Kim Johnson MP: written questions
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Written questions
Digital Technology: Proof of IdentityCabinet OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83452More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what consideration he has given to the role of post offices in (a) onboarding and (b) supporting people who suffer from (i) identity and (ii) digital exclusion during the roll out of the digital identity scheme.
Answer: The new digital ID will be designed to be inclusive. We will launch a public consultation and have already started to engage with a range of expert organisations and community groups. We will deliver a comprehensive inclusion programme to ensure everyone ...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPost Offices: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83451More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of creating a dedicated form of business rates relief for post offices.
Answer: The Government has no plans to introduce a targeted business rates relief for post offices. However, as set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rat...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPost Offices: Bank ServicesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's Green Paper: Future of Post Office, published on 14 July 2025, what progress the Department has made in hosting discussions between Post Office and the banking sector
Answer: The Economic Secretary to the Treasury and I plan to co-chair a roundtable with the Post Office and key banks. This will provide an opportunity to discuss where future potential collaboration, on a commercial and voluntary basis, may be in the interests o...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce a maximum waiting time target for children’s community health services.
Answer: Community health services are an essential building block in developing a neighbourhood health service, working closely with primary care, social care, and other community services to provide more care in the community to spot problems early.We are commit...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Integrated Care Boards to reduce waiting times for (a) speech and language therapy, (b) physiotherapy, (a) community paediatrics and (d) other communi
Answer: Community health services are an essential building block in developing a neighbourhood health service, working closely with primary care, social care, and other community services to provide more care in the community to spot problems early.We are commit...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to Integrated Care Boards to support the delivery of children’s community health services in each of the last three years.
Answer: Children’s community health services are part of integrated care board (ICB) core commissioning responsibilities. ICBs are given a non-ring-fenced allocation from which to commission services to meet these responsibilities and therefore there is no separa...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the workforce capacity in children’s community health services.
Answer: We are committed to reducing long waits and improving timely access to community health services, including for children’s community services. We are working closely with NHS England to improve access to community health services and on actions to reduce ...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of waiting times for children’s community health services; and what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for those services.
Answer: Community health services are an essential building block in developing a neighbourhood health service, working closely with primary care, social care, and other community services to provide more care in the community to spot problems early.We are commit...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOrigin Marking: Western SaharaDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July to Question 61881 on Western Sahara: Origin Marking, what discussions her Department has had with Tesco on the adequacy of its labelling of products fr
Answer: Under UK regulations, supermarket product selection remains a matter of retailer discretion, contingent upon compliance with food and labelling laws. Retailers operate independently and make sourcing decisions based on commercial, ethical, and consumer co...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWestern Sahara: Trade AgreementsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July to Question 61880 on Western Sahara: Trade Agreements, what discussions she has had with Sahrawi representatives on trade with Western Sahara
Answer: Trade agreements negotiated by the UK are conducted with sovereign states and in accordance with international law. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials regularly meet Sahrawi representatives to discuss UK policy on Western Sahara...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSentencing: ReviewsMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution during the Second Reading of the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill, Official Report, column 997, what recent progress his Department has made on the review
Answer: The previous Lord Chancellor commissioned a review of the latest data on sentencing disparities and its causes. I will provide more information on this in due course.
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to make changes to the eligibility criteria for indefinite leave to remain for people who have had continuous residence in the UK for 10 years.
Answer: We will be consulting on the new settlement rules later this year. Following that, we will provide details of how this initiative will work, including on any transitional arrangements for people already in the UK.
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Counter-terrorismForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent attacks on Kurdish-majority areas on (a) the long-term stability of regions formerly liberated from ISIS with t
Answer: We were concerned by the recent escalation of violence in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods in Aleppo on 6 October and welcomed the swift ceasefire agreement reached between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Government. It is vital that both sides...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had discussions with (a) representatives of the Syrian Democratic Forces and (b) other local partners on measures to protect civilians in Kurdish-majority are
Answer: We were concerned by the recent escalation of violence in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods in Aleppo on 6 October and welcomed the swift ceasefire agreement reached between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Government. It is vital that both sides...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with her international partners to help support humanitarian access to Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo.
Answer: We were concerned by the recent escalation of violence in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods in Aleppo on 6 October and welcomed the swift ceasefire agreement reached between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Government. It is vital that both sides...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports that armed groups affiliated with the Syrian Interim Government have (a) carried
Answer: We were concerned by the recent escalation of violence in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods in Aleppo on 6 October and welcomed the swift ceasefire agreement reached between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian Government. It is vital that both sides...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Workplace PensionsCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81998More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) unallocated cases and queries, (b) cases and queries allocated but not yet in progress and (c) cases and queries in progress but not yet completed being dealt with by the Civil Service Pension Schem
Answer: MyCSP; the Civil Service pension scheme administrator, does not record the data in the format requested. It reports to the Cabinet Office on a monthly basis. 85,503 new work items were received for the month of September. A work item reflects an individua...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFoster CareDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to the Fourth Report of Session 2024-25 of the Education Committee, Children’s Social Care, published on 10 July 2025, HC 430; and whether she plans to accept the recommendation on the
Answer: The department responded to the Fourth Report of the Session 2024-25 of the Education Committee, Children’s Social Care in September 2025. This includes our response to recommendation 29: ‘The Department for Education must put in place a national fosterin...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: Data ProtectionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to safeguard patient data under NHS contracts with (a) Palantir and (b) other private sector data collectors.
Answer: The National Health Service operates to the highest standards of data security, and all organisations have governance arrangements in place to ensure the safe, legal storage and use of data. The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) is built with robust secur...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) review and (b) reconsider the contract between the NHS and Palantir for the Federated Data Platform, in the context of the (i) abolition of NHS England, (ii) opposition of the Britis
Answer: The provider of the Federated Data Platform (FDP) was identified through a rigorous, competitive procurement process in line with Government procurement legislation. The selection was made by multiple assessors against clear criteria following an open ten...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Public ConsultationHome OfficeTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her predecessor's oral contribution in response to the hon. Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green during the Oral Statement of 12 May 2025 on the Immigration System, Official Repo
Answer: We will be consulting on the new settlement rules later this year. Following that, we will provide details of how this initiative will work, including on any transitional arrangements for people already in the UK.The citizenship proposals will be develope...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: ReformHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, updated on 6 June 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) people under 1
Answer: The new settlement rules will be subject both to an equality impact assessment and to a public consultation later this year. Details of how this initiative will work will be provided around that consultation. The citizenship proposals will be developed in...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Public ConsultationHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her predecessor's oral contribution in response to the hon. Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green during the Oral Statement of 12 May 2025 on the Immigration System, Official Repo
Answer: The Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper, sets out the government's plans to create an immigration system that promotes growth but is controlled and managed.We will be consulting on the new settlement rules later this year. Following...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: EducationMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value is of the Prison Education Service Careers Information, Advice and Guidance contracts in the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: The Prison Education Budget has not been reduced but increased costs mean that many prisons will experience a reduction in core-contract provision.The value of the Prisoner Education Framework contracts between 01 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 was £138 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: EducationMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget is for the prison education dynamic purchasing system in the 2025-26 financial year.
Answer: The Prison Education Budget has not been reduced but increased costs mean that many prisons will experience a reduction in core-contract provision.The value of the Prisoner Education Framework contracts between 01 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 was £138 mil...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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