Luke Taylor MP: written questions
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Metropolitan Police: DiscriminationHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Metropolitan Police leaders on safeguards to protect whistleblowers who report (a) misogyny and (b) racism.
Answer: The Home Secretary and I have regular meetings with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and other police leaders on a range of issues including police conduct.Police officers have a statutory duty to report wrongdoing by their colleagues when they see it...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based Violence: Greater LondonHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that women have confidence that they will be believed when reporting (a) assault, (b) abuse and (c) rape to the Metropolitan Police.
Answer: We are committed to playing a more active role in policing to ensure officers have the right support, to significantly improve standards across the board and to ensure justice is delivered for victims. Victims must feel confident in the police’s ability t...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMetropolitan Police: VettingHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to strengthen the national framework for the Metropolitan Police’s vetting processes to (a) identify and (b) exclude applicants with discriminatory attitudes on the basis of cha
Answer: Police forces are expected to carry out vetting in alignment with the national framework set out in the College of Policing’s statutory Vetting Code of Practice and accompanying Vetting Authorised Professional Practice (APP).Vetting decision-making is mad...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGrammar Schools: DisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children from lower-income backgrounds are not disadvantaged in access to grammar school places.
Answer: Schools are not permitted to charge parents for their children’s admission or education. This includes charges for children to sit a school’s entrance test. However, they can charge for optional extras such as familiarisation tests.The department and the ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGrammar Schools: AssessmentsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the practice of state grammar schools charging fees for familiarisation tests ahead of 11-plus entrance exams.
Answer: Schools are not permitted to charge parents for their children’s admission or education. This includes charges for children to sit a school’s entrance test. However, they can charge for optional extras such as familiarisation tests.The department and the ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPostural Tachycardia Syndrome: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the average time taken to diagnose postural tachycardia syndrome.
Answer: We are investing in additional capacity to deliver appointments to help bring waiting lists and times down. The Elective Reform Plan, published in January 2025, sets out the specific productivity and reform efforts needed to return to the constitutional s...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps is she taking to ensure the safety of citizens’ personal data through the proposed digital ID scheme.
Answer: Privacy and security are integral to the Government’s proposals. People’s privacy and data will be protected in line with the UK’s data protection laws as well as using state-of-the-art encryption and authentication technology that’s already protecting mi...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the projected cost is for introducing a national digital ID system.
Answer: The Government will launch a public consultation on the new digital ID by the end of the year. The eventual total cost and savings will depend on the design, build and delivery of the system, matters which will be included in the consultation. We expect t...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGynaecology: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the measures outlined in the document entitled Reforming elective care for patients, published on 6 January 2025, on waiting lists for gynaeco
Answer: Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission. We have now exceeded our pledge to deliver an extra 2 million operations, scans, and appointments, having now delivered 5.2 million more appointments. This marks a vital First Step to delivering ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital funding for maternity and neonatal services.
Answer: We recognise that repairing and rebuilding our healthcare estate is a vital part of the Government's ambition to create a National Health Service that is fit for the future. As a first step towards improving our maternity and neonatal estate, we are inves...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the (a) development and (b) expansion of women’s health hubs across the country.
Answer: We are supporting integrated care boards (ICBs) to continue improving their delivery of women’s health hubs, in line with their responsibility to commission services that meet the needs of their local populations.We have heard from ICBs on the positive im...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce the energy price cap.
Answer: The level of the price cap is calculated based on factors including the costs of buying gas, of transporting energy to homes and businesses across the country, and suppliers’ day-to-day costs. The single largest component is the wholesale cost of energy d...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSantander 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
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