John McDonnell MP: written questions 2025
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Social Security Benefits: Public ConsultationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54598More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have attended the Pathways to Work public consultation meetings.
Answer: We are holding a series of face to face and virtual public consultation events across the country in relation to the Pathways to Work Green Paper, to help us hear from people directly. Details of the events are advertised online and can be found at Pathwa...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Human RightsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take legislative steps to tackle human right abuses in business practices.
Answer: The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct and supports voluntary due diligence approaches taken by UK businesses to identify and prevent human rights abuses across their operations and supply chains, in line with the ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: WomenForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52176More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed reductions to the Official Development Assistance budget on women and girls.
Answer: Decisions on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be used are being worked through as part of the ongoing Spending Review, based on various factors including impact assessments. Equality Impact Assessments - which consider impacts on ...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Sexual and Reproductive HealthForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51285More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will (a) uphold funding commitments for (i) the Women’s Integrated Health Services programme and (ii) other sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes and (b)
Answer: Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations are being worked through as part of the ongoing Spending Review, following the decision to reduce UK ODA from 0.5 per cent or gross national income to 0.3 per cent in 2027. Decisions on individual programm...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Sexual and Reproductive HealthForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will maintain funding for the Choices Reproductive Health Supplies programme through a multi-year commitment of £400million from 2025-2030.
Answer: Following the decision to reduce the UK aid budget to 0.3 per cent of gross national income (GNI) by 2027, implications for individual programmes are still being worked through. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's Official Development Assis...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Sexual and Reproductive HealthForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will increase development funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Answer: Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations are being worked through as part of the ongoing Spending Review and resource allocation process, following the decision to reduce UK ODA from 0.5 per cent of gross national income to 0.3 per cent in 2027. ...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that official development assistance will be used to support the most vulnerable people from the 2027-28 financial year.
Answer: The Prime Minister has set out a new strategic vision for government spending on defence and security, and Official Development Assistance (ODA). Detailed decisions on how the ODA budget will be used will be worked through as part of the ongoing Spending ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of planned disability benefit changes on rates of school readiness.
Answer: The ‘Pathways to Work’ green paper, published in March 2025, sets out plans and proposals to reform health and disability benefits and employment support. The reforms will ensure the most vulnerable and severely disabled people are protected while ensurin...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed disability benefit changes on the length of NHS waiting lists.
Answer: This Government has already started to bring about change to address health-related economic inactivity. We are injecting almost £26 billion of extra funding next year to get the health and social care system back on its feet and bring down waiting lists....
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil LibertiesHome OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46685More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Public Order Act 2024 to safeguard liberty of conscience and freedom of assembly.
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to carry out post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Order Act 2023Home OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on taking steps to ensure that its enforcement of Public Order Act 2023 accords with the (a) rule of law and (b) Human Rights Act 1998.
Answer: The police are operationally independent of the government. The police make decisions about how to respond to specific incidents based on their professional judgement, the circumstances at hand, and all applicable laws, and the Home Office does not direct...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMusicians: National InsuranceTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44382More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the length of time taken to issue A1 forms to singers.
Answer: Self-employed workers in the music industry touring within the EEA are able to complete A1 forms online. Since October 2024, 70% of these type of online applications can be processed automatically providing a quicker service for customers. Applications wh...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure (a) safe, (b) healthy and (c) adequate living conditions for people seeking asylum in (i) initial and (ii) dispersed accommodation; and if she will end the use of ho
Answer: The Home Office remains committed to ensuring the wellbeing and safety of those receiving asylum support. There are mechanisms in place, managed by Migrant Help, to allow asylum seekers to request assistance, provide feedback and/or report issues. This su...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44380More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 3 March 20
Answer: The government engages with various international organisations, including the United Nations, considering their reports as part of the policy development process. Any decisions on changes to HM Treasury policies are also taken in the context of the wider...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Marine Energy Centre: FinanceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding has been allocated from UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council budget to the European Marine Energy Centre to date.
Answer: The European Marine Energy Centre has not been allocated any funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council to date.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre: FinanceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the potential level of funding to be allocated from the UK Research and Innovation Natural Environment Research Council budget to the (a) British Antarctic
Answer: The allocation of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) was published in DSIT research and development (R&D) allocations for 2025/2026.NERC funding for the British Antarctic Survey and the Nationa...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre: FinanceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will publish the levels of funding allocated from UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council budget to the (a) British Antarctic Survey and (b) National Oce
Answer: DSIT has allocated £13.9 billion to the R&D budget for the 2025/26 financial year. Below are UK Research and Innovation's Natural Environment Research Council budget allocations over the past five financial years for the British Antarctic Survey (incl...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNatural Environment Research Council: FinanceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will publish the total allocation of UK Research and Innovation funding to the Natural Environment Research Council since 2021-22.
Answer: The allocation of UKRI funding to the Natural Environment Research Council was published in the following reports:BEIS Research and Development (R&D) Budget Allocations 2021 to 2022BEIS Research and Development (R&D): UK Research and Innovation Al...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has undertaken a health impact assessment on the expansion of Heathrow airport.
Answer: The government has invited proposals for a third runway at Heathrow to be brought forward by the summer. Once proposals have been received, the government will review the Airports National Policy Statement, which provides the basis for decision making on ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what external analysis her Department has commissioned on the potential impact of Heathrow expansion.
Answer: The government has invited proposals for a third runway at Heathrow to be brought forward by the summer. Once proposals have been received, the government will review the Airports National Policy Statement, which provides the basis for decision making on ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the expansion of Heathrow Airport on the environment.
Answer: The government has invited proposals for a third runway at Heathrow to be brought forward by the summer. Once proposals have been received, the government will review the Airports National Policy Statement, which provides the basis for decision making on ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the expansion of Heathrow Airport on economic growth.
Answer: The government has invited proposals for a third runway at Heathrow to be brought forward by the summer. Once proposals have been received, the government will review the Airports National Policy Statement, which provides the basis for decision making on ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44371More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations she received that helped inform the decision to support expansion at Heathrow.
Answer: HM Treasury has received and continues to receive representations from a wide range of stakeholders about Heathrow expansion. These informed the speech supporting expansion in January and continue to inform the Government’s position on Heathrow.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGenomicsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed abolition of NHS England on (a) Genomics England and (b) the provision of whole genome sequencing to patients with rare cancers b
Answer: Genomics is a powerful healthcare technology, aiding diagnosis and informing treatment for rare diseases and certain cancers.Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new Executive Team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, ...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned publication date is of the ME/CFS Delivery Plan; and for what reason it has been delayed.
Answer: We aim to publish the final delivery plan by the end of June. We have listened to key myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), stakeholders to allow for more time to develop the plan and help ensure we can be as ambitiou...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
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