Kirsty Blackman MP: written questions
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Offshore Industry: AberdeenDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that Aberdeen’s skilled North Sea oil and gas workforce is supported to transition into jobs in (a) carbon capture and storage and (b) hydrogen in the Scotti
Answer: The Office for Clean Energy Jobs is supporting the delivery of an industry-led Energy Skills Passport as part of a fair, orderly and prosperous transition. This is an important step to help workers transition from carbon-intensive industries to new clean ...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture, Usage and Storage: ScotlandDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage is deployed in Scotland.
Answer: We are committed to supporting UK industry to decarbonise, enabling the country to take advantage of new opportunities that can promote growth and wealth creation, and protecting thousands of jobs in regions and industries across the UK. The Scottish Clus...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25234More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the transparency data entitled Data on responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers in 2023, published on 23 May 2024, how his Department obtained the raw data on correspondence received from
Answer: The Cabinet Office commissions each Government department and agency individually to request data to be included in the reports titled ‘Data on responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers’ that are published on GOV.UK.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24858More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Guide to Handling Correspondence, updated on 6 September 2024, and with reference to his Department's transparency data entitled Data on responses to correspo
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions complies with correspondence reporting and data requests from the Cabinet Office. The data on responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers 2023 includes performance when responding to correspondence from members of d...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24857More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Guide to Handling Correspondence, updated on 6 September 2024, and with reference to his Department's transparency data entitled Data on responses to correspo
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions complies with correspondence reporting and data requests from the Cabinet Office. The data on responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers 2023 includes performance when responding to correspondence from members of d...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24856More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22905 on State Retirement Pensions: Women and with reference to page 11 of his Department's guidance entitled Guide to Handling Correspondence, updated on 6
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions complies with correspondence reporting and data requests from the Cabinet Office. The data on responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers 2023 includes performance when responding to correspondence from members of d...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department records the number of enquiries received from (a) hon. Members and (b) Members of Devolved (i) Parliaments and (ii) Assemblies on a quarterly basis.
Answer: The department receives and responds to enquiries from Members of Parliament and Members of devolved Parliaments or Assemblies but does not collate, report or produce statistics on this.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22905More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21320 on written representations to the Department of Work and Pensions, whether there have been changes to the directions to Government departments on the lo
Answer: The Guide to Handling Correspondence, owned by the Cabinet Office and published on GOV.UK, sets out the guidance for Government departments to follow when handling correspondence from MPs and Members of the devolved Parliaments and Assemblies. The guidanc...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Gender Based ViolenceDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of lighting on trains on the levels of violence against women and girls travelling on the network.
Answer: The National Travel Attitudes Survey on perceptions of safety when walking, cycling and using public transport, found that a ‘poorly lit vehicle or carriage’ was the joint seventh most popular reason for feeling unsafe when travelling on a public transpor...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Gender Based ViolenceDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has a strategy for tackling violence against women and girls on trains after the passage of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill.
Answer: Tackling violence against women and girls is a priority for the Government. We have set the ambitious target to halve this figure in the next decade using every lever available to us. The Department is working closely with the central mission delivery uni...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill on safety on trains.
Answer: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 makes no changes to existing roles and responsibilities regarding safety or tackling crime and anti-social behaviour. As such, there is no reason to expect any adverse impacts. The Government expe...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will have responsibility for safety on trains following passage of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership Bill).
Answer: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 makes no changes to existing roles and responsibilities regarding safety or tackling crime and anti-social behaviour. Tackling crime is the responsibility of the British Transport Police, who will...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEqual Pay: Social ClassWomen and EqualitiesTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22270More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to measure links between differences in pay and the socioeconomic background of employees.
Answer: We are committed to delivering better life chances for all - breaking the link between background and success.At the Budget, the Chancellor announced increases to both the National Minimum Wage (16.3% for those aged 18-20) and the National Living Wage (6....
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Social ClassDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating socioeconomic background reporting for all employers with over 250 employees.
Answer: The Department has not undertaken any such assessment. Companies are already required to disclose employee matters and can choose to include socioeconomic aspects where relevant to their business. For example, all large companies in the UK must include in...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written representations on compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age she has received from Labour (a) hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies and (b) Members
Answer: The Department does not keep this information centrally and therefore it is not readily available. Providing the information that the Department does hold would incur disproportionate costs.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFinasterideDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the sales Finasteride medications through telehealth companies on an increase in the level of cases of Post-Finasteride Syndrome in the
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) role is to continually monitor the safety of medicines during their use. We have robust, safety monitoring and surveillance systems in place for all healthcare products, including finasterid...
Answered 31 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in each constituency in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.
Answer: In Scotland, as of the 2022 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Scottish constituency: ConstituencyFemales aged 63 to 72 in 2022East Renfrewshire6,086Na h-Eileanan an Iar1,914Midlothian5,569North Ayrshire and Arran6,866Orkn...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLow Alcohol Drinks: LabellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to standardise the term alcohol-free at 0.5% ABV for no and low-alcohol alternatives.
Answer: A consultation published in 2023 considered options for updating labelling guidance for no and low alcohol alternative drinks.We will continue to consider how alcohol labelling can be improved to support consumers to make informed decisions about the prod...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordLow Alcohol Drinks: LabellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the consultation entitled Updating labelling guidance for no and low-alcohol alternatives, published on 28 September 2023, whether his Department plans to take steps to update lab
Answer: A consultation published in 2023 considered options for updating labelling guidance for no and low alcohol alternative drinks.We will continue to consider how alcohol labelling can be improved to support consumers to make informed decisions about the prod...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
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