John Hayes MP: written questions
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Written questions
Agricultural Machinery: SalesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle fake adverts for the sale of farm machinery.
Answer: Under the Online Safety Act, user-to-user services and search services in scope must respectively prevent and minimise illegal fraudulent content from appearing on their platforms and swiftly remove it if it does. Services designated as Category 1 or 2A (...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58155More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his Department's policy to introduce mobile dental vans in areas of need.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and to recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild ...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding he has allocated for additional dental appointments since 5 July 2024.
Answer: NHS England is responsible for issuing guidance to integrated care boards (ICBs) on dental budgets, including ringfences. NHS England’s Planning Guidance for 2025/26 sets out the funding available to ICBs and confirms that improving access to urgent denta...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWindrush Commissioner: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what budget will be available to the Windrush Commissioner.
Answer: The budget allocation for the Windrush Commissioner will be formally agreed once the Commissioner has been appointed.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: TaxationTreasuryTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58152More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has she made of the potential merits of increasing the level of taxation on social media firms.
Answer: The UK is already levying the Digital Services Tax (DST), a 2 per cent tax to ensure that providers of search engines, social media platforms, and online marketplaces pay UK tax on digital services that reflects the value they derive from UK users. The DS...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchool Meals: ProcurementDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential contribution of school food procurement to the resilience of the (a) fruit and (b) vegetable supply chain.
Answer: The new national procurement policy statement sets out requirements for government contracts, favouring products certified to high environmental standards that we think British producers operating to high standards are well-placed to meet.We are engaging ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: NoiseMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for driving with excessively noisy exhausts in the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences including motoring offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics land...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: LightingMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for driving with excessively bright lights in the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences including motoring offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics land...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: GlassMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58148More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for driving with illegal tinted windows in the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences including motoring offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics land...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: GlassHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cars have been seized for illegal tinted windows in the last ten years.
Answer: The requested data is not centrally held, and could only be collated and verified at disproportionate cost.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCompulsory Purchase: InfrastructureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many compulsory purchase powers have been granted as part of nationally significant infrastructure project approvals since 2022.
Answer: The government does not hold data on the total number of compulsory acquisition powers that have been granted from the 55 Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects decided since the start of 2022. All compulsory acquisitions approved as part of a Dev...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are being housed in houses of multiple occupation in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who are eligible for automatic release from prison after serving 50 per cent of their sentence were convicted of (a) actual bodily harm and (b) grievous bodily harm.
Answer: Many offenders who commit these types of offences are subject to two-thirds release provisions, and others are subject to 50% depending on their specific circumstances and sentencing outcomes. Establishing who is released at exactly 50% would require exam...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Overseas StudentsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many higher education students have claimed asylum in the final six months of their course in each of the last five years.
Answer: Available data on the ‘Source of asylum claims in 2024’ was published by the Home Office on 30th March 2025.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOphthalmic Services: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve access to paediatric eye care services in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning primary and secondary eye care services, including paediatric eye care services, in their areas to meet patient needs.Free National Health Service sight tests also continue to be available for child...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Travel RestrictionsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students from overseas have come from countries where there are travel restrictions for people with security clearance by country of origin.
Answer: The department does not collect this information.
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCafes: LincolnshireDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support cafes in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: Hospitality businesses, including cafes, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth and community cohesion.The government plans to permanently lower business rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure propertie...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department first discussed the matter of Mauritius exercising full sovereignty over the Chagos Islands with (a) his international counterparts and (b) the Government
Answer: As the then Foreign Secretary's statement of 3 November 2022 describes, negotiations between the UK Government and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago were started by the previous Conserva...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCervical Cancer: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support women with cervical cancer in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government and the National Health Service to improve support for women living with cervical cancer in England, including in the South Holland and The Deepings and Lincolnshire constituencies.NHS England has committed to ensuring ...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: LincolnshireDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department plans to provide for (a) sports and (b) health clubs facilities in (i) South Holland District and (ii) South Kesteven District in the next 12 months.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, has access to and benefits from high-quality sport facilities, which offer the chance to be physically active.The Government provides the majority of funding for grassroots s...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Rural AreasTreasuryTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57978More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will meet with private sector cash machine operator Link to discuss additional face to face banking services for rural areas.
Answer: Banking has changed significantly in recent years with many customers benefitting from the ease and convenience of digital banking. The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities and high streets across the UK, and is com...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Visual ImpairmentTreasuryTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57977More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that partially sighted people in rural areas have access to face to face banking services.
Answer: Banking has changed significantly in recent years with many customers benefitting from the ease and convenience of digital banking. The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities and high streets across the UK, and is com...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFraud: LincolnshireHome OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of online (a) fraud and (b) scams were reported in Lincolnshire in each of the last three years.
Answer: A total of 3,402 frauds were reported to Action Fraud in Lincolnshire in the year ending May 2025, totalling £16m in reported losses. 63% of these were cyber-enabled, meaning there were approx. 2,100 frauds reported in Lincolnshire with an online componen...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFarms: FraudHome OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help protect farm businesses from fraud.
Answer: A total of 3,402 frauds were reported to Action Fraud in Lincolnshire in the year ending May 2025, totalling £16m in reported losses. 63% of these were cyber-enabled, meaning there were approx. 2,100 frauds reported in Lincolnshire with an online componen...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRape: Prisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who are eligible for automatic release from prison after serving 50 per cent of their sentence were convicted of rape.
Answer: Many offenders who commit these types of offences are subject to two-thirds release provisions, and others are subject to 50% depending on their specific circumstances and sentencing outcomes. Establishing who is released at exactly 50% would require exam...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
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