Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Members: CorrespondenceHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot sent on 18 September 2025 with case ref MW01823.
Answer: The correspondence of 18 September 2025 was transferred to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for response.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to correspondence from the Hon. Member for Newton Abbot sent on 19 August 2025, case ref MW09609.
Answer: A reply was sent to Martin Wrigley MP by the Minister of State for Social Security and Disability on 22 October 2025.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Crimes against the PersonDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of assaults on public transport in Devon.
Answer: The Department for Transport is working with industry to ensure that public transport is a safe environment for staff and passengers. BTP are responsible for policing the railway, and they deploy their officers across the network, including in Devon, base...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Crimes against the PersonDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support transport workers who have been assaulted while at work.
Answer: Violence or abuse against public transport workers is unacceptable. The Government is committed to ensuring that staff across the network not only feel safe but are safe while carrying out their duties. The Department for Transport works closely with the ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for Equality and Opportunity: Written QuestionsWomen and EqualitiesTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82813More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to respond to Question 74810 on Members: Correspondence, tabled on 3 September 2025.
Answer: A response has been issued here.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require private water supplies to be registered with a local authority who can (a) test them and (b) risk assess them.
Answer: Local authorities need only risk assess and monitor private water supplies that they are aware of that are large, shared, or where the water supply is used as part of a commercial or public activity. Supplies to single domestic dwellings need only be risk...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on private water supply risk assessments to ensure consistency.
Answer: The Drinking Water Inspectorate publishes and maintains a suite of risk assessment tools on its website. These tools are designed to meet the risk assessment requirements of the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 (as amended). It is not man...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of recommendations for improvements to private water supplies have been issued as a result of risk assessments in the last year.
Answer: 231 notices were served in England. 114 were received by central Government.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: Risk AssessmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to increase the number of local authorities providing Ministers with results from risk assessments of private water supplies.
Answer: Local authorities have a regulatory duty to provide the Secretary of State (in practice, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI)), with a summary of the results from the risk assessment no longer than 12 months after the day on which it was carried out. Loc...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: Newton AbbotDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of private water supplies registered in Newton Abbot constituency.
Answer: In 2024, Teignbridge reported 598 private water supplies on their register. In the Newton Abbot area specifically, one private water supply is registered.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPigs: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to enforce the ban on piglet thumping.
Answer: Any allegations of poor animal welfare are investigated by the Animal and Plant Health Agency, and where there are non-compliances with the regulations, appropriate action is taken. The local authority, as an appropriate enforcement agency, may initiate p...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31604 on Refugees: Ukraine, if she will ensure gov.uk sites are updated to show the correct length of the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme.
Answer: On 1 September, the Government announced in parliament that the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme (UPE) would be extended for an additional 24 months to enable those eligible to obtain a further period of permission following their initial permission un...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce regulations under the Animal (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023 on the domestic (a) sale and (b) advertising of low welfare animal activities takin
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the reply previously given to the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire, Pippa Heylings on 23 September 2025, PQ UIN 73101.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change Convention: BrazilCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82804More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister plans to attend COP30 in Brazil.
Answer: The Prime Minister plans to attend COP30.
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Secondhand GoodsDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals mandating that second hand electric vehicles are sold with (a) conformity and (b) battery health check certificates.
Answer: The Government currently has no plans to mandate that second hand vehicles are sold with certificates of conformity or battery health certificates. Manufacturers are currently required to issue a certificate of conformity with each new vehicle. A vehicle ...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: TestingDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding mandatory software updates to the MOT process for electric cars.
Answer: The MOT plays a vital role in keeping people safe on our roads. That is why the Department for Transport published a call for evidence in 2023 which sought views on how to keep it up to date. The monitoring of software updates for both electric and ICE ve...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFood Strategy Advisory Board: Public AppointmentsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the recent appointments to the Food Strategy Advisory Board on (a) farmers and (b) animal welfare in Devon.
Answer: Members of the Food Strategy Advisory Board are senior leaders, appointed for their individual experience and leadership to ensure a broad range of expertise and perspectives across the food system. They do not represent their business interests, specific...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not giving the COVID vaccine to NHS patients under 75 who are clinically vulnerable.
Answer: The Government’s policy on the groups eligible for vaccination programmes is based on the advice of the independent expert body, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).The JCVI carefully considered the latest evidence on the risk of il...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the average time taken to approve Special Use Airspace applications for Beyond Visual Line of Sight uncrewed air system operations under Civil Air Publication 161
Answer: The CAA assesses Special Use Airspace applications, including those for BVLOS operations, under the CAP1616 process to ensure safety, proportionality, and fairness for all airspace users.The CAA is currently consulting on reforms to CAP1616, including a m...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air Systems: TestingMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Civil Air Publication 1616 airspace change processes on his Department's ability to (a) test and (b) develop uncrewed air systems.
Answer: Airspace within the UK Flight Information Regions is neither specifically military nor civilian. The Joint Air Navigation Services Council is responsible for the management of airspace and Air Traffic Service provision with a Joint and Integrated Approach...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air Systems: Delivery ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with the Civil Aviation Authority on the effectiveness of its processes in relation to Special Use Airspace applications to use uncrewed air systems for NHS medical logis
Answer: My officials continue to work closely with the Civil Aviation Authority to improve the airspace change process. My department is undertaking a full review of the regulatory framework for airspace change, with the aim of streamlining and improving the airs...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: Finance and LeadershipDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve transparency in the (a) governance, (b) financial decision-making and (c) scrutiny of leadership in academy trusts.
Answer: High and rising standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure every child has the best life chances. Accountability is non-negotiable. This is why the government has committed to bring multi-acade...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that trustees of academy trusts receive the (a) training and (b) support they need to provide effective oversight.
Answer: The Academy Trust Handbook states that trust boards should identify the skills and experience required to hold the executive to account. This includes financial knowledge. Trust boards are responsible for encouraging trustees’ professional development and...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: Finance and LeadershipDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure accountability in (a) financial management and (b) strategic leadership in academy trusts.
Answer: High and rising standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure every child has the best life chances. Accountability is non-negotiable. This is why the government has committed to bring multi-acade...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to academy trusts on executive pay.
Answer: The primary responsibility for the financial oversight of academy trusts, including setting executive pay, rests with the trustees themselves. Academy trusts are delivering a high standard of financial management and governance. The latest published data ...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
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