Jim Shannon MP: written questions
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Special Educational Needs: FinanceNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure adequate funding for SEND in devolved nations.
Answer: Funding for special educational needs is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive. It is for the Department of Education to ensure special educational needs are adequately funded in Northern Ireland.As set out in the recent Spending Review, this Governm...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: Northern IrelandMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on funding safe houses for victims of domestic abuse.
Answer: Matters related to domestic abuse, including provision of safe accommodation, are devolved in Northern Ireland and managed by the Northern Ireland Executive. The Northern Ireland Executive received £18.2 billion from the UK Government for 2025-26, the lar...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTenants' RightsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to expand tenants rights in relation to eviction notices.
Answer: The Renters’ Rights Bill delivers our manifesto commitment to transform the experience of private renting, including by ending Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions. The Bill will improve the current system for both the 11 million private renters and 2.3 millio...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Clinical DirectorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to expand the role of National Clinical Directors.
Answer: In recent years, the cohort of national clinical directors has expanded and is now supported by an additional cadre of national specialty advisors.Ministers and senior Department officials are working with the new executive team in NHS England, led by Sir...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Clinical DirectorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his plans are for the future (a) scope, (b) role and (c) responsibilities of National Clinical Directors.
Answer: NHS England and the Department are strongly supportive of clinical leadership and recognise the critical need to incorporate clinical expertise into our work. The national clinical directors are a key part of this approach and play an important role in po...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Clinical DirectorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) role and (b) remit of National Clinical Directors will be following the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: Two medical directors have been confirmed in the NHS England transformation executive team. One for secondary care, the other for primary care.Ministers and senior Department officials are working with the new executive team in NHS England, led by Sir Jim...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Sports: Northern IrelandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the economic benefits of the (a) motorbike road racing season and (b) Ulster Superbike Championship in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting economic growth in the sport sector, and ensuring this translates into tangible outcomes that span grassroots participation through to elite performance.DCMS has not made an assessment of the economic benefits of ...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHorses: SmugglingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2087 on Horse: Smuggling, what estimate his Department has made of the number of horses smuggled from the United Kingdom at (a) D
Answer: APHA defines a smuggled animal as one that is illegally exported: it is one that is not travelling on appropriate paperwork, has not been declared and/or is concealed. This means that robust data on the numbers of horses and ponies illegally smuggled out ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSick Leave: Respiratory DiseasesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many people have been absent from work because of long term sickness due to respiratory illness over the last 12 months.
Answer: The estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 in the UK who had a long-term (4 weeks or more) sickness absence from work due to respiratory illness, e.g. asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD], bronchitis or pneumonia, between January and Dec...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Internally Displaced PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support displaced people in Sudan.
Answer: The Sudan conflict has caused the largest and fasted growing displacement crisis in the world, with almost 13 million displaced since April 2023. On 15 April, the Foreign Secretary announced £120 million of new life-saving aid for this year, to support ov...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: Young PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing youth engagement in sports outside school.
Answer: The Secretary of State and I regularly meet with Ministerial counterparts from the Department for Education on a range of issues, including young people’s engagement in sport both inside and outside the school day.As an example, in March, I attended a mee...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTourism: Urban AreasDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the tourism sector in urban areas.
Answer: The government is committed to the tourism sector maintaining its competitiveness. VisitBritain launched its latest ‘Starring Great Britain’ campaign in January, which will harness the powerful draw of Film and TV to drive inbound tourism towards UK’s cit...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: Children and Young PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help protect (a) children and (b) young people from online gambling harms.
Answer: Since 2020, children and young people have been taught about the risks relating to gambling as part of the statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum in England. 30% of statutory gambling levy funding will be allocated to prevention acti...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIran: TerrorismForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to address Iran's support for terrorism against (a) the UK and (b) the UK's allies.
Answer: On 7 May, I raised directly with the Iranian Ambassador Iran's unacceptable threats against the UK and its allies, including state-backed assassination plots and support for proscribed terrorist groups. The UK already has more than 450 sanctions designati...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: North SeaDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help increase awareness of employment opportunities pertaining to the North Sea.
Answer: In March, the government launched a consultation setting out the next steps in its overarching objective to make the North Sea a world leading example of an offshore clean energy industry. Britain is well-placed to use the skills and expertise of our exis...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: UkraineForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on ending the Ukraine-Russia war.
Answer: We share President Trump's desire to bring this barbaric war to an end and remain in close touch with the US at every level. Following talks between the US and Ukraine on 11 March, and the US and Russia on 13 March, the Foreign Secretary spoke to Secretar...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBosnia and Herzegovina: Young PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps to help protect the (a) human and (b) educational rights of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Answer: The UK remains committed to protecting the human and educational rights of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).We support human rights, including through projects to provide legal support for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in BiH a...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve cancer testing across the UK.
Answer: The Government is focused on reducing waiting times for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in England. The Department has invested approximately £1.5 billion of capital funding in 2025/26 for new surgical hubs and diagnostic scanners, creating capacity...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordObesityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle obesity.
Answer: Supporting people to stay healthier for longer is at the heart of the Government’s Health Mission. We face a childhood obesity crisis, and the Government will take action to tackle the root causes of obesity head on, easing the strain on our National Heal...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on funding for new research into dementia prevention medication.
Answer: The Department delivers dementia research via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR delivers a range of research on dementia prevention, through direct funding of projects as well as investment in wider infrastructure.Resear...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordShoplifting: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on tackling shop lifting.
Answer: The measures relating to shop theft in the Crime and Policing Bill will be enacted in England and Wales; however, we have had regular engagement with the Northern Ireland Executive – and will continue to do so as the Bill makes its passage through Parliam...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under 50 have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the last 12 months.
Answer: Information is not held in the format requested. However, using Hospital Episode Statistics data, the following table shows a count of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) for patients under 50 years old with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmo...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTurkey: Social MediaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on reports of social media and internet bans in that country.
Answer: The Government has raised recent events with the Turkish Government and the Foreign Secretary spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on 29 March to express the UK's concern. As a staunch supporter of media freedom around the world, the UK expects...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccinationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44447More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help increase global immunisation rates.
Answer: The UK is one of the largest donors to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. We have committed £1.65 billion to the current strategic period covering 2021-2025, supporting Gavi to immunise 300 million children and save up to 8 million lives from vaccine preventable...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmugglingMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of smuggling prosecutions.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions by individual year for a wide range of offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page ...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
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