Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Beer and Public Houses: Economic GrowthTreasuryTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39712More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) beer and (b) pub sector.
Answer: Pubs, brewers and distillers make a significant contribution to our economy, which is recognised in the tax system. According to the Office for National Statistics' 2023 Business Register and Employment Survey, there were a) 14,000 people employed in dist...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public Houses: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39711More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate her Department has made of the contribution of the (a) brewery, (b) distillery and (b) pub sector to the UK economy in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: Pubs, brewers and distillers make a significant contribution to our economy, which is recognised in the tax system. According to the Office for National Statistics' 2023 Business Register and Employment Survey, there were a) 14,000 people employed in dist...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public Houses: Import DutiesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help protect the (a) brewery, (b) distillery and (c) pub sector from US tariffs.
Answer: The UK and US have a strong economic relationship which is fair, balanced and reciprocal. We have £1.2 trillion invested in each other’s economies and over 2.5 million jobs across both countries.Breweries, distilleries and pubs play a key role in the UK e...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public HousesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of the (a) brewery and distillery and (b) pub sector to (i) economic growth and (ii) job creation.
Answer: Hospitality businesses, including pubs and breweries, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth across the UK. The Government is creating a fairer business rate system, reducing alcohol duty on qualifying drau...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer and Public HousesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) beer and (b) pub sector to increase (i) economic growth and (ii) business investment in the context of his industrial strategy.
Answer: Hospitality businesses, including pubs and breweries, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth across the UK. The Government is creating a fairer business rate system, reducing alcohol duty on qualifying drau...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are adequacy supported through the benefits assessment process.
Answer: It is important that all claimants to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are able to access our services and that they do not face obstacles in applying and communicating with the Department and its providers. We have a variety of reasonable adjustments ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Parks: DartmoorDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to his Department's policy paper, Government response to the independent review of protected site management on Dartmoor: full report, published 11 April 2024, if he will incre
Answer: In response to the independent review, Defra has set up the new Dartmoor Land Use Management Group (DLUMG). The group is now working to implement the 25 recommendations attributed to it in the government response. This Government is proud to have secured ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Local GovernmentDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on determining the level of funding allocated for each EHC plan.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.If a pupil’s education, health and care plan requires...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Local GovernmentDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued on the use of third-party consultants by local authorities to (a) assess and (b) re-assess EHC plans.
Answer: Local authorities are responsible for ensuring that there is effective coordination of education, health and care (EHC) needs assessments and the development process for an EHC plan.Practitioners in all services involved in the assessment and planning pro...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: ConsumersDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to enable Ofcom to regulate poor customer service.
Answer: Ofcom’s principal duty, established by the Communications Act 2003, is to further the interests of citizens and consumers, and Ofcom sets its regulatory framework to promote good outcomes for consumers, in line with this duty.For telecoms, Ofcom has a dut...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Devon and SomersetDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with (a) Connecting Devon and Somerset and (b) Airband on (i) resuming full-scale operations and (ii) the effectiveness of communications between the three p
Answer: Building Digital UK (BDUK) is working with both Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) and Airband to identify premises which will no longer be connected via its Superfast contracts for the area. Premises that have been descoped from the Airband contracts an...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUSA: Defence EquipmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what equipment his Department has procured from the United States for the armed forces since 1 January 2024.
Answer: The Department does hold information relating to contract duration, spend to date, and total contract value, which could allow for basic modelling. However, information to identify projected spending over the next five years with US suppliers is not held ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas TradeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Q95 of the oral evidence given by the Chief of Policy of the Confederation of British Business to the Business and Trade
Answer: The EU is a significant trading partner for both goods and services. In the 12 months ending September 2024, the UK’s total trade with the EU was 5% below the level seen in 2018, after removing the effect of inflation and excluding precious metals. We wil...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the role of the Personal Independence Payment in enabling work.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment is not means-tested, it is payable in addition to any other income received and is available to people whether they are in work or not. This Government wants to alleviate people’s worries around trying work. The Pathways to W...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: EligibilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of tightening the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment on the ability of disabled people to afford their costs.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a contribution to the extra costs of being disabled. We have set out plans to introduce a new eligibility requirement in PIP so that people must score a minimum of four points in one daily living activity in PIP to b...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39209More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether anyone in receipt of Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity benefits will receive reduced levels of payments following the reforms announced in her Oral Ministerial Statement on 1
Answer: To address the fundamental imbalance between the health top up and standard allowance of UC, we will legislate to take a decisive step to reset payment rates in UC over this Parliament, starting from April 2026. For people who already receive the UC healt...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 34688 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will list (a) the names of organisations from the private parking industry with whom (
Answer: As per my 19 March answer, I have not yet held any meetings with the private parking industry, these are to take place shortly. However, my officials have regular meetings with the industry stakeholders. The organisations and meeting dates that took place...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: AppealsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Tribunals statistics quarterly; October to December 2024 report, published 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of PIP appeals overturned in favour
Answer: The PIP appeal overturn rate is 67%. It has remained stable around this rate since the second quarter of 2021/22. For initial decisions between October 2019 and September 2024 (the latest 5-year period), 3.3 million initial decisions following a PIP asses...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: NeurodiversityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) adults with (i) ADHD and (ii) autism and (b) other neurodivergent adults.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course. The Government is determined to improve the low current employment rate among neurodivergent adults. A further programme of analysis to support development of ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39205More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) disabled parents and (b) parents of disabled children.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course. Many parents of disabled children will welcome the proposed increase from 16 to 18 in the age of transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Indepe...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39204More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the Music Venue Trust entitled Annual Report 2024, published on 24 January 2025, on the potential impact
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including grassroots music venues, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39203More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing Business Rate Relief from 75% to 40% on Grassroots Music Venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including grassroots music venues, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) time taken and (b) effectiveness of treatment
Answer: Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will take steps to provide (a) faster and (b) wider availability for prostate-specific antigen t
Answer: Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Carers and ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to amend the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment for (a) carers and (b) children.
Answer: We have set out plans to introduce a new eligibility requirement in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) so that people must score a minimum of four points in one daily living activity in PIP to be eligible for the daily living component. PIP is open to ne...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
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