Jo Platt MP: written questions
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Heart Diseases: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what action the Department is taking to [a] raise awareness, [b] improve support, and [c] tackle women's heart health.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health as we fix the National Health Service and tackling women’s heart health will be key aspect of our mission.To accelerate progress on the Government’s ambition to reduce premature deaths from heart ...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of including cardiovascular disease in the Government's Women's Health Strategy.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health as we reform the National Health Service, and women’s equality will be at the heart of our mission. We know that women deserve better, which is why we are delivering our commitment that women’s he...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: VATTreasuryTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114040More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of disapplying VAT for the conversion of non-residential buildings into accommodation.
Answer: To support the delivery of new homes, conversions of buildings from a commercial to a residential use are subject to a reduced rate of VAT at 5%. The reduced 5% rate also applies to conversions of buildings from one residential use to another and to renov...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordEmpty Property: ShopsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking the tackle the number of vacant properties on high streets.
Answer: This government is taking action to revitalise our high streets, including tackling vacancy through High Street Rental Auctions, which empower local authorities to bring long-term vacant commercial properties back into use. This is complemented by place-b...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSupported Housing: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve support housing-with-care for older people.
Answer: The Government is committed to enhancing provision and choice for older people in the housing market. The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to consider the recomme...
Answered 18 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 111796More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Department can outline the length and mechanism for delivery of the new mandatory safeguarding learning programme for the NHS workforce.
Answer: Mandatory safeguarding training in NHS England is a strict, contractual obligation for all staff. The current Statutory and Mandatory Training e-learning programme has been developed to align with the UK Core Skills Training Framework which sets out 11 st...
Answered 13 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordTourette's SyndromeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will consider Tourette's in its Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism.
Answer: This review focuses on mental health conditions, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism. Tourette’s is a neurological disorder and therefore it will be at the Chair's discretion as to how far the review considers Tourette's with this in mind...
Answered 13 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordInjuries: CompensationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making injury-related pension enhancement and compensation elements protected within divorce settlements.
Answer: People may be able to access a workplace or private pension earlier than the scheme’s normal minimum pension age due to ill health, subject to the rules of the individual scheme. These rules vary, and it is for schemes to determine the conditions under wh...
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordLong CovidDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will consider recognising Long Covid as an occupational disease.
Answer: The Department is advised by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), an independent scientific body, on the changes to the list of occupational diseases for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit can be paid.IIAC has published Command Pape...
Answered 6 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in response to Question tabled on 15 December 2025, UIN 99871, if the Government can outline what steps are being taken to ensure the needs of people with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis are adequ
Answer: The final delivery plan on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), published in July 2025, includes an action for the Department and NHS England to explore whether a specialised service should be prescribed by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the ...
Answered 17 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordDivorce Settlements: Armed ForcesMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 105844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to prevent (a) AFPS 05 injury enhancements and (b) other injury related Armed Forces payments from being treated as divisible marital assets in (i) divorce and (ii) financial remedy
Answer: Injury-related payments are not currently excluded from the division of assets by the court. Instead, the court’s approach to whether such payments are treated as ‘matrimonial’ or ‘non-matrimonial’ will depend on the circumstances of the case.As part of i...
Answered 21 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Divorce SettlementsMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 105843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the treatment of injury related Armed Forces payments, including the AFPS 05 injury enhancement, in divorce and financial remedy proceedings in England and Wales.
Answer: The Armed Forces do not have separate divorce procedures applying solely to Service personnel. Any injury-related payments are valued and shared between the parties in accordance with the relevant scheme rules and general divorce law.
Answered 19 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 105358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the police funding formula before the next comprehensive spending review.
Answer: The Home Secretary considers the distribution of funding each year to ensure decisions promote police efficiency, effectiveness and support the Government’s wider programme of reform.Further details regarding police funding for 2026-27 will be set out in ...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 105357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of consolidating the specific grant for the Police Uplift Programme into the core policing grant.
Answer: The 2026-27 provisional police funding settlement (18 December) published that total funding to Territorial Police Forces will be up to £18.3 billion, an increase of up to £746 million compared to the 2025-26 police funding settlement. This equates to a 4...
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 104212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the definition of assault of a retail worker to include workers in other high street outlets serving customers.
Answer: Through our Crime and Policing Bill, this Government has introduced a new specific standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker to help tackle the epidemic of shop theft and violence towards shop workers that we have seen in recent years, and protect ...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordUnadopted RoadsDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, further to the Answer to Question UIN 79041 on 20 October 2025, if he will provide an update on the Department’s investigation into the decline in road adoption rates across England; and when he expects the fin
Answer: The Department is currently investigating the decline in road adoption rates through an ongoing research project. This project seeks to develop a clearer understanding of the road adoption landscape in England and identify ways to improve the process to r...
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: Leigh and AthertonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to provide more flood resilient new homes in Leigh and Atherton constituency.
Answer: The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) makes clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk (whether existing or in the future). Where development is nece...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that the needs of patients with severe and very severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis are fully addressed within future NHS service provision.
Answer: Most of the actions included in the final delivery plan on myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), which we published in July, will benefit all patients with ME/CFS, irrespective of condition severity. However, we are t...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSupported Housing: InvestmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that tenure reform supports continued long-term investment in housing-with-care schemes.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 87630 on 11 November 2025.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCovid-19 InquiryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the reports by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
Answer: The Government welcomes the inquiry’s investigations, including the recent Module 2 report. The Government thanks Baroness Hallett and her team for their thorough work on these serious issues. We will consider the findings and recommendations in detail an...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCovid-19 InquiryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the findings and recommendations of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry are incorporated into future pandemic planning and preparedness exercises.
Answer: Ensuring the United Kingdom is prepared for a future pandemic is a top priority for the Government, and we are embedding lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic within our pandemic preparedness. We aim to have flexible, adaptable, and scalable capabilities tha...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPensioners: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96243More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will consider extending the proposed alignment of the personal allowance for pensioners with the new State Pension rate.
Answer: As announced at the Budget, the government will ease the administrative burden for pensioners whose sole income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments so that they do not have to pay small amounts of tax via Simple Assessment from 2027-2...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCybersecurityHome OfficeTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of amending the Computer Misuse Act 1990 on (a) coordination between law enforcement agencies and (b) effectiveness of the cybersecurity
Answer: The Government is conducting an ongoing review of the Computer Misuse Act. As part of the review, we are scoping several proposals to update the Act, including how we can better support legitimate cybersecurity researchers so they can operate within a cle...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Department can outline how many NHS outpatient services for ME/CFS are currently operational in England, and how many of these accept referrals for patients with severe or very severe ME/CFS
Answer: Our ME/CFS Final Delivery Plan, published in July 2025, includes an action for the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to explore whether a specialised service should be prescribed by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health a...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91155More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had since the publication of the Final Delivery Plan for ME/CFS regarding the commissioning of a specialised service for people with very severe ME/CFS.
Answer: Our ME/CFS Final Delivery Plan, published in July 2025, includes an action for the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to explore whether a specialised service should be prescribed by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health a...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
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