Marsha De Cordova MP: written questions
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Agnes WanjiruMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help ensure accountability for the killing of Agnes Wanjiru.
Answer: The Secretary of State visited Kenya in April to meet with the family of Agnes Wanjiru, and reaffirmed his personal commitment to securing justice following her tragic death over 13 years ago. The jurisdiction for this investigation lies with the National...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: SoftwareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will consult with blind and partially sighted patients on potential accessibility improvements to the NHS App.
Answer: We are working to improve access to digital services, outcomes, and experiences for the widest range of people, based on their preferences. Patients unable to use digital channels can continue to access services via telephone and through traditional face ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Equipment: Visual ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help tackle barriers to the safe use of medical devices for the management of diabetes among partially sighted and blind people.
Answer: The Department and the National Health Service work with suppliers and manufacturers to help improve the accessibility and safe use of medical devices for the management of diabetes among partially sighted and blind people. It is recommended to suppliers ...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Visual ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in reviewing (a) guidance and (b) regulations for the (i) licen
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) already has provision in the current Human Medicines Regulations 2012 No 1916 legislation, to ensure the licensing and packaging of medicines are safe for use by blind and partially sighted pe...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: InformationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 32209 on Health and Care Act 2022, when he expects the Accessible Information Standard to (a) be published and (b) become mandatory.
Answer: NHS England is working to support implementation of the Accessible Information Standard (AIS) with awareness raising, communication and engagement, and a review of the current e-learning modules on the AIS. The intention is to ensure that staff and organi...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support leaseholders living in buildings under 11 meters with cladding remediation works.
Answer: The responsibility for fixing historical cladding fire safety defects should rest with building owners. They should not pass these costs on to leaseholders but should seek to recover costs from those who were responsible for building unsafe homes. The dep...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordWest Bank: Culture and Educational InstitutionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34309, what steps his Department has taken to promote accountability for attacks on schools in the Occupied Palestinian Territo
Answer: Education is a human right. It expands choices and enables children to live lives that they value. The vital work of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in ensuring that Palestinians have access to edu...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Educational InstitutionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34309, when he last raised the destruction of (a) schools and (b) higher education facilities in Gaza with his Israeli counterp
Answer: The Foreign Secretary continues to raise concern at continued Israeli operations in Gaza, including the need for protection of schools and higher education facilities, with his Israeli counterparts. Children's access to education must continue uninterrupt...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: DisabledDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the cross-government Health Mission Board plans to take to help tackle the impact of poverty on the health of disabled people.
Answer: We have established a Health Mission Board to oversee and drive the delivery of the Health Mission. Mission Boards are Cabinet Committees. It is a long-established precedent that information about the proceedings of the Cabinet or of any committee of the ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: LibrariesDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of state primary schools with an onsite library.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Battersea, to the answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 27959.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: LibrariesDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of adding data collection on libraries in schools to the school census.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Battersea, to the answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 27959.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ReadingDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage children to read for pleasure.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Battersea, to the answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35717.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Disability Confident scheme employers employing at least one disabled person.
Answer: Employers at level 2 and level 3 of the Disability Confident scheme are asked if they employ disabled people at the point of applying for or renewing their membership at these levels. Organisations applying for or renewing at level 2 have only been asked ...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: EmploymentWomen and EqualitiesTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43928More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of assessing employers' compliance with the (a) recruitment and (b) employment of disabled people duties of the Equality Act 2010.
Answer: The Government is fully committed to the Equality Act 2010 (the Act), which protects disabled people from discrimination in the workplace. The Act prohibits direct and indirect disability discrimination and requires employers to make reasonable adjustment...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: CorrespondenceTreasuryTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43927More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of including information on the Access to Work scheme in correspondence from HMRC to employers.
Answer: We want to support more disabled people into work and to stay in work. In doing so, we need to get the balance right between supporting employers to understand and provide reasonable adjustments as part of their legal duties, and interventions that go bey...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Careers Service: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including specific provision for blind and partially sighted young people in the National Careers Service.
Answer: The National Careers Service is a free, universal, government-funded careers information, advice and guidance service for everyone aged 13 and above in England.All young people aged 13 to 18 can access information and advice through the webchat and teleph...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work Programme: Voluntary WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of helping blind and partially sighted people by extending the Access to Work scheme to formal volunteering placements.
Answer: Access to Work is a demand-led, personalised discretionary grant which supports the recruitment and retention of disabled people in paid employment. We recognise the important role that volunteering, and other programmes can play in securing employment, a...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVisual Impairment: TrainingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43920More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing sight loss training for (a) Access to Work advisors and (b) Jobcentre Plus staff.
Answer: As part of staff on-boarding and induction into DWP, staff complete learning for customers with sight loss. The learning provides the definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010, and an overview of the support available to customers including the...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: AccessDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to enforce minimum Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA.
Answer: For central government services, departments are required by the Government Service Standard to meet the minimum of level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 (which is the current version) for services that are in public beta or liv...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he makes of the effectiveness of safeguards to protect tenants from (a) rent increases and (b) evictions following upgrades to Energy Performance ratings by landlords.
Answer: The Government launched a consultation on improving minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector on 7th February 2025. The Government is committed to protecting and improving the rights of tenants. The Renters’ Rights Bill wil...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will enter t
Answer: Information on the impacts of the “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper” will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work Programme: Cost Benefit AnalysisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the RNIB on its report entitled Access to Work - Cost benefit analysis, published on 5 September 2015, in the context of her Department's consultation on its Green Pape
Answer: Since 2015, the style, scope and cost of support that disabled people require has changed significantly, as has the labour market, yet Access to Work has stayed broadly the same. We believe there is a strong case for looking at the future role and purpose...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment and Support AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants who were (a) overpaid and (b) underpaid due to (i) claimant error and (ii) government error in 2024.
Answer: The last time the Department reviewed fraud and error levels in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) was in 2022/23, which is reported here: Fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2022 to 2023 estimates - GOV.UK. Table 11 demonstrates tha...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAli KololoHome OfficeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Metropolitan Police on the case of Ali Kololo.
Answer: The operationally independent Metropolitan Police continue to progress matters relating to this case. It would not be appropriate for Home Office Ministers to comment on any discussions concerning the individual.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Oral Statement of 26 February 2025 on Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 2 Report, Official Report, whether she plans to take steps to enforce personal emergency
Answer: Residential personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs) for which my Rt Hon Friend the Home Secretary currently retains responsibility until the Machinery of Government change comes into effect on 1 April will be introduced through legislation yet to be l...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
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