John Hayes MP: written questions 2026
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: LGBT+ PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: Pride occurs at different times throughout the year in various locations around the world. Across our global diplomatic network, missions collaborate with local partners to challenge discriminatory laws and policies that enable violence and discrimination...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: LGBT+ PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: The Department spend for activities relating to Pride Month 2026 is zero pounds.
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: The Department did not incur any spend associated with or linked to Pride Month 2026.
Answered 18 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 19816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: The department has not incurred any expenditure on activities related to Pride Month 2026.
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: LGBT+ PeopleCabinet OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19814More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much her Department spent on activities relating to Pride Month 2026.
Answer: The Cabinet Office is aware of the following Pride related spend:£7,002.98 to fund the cross-Civil Service LGBT+ Network presence at Pride, covering up to 15 events taking place across the UK during summer 2026. This figure includes two events which took ...
Answered 23 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Civil ServantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19813More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in 2025 how many full-time equivalent civil servants in her Department focused on farming policy.
Answer: In 2025 Core Defra had 234 FTE working on farming policy directly. Farming benefits from wider Defra policies and activities where other staff in the Department would contribute.
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTravel: South Holland and the DeepingsDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support active travel in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
Answer: On 12 June, this government published the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS3), which outlines the government’s vision for walking, wheeling and cycling to be safe, easy and accessible choices for everyone. Over the course of CWIS3, Activ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: LincolnshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support fire and rescue workers in Lincolnshire.
Answer: We’re investing nearly £100 million in the biggest upgrade of national resilience capabilities in nearly twenty years, part of which includes more specialist equipment and wildfire training for firefighters that can deploy nationally to support in wildfir...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Planning PermissionMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prisons have been granted planning permission since July 2024.
Answer: As set out in the December 2024 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, we are committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places and aim to do so by 2031; we have already delivered c.3,300 of these since taking office. Our prison build programme includ...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordFraud: CoronavirusDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of overpayments under the COVID-19 Voluntary Repayment Scheme have been recovered since 2020.
Answer: The COVID-19 Voluntary Repayment Scheme (VRS) was a three-month scheme that ran from 12 September 2025 to 12 December 2025 in which individuals and businesses could repay COVID-19 support money that they were not entitled to, misused or simply did not nee...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus Job Retention Scheme: OverpaymentsTreasuryTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19808More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of overpayments under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme have been recovered since 2020.
Answer: The final estimate of the error and fraud rate across the lifecycle of the three HMRC Covid-19 support schemes; Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Eat Out to Help Out is between 3.3 per cent and 7.4 ...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordRoads: LincolnshireDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the condition of the strategic road network in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The case for investment in Lincolnshire’s strategic road network was considered carefully as part of the process of developing the third Road Investment Strategy, covering the period 2026-2031, which was published in March 2026. The evidence underpinning ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWater: ShortagesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds records on how many (1) people or (2) organisations have been issued warnings about breaching hosepipe bans in the past ten years.
Answer: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) does not collect or hold information on individuals or organisations that may have breached these restrictions. Responsibility for monitoring compliance and taking any enforcement action rests...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordRailways: SpaldingDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of train delays affecting Spalding railway station in the last 12 months.
Answer: Over the last 12-months there were 8,721 station stops at Spalding, of these 6,461 were early or within one minute of the scheduled arrival time, 1,209 were between one and three minutes late and 1,051 were three or more minutes late.
Answered 2 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWildlife: LincolnshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19332More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support wildlife conservation sites in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Defra published its updated protected sites Environment Act target delivery plan on the 16 July to support the improvement of protected sites here. The Government supports wildlife conservation sites in Lincolnshire through Natural England and its partner...
Answered 2 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMuseums and Galleries: LincolnshireDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her Department provides to museums and galleries in Lincolnshire.
Answer: Earlier this year, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced a £1.5 billion funding package for culture over this Parliament, £160 million of which is earmarked for local museums around the country. This includes furthe...
Answered 14 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBanks: LincolnshireTreasuryTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18967More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many banks have closed in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in last five years.
Answer: The Government does not hold official data on the number of bank branch closures in individual constituencies or counties. Decisions on opening and closing bank branches are commercial decisions for individual firms. However, the Financial Conduct Authori...
Answered 4 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMigrants: Age AssuranceHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses AI to help verify the age of migrants that arrive in the UK.
Answer: The Home Office has recently announced that the procurement process for a Facial Age Estimation (FAE) algorithm has concluded, and a new contract has been awarded to Akhter Computers Ltd, with Cognitec as sub-contractor. Our current intention is to begin...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSports: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase the provision of visually impaired sports facilities in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: High-quality, inclusive facilities are essential to increasing participation by under-represented groups, including for visually impaired people.The Government is also investing £400m over the next four years in new and upgraded grassroots sport facilitie...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support increased participation in bowel cancer screening in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: In Lincolnshire, coverage amongst people aged between 60 and 74 years old is above the national average of 72.9% and currently stands at 75.5%. Nationally, coverage of bowel cancer screening has been increasing in recent years, with a marked increase from...
Answered 3 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Rural AreasDepartment for Business, Innovation, Science and TradeTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what recent steps he has taken to support access to finance for SMEs in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: The government is committed to improving access to finance, helping smaller businesses in Lincolnshire and across the United Kingdom secure the funding they need to grow and drive economic growth.The Business Growth Service (BGS) www.business.gov.uk, laun...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDriving under InfluenceDepartment for TransportTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help prevent accidents resulting from drug driving.
Answer: The Government takes the dangers of drug driving seriously. In January 2026, we published our Road Safety Strategy, which includes robust enforcement to protect all road users as one of its four core themes. Alongside the Strategy, we consulted on measure...
Answered 22 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordSolar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the volume of Best and Most Versatile land which will be used to host solar panels resulting from Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects approved in the l
Answer: The government does not currently hold this information. However, the Department currently monitors the geographical location of solar developments through the Renewable Energy Planning Database. There are plans to broaden the scope of this database to pr...
Answered 21 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordNorthern Ireland Office: Agency WorkersNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18523More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many agency staff were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
Answer: There were no agency staff employed by the Northern Ireland Office in the last five years.
Answered 16 Jul 2026
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