Jim Shannon MP: written questions 2025
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Royal British Legion: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with the European Union on barriers to selling poppies under the Windsor Framework.
Answer: The Government engages with the European Union on a range of issues on a regular basis. I can confirm that there are no barriers to selling poppies in respect of the Poppy Appeal under the Windsor Framework, and the Government has updated the relevant GOV...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure young people with special educational needs have transition support post-secondary school.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only. Being supported towards greater independence and employability can be life-transforming for learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). All pr...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDemonstrations: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will issued sentencing guidelines for people convicted of supporting Hamas during university protests.
Answer: The Government is absolutely clear that support for proscribed organisations is unacceptable. Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT) makes it an offence to invite support for; recklessly express support for; or arrange a meeting in support of a prosc...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMelatonin: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the potential long term effects of melatonin usage.
Answer: In the United Kingdom, melatonin must be prescribed by a healthcare professional. Melatonin is authorised for a number of indications which specify short term use. For indications that may require longer term use, such as insomnia in children and adolesce...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase levels of funding for veteran support centres in Northern Ireland.
Answer: VALOUR is a new national programme designed to make it easier for veterans across the UK to access the care and support they deserve. Led by the Office for Veterans' Affairs (OVA) within the Ministry of Defence, it aims to improve how services are coordin...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordKidneys: Transplant SurgeryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have had a kidney transplant on the NHS in the last 12 months.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant is the organisation responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom, and they manage the NHS Organ Donor Register and National Transplant Register.Between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025, 3,381 individual patients receiv...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve (a) road resurfacing and (b) other infrastructure completion times.
Answer: This year, the Government made an additional £500 million available for local highway authorities to maintain their highway network, bringing the total to a record investment of nearly £1.6 billion. A quarter of the additional funding is contingent upon l...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Crime PreventionHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce business crime.
Answer: We encourage retailers to join their local Business Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) or Business Improvement District (BID) to support local community efforts to reduce crimes, including business crime.We are providing over £7 million over the next thre...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEar, Nose and Throat Conditions: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diagnosis for people with chronic throat issues.
Answer: General practitioners (GPs) are usually the first point of contact for patients with persistent throat symptoms. They are expected to carry out an initial assessment, rule out common causes, and identify any “red flag” symptoms that require urgent referra...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescription Drugs: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the long term impact of prescription painkillers.
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department, with responsibility for ensuring medicines meet appropriate standards of quality, efficacy, and safety.Medicines authorised to treat pain fall with se...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVoyeurism: ProsucutionsHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the number of prosecutions for people arrested for upskirting.
Answer: We recognise the devastating impact of non-contact sexual offences, such as upskirting, have on victims and are committed to ensuring more perpetrators are bought to justice.The Home Office has supported the development of new training for police on these...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of violence in women's prisons.
Answer: Violence in prisons may be caused, or triggered, by a range of factors, including personal characteristics such as existing patterns of behaviour, substance misuse or traumatic life experiences. Factors particularly relevant to the women’s estate include ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of waiting times for firearms licensing.
Answer: The issuing of firearms certificates, resourcing of firearms licensing teams and the efficiency of police forces is a matter for individual Chief Officers of Police and Police and Crime Commissioners. In the interests of consistency and transparency, the ...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMilkDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of trends in the level of global milk demand.
Answer: The Uk Agricultural Market Monitoring Group which was established by Defra and the Devolved Governments under the Devolution Framework is responsible for the oversight and monitoring of the UK agriculture market. This includes a review of prices, producti...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFarmers: Mental HealthDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve mental health awareness training for the agricultural sector.
Answer: This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only. Defra funds the Farmer Welfare Grant that includes a recipient consortium led by The Farmer Network that is delivering mental health first aid training to those who ...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the health impact of the long term use of marijuana.
Answer: The Department is committed to reducing the harm from all illicit drugs. Any illegal drug use, including cannabis, can be harmful, due to both the immediate side-effects and long-term physical and mental health problems. Cannabis use can contribute to and...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNigeria: Foreign RelationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of her policies of the designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern by the US.
Answer: The UK Government does not comment on our partners' decisions on individual designations.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Nurses: Northern IrelandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in Northern Ireland on the retention of district nurses.
Answer: Officials from the Department regularly meet with their counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss and update on the development of the 10-Year Health Plan in England.As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government is committed to makin...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVietnam: StormsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the humanitarian impact of Typhoon Kalmaegi in Vietnam.
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office are closely monitoring the impact of Typhoon Kalmaegi in Vietnam. Current assessments indicate significant disruption to affected communities, including six confirmed fatalities and extensive damage to home...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the recent announcement by the United States to provide Ukraine with more military equipment through NATO, what plans he has provide additional military equipment to Ukraine.
Answer: The UK is ramping up military support to Ukraine to bolster Ukraine’s defences through the depths of winter. The UK have entered a tech sharing agreement with Ukraine which will facilitate the mass production of thousands of advanced air defence intercept...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCourts: Video ConferencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of video links used for remote court proceedings.
Answer: All prisons in England and Wales now have some modern video provision to support remote court hearings. In 2024/25, prisons facilitated almost 440,000 video links: over 212,000 of these related to remote court hearings, an increase of 17% on the previous ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of levels of humanitarian support to Syria over the last 5 years.
Answer: Since 2011, Syria has seen one of the worst and most protracted humanitarian crises in the world. The annual UN humanitarian appeals have been consistently underfunded and the trend has worsened in recent years, with just 36.6 per cent of the appeal met i...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: AhmadiyyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87742More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with Bangladeshi counterpart on the (a) proposed Islamist rally in Dhaka on 15 November and (b) protection of the Ahmadiyya community in that cou
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided for question 87224.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFamilies: Food PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87741More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support families with food poverty in winter 2025-26.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Universal Credit is claimed by more than 8.2 million people across the UK and we are committed to reviewing it to make sure it is doing the job we wan...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase funding for breast cancer research.
Answer: Research is crucial in tackling cancer, which is why the Department invests £1.6 billion each year on research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Cancer is one of the largest areas of spend at ov...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
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