Luke Charters MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Special Educational Needs: AppealsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the education, health and care plan appeals system.
Answer: The increase in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) tribunal appeals for the last academic year reflects, in part, the increase in the number of children and young people with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. 576,000 had an EHC plan...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: AppealsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of spending by local authorities on defending SEND tribunal appeals in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer: The increase in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) tribunal appeals for the last academic year reflects, in part, the increase in the number of children and young people with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. 576,000 had an EHC plan...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: AppealsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which there has been an increase in the number of SEND tribunal appeals in the last academic year.
Answer: The increase in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) tribunal appeals for the last academic year reflects, in part, the increase in the number of children and young people with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. 576,000 had an EHC plan...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TribunalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of whether there are socio-economic disparities in the outcomes of special educational needs and disability tribunals.
Answer: Information about appeal outcomes to the First-tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.This information includes outcomes of appeals, types of educational need and ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Low IncomesDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support low-income families to apply for education, health and care plans.
Answer: For too long the education system has not met the needs of all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. We know that parents have ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effectiveness of implementing cohort-based education, health and care plans.
Answer: For too long the education system has not met the needs of all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. We know that parents have ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Cerebral PalsyDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to education, health and care plans for children with cerebral palsy in education settings.
Answer: This government is committed to strengthening the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system for all children and young people, including those with cerebral palsy, to ensure they receive the right support to succeed in their education and a...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the different ways in which local authorities allocate funding for education, health and care plans.
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 succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. Following the Aut...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) support and (b) improve decision-making in the provision of education, health and care plan assessments.
Answer: Local authorities have a statutory responsibility to assess whether children and young people have special educational needs that require an education, health and care (EHC) plan. Under the EHC needs assessment process, local authorities must seek informa...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement TherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy.
Answer: The Department has continued to work hard with industry and NHS England to help resolve supply issues with some attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medicines, which are affecting the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. As a re...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMortgages: RegulationTreasuryTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24348More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reforming mortgage regulation.
Answer: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), who are operationally independent of Government, are responsible for the regulation and conduct of financial services and markets, including the residential mortgage market. In 2014, the FCA put in place new regulati...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIVFDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance on commissioning policies for NHS-funded IVF.
Answer: Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning local health services, including fertility services, taking account of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidelines. The NICE is currently reviewing the fertility servic...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of auto-enrolment schemes for free school meals.
Answer: There are currently around 2.1 million pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals (FSM). The department recognises the vital role played by FSM and encourages all eligible families to take up their entitlement. To make this as easy as possible the...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24014More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Child Maintenance Service is taking to ensure equitable treatment of Armed Forces families.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service operates on the principle that both parents have financial responsibility for their child, including their food and clothing, as well as contributing towards the associated costs of running the home that the child lives in. C...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on intermittent shortages of (a) Olanzapine and (b) other anti-psychosis medicines in the UK.
Answer: Department officials regularly meet with manufacturers and suppliers to discuss shortages of olanzapine and other anti-psychosis medicines, and how to manage them.We have been notified of some issues for olanzapine tablets and orodispersible tablets, howe...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review the adequacy of levels of access to ADHD medication; and if a Minister will meet with the hon. Member for York Outer to discuss ADHD medication shortag
Answer: The Department has been working hard with industry and NHS England to help resolve supply issues with some attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medicines, which are affecting the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. As a result ...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
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