Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Railway Stations: Newton AbbotDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the (a) adequacy of disability access at train stations in Newton Abbot constituency and (b) potential impact of removing customer service assistants at railway stations on disa
Answer: We are committed to enhancing railway accessibility for all, including those in the Newton Abbey constituency with disabilities. As part of the ongoing Spending Review, we are assessing public spending and cannot comment on individual schemes until the pr...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeignmouth Station: LiftsDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to fund a disability access lift at Teignmouth railway station.
Answer: We are committed to the Access for All programme, which has delivered accessible routes at more than 270 stations. Teighmouth station was not selected by the previous Government for the programme, but the station already has an accessible route, and if an...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation Scheme: CarersCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46993More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to increase the amount of compensation provided to bereaved carers through the infected blood compensation scheme.
Answer: The Government recognises that every victim of infected blood will have their own unique circumstances, and experienced devastating losses. Carers of an eligible infected person who, without reward or remuneration, provided personal care or support greate...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37398 on Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, if she will hold discussions with Adoption UK on funding for the adoption and special guardianship su
Answer: I meet regularly with key adoption stakeholders including Adoption UK and will continue to do so to discuss a wider variety of adoption issues, including the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. Departmental officials also have regular meetings...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordForests: CommoditiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will implement the provisions of the Environment Act 2021 to establish a due diligence regime for forest risk commodities before COP30.
Answer: The UK strongly supports global efforts to protect forests, including advocating for the international commitment to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030, while supporting livelihoods and economic development. We will set out our appr...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Urban AreasDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street businesses in competing with large online retailers.
Answer: We intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including those on the high street, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so we intend to apply a higher rate from 2026-27 on th...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Government AssistanceTreasuryTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46275More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps she plans to take to support small businesses with (a) energy prices, (b) inflation and (c) business rates.
Answer: At Autumn Budget the Government announced it was freezing the small businesses multiplier for 2025-26, and extending the retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) business rates relief for 1-year at 40% (up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business). This means ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: UniformsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to enforce statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms.
Answer: The guidance on the cost of school uniforms is statutory and schools must have regard to it when designing and implementing their uniform policies. We expect all schools to now be compliant.If parents are concerned about the cost of their child’s school u...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: UniformsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to introduce a £30 cap on school uniform items.
Answer: Too many families still tell us that the cost of school uniform remains a financial burden. This is why the department has introduced legislation to limit the number of branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools can require to bring down costs for ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Rural AreasDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support his Department is providing to small businesses in (a) Devon and (b) other rural areas.
Answer: Last year the Business Secretary announced a new Business Growth Service which will make it easier for businesses across Devon and the rest of the UK and in rural areas, to get help, support and advice to grow and thrive.The South West Growth Hub is where...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry: LicensingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of local licensing fees for outdoor seating on small hospitality businesses.
Answer: The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 made caps to the fees charged for pavement licences permanent. These caps were designed to allow administration costs borne by local authorities to be recovered whilst ensuring the cost to business is proportiona...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Employers' ContributionsTreasuryTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46270More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) increasing Employment Allowance and (b) reducing National Insurance contributions for small businesses.
Answer: The Government has taken necessary decisions to fix the public finances and create long-term stability in which businesses can invest and thrive.The Government decided to protect the smallest businesses from the changes to Employer NICs announced at the l...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVAT: RegistrationTreasuryTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46269More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to raise the VAT registration threshold in line with inflation to support small businesses.
Answer: At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This keeps the majority of businesses out of the VAT regime altogether.Any consideration of changes to the threshold would have to carefully ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Newton AbbotTreasuryTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46268More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to reform business rates to reduce the financial burden on small high street businesses in Newton Abbot constituency.
Answer: The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. At Autumn Budget 2024, we took the first step with the announcement of permanently lower tax rates for the Retai...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46267More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to reform business rates to reduce the financial burden on small high street businesses.
Answer: The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. At Autumn Budget 2024, we took the first step with the announcement of permanently lower tax rates for the Retai...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46266More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when applications for the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme will open; and what estimate he has made of (a) what the average waiting time will be for a claim to be processed and (b) when successful applicants w
Answer: As the Minister responsible, I stand ready to provide all the support I can to speed up payments. I am restless for that speed to increase, while also respecting the Infected Blood Compensation Authority’s (IBCA) operational independence going forward. In...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46265More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether people eligible for the infected blood compensation scheme will retain access to (a) disability grants, (b) dependent children payments and (c) other support scheme benefits.
Answer: Any payments received from the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme are disregarded from means tested benefit assessments. This means that compensation payments made through the Scheme will not adversely impact on the means tested benefits received by eithe...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Homes and Home Care Services: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to amend the Care Act 2014 to exempt infected blood compensation scheme payments from (a) residential and (b) domiciliary care charges.
Answer: My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, does not consider that the Care Act 2014 needs to be amended to exempt Infected Blood Compensation Scheme payments because, under the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resou...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46263More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether supplementary financial loss claims under the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme will be open to estates of deceased victims.
Answer: Yes. The supplementary route for financial loss will be open to all infected people, including those who have very sadly passed away.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46262More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Government will establish a supplementary route to claim for autonomy, social impact, and injury awards outside the core route of the infected blood compensation scheme.
Answer: The scope of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme’s supplementary route is in line with the recommendations Sir Robert Francis KC made to the Government in August 2024. In his report, Sir Robert discussed the merits of expanding the supplementary route ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46261More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to introduce an individual assessment route for the infected blood compensation claims.
Answer: The Government recognises that every victim of infected blood will have their own unique circumstances, and experienced devastating losses. To avoid a lengthy, complex and burdensome evidence gathering process, the Government has accepted the Inquiry’s re...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46260More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how infected blood compensation claims involving co-infection with HIV and hepatitis viruses will account for the earlier date of hepatitis infection when calculating compensation.
Answer: For people co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, compensation will be calculated from the date of the first infection. If it is not possible to establish when someone was first infected, the Infected Blood Compensation Authority will use th...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46259More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the Infected Blood Compensation Authority will determine the date of first infection in cases where no clear medical record exists.
Answer: Given the historic nature of the infected blood scandal, the Government recognises that not all medical records will still be available. The Scheme has been designed to minimise as far as possible the burden on those applying, and as set out in the Infect...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46258More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason the burden of proof in the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme is placed on victims.
Answer: Given the long-running nature of the infected blood scandal, not all medical records will still be available and, as set out in the regulations, eligibility for compensation will be determined based on the balance of probabilities. The Infected Blood Comp...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood Compensation SchemeCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46257More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure Infected Blood Compensation Authority caseworkers and assessors are suitably trained to interpret complex medical records when determining compensation awards.
Answer: Dedicated claim managers are supporting individuals through the claim process and, depending on the data available to the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA), there may be some instances in which more information is asked for to complete a claim....
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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