Jerome Mayhew MP: written questions

Written questions

• Public Transport: Greater ManchesterDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78514More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the Bee Network’s 2025-26 operating budget is funded by (a) the national grant, (b) local contributions, and (c) passenger revenues.

  Answer: We are supporting Greater Manchester to maintain and improve bus services in the Bee Network with £66.4m of Local Authority Bus Grant funding in 2025-26. The overall operating budget for the Bee Network, including the breakdown between national grant, loc...

  Answered 20 Oct 2025

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• Dental Services: NorfolkDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78513More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a tie-in period for newly qualified dentists on NHS dental patients in Norfolk.

  Answer: As announced in the 10-Year Health Plan, we will make it a requirement for newly qualified dentists to practice in the National Health Service for a minimum period which we intend to be at least three years. That will mean more NHS dentists, more NHS appo...

  Answered 16 Oct 2025

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• Dentistry: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78512More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of newly qualified dentists that will be required to ensure the future of NHS dentistry in the next five to ten years.

  Answer: Later this year we will publish a 10-Year Workforce Plan to create a workforce ready to deliver a transformed service. They will be more empowered, more flexible and more fulfilled.As announced in the 10-Year Health Plan, we will now make it a requirement...

  Answered 16 Oct 2025

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• Dental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78511More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for publishing the dentistry budget.

  Answer: The Department’s settlement announced at Spending Review (SR) 2025 means that annual National Health Service day-to-day spending will increase by £29 billion in real terms (£53 billion cash increase) by 2028-29 compared to 2023-24. This will take the NHS ...

  Answered 16 Oct 2025

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• Dentistry: NorfolkDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78510More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new dentists have been given one-off welcome payments in (a) Broadland and (b) Norfolk in the last 12 months.

  Answer: Integrated care boards have started to recruit posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.We do not hold Golden Hello data at...

  Answered 20 Oct 2025

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• Midland Main Line: ElectrificationDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70943More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of pausing the Midland Mainline upgrade on (a) future East Midlands Railway regional fleet requirements and (b) planned Control Period 7 work.

  Answer: I recognise the importance to the UK’s rolling stock manufacturing sector, and its supply chains, of having a strategy for rolling stock and supporting infrastructure. The Government is committed to developing this strategy in advance of Great British Rai...

  Answered 8 Sept 2025

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