Luke Taylor MP: written questions 2025
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Santander Group: Fees and ChargesTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81554More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with Santander UK plc on its introduction of £120 annual charge for small business accounts.
Answer: The Government regularly engages with a wide range of stakeholders across the financial services sector including Santander. While the Government recognises the concerns of long-standing customers who signed up to different business accounts, decisions re...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBile Acid Malabsorption: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to help improve (a) clinical understanding, (b) diagnosis, and (c) treatment pathways for people with bile acid malabsorption.
Answer: The United Kingdom has a well-developed network of clinicians interested in bile acid disorders, namely the UK Bile Acid Related Diarrhoea Network, which is working with the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) on a major clinical trial. ...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBile Acid Malabsorption: TirzepatideDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to Mounjaro for people with bile acid malabsorption.
Answer: In the United Kingdom, medicines need to have a licence before they can be marketed, and these are granted by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). To get a licence, the manufacturer of the medicine has to provide evidence which ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: LabellingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to improve the level of transparency of method-of-production welfare labelling for (a) pork, (b) chicken and (c) eggs.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for York Central, Rachael Maskell, on 8 October 2025, PQ UIN 76016.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolitics and Government: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all 16 to 18-year-olds receive political education in schools.
Answer: In secondary schools, democracy is currently taught through the national curriculum for citizenship, with an optional GCSE available in citizenship studies. Political education is not compulsory post-16, but providers are free to teach it if they wish. Wh...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including specific measures to improve the safety of women runners in the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.
Answer: This Government has been clear that the level of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in our country is intolerable, and we are treating it as the national emergency that it is.Everyone should both be and feel safe whilst going about their day-to-day l...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: PalestiniansForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps she is taking to secure the release of Palestinian children held in Israeli military detention centres.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given on 13th October to Question 76963.
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will ask the Pensions Commission to consider expansion of access to the State Pension for people of working age with terminal illnesses.
Answer: The Terms of Reference for the Pensions Commission, which set out the scope for the Commission, were published on the 21st July. As set out in their Terms of Reference, the Commissioners will consider what is required in the long term to deliver financial...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the effectiveness of the Special Rules for End of Life fast-tracking benefits system.
Answer: The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help improve the financial security of people at the end of life.
Answer: This Government is committed to providing a financial safety net for those who need it. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). Th...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice and End of Life Care entitled Inquiry into the financial imp
Answer: The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life. These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment o...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordA205Department for TransportTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department's Roads Investment Committee has considered funding alterations to the London South Circular in the last year.
Answer: No, it has not. Responsibility for progressing any work on the London South Circular is a matter for Transport for London.The Catford town centre scheme, which includes proposed alterations to the London South Circular, was originally part of the Departme...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: FootballDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will prohibit the voluntary engagement of children as matchball assistants at grassroots football clubs.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill should not prohibit the voluntary engagement of children as match ball assistants at grassroots football clubs, as it does not change the scope of what is or is not considered employment for the purposes of the Ch...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with (a) Citizens Advice, (b) disabled people and (c) carers as part of the upcoming Timms Review.
Answer: We are committed to co-producing the Timms Review with disabled people, the organisations that represent them, clinicians, experts, MPs and other stakeholders, so a wide range of views and voices are heard. This will include carers' organisations so that ...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCrossrail 2 LineDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the proposed Crossrail 2 route will include Worcester Park station.
Answer: The development of Crossrail 2 was paused in 2020, and whilst the route through Central London remains safeguarded to protect it from conflicting development, the Government currently has no plans to move forward with the scheme.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Occupied TerritoriesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to prevent JCB equipment being used by the Israeli Government in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Answer: The UK Government has a clear position that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law. We have guidance on gov.uk that states there are clear risks related to economic and financial activities in the s...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSlaughterhouses: Carbon DioxideDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to phase out the use of high concentration carbon dioxide gas for the stunning of livestock in abattoirs.
Answer: The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter. We understand that there is a pressing need to address the welfare concerns associated with this method of stunning pigs. The Animal Welfare Committee has carried out an up-to...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGovia Thameslink Railway: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the reliability of Govia Thameslink Railway train services between Sutton Common and Wimbledon.
Answer: Govia Thameslink Railway and Network Rail are working closely to improve reliability of services between Sutton Common and Wimbledon, including through better management of trespass incidents, improving signalling infrastructure reliability and increasing...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Myeloma: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include targets to improve diagnosis times for myeloma in the National Cancer Plan for England.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve out...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Myeloma: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include targets to improve diagnosis times for myeloma in the forthcoming National Cancer Plan for England.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve out...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to bring forward secondary legislation to enact the Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023.
Answer: We continue to engage with stakeholders including the tourism industry and animal welfare groups to explore both legislative and non-legislative options to stop the advertising of low-welfare animal activities abroad.
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHeat NetworksDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to bring the gas purchased for community heat networks under the energy price cap set by Ofgem.
Answer: Heat network operators typically buy their energy through commercial contracts. As the energy price cap has been designed for domestic electricity and gas customers, it could not be applied to the price of energy purchased on the wholesale market. DESNZ a...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal credit: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73113More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to increase the Universal Credit rate for people under 25 ahead of the Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer: There are currently no plans to increase the Universal Credit rate for people under 25. Under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 the Secretary of State is required by law to review State Pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have ret...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: SafetyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help ensure the safe use of artificial intelligence.
Answer: Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation, and the Government is taking action to harness its economic benefits for UK citizens. As set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan, we believe most AI systems should be regulated at ...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including a target of at least 80 hours of enrichment activities in the enrichment framework.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam to the answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62871.
Answered 3 Oct 2025
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