Josh Newbury MP: written questions
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Slaughterhouses: InspectionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in meat inspection charges by the Food Standards Agency on smaller abattoirs.
Answer: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has calculated annual charge rates for controls conducted in meat premises in 2025/26 for England and Wales and has indicated that charges will continue to be offset by a taxpayer-funded discount scheme in that financial ye...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Cannock ChaseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding from the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme has been allocated to projects in the (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) the Cannock Chase National Landscape ar
Answer: Over £570,000 has been spent on approved projects in the Cannock Chase National Landscape area since the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme (FiPL) launched in July 2021, with further projects in progress and to be completed by the end of 24/25.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Landscapes: AgricultureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the farming in protected landscapes programme.
Answer: The interim evaluation of the programme found the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme (FiPL) to be delivering positively for nature, climate, people, and place, with over 7,000 farmers participating and 3,700 projects in the first three years across...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral Units: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of variations in per pupil funding for places in pupil referral units on pupils' educational outcomes.
Answer: Most funding for pupil referral units, and other alternative provision (AP), comes from local authorities’ high needs budgets, Following the Autumn Budget 2024, the department is providing an increase of £1 billion for high needs budgets in England in the...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Parliamentary Standards Authority and Members: StaffSpeaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards AuthorityTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26102More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Warrington North, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what the percentage increases were for (a) MP's staffing budgets and (b) IPSA staffing expenditure between financial y
Answer: IPSA's proposed budgets are scrutinised each year by the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Authority and approved by the House of Commons.MPs' staffing budgets have increased by 63.3% between 2018-19 and 2024-25. In 2018-19, the London...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral UnitsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that pupil referral unit premises are fit for purpose.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for their area. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to secure mainstream school places and through the high needs provision capital allocations to invest...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupil Referral Units: StaffordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that there is adequate capacity in pupil referral units in (a) Cannock Chase constituency and (b) Staffordshire.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for providing enough school places for their area. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to secure mainstream school places and through the high needs provision capital allocations to invest...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Eating DisordersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish the outcomes of NHS England trials of bespoke services for patients with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating.
Answer: To support improved treatment and care for people with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating (T1DE) across the National Health Service, NHS England will:- provide another year of funding for the five T1DE pilot sites, up to March 2026, to ensure sufficie...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Eating DisordersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support people with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating in (a) Staffordshire and (b) other areas that are not included in the pilot scheme.
Answer: To support improved treatment and care for people with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating (T1DE) across the National Health Service, NHS England will:- provide another year of funding for the five T1DE pilot sites, up to March 2026, to ensure sufficie...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability Aids: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will take steps to work with the Lead Ministers for Disability to help ensure disabled children receive specialist equipment in a timely manner.
Answer: On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024, the Minister for Social Security and Disability announced new Lead Ministers for Disability in every Government department. I am the Lead Minister for Disability for the Department of Health and ...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability Aids: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the length of time taken to provide equipment for children with disabilities.
Answer: The integrated care boards (ICBs) in England are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health needs of their local population. NHS England Specialised Commissioning commissions complex disability equipment services, including communication ai...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability Aids: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that children with disabilities receive equipment in a timely manner.
Answer: The integrated care boards (ICBs) in England are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health needs of their local population. NHS England Specialised Commissioning commissions complex disability equipment services, including communication ai...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability Aids: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to issue guidance on the (a) roles and (b) responsibilities of (i) health, (ii) education, (iii) social care, (iv) education services and (v) the charitable sector
Answer: The integrated care boards (ICBs) in England are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health needs of their local population. NHS England Specialised Commissioning commissions complex disability equipment services, including communication ai...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making (a) Integrated Care Boards and (b) NHS trusts statutory consultees in the planning process.
Answer: NHS and Integrated Care Boards are consultees on local plans. This helps ensure that local strategies to improve health and the provision of the required health infrastructure are considered upfront in plans and in planning decisions. There are no current...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) development and (b) evaluation of (i) non-animal test methods and (ii) new approach methodologies to replace animal testing.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting the uptake, development and evaluation of alternative methods to the use of animals in science and new approach methodologies. It is not yet possible to replace all animal use due to the complexity of biological s...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFarmers: IncomeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2024 to Question 11619 on the Groceries Code Adjudicator: Finance, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the £1 billion turnover thre
Answer: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is responsible for monitoring effectiveness of the Groceries (Supply Chain Practices) Market Investigation Order 2009 in ensuring that businesses, including farmers, that supply groceries directly to designated ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHeavy Goods Vehicles: HydrogenDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of the use of hydrogen for decarbonising heavy goods vehicles.
Answer: The Government is aware that hydrogen has a potential role to play in decarbonising heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). The £200 million zero emission HGV and infrastructure demonstrator programme will demonstrate both battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell veh...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBiomethaneDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support the production of biomethane on farms using organic waste.
Answer: The Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS) provides tariff-support for biomethane produced via anaerobic digestion (AD) and injected into the gas grid. It is expected to contribute 10.7MTCO2e of carbon savings over its lifetime. The GGSS requires that at least 5...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBiomethaneDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans his Department has to use biomethane generated from mandatory food waste collections from 2026-27 for (a) injection into the gas grid and (b) combustion for electricity generation.
Answer: The Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS) provides tariff-support for biomethane produced via anaerobic digestion (AD) and injected into the gas grid. It is expected to contribute 10.7MTCO2e of carbon savings over its lifetime. The GGSS requires that at least 5...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support waste collection authorities to deliver mandatory household food waste collections from 2026-27.
Answer: To support waste collection authorities to deliver household food waste collections, we provided capital transitional funding in February 2024 to cover reasonable costs of purchasing trucks and bins needed to deliver weekly food waste collections from 31 ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAnaerobic DigestionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the capacity of anaerobic digestion facilities, in the context of the planned introduction of mandatory food waste collection
Answer: The Government’s preference is for unavoidable food waste to be collected for treatment by anaerobic digestion (AD): producing bio-gas and digestate. Defra has been working with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Waste and Res...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren's Play: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15064More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with representatives of the indoor play sector on her planned review of business rates.
Answer: HM Treasury releases a quarterly record of Ministers’ meetings with external individuals and organisations. This can be found online: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel At the Autumn Budg...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren's Play: VATTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15063More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of zero-rating Value Added Tax on admission fees for indoor play facilities.
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. Tax breaks reduce the revenue available for vital public services and must represent value for money for the taxpayer. One of the key considerat...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Care LeaversDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department provides to care leaver university students outside of term time.
Answer: This government is committed to providing support for care leavers to ensure they have the practical and emotional support they need as they move towards independence.Local authorities must provide assistance to care leavers near to the place they are rec...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBeverage Containers: Fees and ChargesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a mandatory charge for single-use coffee cups.
Answer: The Government recognises the urgent need to limit the environmental impact of single-use plastic, including fibre composite cups. The Government has committed to reducing waste by moving to a circular economy. The Secretary of State has convened a Small ...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
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