John Hayes MP: written questions 2025
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Trade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-US trade agreement on levels of investment in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.
Answer: The US is our biggest investor and our top investment destination. At the end of 2023, the UK and US had over £1.2 trillion invested in each other’s economies.On 8th May, the UK government announced a landmark economic deal with the US. This deal protects...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: IndiaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-India free trade agreement on levels of investment in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.
Answer: This comprehensive agreement is expected to boost increase bilateral trade by £25.5 billion, increase UK GDP by £4.8 billion and boost wages by £2.2 billion each and every year in the long run.This deal is expected to make trade between the UK cheaper and...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordInfrastructure: LincolnshireTreasuryTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53472More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Infrastructure Strategy will support infrastructure enhancements in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy will reduce uncertainty by bringing together a long-term plan for the social, economic and housing infrastructure across the UKAlongside considering the UK’s economic and social infrastructure needs, the strategy will s...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53471More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to increase visible policing in areas in Lincolnshire with high rates of road traffic offences.
Answer: On 10 April the Government outlined further details about our Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, including by July, every community will have named, and contactable officers dedicated to addressing the issues facing their communities.At the heart of the Gu...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFractures: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve fracture liaison services for people aged over 50 in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) are a globally recognised care model, and can reduce the risk of refracture for people at risk of osteoporosis by up to 40%.FLS are commissioned by integrated care boards (ICBs), which make decisions according to local need...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPylons: LincolnshireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Grimsby to Walpole pylon project on (a) farm and (b) wild animals on the route.
Answer: Developers of the Grimsby to Walpole project, like all nationally significant infrastructure projects in England and Wales, are required to assess the impacts of their proposals. This includes conducting assessments of the project's potential effects on t...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: LincolnshireDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the average bus punctuality rates for Lincolnshire in each year since 2015.
Answer: The average bus punctuality rates (specifically, the percentage of non-frequent bus services running on time) for Lincolnshire are available for each year between the year ending March 2015 and the year ending March 2024 in the Department’s published Annu...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFentanyl: Drug SeizuresHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Fentanyl by (a) volume and (b) value has been seized in the UK in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Home Office latest published data on Fentanyl seizures made by the police and Border Force for England and Wales covers the period April 2023-March 2024 and can be found here:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wa...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: South Holland and the DeepingsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in South Holland and the Deepings constituency are claiming PIP and not in work.
Answer: In the South Holland and The Deepings constituency, 3,750 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants are not in work. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10. This only includes claimants with normal rules and who are working-age adults. Data is ...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: LincolnshireDepartment for EducationTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding she plans to provide to schools in Lincolnshire in 2026-27.
Answer: The department has recently announced over £1 billion of new capital investment to support local authorities to create mainstream school places needed by September 2028. £640 million will be allocated in the financial year 2026/27, of which Lincolnshire l...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the potential cost to the public purse of proposed agreements with third countries to take failed asylum seekers from the
Answer: We do not provide a running commentary on discussions with our overseas partners.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries her Department has had discussions with on temporarily taking failed asylum seekers from the UK.
Answer: We do not provide a running commentary on discussions with our overseas partners.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Accommodation: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the male estate prison capacity in 2028.
Answer: This Government inherited a prison system in crisis due to the previous government only adding 500 places to the estate in 14 years. If our prisons collapse, courts are forced to suspend trials. The police must halt their arrests, crime goes unpunished, a...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52836More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to delay the implementation of changes to Inheritance Tax for farmers by 12 months.
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 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordStrokes: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve stroke care in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is participating in a national improvement initiative called Clinically-Led workforcE and Activity Redesign (CLEAR), which focuses on using quality improvement methods to enhance all aspects of stroke care. CLE...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: AsylumHome OfficeTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that people on (a) family and (b) student visas do not claim asylum when there has not been a material change in circumstances in their country of origin.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to the announcements made in this area in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May 2025, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diabetes care.
Answer: In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends that people with diabetes are offered eight annual care processes in primary care, those being measurement of HbA1c, lipids, creatinine, albuminuria, blood pressure and body mass...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGrammar Schools: LincolnshireDepartment for EducationTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to support grammar schools in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The national funding formula, and wider education policies, support all state-funded schools equally, including grammar schools.
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving LicencesDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who applied to register a non-GB driving licence were rejected in each of the last three years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of applications to exchange a non-GB driving licence for a GB equivalent that were successful and those which were rejected for the period requested. YearNon-GB licences accepted for exchangeNon-GB licences Rejected for ex...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving LicencesDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people exchanged a non-GB driving licence for a valid UK licence in each of the last three years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of applications to exchange a non-GB driving licence for a GB equivalent that were successful and those which were rejected for the period requested. YearNon-GB licences accepted for exchangeNon-GB licences Rejected for ex...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed 10-year pathway to settlement on people nearing their five-year eligibility.
Answer: We will reform our settlement and citizenship rules by expanding the Points-Based System and increasing the standard qualifying period for settlement to ten years. Individuals will have the opportunity to reduce the qualifying period to settlement and cit...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration ControlsHome OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed 10-year pathway to settlement will apply retrospectively to migrants already legally residing in the UK.
Answer: We will reform our settlement and citizenship rules by expanding the Points-Based System and increasing the standard qualifying period for settlement to ten years. Individuals will have the opportunity to reduce the qualifying period to settlement and cit...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AgeHome OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which scientific methods will be used to strengthen the age verification process of asylum applicants.
Answer: The Government is committed to strengthening the age assessment process and continues to review all options for improving the accuracy and efficiency of the age assessment system.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAttorney General's Office: ApprenticesAttorney GeneralTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52187More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in her Department.
Answer: We remain committed to supporting the use of apprenticeships across all government departments to break down barriers to opportunity. This includes supporting the Government's commitment to 2,000 digital apprenticeships through its TechTrack scheme by 203...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Office: ApprenticesNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in his Department.
Answer: The Northern Ireland Office remains committed to supporting the use of apprenticeships across all government departments to break down barriers to opportunity. This includes supporting the Government’s commitment to 2,000 digital apprenticeships through i...
Answered 21 May 2025
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