Jo Platt MP: written questions 2025
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Animal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions his Department has had with representatives from civil society on phasing out of animal testing.
Answer: The Labour Manifesto includes a commitment to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasing out of animal testing”, which is a long-term goal. The government has been consulting civil society as this process unfolds....
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to meet with representatives from civil society to discuss the Government’s strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods to the use
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting the use of alternative methods to the use of animals in science and the Labour Manifesto includes a commitment to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasing out of animal ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSports Competitors: Hearing ImpairmentDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support deaf athlete swimmers with (a) training, (b) funding and (c) accessing equal opportunities
Answer: The Government is dedicated to making sport in this country accessible and inclusive for everyone, including d/Deaf people.Our arm's length body, Sport England, has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to support deaf sport at the grassroots level...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increases to employers National Insurance contributions on (a) staff and (b) patients in private nursing homes.
Answer: The Government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2024.To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care,...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to financially support nursing homes with increases in National Insurance contributions.
Answer: The Government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2024.To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care,...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to private nursing homes in (a) Leigh and Atherton constituency and (b) nationally, in the context of increases to employers National Insurance contribution
Answer: The Government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2024.To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care,...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32218More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on private nursing homes.
Answer: The Government considered the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2024.To enable local authorities to deliver key services such as adult social care,...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUrban Areas: WiganMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30793More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to encourage investment into high streets in (a) Leigh, (b) Atherton, (c) Golborne and (d) Tyldesley.
Answer: The government is determined to reverse the decline of our high streets and bring them back to life as part of our mission to drive growth, raise living standards and deliver an era of national renewal.In December High Street Rental Auctions regulations c...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Long Covid and ME/CFSDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30791More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with (a) Long Covid and (b) ME back into the workplace.
Answer: Backed by £240m investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched on 26 November will drive forward approaches to tackling economic inactivity and work toward the long-term ambition of an 80% employment rate. We are committed to reforming the syste...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: NeurodiversityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to support people with neurodiverse conditions into the workplace.
Answer: We recognise that neurodivergent people face particular barriers to employment, which is reflected in a poor overall employment rate. In our plan to Make Work Pay, we committed to raising awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace and across wider socie...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: VeteransDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help armed forces veterans access mental health support in Leigh and Atherton constituency.
Answer: NHS England commissions Op COURAGE, the integrated mental health and wellbeing service, which allows veterans to make self-referrals. The Op COURAGE North service, run by the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, covers the Leigh an...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: Tax EvasionTreasuryTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30782More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to tackle tax evasion in vape shops.
Answer: The Government recognises that sometimes businesses do not declare all of their income and thereby conceal their true earnings. We are committed to creating a level playing field for all, by ensuring that everyone pays the right amount of tax at the right...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTransportDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a regional transport strategy to improve connectivity between towns.
Answer: Transport doesn’t stop at local authority boundaries. It is therefore important that transport is also considered at a regional level to provide context for transport schemes and help improve connectivity between areas. In England, regional transport stra...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCourt OrdersHome OfficeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice on the potential merits of introducing mandatory minimum sentences for individuals in breach of protective orders.
Answer: Minimum sentences are rare in England and Wales and are only provided in legislation for certain offences where there is a particular concern.It is the function of the court to decide the sentence in each case subject to the maximum that Parliament has pr...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordInfectious Diseases: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a centre of excellence for care and research for infection-associated chronic conditions.
Answer: We do not anticipate setting up a new centre of excellence for care and research specifically for post-viral or infection-associated conditions. The Department funds research on post-viral conditions through the National Institute for Health and Care Rese...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to allocate additional funding towards the Government's myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue delivery plan.
Answer: There are currently no plans to allocate additional funding towards the myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) final delivery plan. The ME/CFS final delivery plan continues to be developed.The plan will focus on improving research, attitudes...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January to Question 22097 on Drugs: Organised Crime, what steps she is taking to tackle cuckooing.
Answer: The Government is clear that cuckooing is an appalling practice associated with violence, exploitation and anti-social behaviour.Through the County Lines Programme we are targeting exploitative drug dealing gangs, including those who take over the homes o...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal PressDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how (a) the Local News Commission and (b) other similar organisations will be able to contribute to the development of her planned local media strategy.
Answer: We have been working across Government as the Local Media Strategy develops and are also engaging with key external stakeholders, from industry, academia, civil society and local government. Officials have already met with the Public Interest News Foundat...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGivinostatDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with (a) NHS England and (b) ITF Pharma UK on the provision of (i) resources and (ii) guidance to NHS trusts to enable them to take part in the Early Access Progr
Answer: ITF Pharma UK, the United Kingdom marketing authorisation holder for givinostat, is providing access to givinostat through a type of compassionate use scheme called an Early Access Programme (EAP). Under the EAP, givinostat is free to both patients taking...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGivinostatDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that all eligible NHS Trusts participate in the early access programme for givinostat.
Answer: ITF Pharma UK, the United Kingdom marketing authorisation holder for givinostat, is providing access to givinostat through a type of compassionate use scheme called an Early Access Programme (EAP). Under the EAP, givinostat is free to both patients taking...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27175More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Resilience Review has incorporated input from the voluntary and community sector; and what steps he plans to take to facilitate ongoing collaboration in resilience planning and response.
Answer: The Cabinet Office recognises the valuable role that the voluntary and community sector can play in all aspects of resilience. The Cabinet Office has ensured that contributions from a range of Voluntary, Community, and Faith sector representatives have be...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27174More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to ensure that the findings of the Government's Resilience Review (a) reflect the specific needs of and (b) engage with (i) people on low incomes, (ii) people who face discrimination and
Answer: Disproportionate impacts and vulnerability is a key focus of the Cabinet Office-led review of our approach to resilience. We are engaging with charitable, faith and other representative organisations to understand how the reduction and prevention of dispr...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what additional funding and resources will be allocated to local authorities to implement the recommendations of the Government's Resilience Review.
Answer: The Resilience Review is considering established practices and policies to support UK resilience against the full spectrum of risks we face. It is evidence based and is identifying what should be kept, changed or improved to ensure we are best prepared no...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27172More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on long-term funding and resource allocations for cross-government resilience work; and how these agreements will support the delivery of the Gove
Answer: The Spending Review will set resource or day-to-day departmental budgets until 2028-29 and capital departmental budgets until 2029-30. I and my Cabinet Office officials engage regularly with HM Treasury to support the Spending Review, the outcomes of whic...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-molestation OrdersMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to (a) financially and (b) emotionally support victims of domestic abuse (i) when seeking a non-molestation order and (ii) in other circumstances, in the context of seeking a n
Answer: It is incredibly important that victims of domestic abuse get the support they need to apply for protective orders. The Ministry of Justice funds FLOWS (Finding Legal Options for Women Survivors), a free and confidential service delivered by RCJ Advice, w...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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