Julie Minns MP: written questions
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Written questions
Armed Forces: Health ServicesMinistry of DefenceTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on the rollout of Programme Cortisone.
Answer: Programme CORTISONE will provide the Defence Medical Services (DMS) with an up-to-date electronic healthcare information management system to administer the healthcare of the Defence population to maximise fitness for role. The delivery of Programme CORTI...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of physical infrastructure access fees on the ability of alternative network providers to roll out full fibre broad
Answer: The government is committed to delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity coverage by 2030. Today, 86% of premises can access gigabit-capable networks.The government's strategy supports market entry and expansion by alternative network operators via easy ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) fee structure on full fibre broadband roll out in rural areas.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity coverage by 2030. Today, 86% of premises can access gigabit-capable networks.The government's strategy supports market entry and expansion by alternative network operators via easy ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of the different modes of delivery of SEND education.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to thrive and succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.Most pu...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of different modes of delivery of SEND education.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to thrive and succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.Most pu...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordReading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Florida's UFLI phonics programme.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Carlisle to the answer of 29 March 2025 to Question 36216.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordReading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the validation process for new phonics programmes is.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Carlisle to the answer of 29 March 2025 to Question 36216.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordReading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Florida's phonics programme.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. The last Labour government’s ...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordReading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the validation process for new phonics programmes is.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. The last Labour government’s ...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery Fund: CarlisleDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which properties received Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Rural Payments Agency can confirm that no payments were made to properties under the Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVettingHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025WithdrawnUIN 29302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory DBS checks for tradespeople.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrimary Education: LiteracyDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the proportion of pupils meeting the expected standard in the year one phonics screening check.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. Through our Plan for Change, we will give children the best start in life...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: 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
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