Jerome Mayhew MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Railways: FreightDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the volume of freight transported by rail.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting rail freight growth, recognising its significant economic and environmental potential and its critical role in the UK’s resilience. Last year, rail freight volumes increased by 5%. We will support future growth by...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: FreightDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made in increasing rail freight growth.
Answer: The Government, alongside Network Rail and the rail freight sector, continue to make progress on ensuring the growth of rail freight. In the year April 2024 to March 2025, rail freight volumes increased by 5%. Network Rail’s Access Charge Discounts Policy...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has has discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential fiscal impacts of the long-term subsidy requirements of franchised bus networks.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Greater ManchesterDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has requested financial reporting from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority on the Bee Network since the 2019 assessment.
Answer: The Department for Transport works closely with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to support the development and delivery of the Bee Network. Since the 2019 assessment, the Department has not formally requested financial reporting specific ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has set financial performance benchmarks that combined authorities must meet in order to access Government support for bus franchising.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78523More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has reviewed the long-term financial sustainability of franchised bus networks.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the value for money of Government funding provided to franchised bus networks.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Greater ManchesterDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of Government funding required to sustain the Bee Network over the next five years.
Answer: The Department is committed to supporting the development of integrated transport systems that work better for people and communities across the country, including the Bee Network. Between 2022-23 and 2026-27, we are providing £1.07bn of City Region Susta...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Greater ManchesterDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much national grant funding she plans to provide to the Bee Network in 2025-26.
Answer: The Department is committed to supporting the development of integrated transport systems that work better for people and communities across the country, including the Bee Network. We are providing £335m in 2025-26 to Greater Manchester under the Local Tr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Greater ManchesterDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has provided to the Greater Manchester Bee Network since July 2024.
Answer: The Department is committed to supporting the development of integrated transport systems that work better for people and communities across the country, including the Bee Network. Between 2022-23 and 2026-27, we are providing £1.07bn of City Region Sust...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the amount of Council Tax revenue that has been raised to support franchised bus networks since July 2024.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has provided additional subsidy to franchised bus networks that were originally forecast to break even.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that lessons from the financial performance of the Bee Network are reflected in other areas seeking bus franchising powers.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FranchisesDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the suitability of the Bee Network model as a template for wider bus franchising in other combined authorities.
Answer: The government has not provided funding to local authorities specifically to franchise bus networks. However, we have confirmed investment of over £1 billion in 25/26 to support and improve bus services and to keep fares affordable, this includes £712 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic 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
Original Parliament recordDental 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
Original Parliament recordDentistry: 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
Original Parliament recordDental 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
Original Parliament recordDentistry: 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
Original Parliament recordMidland 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
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023Northern Ireland OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 904885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to replace the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.
Answer: Last December, I laid a proposal for a draft remedial order in Parliament, representing the first step in fulfilling the Government’s commitment to repeal and replace the Legacy Act.I am continuing to speak to all interested parties about our forthcoming ...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDomicilTreasuryTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51146More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of ending the non-domiciled tax status on the financial sector.
Answer: The Government’s priority is improving the UK’s competitiveness internationally and securing economic growth. The non-domicile reforms have been specifically designed to make the UK competitive with a modern, simple tax regime that is also fair. The refor...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDomicilTreasuryTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51145More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of ending the non-domiciled tax status on revenues to the Exchequer.
Answer: 2024-252025-262026-272027-282028-292029-30Post behavioural Costing £bn0.0-0.19.513.16.84.5 A supplementary forecast information release around the costings of reforms to the non-domicile regime was published by the Office for Budget Responsibility in Jan...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDomicilTreasuryTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51144More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-domiciled residents have left the UK since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The number of non-domiciled residents who have left the UK since 5 July 2024 is not held currently.The official statistics on non-domiciled taxpayers is the UK are published here:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-non-domiciled-taxpaye...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 903863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Great British Energy on household energy bills.
Answer: In an unstable world, the only way to guarantee energy security and protect billpayers is to reduce our exposure to volatile international markets. Great British Energy is driving the deployment of the clean, homegrown energy. It will ensure UK taxpayers,...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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