Louie French MP: written questions
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Horse Racing: BookmakersDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support racecourse bookmakers.
Answer: DCMS officials engage regularly with the United Council of Racecourse Bookmakers to discuss a range of matters which affect them. In-person betting on racing - both at racecourses and betting shops more broadly - is associated with one of the lowest risks...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: Black EconomyDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on the number of gamblers accessing the black market.
Answer: The issue of illegal gambling is a concern for this Government. We are committed to working closely with the Gambling Commission, the statutory regulator for gambling in Great Britain, to ensure that illegal gambling, in all its forms, is addressed. To fu...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding domestic training places compared instead of continuing current levels of international recruitment.
Answer: On 8 December 2025, the Government put an offer in writing to the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee which would put in place emergency legislation in the new year which would prioritise United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland medical g...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDoctors: GraduatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on training UK medical students in each of the last five years, and how many of those publicly-funded graduates did not secure Foundation or speciality training places in th
Answer: The following table sets out the total costs incurred by NHS England in providing medical education in England between 2021/22 and 2025/26, split by placement costs and bursaries:Financial yearPlacement costs (£)Bursaries (£)Total Education and Training c...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will issue guidance to the NHS on recruitment the recruitment of domestic graduates and non-UK applicants.
Answer: On 8 December 2025, the Government put an offer in writing to the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee which would put in place emergency legislation in the new year which would prioritise United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland medical g...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDoctors: GraduatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the loss of UK-trained medical graduates to (a) alternative careers and (b) emigration.
Answer: On 8 December 2025, the Government put an offer in writing to the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee which would put in place emergency legislation in the new year which would prioritise United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland medical g...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDoctors: GraduatesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to prioritise UK-trained medical graduates over overseas-trained applicants when allocating (a) Foundation Years and (b) speciality training posts; and if he
Answer: On 8 December 2025, the Government put an offer in writing to the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee which would put in place emergency legislation in the new year which would prioritise United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland medical g...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to reduce youth unemployment in the context of recent job losses in the hospitality sector.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of the Hospitality sector in providing employment for young people. The Budget made more than £1.5bn available over the next three years for investment in employment and skills support. This funds £820m for the You...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97880More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) the combined effect of higher rateable values and (b) reduced business rates relief on the number of (i) hospitality closures and (ii) empty units on high
Answer: The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97879More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2025. what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed change to (a) rateable value and (b) business rates relief on (i) vacancy rates, (ii) job losses, (iii)
Answer: The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry and Leisure: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97878More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) pubs, (b) hotels, (c) restaurants, (d) indoor leisure facilities and (e) night clubs that will have their business rates bill (i) increase, (ii) remain the same, and (
Answer: The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97877More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance her Department has issued to UK Businesses on the potential impact of the (a) removal of business rates relief and (b) business rates revaluation on high street businesses.
Answer: The amount of business rates paid on each property is based on the rateable value of the property, assessed by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), and the multiplier values, which are set by the Government. Rateable values are re-assessed every three years...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCultural Heritage and SportsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to require local authorities to collect and publish baseline data on current (a) sports facilities and (b) heritage landscapes.
Answer: My Department has not made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports pitches by local authorities. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) makes clear that planning policies should be based on robust and up...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data relating to local sports infrastructure her Department holds; and whether she holds datasets on local authority breakdowns.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The Government has invested £98 million through the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme across the UK in 2025/26, funding project...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Leisure: ConservationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding allocations have been made to local authorities for the protection and improvement of (a) sports pitches and (b) heritage landscapes since 4 July 2024; and if she will publish a brea
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The Government has invested £98 million through the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme across the UK in 2025/26, funding project...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRecreation Spaces: ConservationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) registered parks, (b) gardens and (c) designed landscapes are currently classed as at risk in each local authority.
Answer: Registered parks and gardens in England are designated by Historic England. Data on the number that exist within each local authority area can be found by consulting the online National Heritage List for England. Data on the number of designed landscapes ...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRecreation SpacesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the most recent data held by her Department on the number of registered parks and gardens within each local authority area.
Answer: Registered parks and gardens in England are designated by Historic England. Data on the number that exist within each local authority area can be found by consulting the online National Heritage List for England. Data on the number of designed landscapes ...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FacilitiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of planning applications affecting sports pitches over the last five years by local authority.
Answer: My Department has not made a specific assessment about the adequacy of the types of application in question. Sport England received 1,164 statutory consultations in 2024/25, objecting to 30% of cases.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FacilitiesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports pitches by local authorities.
Answer: My Department has not made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports pitches by local authorities. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) makes clear that planning policies should be based on robust and up...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data her Department holds on the (i) number, (ii) type, and (ii) condition of publicly accessible sports pitches in each local authority area in England; and if she will publish that data.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The Government has invested £98 million through the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme across the UK in 2025/26, funding project...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international counterparts on protecting the right of nations to self-determination.
Answer: Article 1 (2) of the United Nations Charter establishes that one of the organisation's founding purposes is to develop friendly international relations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. We continue to wo...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLevelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will set out a timeline for bringing section 102 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 into force.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to UIN 69488 on 2 September 2025.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordExercise: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96834More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business tax rises on physical activity levels.
Answer: The Government recognises the important contribution that sport and physical activity make to health and wellbeing in the UK.At the Budget, the VOA announced updated property values from the 2026 revaluation. This revaluation is the first since Covid, whi...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordExercise: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96833More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business tax rises on the physical activity sector.
Answer: The Government recognises the important contribution that sport and physical activity make to health and wellbeing in the UK.At the Budget, the VOA announced updated property values from the 2026 revaluation. This revaluation is the first since Covid, whi...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTourism: TaxationTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96832More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the cumulative effect of (a) increasing betting duties on seaside arcades, (b) a nightly levy on hotel stays, (c) the abolition of Favoured Tax Regime for Furnished Holiday Lets, (d)
Answer: The Government has carefully assessed the cumulative impacts of measures announced over recent Budgets on businesses and households. Taken together, these measures raise revenue to support the public finances in a fair way, whilst providing targeted suppo...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
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