Marie Goldman MP: written questions
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Written questions
Eurostar: KentDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to review the (a) Ebbsfleet and (b) Ashford services of the Eurostar line.
Answer: Whilst it is a commercial decision for Eurostar to make on the reinstatement of these services, I recognise the continued disappointment felt by local communities and businesses and I too am keen to see the reinstatement of these services. Officials regul...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of fire safety risk assessors who are able to carry out fire risk assessments of external wall systems.
Answer: The Department conducts regular capacity surveys and supplier engagement to ensure we have enough assessors to meet the expected requirement, in line with our objective in the Department’s Remediation Acceleration plan to ensure capacity in the remediatio...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWindrush Generation: Public InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a new public inquiry into the Windrush scandal.
Answer: This government is determined to put right the appalling injustices caused by the Home Office’s treatment of members of the Windrush community, making sure that those affected receive the compensation they rightly deserve, and ensuring cultural change is ...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordProperty: FraudMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) providing support for victims to recover investments and (b) holding perpetrators accountable in cases of fraudulent
Answer: HM Land Registry provides a state guarantee which in appropriate circumstances financially compensates victims of property registration fraud.HM Land Registry has the power to seek recovery of indemnity payments from perpetrators of fraud and conveyancers...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHuman Rights: PakistanHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure the safety of British Pakistanis speaking out about human rights violations in Pakistan.
Answer: The Government regularly assesses potential threats to the UK, and takes the protection of individuals' rights, freedoms, and safety in the UK very seriously.As you would expect, Home Office officials work closely with the FCDO and MHCLG as well as other ...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: ICTDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19109More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of standardising of NHS IT systems to help increase levels of efficiency.
Answer: Interoperability between IT systems would improve the quality of care and safety for patients, as well as enabling better informed clinical and care decision-making, by allowing for information to be shared easily, in real time, between organisations that...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChronic Illnesses: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a hardship fund for parents of children who have been diagnosed with chronic illnesses and have been hospitalised for more t
Answer: The Building the Right Support Action Plan, published in 2022, contains commitments which have not yet passed their delivery dates, including the commitment to reform the Mental Health Act.We do not plan to create new actions in a new action plan while th...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the flexible fund beyond February 2025.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting victims of domestic abuse.At the beginning of October, we launched a £1.96m investment into the Flexible Fund. The Flexible Fund, administered by Women’s Aid Federation of England, can be accessed through over 470...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordService ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will legislate to cap annual service charge rises at consumer price index inflation rates.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question UIN 7465 on 15 October 2024
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Endometriosis and PeriodsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure problems arising from menstrual health conditions, such as endometriosis, are accepted by employers as justified workplace absences.
Answer: Officials from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for Equality and Opportunity met with Endometriosis UK to discuss the development of Equality Action Plans on 13th November 2024. On 18th October 2024 the Government appointed Mariella Fro...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of levels of carers pay.
Answer: Adult social care is a historically low paid sector, as most care workers are paid at or just above the National Living Wage. The recently introduced Employment Rights Bill aims to address this by establishing a framework for Fair Pay Agreements, through ...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the asylum case backlog.
Answer: Mr Speaker, this government inherited an asylum system in crisis, with decision-making on cases at its lowest level for years, £8 million per day being spent on asylum hotels, and a £6 billion in-year overspend on asylum and illegal migration costs.We hav...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWines: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14800More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to alcohol duty on the wine industry.
Answer: At the recent Budget, the Chancellor announced that she would uprate alcohol duty in line with RPI inflation on 1 February 2025, except on qualifying draught products. This decision weighed the impacts on businesses, cost-of-living pressures on people who...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) reduction to the National Insurance threshold and (b) costs for employing part-time (i) teaching assistants and (ii) school support staff on (A)
Answer: The government has agreed that the department will be compensated for the increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) paid by state-funding schools. Work is underway to determine how much the department will receive for those employers within its ...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDisposable Wipes: PlasticsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for (a) introducing and (b) implementing a ban on wet wipes that contain plastic.
Answer: The Government is working together with the devolved Governments to understand the issue, with a view to legislate to ban wet wipes containing plastic across the UK.
Answered 19 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordTax Avoidance: ProsecutionsTreasuryTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13152More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) promoters and (b) operators of schemes now subject to the Loan Charge have been prosecuted.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Chelmsford to the answer I gave on 16 October 2024 to Question UIN 7747.
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHomes for Ukraine SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of oversight of the Homes for Ukraine Scheme by her Department; and what steps she is taking to prevent abuse of that scheme.
Answer: The British public has shown a true generosity of spirit by opening their homes to Ukrainians seeking sanctuary from Putin’s illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This generosity should not be abused, and taxpayers’ money must be used to support the int...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of an NHS-funded salaried training route to becoming a school counsellor.
Answer: We have no plans to do so, as there is already an existing National Health Service-funded salaried training route for education based mental health practitioners, which enables them to work across education and healthcare to provide mental health support ...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10544More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing local council planning fees so that they cover the costs of local planning services.
Answer: In our recent consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, we sought views on changes to planning application fees to cover the costs of local planning services. The consultation clos...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning ObligationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10543More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) infrastructure levy and (b) Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and section 106 system.
Answer: The Government want to deliver the much-needed affordable housing local communities need and the wider infrastructure that will mitigate the impacts of new development. We do not believe the Infrastructure Levy as introduced in the Levelling-up and Regene...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Older PeopleDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring senior people to retake their driving test upon reaching a certain age.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) believes that most people want to be safe, law-abiding drivers and any post-test intervention needs to be focused where it will achieve most benefit and, where appropriate, should be targeted against irrespon...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSummertime: Mental HealthDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9247More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to make an assessment of the impact of daylight saving time on (a) mental health and (b) seasonal affective disorder.
Answer: The Government has no current plans to change the approach to Daylight Savings.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on whether teachers in (a) sixth forms and (b) other further educational institutions will receive the same pay rise as teachers in other settings; and if she will make an
Answer: The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE), including in sixth form colleges and other FE institutions. The pay and conditions of FE staff remains the responsibility of individual colleges and providers who are free to implemen...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the potential impact of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees on the international competitiveness of Brit
Answer: Details of the government’s assessment of the expected impacts of introducing VAT on private school fees will be published at the Budget in the usual way.
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of introducing VAT on independent school fees on the number of children taking up sports scholarships.
Answer: While details of the government’s assessment of the expected impacts of introducing VAT on private school fees will be published at the Budget in the usual way, the government does not collect figures on scholarships, bursaries and other financial support...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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