Martin Wrigley MP: written questions
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Written questions
Nurses: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of nurses on a bursary unable to find nursing jobs after graduating.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Newton AbbotDepartment for TransportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-opening the railway line between Heathfield and Newton Abbot.
Answer: There are no current plans to make an assessment of reopening the railway line between Heathfield and Newton Abbot. The Government believes that local authorities are best placed to promote and take forward transport schemes that will most benefit their l...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDogs: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make importing dogs with cropped ears illegal.
Answer: The Government recently announced its support for the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, a Private Members’ Bill sponsored by the hon. Member for Winchester. The Bill will give the Government powers to prevent the supply of low-welfar...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41569More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using the Single Transferrable Vote system in English local elections.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 23541 on 22 January 2025.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with religious leaders on the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme.
Answer: The Government holds a range of meetings with representatives of religious organisations.DCMS officials have discussed the changes with the Church of England and Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Ministers have also exchanged correspondence and met with repre...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not funding the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme beyond 2026 on those places of worship.
Answer: Future Government spending is a matter for the 2026 Spending Review.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will ensure that the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme continues beyond 2026.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my answer to PQ 29531.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: Local GovernmentDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41545More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities are carrying out their statutory duty to deliver youth services.
Answer: Local authorities hold the statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. Local Authorities fund youth services from their Local Government Sett...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41541More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reductions in youth service funding on young people.
Answer: Local authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient youth services for young people in their area. This is funded through the Local Government Funding Settlement.We acknowledge the challenges facing the secto...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure long-term sustainable funding for youth services.
Answer: The Government will publish the National Youth Strategy this summer. The detail and scale of the funding commitments included in the strategy will be shaped by engagement with young people and the youth sector and will be dependent on Spending Review deci...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Metrics Commission's report entitled Measuring Poverty 2024, published in October 2024, if she will undertake a review of the finding that 47 per cent of families with at le
Answer: The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts. As part of our Plan for Change we're introducing the most far-reaching reforms in a generation...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Metrics Commission's report entitled Measuring Poverty 2024, published in October 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's pol
Answer: The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts. As part of our Plan for Change we're introducing the most far-reaching reforms in a generation...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the application window for the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme to three months.
Answer: The 28-day window for applications to be submitted enables effective operational planning across all visa routes and helps to ensure sufficient biometric enrolment capacity across all routes, which ultimately allows us to deliver the most efficient servic...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFood BanksDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Trussell Trust entitled Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits used a food bank in the last month, published on 7 March 2025, if
Answer: No one should have to turn to a food bank. This is why we are committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people falling into poverty. As set out in the...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFood BanksDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the article by the Trussell Trust entitled Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits u
Answer: No one should have to turn to a food bank. This is why we are committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people falling into poverty. As set out in the...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will develop a longer term child poverty strategy.
Answer: The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy, and we are exploring all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringing about ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMeans-tested Benefits: Take-upDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the take up of means-tested benefits amongst households with children in poverty.
Answer: The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing urgent work to publish the Child Poverty Strategy, and we are exploring all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty. Our focus is on bringing about ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Income: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of OBR forecasts on the percentage of GDP spent on social security benefits in the next four years.
Answer: The OBR forecast for welfare spending as a percentage of GDP is expected to be 10.8% in 2029-30 once Spring Statement 2025 policy measures have been factored in. This compares to 10.9% without the incorporation of policy measures. These figures exclude sp...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change and Nature Conservation: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure all planning decisions do not impact the UK’s climate and nature targets.
Answer: As set out in Paragraph 7 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, including the provision of homes, commercial development and supporting infrastr...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNature Restoration FundDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the nature restoration fund on (a) peatlands, (b) ancient woodlands and (c) other irreplaceable habitats.
Answer: The Planning and Infrastructure Bill provides an opportunity to accelerate housebuilding and infrastructure delivery by using development to fund nature recovery. This will create a win-win outcome, benefitting both the economy and nature, where both are ...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce dog bites in the UK.
Answer: Defra continues to work with the police, local authorities and animal welfare groups to explore measures to reduce dog attacks and promote responsible dog ownership across all breeds of dog.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ukrainians who have (a) jobs, (b) homes and (c) families in the UK will be able to stay once the war has ended.
Answer: In response to the invasion, the Government set up three generous schemes – the Ukraine Family Scheme, Home for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and the Ukraine Extension Scheme – and have provided temporary sanctuary for over 300,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support Ukrainians living in the UK on a long-term residency basis.
Answer: In response to the invasion, the Government set up three generous schemes – the Ukraine Family Scheme, Home for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and the Ukraine Extension Scheme – and have provided temporary sanctuary for over 300,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme is a humanitarian protection route.
Answer: In response to the invasion, the Government set up three generous schemes – the Ukraine Family Scheme, Home for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and the Ukraine Extension Scheme – and have provided temporary sanctuary for over 300,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the lower standard rate of Universal Credit for under 25s.
Answer: There are no current plans to remove the under 25 Standard Allowance rate. Young people in work typically earn less than those over 25 and are also more likely to live in someone else’s household, with lower living costs. A reduced Universal Credit rate m...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
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