John Hayes MP: written questions 2025
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Driving under Influence: FinesMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount of fines resulting from drug driving convictions was in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on fines for drug driving offences. This is available in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.The drug driving...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving under Influence: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of drug driving offences were given the maximum sentence in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on drug driving offence convictions. This is available in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.The number of c...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBrain: InjuriesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of local brain injury reablement services.
Answer: The Government wants a society where every person, including those with a long-term condition such as an acquired brain injury (ABI), receives high-quality, compassionate continuity of care.The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Heal...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBill Discount SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Households near new pylons to save hundreds on energy bills, published on 10 March 2025, whether the Grimsby to Walpole Grid Upgrade
Answer: The bill discount scheme will apply to eligible domestic properties and is planned to go live from 2026 once regulations have been laid, when Parliamentary time allows. Eligibility will be set out in regulations, but our aim is that major new transmission...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Mobile PhonesDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of trends in the levels of academic attainment from children in schools that (a) have and (b) have not banned smartphones in the last 12 months.
Answer: Schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones and other smart technology with similar functionality to mobile phones throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, breaktimes and lunchtime, as set out in the ‘Mobile phon...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: LincolnshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support young people to get onto the housing ladder in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: The affordability challenges facing prospective first-time buyers mean that too many people are now locked out of homeownership. This government is determined to change that, ensuring that young families and hardworking renters can buy a home of their own...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordApprentices: Rural AreasDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps she has taken to raise awareness of apprenticeships in (a) rural and (b) remote areas.
Answer: This government has a driving mission to break down barriers to opportunity and to grow the economy.The department continues to raise awareness of the benefits of apprenticeships across the country, including in rural areas. This includes promoting appren...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordProject Gigabit: South Holland and the DeepingsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his department has made on the rollout of Project Gigabit in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Answer: According to the independent website Thinkbroadband.com, over 94% premises in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency can access superfast broadband speeds (>=30 Mbps) and 81% have access to a gigabit-capable broadband connection (>1000 Mbps...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes have been made to the government’s assessment of future skills needs following the announcement on February 25 that defence spending would increase to 2.6% of GDP by 2027.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence is working closely with Skills England and the Department for Education to ensure the boost in defence spending supports the training and development of new generations of defence sector workers. The future skills requirement for d...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGrowth and Skills LevyDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether training in the workplace will be a condition of support under the growth and skills levy.
Answer: This government’s first mission is to kickstart economic growth. We know that skills gaps are holding back business growth and that we need to support employers to invest in skills training. Our new levy-funded growth and skills offer will introduce great...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, following the abolition of NHS England, where ultimate commissioning accountability will sit for (a) Cystic Fibrosis and (b) other specialised NHS services.
Answer: Ministers will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to lead this transformation. Work has begun immediately to start bringing teams in NHS England and the Department together, and over the next two years,...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRegulator of Community Interest CompaniesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.
Answer: The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies (“CICs”) (“the Regulator”) plays a crucial role in maintaining the CIC model as an effective form of social enterprise. By exploiting the considerable overlap between the Regulator and Companies ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmy: Termination of EmploymentMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British Army full-time personnel (a) retired and (b) left the profession for other reasons in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The requested information is published in the Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics, the latest edition of which (1 January 2025) can be found at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2025 ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGrowth and Skills Levy: ApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the growth and skills levy will be reserved for apprenticeship training.
Answer: This government’s first mission is to kickstart economic growth. We know that skills gaps are holding back business growth and that we need to support employers to invest in skills training. Our new levy-funded growth and skills offer will introduce great...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGrowth and Skills LevyDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used to determine how the new growth and skills levy may be spent; and whether a criteria will be published.
Answer: This government’s first mission is to kickstart economic growth. We know that skills gaps are holding back business growth and that we need to support employers to invest in skills training. Our new levy-funded growth and skills offer will introduce great...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHandgunsHome OfficeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent blank guns being converted to weapons which can fire live rounds.
Answer: The Government keeps firearms legislation under close review to ensure that the law responds to threats to public safety posed by firearms including converted blank firing firearms.Blank firing guns are, generally speaking, regarded as imitation firearms ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIndustrial Strategy Council: Public AppointmentsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38941More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria he used to appoint members of the Industrial Strategy Council.
Answer: Appointments to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council were made through direct ministerial appointment by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Council’s membership includes a diverse group of the UK’s t...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIndustrial Strategy CouncilDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Industrial Strategy Council has met.
Answer: The Industrial Strategy Advisory Council was launched on 17 December 2024 with their first official meeting. They met in person for a second time on 13 February. In addition the Council has held virtual check in meetings and a number of workstream meeting...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSkills EnglandDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38542More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for establishing Skills England on a statutory basis.
Answer: Skills England is already operational in shadow form and the government intends for it to be established as an executive agency soon. This model of arm’s length body provides a strong fit for Skills England as it can be operationalised quickly and provide...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSausages: Origin MarkingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38541More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting protected geographical status for Lincolnshire sausages.
Answer: This would require an application and would be subject to the normal process.
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClandestine Entrant Civil Penalty SchemeHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was raised by fines from the clandestine entrant civil penalty scheme in the last ten years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of CECP penalties issued each year for the last 10 years, with the value of how much has been paid against those penalties.Years.32Value of penalties paids.31AValue of penalties paid20152611£2,769,153.5800.0020163029£3,326...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClandestine Entrant Civil Penalty SchemeHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were fined under the clandestine entrant civil penalty scheme in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of CECP penalties issued each year for the last 10 years, with the value of how much has been paid against those penalties.Years.32Value of penalties paids.31AValue of penalties paid20152611£2,769,153.5800.0020163029£3,326...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Artificial IntelligenceTreasuryTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38538More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.
Answer: The Government has a robust set of security policies in place to oversee how information is handled, within our buildings, on our IT, and by our staff. We keep these policies under constant review to ensure they are applicable to new technologies. The AI ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptoassets: Proceeds of CrimeHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cryptoassets were seized from criminals in the last year.
Answer: The Government does not currently publish the amount of cryptocurrency restrained/recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.The Home office is reviewing plans to publish new statistics on Crypto assets as part of future bulletins on asset recovery in...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Artificial IntelligenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.
Answer: The Government has a robust set of security policies in place to oversee how information is handled, within our buildings, on our IT, and by our staff. We keep these policies under constant review to ensure they are applicable to new technologies. The AI ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
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