John Hayes MP: written questions
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Electric Cables: TheftHome OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of power cable thefts in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) England in each of the last three years.
Answer: While there is no official estimate of the cost to the public purse of cable thefts in England and Wales, Network Rail believe it costs millions of pounds each year with the total cost to the economy taking into account the impact of freight delays to pow...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Termination of EmploymentDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test instructors have left their position in each year since 2018.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) approves people to be driving instructors and motorcycle trainers. DVSA publishes driving instructor and motorcycle instructor register data on GOV.UK. This includes data on the numbers of approved driving in...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: FoodDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of food procured by his Department is sourced in the UK.
Answer: The Department is a customer of the Government Property Agency (GPA). GPA is the landlord or building manager at the Department’s office occupations, where the space is often shared with several other tenant organisations. The Department buys catering ser...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving TestsDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new driving test instructors were approved in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) approves people to be driving instructors and motorcycle trainers. DVSA publishes driving instructor and motorcycle instructor register data on GOV.UK. This includes data on the numbers of approved driving in...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: LincolnshireTreasuryTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34588More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support small businesses impacted by a reduction in in-person banking services in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to constituents and businesses in Lincolnshire and across the UK and is committed to championing sufficient access for all. This is why the Government is working closely with industry to ro...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the adequacy of waiting time for talking therapies in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Nationally, we plan to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services in England, to reduce delays and provide faster treatment. We will also introduce access to a specialist mental health professional in e...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists have been recruited through the dental recruitment incentive scheme in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The application process for the dental recruitment incentive scheme is in progress and remains open until the end of March 2025. The Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board continues to work with dental practices whose applications for funding have been succes...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: LincolnshireDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support disabled people into work in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Appropriate work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. We want people to avoid poverty, and for this to happen we must ensure that disabled people and peopl...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Libraries: LincolnshireDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with local authorities to help maintain community libraries in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Public libraries are funded by local authorities and each local authority is responsible for assessing the needs of their local communities and designing a library service to meet those needs within available resources.I understand that Lincolnshire Count...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: LincolnshireDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support children's services in Lincolnshire.
Answer: For the 2025/25 financial year, the government is providing Lincolnshire with £7.5 million of funding specifically for children’s services, made up of £4.3 million through the Children and Families Grant, and £3.2 million though the Children’s Social Care...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the police grant for 2025-2026 on levels of crime in Lincolnshire.
Answer: This Government is committed to ensuring that the police can tackle crime effectively.Total funding to police forces will be up to £17.5 billion, an increase of up to £1.1 billion compared to the 2024-25 police funding settlement. This equates to a 6.6% c...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordJob Centres: LincolnshireDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of job centres on economic growth in Lincolnshire.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. member to the answer I gave on 26 February to PQ 31769.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: AsylumHome OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the overseas aid budget has been spent in the context of housing for asylum seekers in the UK in each of the last three years.
Answer: In-donor refugee costs are published each year in the Statistics on International Development (SIDs). 2024 figures will be published in the Spring 2025 provisional SIDs publication.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) amount and (b) proportion of the overseas aid budget that will be spent in the UK in each of the next three years.
Answer: The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring that asylum costs fall and has already acted. The Government has taken measures to reduce the asylum backlog, reform the asylum accommodation system to end the use of expensive accommodation in the next Spending...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Lincolnshire.
Answer: In a bid to improve patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the Government has committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life saving ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: LincolnshireDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support people with gambling addiction in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Those experiencing gambling-related harm in Lincolnshire can access specialist treatment through the NHS East Midlands Gambling Harms Service and a range of support through the National Gambling Support Network.To improve and expand the services available...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: HedgehogsDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many hedgehog crossing signs have been installed on roads in England in the last three years.
Answer: The Department authorised the use of the small wild animal sign in December 2023, giving local authorities permission to place the sign without reference to the Department. Prior to this none of these signs had been authorised. The Department does not hol...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: HedgehogsDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to encourage local authorities to install hedgehog crossing signs on busy roads.
Answer: The Department authorised the use of the small wild animal sign in December 2023, giving local authorities permission to place the sign without reference to the Department. Prior to this none of these signs had been authorised. The Department does not hol...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOfgem: ConsultantsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost to the public purse was of expenditure by Ofgem on consulting services in each of the last three years.
Answer: Ofgem is an independent regulator and while DESNZ works closely Ofgem, it is directly accountable to Parliament for its performance.Ofgem’s expenditure on other consultancy services for the past three years was:• 2023-24: £18.8m• 2022-23: £29.6m• 2021-22:...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of school nursing services in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Local authorities receive funding to provide school nursing through the Public Health Grant. It is local authorities’ responsibility to commission school nursing around the needs of their respective populations according to their local health plan. The Of...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: LincolnshireDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the number of women in Lincolnshire who have been financially impacted by the changes to increase their retirement age in line with men.
Answer: The number of people in Lincolnshire who have been financially impacted by the decision taken by the Conservative Government in the 1990’s to equalise men and women’s State Pension age has not been estimated.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability Assessment: LincolnshireDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to work capability assessments in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: We have interpreted your question as referring to the accessibility of Work Capability Assessments (used in supporting the department in the determination of the health element of Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance and other specialist ben...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32918More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a clawback mechanism into proposed changes to (a) agricultural property relief and (b) business property relief.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWorld Economic ForumForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials from his Department attended the World Economic Forum 2025.
Answer: No Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office officials attended the 2025 World Economic Forum as delegates. The Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization, United Nations and other International Organisations attended to a...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNature Conservation: CrimeAttorney GeneralTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32916More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help ensure the effective prosecution of wildlife crime in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: This Government is committed to working with the police and other partners to address the blight of wildlife crime in Lincolnshire and across the country.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has fourteen Areas (regional teams) across England and Wales – th...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
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