, where they meet the eligibility criteri...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Solar PowerDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting pay-as-you-save soft loans from community energy enterprises into solar panels on schools.
Answer: This government continues to look for opportunities to support schools in the growth of renewables in order to reduce emissions and energy bills. Options like Great British Energy’s scheme, which will provide funding to put rooftop solar panels on around ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support rural and regional universities to access funding.
Answer: Providers in rural and regional locations are important in supporting their local economies and driving the growth of skills in those areas.Providers registered with the Office for Students (OfS) and in the ‘Approved (fee cap)’ category of registration, i...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: CornwallMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid firms there were in Cornwall in each year for which data is available.
Answer: The information requested can be found in the below table:201068201168201285201384201478201584201686201784201877201981202081202182202276202370202475202573 The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is responsible for commissioning legal aid services in England and Wales....
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Proceedings: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract started less than 10 cases by each (a) local authority and (b) area of law in the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: Regarding the number of civil offices starting zero cases, I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 11 March to Question 35876.The number of civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract which started fewer than 10 cases can be foun...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Proceedings: Legal Aid SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract started zero cases by each (a) local authority and (b) area of law in the (i) 2022-23, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: Regarding the number of civil offices starting zero cases, I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 11 March to Question 35876.The number of civil legal aid offices with a civil legal aid contract which started fewer than 10 cases can be foun...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: South WestMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to increase provision of legal aid in the south west of England.
Answer: Data regarding the number of civil legal aid providers in Truro and Falmouth is set out in the below table:YearFalmouthTruro2011 82012 42013 82014 62015 62016 52017 92018 10201915202015202115202215202315202416202517 The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is responsib...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: Truro and FalmouthMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data her Department holds on the number of civil legal aid firms in Truro and Falmouth for each year data is available.
Answer: Data regarding the number of civil legal aid providers in Truro and Falmouth is set out in the below table:YearFalmouthTruro2011 82012 42013 82014 62015 62016 52017 92018 10201915202015202115202215202315202416202517 The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is responsib...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: FinanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Government has allocated to legal aid in England and Wales in each financial year since 2010.
Answer: The previous Government left the legal aid system under significant strain following years of neglect. This Government has begun to put legal aid back on a sustainable footing by investing up to £92 million in addition per year by the end of this Parliame...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMuseum Renewal FundDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the funding criteria for the Museum Renewal Fund to include museums that are independent charities.
Answer: The Museum Renewal Fund, delivered by Arts Council England, will invest an additional £20m in our treasured civic museums across England, and is now open to applicants.Museums run by independent charities are eligible to apply, where they have links to Lo...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the NHS Find a dentist website in relation to information on accepting new NHS patients to remove the selectable option
Answer: National Health Service dentists are required to update their NHS website profiles at least every 90 days to ensure patients have up-to-date information on where they can access care. This includes information on whether they are accepting new patients. T...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance ServiceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of using the Child Maintenance Service on the (a) mental health and wellbeing of its users and (b) relationships between separated parents when
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is committed to ensuring it delivers a safe service which is sensitive to the needs of all customers that use it. We recognise that some customers may face difficult circumstances particularly at a time of separation an...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Buildings: Double GlazingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing listed building owners to install uPVC double glazing to improve energy efficiency.
Answer: Changes to improve the energy efficiency of a listed building need to be sensitive to the character, appearance and specific characteristics of the building depending on individual circumstances. Listed buildings are generally exempt from energy efficienc...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
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