Joe Robertson MP: written questions
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Dormant Assets Scheme: Youth ServicesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how she plans to allocate dormant assets to youth organisations.
Answer: On the 2nd June, DCMS Secretary of State announced that £132.5 million of dormant assets funding will be allocated to support the provision of services, facilities or opportunities to meet the needs of young people. This will increase disadvantaged young ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether funding for the National Citizenship Service will be redistributed to other youth services.
Answer: This Government recognises the transformative role that youth services play in young people’s lives. We know that being part of supportive communities and having access to youth provision can improve a young person’s wellbeing, health and personal develop...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, if he will provide a full breakdown of the total costs incurred.
Answer: Following an invitation to tender competition process, we appointed Thinks Insight, Kaleidoscope Health and Care, and the Institute For Public Policy Research to support us to run the engagement exercise for the 10-Year Health Plan. The details of this aw...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Horse RidingDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with (a) the equine sector, (b) local authorities and (c) road safety bodies on enforcing safe driving practices around horse riders.
Answer: The Government is committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads and my Department works with a broad range of stakeholders, including discussions with the British Horse Society, to help us achieve our aim. In 2022 The Highway...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHighway CodeDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department has taken to increase public awareness of changes to the Highway Code made in 2022.
Answer: Following updates to the Highway Code in 2022 introducing a hierarchy of road users, the department ran a THINK! campaign to raise awareness of the changes as they came into effect. This was followed by broader behaviour change campaigns in the summer of ...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Horse RidingDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve road safety for horse riders in Isle of Wight East constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads and my Department works with a broad range of stakeholders, including discussions with the British Horse Society, to help us achieve our aim. In 2022 The Highway...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAutism and Learning Disability: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much transformation funding for (a) learning disability and (b) autism services NHS England has allocated to integrated care board areas for 2025-26.
Answer: As set out in NHS England’s Planning Guidance, integrated care boards (ICBs) are expected to work with local system colleagues to ensure that there is high quality and accessible community infrastructure in place for people with a learning disability and ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Railways and Network RailDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what role Network Rail's System Operator has in the establishment of Great British Railways; and whether any staff have been moved to the System Operator since March 2025.
Answer: Teams from the System Operator contribute to elements of the Great British Railways (GBR) design programme, where their expertise is relevant. They do this alongside other teams from across the industry with the design programme deliberately set up to dra...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Railways: StaffDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff were moved from Great British Railways Transition Team to (a) Network Rail, (b) DfT Operator and (c) her Department following the disbandment of the Great British Railways Transition Team on Marc
Answer: On 31st March 2025 GBRTT had 208 employees. Since this date 31 people have left the legacy organisation's employment, and 12 people have joined or are joining; resulting in 189 employees. The remaining 189 employees have almost all moved into Network Rail...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British RailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to establish Great British Railways, following the disbandment of the Great British Railways Transition Team in March 2025.
Answer: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act was the first step towards fixing our railways, enabling the majority of services to be owned by and run for the public, but we need further fundamental reform to fix the underlying structural problems...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorcycles: ConvictionsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57194 on Motorcycles: Convictions, on what date the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency plans to complete its scan of the driver database; and when the informa
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency wrote to the Honourable Member on 20 June by email to joe.robertson.mp@parliament.uk with the information requested. Officials will re-send this letter by email and by post.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorcycles: Driving LicencesDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on holders of provisional licences to ride AM category mopeds by (a) age and (b) country of birth of holder.
Answer: There are currently 9,809,729 individuals with entitlement to drive mopeds (Categories AM and P). The table below shows the data broken down by age group.AgeTotal16-201,676,08321-302,727,29031-402,094,38541-501,554,66451-601,127,53161-70607,35871-8019,772...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIsle of Wight NHS Trust: NegligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths involving the Isle of Wight NHS Trust required a serious incident investigation in each of the last five years; for each case, on what dates the investigation was (a) opened and (b)
Answer: We have been informed by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust that there has been a total of 56 Serious Incident investigations during this period, with 35 resulting in an inquest, 20 not requiring an inquest, and one ongoing investigation. Of the 35 cases requiri...
Answered 5 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: AccidentsMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many road-traffic fatalities were recorded by the Isle of Wight coroner in each of the last five years; for each case, on what dates a forensic collision investigator’s report was (a) commissioned and (b) com
Answer: The annual number of short-form inquest conclusions of “road traffic collision” for each coroner area in England and Wales is available in the Coroner Statistics which are published each May for the preceding calendar year (Coroners and burials statistics...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the cost to the public purse of the higher-rate mobility component of the Personal Independence Payment for the (a) London Congestion Charge, (b) Ultra Low Emission Zone charge, (c) Dart Charge, (d) Bla
Answer: The Department does not hold this information. The only undertaking cited that is operated by National Highways on behalf of the Department is Dart Charge, and while National Highways records the number of crossings made by vehicles exempt from Vehicle Ex...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Isle of WightMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison deaths were recorded by the Isle of Wight coroner in each of the last five years; on what dates the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation was (a) opened and (b) completed for each of those
Answer: Coroners have a statutory duty under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 to hold an inquest into all deaths of individuals who die while in custody or other state detention. The coroner will typically suspend their investigation into a death pending the com...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPost-mortems: Isle of WightMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of post-mortem imaging scans that have been carried out in the Isle of Wight coroner area in each of the last five year; and in how many of those cases imaging
Answer: Coronial post-mortem examinations are carried out on a fee paid basis by specialist practitioners from within the cadre of pathologists in England and Wales who undertake post-mortem work.In the last five years, the number of post-mortem examinations rela...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCoroners: Isle of WightMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of deaths referred to the Isle of Wight coroner involved a Marine Accident Investigation Branch inquiry in each of the last five years; when each case was (a) o
Answer: The Marine Accident Investigation Branch is an independent organisation; the Ministry of Justice does not collect this information centrally.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCoroners: Isle of WightMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on (a) levels of pathologists engaged by the Isle of Wight coroner and (b) how those appointments were made.
Answer: Coroner services are funded and administered by one of 74 lead local authorities. Coronial post-mortem examinations are carried out on a fee paid basis at the request of the coroner by specialist practitioners from within the cadre of pathologists in Engl...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCoroners: Isle of WightMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to increase the number of pathologists able to undertake coronial post-mortem examinations on the Isle of Wight.
Answer: Coroner services are funded and administered by one of 74 lead local authorities. Coronial post-mortem examinations are carried out on a fee paid basis at the request of the coroner by specialist practitioners from within the cadre of pathologists in Engl...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimals in Science Regulation UnitHome OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to he Written Ministerial Statement on 14 October 2024, HCWS127, what progress she has made on reforming the Animals in Science Regulator to ensure that licence holders are compliant with the
Answer: The Home Office is in the final stages of delivering a comprehensive programme of regulatory reform to strengthen the Animals in Science Regulation Unit and ensure robust compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). The reforms are...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimals in Science Regulation Unit: InspectionsHome OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspectors are in post in the Animals in Science Regulation Unit.
Answer: The Home Office is in the final stages of delivering a comprehensive programme of regulatory reform to strengthen the Animals in Science Regulation Unit and ensure robust compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). The reforms are...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: EqualityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Change NHS Blog entitled Ensuring the Plan represents everyone, published on 21 January 2025, which groups are classified as inclusion health groups.
Answer: Throughout the 10-Year Health Plan’s engagement activity, we have engaged with over 1,600 stakeholders, non-governmental organisations, and patient groups to hear their ideas for change. We will shortly publish a list of organisations that made a submissi...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ReorganisationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) stakeholders, (b) NGOs and (c) interest groups took part in the Change NHS consultation.
Answer: Throughout the 10-Year Health Plan’s engagement activity, we have engaged with over 1,600 stakeholders, non-governmental organisations, and patient groups to hear their ideas for change. We will shortly publish a list of organisations that made a submissi...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLitter: Codes of PracticeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Information Commission's Office case reference IC-385446-V5T5, if he will place in the Library a copy of the responses to the consultation on the Code of Practice on
Answer: I will deposit the relevant document in the Commons library.
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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