Luke Murphy MP: written questions
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Small Businesses: AuditDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the (a) accessibility and (b) affordability of audit requirements for small and mid-sized quoted companies.
Answer: Audit standards for UK companies are adopted and set by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), with reference to internationally-agreed standards. The Government is aware of concerns about the cost and availability of high-quality audit for smaller quoted...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLondon Stock ExchangeTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61381More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent companies de-listing in London.
Answer: We have already delivered an ambitious set of reforms to boost the competitiveness of UK markets including overhauling the Listing Rules, providing more flexibility to firms and founders raising capital. To create a stable regulatory environment, and comp...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall BusinessesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of small and mid-sized quoted companies to the Government's growth mission.
Answer: SMEs, including quoted companies, are an integral part of the Government’s growth mission in creating vibrant and prosperous local communities and being critical to supply chains for key industries. They are a diverse group operating in every sector, regi...
Answered 27 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Business BankDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a quoted portfolio in the British Business Bank.
Answer: The British Business Bank does have some quoted holdings, largely as a result of post-investment corporate activity. The focus of the Bank is on strengthening private markets. Any expansion of the Bank’s mandate into public markets would need a comprehens...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: InvestmentTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61378More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to incentivise investment in small and mid-sized companies.
Answer: This Government believes that small businesses are vital to the UK’s high streets and communities, and essential to the success of the government’s growth mission. To support small businesses, the Government announced generous tax reforms at Autumn Budget...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61377More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to recognise the economic contributions of small and mid-sized quoted companies.
Answer: We have already delivered an ambitious set of reforms to boost the competitiveness of UK markets, including for small and mid-sized quoted companies. This includes overhauling the Listing Rules, reforming the Prospectus regime to provide more flexibility ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordInvestment: RegulationTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61376More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to implement regulation that increases risk appetite among investors.
Answer: We have already delivered an ambitious set of reforms to boost the competitiveness of UK markets, including for small and mid-sized quoted companies. This includes overhauling the Listing Rules, reforming the Prospectus regime to provide more flexibility ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: FinanceTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61375More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase liquidity for small and mid-sized companies.
Answer: This Government believes that small businesses are vital to the UK’s high streets and communities, and essential to the success of the government’s growth mission. To support small businesses, the Government announced generous tax reforms at Autumn Budget...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall BusinessesTreasuryTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61374More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to increase public and investor confidence in small and mid-sized quoted companies listed in the UK.
Answer: We have already delivered an ambitious set of reforms to boost the competitiveness of UK markets, including for small and mid-sized quoted companies. This includes overhauling the Listing Rules, reforming the Prospectus regime to provide more flexibility ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeat BatteriesTreasuryTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60674More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the consultation entitled Boiler Upgrade Scheme and certification requirements for clean heat schemes, published on 30 April 2025, whether her Department plans to update the list of Energy Saving M
Answer: This Government is committed to improving the quality and sustainability of our housing stock. This will be vital to making the UK more energy resilient and meeting our 2050 Net Zero commitment. Between 30 April and 11 June 2025, the Department for Energy...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeat Batteries: HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the potential role of heat batteries in homes that are unsuitable for a heat pump.
Answer: Though heat batteries can utilise time-of-use tariffs, do not require outside space and can be cheaper to install, they are less efficient than heat pumps. If heat batteries do not have sufficient storage capacity, they could draw electricity at peak time...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Guardianship OrdersDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve coordination between public services and local authorities in cases involving safeguarding concerns for children under Special Guardianship Orders.
Answer: The multi-agency statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ outlines how sharing of information between organisations and agencies within a multi-agency system is essential to improve outcomes for children and their families, including th...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Guardianship Orders: Kinship CareDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) implications for her policies of the (i) financial and (ii) housing pressures experienced by kinship carers and (b) impact of those pressures on the sustainabil
Answer: The government recognises the significant financial, and wider, pressures faced by kinship carers and their impact on the sustainability of special guardianship placements.That is why the government announced £40 million investment in a Kinship Allowance ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Guardianship Orders: Kinship CareDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authority compliance with the requirement to provide support plans to kinship carers under Special Guardianship Orders.
Answer: There is a general duty on local authorities to arrange for the provision of special guardianship support services in their local areas.Children who were previously looked after by a local authority, and their special guardians, have an automatic right to...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: WaterForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59160More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to support water, sanitation and hygiene programmes through Overseas Development Assistance.
Answer: Our portfolio includes the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Systems for Health programme, which supports governments in eight countries to strengthen the systems needed to provide climate-resilient and inclusive WASH services. To help governments and ...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Property ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the adequacy of his Department’s oversight of NHS Property Services.
Answer: NHS Property Services is a company with all of the share capital owned by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. As a limited company regulated by the Companies Act, it is governed by a board consisting of a majority of non-...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Property ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) performance and (b) level of accountability of NHS Property Services.
Answer: NHS Property Services is a company with all of the share capital owned by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. As a limited company regulated by the Companies Act, it is governed by a board consisting of a majority of non-...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Associations: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support housing associations with increases in costs for (a) materials, (b) staffing and (c) regulatory compliance.
Answer: The government recognises that Registered Providers need support to build their capacity and make a greater contribution to affordable housing supply. Between 30 October 2024 and 23 December 2024, the government consulted on a new 5-year social housing re...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Associations: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review the long-term financial sustainability of housing associations as part of the (a) Spending Review and (b) long-term housing strategy.
Answer: The government recognises that Registered Providers need support to build their capacity and make a greater contribution to affordable housing supply. Between 30 October 2024 and 23 December 2024, the government consulted on a new 5-year social housing re...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing enforceable limits on the number of children conceived from a single gamete donor.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the United Kingdom’s fertility sector regulator, has advised that donor sperm, eggs, or embryos should not be used to create more than 10 families in the UK.The HFEA expects UK licensed clinics to e...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the consistency of informed consent practices in donor conception.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that it sets out strict requirements in its Licence Conditions and Code of Practice in relation to obtaining informed consent from egg, sperm, and embryo donors and patients undergoing do...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIVFDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a national system for tracking gamete and embryo donors.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the United Kingdom’s fertility sector regulator, has advised that HFEA licensed clinics are required by law to provide treatment and outcome information on all gamete or embryo donations taking plac...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990Department of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51677More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to amend the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 to reflect developments in reproductive technology.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published Modernising Fertility Law in November 2023, which made a number of recommendations for legislative change, including around its regulatory powers. Ministers have met with the HFEA Chair and...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in relation to the regulation of donor conception.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is required by law to maintain records and make certain information available upon request to those affected by donor conception.The HFEA was subject to a Public Bodies Review in 2023, where all aspe...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPostnatal CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) access to weigh in services with health visitors and (b) other postnatal support is provided (i) consistently and (ii) accessibly to new paren
Answer: Local authorities have responsibility for commissioning public health services, including health visiting and services for all new parents. The Healthy Child Programme sets out the services and support families can expect and includes guidance on weighing...
Answered 16 May 2025
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