Julie Minns MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Pupils: PovertyDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of pupils that have experienced hygiene poverty in each of the last five years.
Answer: This government is committed to tackling child poverty as part of our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child.Child poverty has gone up by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family....
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHygiene: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of hygiene poverty.
Answer: Tackling poverty in all forms, from reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels to ensuring people can afford essentials like hygiene products, is a priority for this government. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHygiene: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people have experienced hygiene poverty in (a) England, (b) Cumbria and (c) Carlisle constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: Tackling poverty in all forms, from reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels to ensuring people can afford essentials like hygiene products, is a priority for this government. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChild Poverty TaskforceCabinet OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15068More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Child Poverty Taskforce plans to (a) assess the (i) extent and (ii) potential impact on children of and (b) make recommendations on tackling hygiene poverty.
Answer: The Taskforce recognises families' access to essentials, including hygiene essentials, as a fundamental aspect of child poverty. Addressing acute poverty, including access to essentials, is a core focus of the work to develop through the child poverty str...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBladder Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14793More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the clinical trial at Mount Sinai Health System, New York, published on 2 October 2024, on treating invasive bladder ca
Answer: The Department has not made a formal assessment of the policy implications following this clinical trial. The adoption of new treatments into the National Health Service in England is generally the result of National Institute for Health and Care Excellen...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordKinship CareDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 901024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve support for kinship carers.
Answer: This government recognises the valuable and important role that kinship carers play. This government also appreciates that kinship carers often take on this role at a time in their lives when they are least expecting to raise a family.We have recently ann...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBorders Railway Line: CarlisleScotland OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential economic impact of extending the Borders Railway line from Tweedbank to Carlisle.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to working with local partners in the Borders to boost economic growth, in line with our growth mission. The project referred to sits within the Borderlands Growth Deal. Local partners are submitting proposals for a reset to...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Health and SafetyMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list every date on which the Health and Safety Executive issued his Department a notification of contravention since 2013.
Answer: Health and Safety Notices of Contravention (NOC) can be issued to any organisation within Defence at a local level and this information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes detail...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: DeathMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
Answer: From 1 January 2013 to 13 October 2024, three UK Armed Forces personnel tragically died from heat related causes confirmed by a Coroner and listed on the death certificates. All three deaths occurred in July 2013. The inquest for all three deaths began on...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: DeathMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel died within 24 hours of completing their annual fitness test in each year since 2013.
Answer: Since 2013, two Army personnel have sadly died whilst undertaking the combat fitness test element of the annual fitness test. No other personnel have died within 24 hours of completing their annual fitness test during this period.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HealthMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many annual fitness tests were cancelled due to the safe temperature being exceeded (a) one (b) two and (c) three hours before the start time in each year since 2013.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence does not hold any information of annual fitness tests being cancelled due to the safe temperature being exceeded because this information is not recorded.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HealthMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of service personnel failed their annual fitness test in each year since 2013.
Answer: The requested information is provided in the following tables: Royal Navy Year AwardedFailedFail rate20159824%20161,4395%20171,5045%20181,6826%20191,4505%20201,5237%20211,4127%20221,8888%20231,9609%20241,0835% Table Notes: Data prior to 2015 is incomplet...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HeatstrokeMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's response to the Coroner report on the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole, dated 27 January 2020, when the common tri-service suite of reporting and investigation forms was completed
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving ...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMilitary Exercises: HeatstrokeMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what improvements have been made to (a) how and (b) what data is reported for heat illness cases following the inquest into the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole in 2019.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving ...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were unable to achieve a successful set of mammograms because (a) they were unable to hold the required position for sufficient time and (b) the mammogram machine was not accessible
Answer: NHS England does not hold this information centrally. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to accessing screening.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the accessibility of bus services outside of London and combined authority areas for (a) wheelchair users, (b) people who are blind or visually impaired and (c) p
Answer: The government wants everyone to have access to public transport and is committed to improving services so they are more inclusive and enable disabled people to travel safely, confidently and with dignity. On October 1st, the first phase of Public Service...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPedestrian Areas: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has had recent discussions with disability organisations on the potential merits of introducing a moratorium on floating bus stops.
Answer: The Department is fully aware of the concerns raised by some groups, particularly visually impaired people, over the use of floating bus stops and is working with Active Travel England on ways to address these concerns. It is a complex issue and we are ca...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPedestrian Areas: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of whether floating bus stops are compatible with Rule H1 of the Highway Code.
Answer: The Department is fully aware of the concerns raised by some groups, particularly visually impaired people, over the use of floating bus stops and is working with Active Travel England on ways to address these concerns. It is a complex issue and we are ca...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mobile breast screening units have wheelchair accessible mammogram machines.
Answer: NHS England does not centrally hold the numbers of static and mobile screening units, or those that have wheelchair accessible X-ray machines. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to a...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many static breast screening centres have wheelchair accessible mammogram machines.
Answer: NHS England does not centrally hold the numbers of static and mobile screening units, or those that have wheelchair accessible X-ray machines. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to a...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many breast screening centres in England are (a) static sites and (b) mobile units.
Answer: NHS England does not centrally hold the numbers of static and mobile screening units, or those that have wheelchair accessible X-ray machines. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to a...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Waiting ListsDepartment for TransportTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of average waiting times for driving tests on the economy.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) knows that car practical driving test waiting times remain high and understands the impact this is having on learner drivers.DVSA does not record, or hold, information about candidates whose driving licence i...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing Estates: Unadopted RoadsDepartment for TransportTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has of made of (a) the adequacy of the process and (b) potential barriers for the adoption of roads in new housing estates by Local Authorities.
Answer: The Department has published comprehensive guidance, last updated in August 2022, to help local authorities make informed decisions about how new and existing roads can be adopted by highway authorities so that they become maintainable at public expense, ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCommonhold and Leasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will include proposals to end the inclusion of financially burdensome terms in the deeds of (a) freeholds and (b) leaseholds in planned draft legislation on leasehold and
Answer: Over the course of this Parliament, the Government will further reform the leasehold system. We will enact remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to enfranchisement and the Right to Manage, tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, rein...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7937More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she plans to take through the alcohol duty system to support (a) pubs and (b) breweries in Carlisle.
Answer: Pubs and breweries make an enormous contribution to our economy and society, and this is recognised in the tax system. The current alcohol duty system supports pubs and breweries through Draught Relief, which ensures eligible products served on draught pa...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
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