Mark Pritchard MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Trade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the US-UK trade deal on the food (a) manufacturing and (b) processing sector in Shropshire.
Answer: In 2024, food and drink trade between the West Midlands and the US was worth £68 million.We concluded a landmark economic deal with the US on 8 May. This deal will protect thousands of jobs, protect key British industries, and help drive economic growth.D...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish details on an annual basis of the number of animals which are bred for, but not used in, scientific procedures in Britain each year.
Answer: The Home Office is presently reviewing the collection and publication of additional statistics on animals that were bred for, but not used in, scientific procedures.
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ShropshireCabinet OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54707More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve opportunities in public procurement for SMEs in (a) the defence sector and (b) other sectors in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Answer: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make a vital contribution to economic growth and are a valuable source of technical innovation in defence. This is recognised in the Defence Industrial Strategy Statement of Intent, as well as the Ministry of Defence's ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health treatment in (a) Shropshire, (b) Telford and (c) Wrekin.
Answer: Long waits for mental health services are being driven by increasing demand in a system in desperate need of change, including in Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin.The Government is piloting innovative models of care in the community, including six neighbou...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will prioritise (a) research into, (b) diagnosis of and (c) treatment of pancreatic cancer in the new National Cancer Plan.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will cover the entirety of the cancer pathway, from referral and diagnosis to treatment and ongoing care, as well as prevention, and research and innovation. It will seek to improve every aspect of cancer care to better the experi...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve survival rates for pancreatic cancer.
Answer: Improving survival rates for all cancers, including pancreatic cancer, is a priority for the Government. As the first step to ensuring faster diagnosis and treatment, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week.NHS Engl...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEarwax: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will support Integrated Care Boards to offer community ear wax removal services.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have a statutory responsibility to commission cost-effective healthcare to meet the needs of their local populations. This includes the arrangement of services for ear wax removal. When ICBs exercise their functions, includin...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-teaching Staff: Crimes against the PersonDepartment for EducationTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54239More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with education unions to investigate links between viewing online violent social media content on personal mobile devices and physical attacks on teaching staff in schools.
Answer: All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school, and nobody should face violence or abuse. The department will always support our hard working teachers to ensure they can work in safe and calm classrooms. All school employers have a duty to ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnited States Africa CommandMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will have discussions with his US counterpart on the (a) strategic contribution of Red Sea region and (b) the potential merits of retaining the United States Africa Command.
Answer: The Secretary of State for Defence has regular engagements with the US Secretary of Defense where they discuss a range of topics including Red Sea security. The UK Ministry of Defence also undertakes frequent engagement with US AFRICOM on a range of issue...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: TrainingTreasuryTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51339More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that officials in her Department are adequately trained on potential economic statecraft mechanisms that could be deployed against the UK.
Answer: The Government possesses a range of diplomatic, economic, trade and other tools to respond to economic statecraft mechanisms if they are deployed against the UK. We work with the G7 and a range of other close partners to strengthen our joint resilience in...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIraq and Yazidis: Gender Based ViolenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to support the Free Yezidi Foundation to help tackle violence against women and girls within (a) Yezidi and (b) Iraqi society.
Answer: The UK continues to take a survivor-centred approach to support individuals who have experienced or are at risk of conflict related sexual violence, modern slavery and human trafficking.Our development programming has bolstered the authorities' and civil ...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordYazidis: Children and WomenForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) locate and (b) free enslaved Yazidi (i) women and (ii) children.
Answer: The UK continues to take a survivor-centred approach to support individuals who have experienced or are at risk of conflict related sexual violence, modern slavery and human trafficking.Our development programming has bolstered the authorities' and civil ...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: RussiaHome OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help counter the UK operations of the GRU’s Department of Special Tasks.
Answer: National security is the first priority of government, and we work closely with all our international partners to assess and tackle all threats. As is our long-standing position, the Home Office does not comment in detail on operational, intelligence or s...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: RussiaHome OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with her US counterpart on taking joint steps to counter efforts by the Russian GRU to bring down transatlantic aircraft through the development of incendiary devices.
Answer: National security is the first priority of government, and we work closely with all our international partners to assess and tackle all threats. As is our long-standing position, the Home Office does not comment in detail on operational, intelligence or s...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIslamic State: Central AsiaHome OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51334More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to stop ISIS-K members from using conventional visa routes to travel to the UK from the central Asian republics.
Answer: It would not be appropriate to comment in detail on operational security matters or specific cases. However, all visa applications are subject to comprehensive security checks and we maximise the use of upstream interventions to prevent people who pose a ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGamblingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to introduce (a) identity checks and (b) spending limits for crypto betting.
Answer: There are currently no licensed gambling operators in Great Britain which allow payment using cryptocurrencies. If an operator wished to accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment, they would have to satisfy themselves and the Gambling Commission, the reg...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChristianity: AnniversariesChurch CommissionersTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50088More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church of England plans to take to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.
Answer: In a paper for the February 2025 sitting of the General Synod of the Church of England, the Liturgical Commission wrote:“The Nicene Creed is one of the most significant, universally recognized and definitively authoritative statements of Christian faith, ...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: UkraineMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his counterpart in Nepal on the (i) number of Nepalese nationals who are and (ii) steps Nepal is taking to help prevent its nationals fighting as mercenaries for the Russian Feder
Answer: The Ministry for Defence engages regularly with the Government of Nepal. The Nepali Government has denounced recruitment and has formally asked Russia to desist its attempts to recruit Nepali citizens to fight. They have also sought to deter Nepalis trave...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: UkraineMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his counterpart in Ghana on the (i) number of Ghanaian nationals who are and (ii) steps Ghana is taking to help prevent its nationals fighting as mercenaries for the Russian Feder
Answer: Ghana is a valuable security partner, and I met with the Ghanaian Defence Minister this week. The UK engages regularly with Ghana on a range of topics of mutual concern, including Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: Antisatellite WeaponsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with (a) state and (b) private sector allies and partners to reduce the risk to the UK's (i) national and (ii) economic security of Russia’s developme
Answer: The UK takes the potential development of nuclear anti-satellite weapons by Russia seriously. We have been working with international partners and allies to reaffirm the absolute prohibition of the placement of weapons of mass destruction in space, includ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Space TechnologyMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to ensure a space defence strategy is included in the outputs from the Strategic Defence Review.
Answer: While the Ministry of Defence continues to deliver against its existing space strategy, the Strategic Defence Review provides an opportunity to assess the strategic landscape and threat picture to inform long-term decisions, including on refreshing the De...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRegeneration: Rural AreasMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what regeneration funding she is making available for (a) Newport, (b) Shifnal and (c) other rural market towns.
Answer: This government confirmed its commitment to regeneration funding at the Autumn Budget securing millions of pounds to support economic growth across the UK – our number one mission. This included £3.5 million through the UKSPF to continue to support commun...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ReligionDepartment for EducationTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on faith communities.
Answer: The department has published its Equalities Impact Assessment for all measures of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, setting out impacts across protected characteristics including religion or belief. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/gove...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Power Stations: BelarusDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the International Atomic Energy Agency on (a) the safety of the Ostrovets nuclear plant in Belarus and (b) the potential impact of that nuclear plant on the s
Answer: Details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly in arrears.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNorth Korea: SanctionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding and extending sanctions against Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Answer: The UK remains steadfast in our commitment to limit Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) weapons programmes and counter their proliferation activity through maintaining a robust sanctions regime This includes an extensive range of UN sanctions c...
Answered 6 May 2025
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