John Hayes MP: written questions
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Remote WorkingDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much his Department has spent on equipment to enable civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: It is not possible to answer this question without incurring a disproportionate cost to accurately refine contract spend for equipment to enable civil servants to work from home by departmental cost centre.The Department has a 40-60% minimum office attend...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Remote WorkingForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department has spent on equipment to enable civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: Heads of departments have agreed that 60 per cent minimum office attendance for most staff continues to be the best balance of working for the Civil Service. All Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) staff in the UK are eligible to apply for...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Remote WorkingHome OfficeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63513More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on equipment to enable civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held in an easily accessible form, and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Remote WorkingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63512More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: We are unable to provide this information without incurring disproportionate costs.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: Remote WorkingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63511More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: DCMS has spent the below on the provision of equipment for use at home relating to a workplace adjustment in the last 3 years:22/23: £023/24: £2,490.4624/25: £882.37
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Remote WorkingMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Department embraces flexible working arrangements where appropriate.In some cases the Department may provide additional equipment to support flexible working patterns, but to gather the costs of these across the Department would require disproportiona...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Transport: Remote WorkingDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Department for Transport provides equipment that enables staff to work across multiple locations, including from home where appropriate. This includes meeting legal obligations to provide reasonable workplace adjustments for staff who require them.How...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Remote WorkingDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: The department does not hold a complete central record of all spending on equipment to support home working. Information is only centrally recorded where the individual costs exceed £500.The department spent the following over the last three years on equi...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: Remote WorkingDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: DBT’s default approach is Hybrid Working. This combines the benefits of face-to-face working with the flexibility of working from home or another location. Contractual homeworking is a type of flexible working arrangement where an employee and the departm...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Remote WorkingCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62525More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on equipment for civil servants to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answer: The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. Heads of departments have agreed that 60% minimum office attendance for most staff continues to be the best balance of ...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62164More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost of providing free prescriptions for people with cystic fibrosis.
Answer: No estimate has been made on the cost of providing free prescriptions for people with cystic fibrosis.Almost 89% of prescription items are dispensed free of charge in England and there are arrangements in place to help those with the greatest need. Eligib...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeurodiversity: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support neuro diverse children in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: It is the responsibility of integrated care boards to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including support services for neurodiverse children.NHS England has established an attention deficit h...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Employers' ContributionsMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62159More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increases to employers’ National Insurance contributions on the defence industry.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Dr Neil Hudson) to Question 38688 on 20 March 2025.
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62158More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that employers provide the support disabled people need to stay in work in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: We are delivering the biggest investment in employment support for disabled people and people with health conditions in at least a generation. We announced in the recent Pathways to Work Green Paper that we would establish a new guarantee of support for a...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an estimate of how many and what proportion of solar panels installed in the UK in the last five years were made (a) in the UK and (b) in China.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information. HMRC publishes the value and mass of solar panels imported, by country, on its data portal at www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table/.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHedgehogs: PopulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the size of the hedgehog population in each of the last ten years.
Answer: As hedgehogs are widespread but scarce, there are practical challenges in estimating their number nationally. In the last 10 years, only one estimate, updated in 2024, has been made which indicated a population size estimate of 597,000 hedgehogs in Englan...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFarms: TheftHome OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to help reduce the number of GPS thefts from tractors on farms.
Answer: This Government is committed to tackling rural crime, safeguarding rural areas through stronger measures to prevent equipment theft and strengthened neighbourhood policing. We are committed to implementing the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which ...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPigs: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure the enforcement of laws prohibiting piglet thumping on pig farms.
Answer: There are strict rules to protect the welfare of animals at the time of killing. Due to serious concerns about the welfare consequences of a manual percussive blow to the head, piglet thumping is not a permitted method for stunning or killing piglets. Pot...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: DischargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients at (a) Pilgrim Hospital Boston and (b) Peterborough City Hospital were discharged to social care in each of the last three years.
Answer: NHS England publishes data on the number of patients discharged by discharge pathway, at a trust level, which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/discharge-delays/acute-discharge-situation-report...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: LancashireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homes in Lincolnshire that are below EPC band C.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department.
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate IncidentsHome OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents have been investigated by police forces in England and Wales in each of the last two years.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 18 February 2025 to his Question UIN 30042.
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBanking Hubs: LincolnshireDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of banking hubs in Lincolnshire.
Answer: We understand the importance of face-to-face banking to communities and high streets and are committed to championing sufficient access for all as a priority.Government is working closely with banks to roll out 350 banking hubs by the end of this Parliame...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBailMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people absconded while on bail awaiting trial in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of people sentenced for failing to surrender to bail under section 6 of the Bail Act 1976 at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool that can be downloaded from...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSites of Special Scientific Interest: LincolnshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to improve the condition of sites of special scientific interest in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) continue to be one of the most effective tools for protecting and enhancing biodiversity and deliver a wide range of health and socio-economic benefits. Natural England has an ongoing programme to assess the co...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: South Holland and the DeepingsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to increase the number of disability-accessible houses in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 40122 on 26 March 2025.
Answered 23 Jun 2025
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