John Hayes MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Spalding Station: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the support provided for people with mobility issues to access trains at Spalding station.
Answer: No recent assessment has been made regarding accessibility at Spalding Station. Spalding Station has step free access to platforms.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDementia: Rural AreasDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve dementia care and support for families post-diagnosis in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision of dementia care services. NHS England expects ICBs to commission services based on local population needs, and supports them with relevant resources, such as the recently updated RightCare s...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordShipping: Vocational GuidanceDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that there is adequate careers (a) advice and (b) guidance in schools on maritime career pathways.
Answer: High-quality careers information, advice and guidance is key to helping young people make informed decisions about their future and involves finding out about and considering the different options available to them, including maritime industries. As new t...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many fixed penalty notices have been handed out for school non-attendance in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.
Answer: The department collects information from local authorities on penalty notices issued for unauthorised absence. This is published in the statistical release on parental responsibility measures and can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.se...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle people fraudulently claiming Personal Independence Payments.
Answer: DWP is committed to tackling fraud and error in the benefits system and to the recovery of debts, including those generated by Personal Independent Payments. Working closely with counter fraud experts, the DWP has introduced measures to prevent fraud ente...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle online sites advising people to claim for sickness and disability payments they are not entitled to.
Answer: DWP collaborates with government partners, including Action Fraud, City of London Police (CoLP) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to identify malicious sites that impersonate the department, enable fraudulent activity or target DWP customers. DWP ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: South Holland and the DeepingsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people are living in emergency accommodation in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Answer: South Holland District council had 21 households in temporary accommodation as of 30 June 2024. The most recent temporary accommodation numbers by local authority are available at Tab TA1 Detailed_LA_202406_fix.xlsx.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCompetition and Markets Authority: EqualityDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many full time equivalent diversity, equality and inclusion staff are employed by the Competition and Markets Authority.
Answer: The Competition and Markets Authority does not have any full time equivalent staff dedicated to diversity, equality and inclusion.
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPupilsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent estimate of how many primary school children in England were born overseas.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the department. The department publishes information on ethnicity and whether a pupil is known to speak English as a first language or not. This information can be found in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteri...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to tackle gambling advertisements (a) online and (b) on television which are targeted at young people.
Answer: There are a range of robust rules and restrictions which apply to gambling adverts, wherever they appear, to ensure they are socially responsible.As part of the UK Advertising Codes, issued by the Committees for Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Co...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Remote WorkingCabinet OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17764More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of working from home on civil service productivity.
Answer: We have reviewed the wide range of studies available on the benefits of hybrid working, which has been used to inform the expectation for 60% office attendance for Civil Servants. This expectation has not changed since the previous administration.
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDefence: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to prioritise domestic supply chains in defence procurement.
Answer: This Government is committed to developing a UK Defence industrial base that ensures a strong Defence sector and resilient supply chains. The Statement of Intent for the Defence Industrial Strategy, published on Monday 2 December, set out a commitment to ...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the police allocation formula on (a) policing and (b) crime in Lincolnshire.
Answer: On 19th November, the Home Secretary announced that government funding for policing will increase by over half a billion pounds next year; this includes an increase of over £260m in the core grant for police forces, additional funding for neighbourhood po...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordImports: ChinaDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the accelerated energy grid decarbonisation target on the UK's reliance on imports from China.
Answer: The Government works closely with industry to maintain a detailed picture of foreign involvement in critical national infrastructure. Foreign involvement in critical national infrastructure undergoes the highest levels of scrutiny, with the government and...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordClimate Change Convention: AzerbaijanDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost to the public purse was of the UK delegation's participation in COP29 in Baku.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) on 26 November to question UIN 14729.
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Radiation ExposureMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer on 26 November to Question 14583 on Veterans: Radiation Exposure, if he will set a deadline for the publication of his Department's internal review into the whereabouts of nuclear test vete
Answer: The Government is deeply grateful to all Service personnel who participated in the UK nuclear testing programme. We recognise the huge contribution they have made to our national security and take this issue very seriously.I have asked officials to look s...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Radiation ExposureMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the anticipated total cost of compensation for legal claims brought by Nuclear Test Veterans.
Answer: The claims from Nuclear Test Veterans are at the pre-action stage. It is for the Claimants’ legal representatives to formulate their case against the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in court should they wish to proceed. The MOD is not able to estimate the value...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWind Power: ExpenditureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total cost to the public purse of curtailment of onshore wind turbines in England was in the last three years.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information. A summary of constraint costs is publicly available at https://www.neso.energy/data-portal/constraint-breakdown, and network constraint costs for 2023 were £1.4bn. The National Energy System Operator is respo...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDistrict Councils: Business RatesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to help ensure that district councils receive business rates from (a) all energy infrastructure and (b) sub stations located within their boundaries.
Answer: District councils collect and retain a share of Business Rates in their local area where properties are in the local list. Where a property is found to cross local authority boundaries, the Valuation Office Agency follow legislation which stipulates that ...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on the NHS budget.
Answer: Now that Parliament has voted to give the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a Second Reading, the Government will assess the impacts of the bill and publish these in due course.This continues to be a matter for Parliament and, as the bill progresse...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AgeHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many age assessments of people arriving on small boats and seeking asylum have taken place in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on age disputes for all individuals with asylum claims raised and resolved is published in table Asy_D05 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AgeHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Border Security Command is taking to assess the age of asylum seekers arriving on small boats.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Answer I gave on 4 December to Question UIN 16274.
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMagistrates: BostonMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many justices of the peace served at Boston Magistrates court in each of the last five years.
Answer: HMCTS deploys Magistrates (Justices of the Peace) who are allocated to a bench and are then placed on a rota to sit as a panel. Boston Magistrates would be served by the Lincolnshire Bench and the numbers on that bench are below for the period stated:Year...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: VehiclesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to reduce the (a) risk of and (b) impact from fires in agricultural vehicles.
Answer: The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 set out the essential requirements that must be met before a machinery product is placed on the UK market, in order to protect users of that machinery from any undue harm. This includes agricultural vehicl...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterans: LincolnshireMinistry of DefenceTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support veterans in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire with (i) housing and (ii) education and skills training.
Answer: This is a Government of service that will always stand up for those who serve our country, no matter which community they are based in. I am working across Government and with civil society to ensure veterans, including those throughout South Holland and ...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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