Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Artificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled Creative and AI sectors kick-off next steps in finding solutions to AI and copyright, published 16 July 2025, whether the
Answer: We are establishing technical working groups to inform our approach to copyright and AI. They will be designed to bring together both British and global companies, alongside voices beyond the AI and creative sectors. A range of issues will be discussed, i...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's joint press release entitled Creative and AI sectors kick-off next steps in finding solutions to AI and copyright, published 16 July 2025, whether she
Answer: We are establishing technical working groups to inform our approach to copyright and AI. They will be designed to bring together a range of experts and stakeholders across key issues, including transparency and technical standards. The terms of reference ...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots Pharmacy: InsolvencyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support staff affected by Jhoots’ administration with (a) ensuring continuity of employment within the local pharmacy network and (b) other issues.
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date. Where a pharmacy goes into administration, administrators will work to rescue the pharmacy business or sell it. Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards wi...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots Pharmacy: InsolvencyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the administration of Jhoots pharmacies on the ability of residents in Newton Abbot constituency to access prescribed medicine.
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date. Where a pharmacy goes into administration, administrators will work to rescue the pharmacy business or sell it. Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards wi...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85456More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will review its oversight mechanisms for large multi-branch contractors to ensure stronger safeguards against sudden collapses; and what assessment he has made of the potenti
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards (ICBs) will work with other local pharmacies and general practices to ensure patients can continue to access their ...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, steps he is taking to protect patients (a) receiving home deliveries, (b) dosette boxes, (c) end of life medicines and (d) other vulnerable patients who may lose access to their local Jhoots branch
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards (ICBs) will work with other local pharmacies and general practices to ensure patients can continue to access their ...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the number of (a) patients and (b) GP practices directly affected by Jhoots branch closures.
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards (ICBs) will work with other local pharmacies and general practices to ensure patients can continue to access their ...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure continuity of pharmacy services for patients affected by Jhoots Pharmacy entering administration.
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.Where pharmacies close, integrated care boards (ICBs) will work with other local pharmacies and general practices to ensure patients can continue to access their ...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsMinistry of DefenceTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 82467 on Unmanned Air Systems: Testing; whether his Department will support the Civil Aviation Authority in making sure there is a decreased time taken in qua
Answer: The Ministry of Defence continues to work closely with the Civil Aviation Authority to refine the airspace change processes in CAP1616 to improve the speed and efficiency at which both permanent and temporary Special Use Airspace can be established for un...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 20 October to Questions 82468 and 82466 on Unmanned Air Systems: Delivery Services, whether the Department’s review will consider (a) standardised template Airspace Change Proposals f
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsMinistry of DefenceTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October to Question 8246 on Unmanned Air Systems: Delivery Services, whether his Department has assessed the operational impact of Civil Air Publication 1616 timelines on (a) scheduli
Answer: To facilitate planned test and evaluation activities the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is able to operate uncrewed air systems in established permanent Special Use Airspace. The MOD utilises the CAP1616 processes to establish temporary and trial Special Use A...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 82468 on Unmanned Air Systems; whether the proposed reforms to Civil Air Publication 1616 will include (a) fast-track pathways, (b) service standards and (c
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 82468 on Unmanned Air Systems; whether her Department will publish an impact assessment setting out the expected effect of proposed reforms to Civil Air Pub
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85447More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 82468 on Unmanned Air Systems, whether her Department will publish an impact assessment on the proposed reforms to Civil Air Publication 1616 on approval ti
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant the Answer of 20 October to Question 82468 on Unmanned Air Systems, when her Department plans to publish its consultation on streamlining Civil Air Publication 1616 for uncrewed air systems operations
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 82468 on Unmanned Air Systems, if her Department will publish the (a) terms of reference, (b) milestones and (c) project plan for her Department’s review of
Answer: The review to the regulatory framework which I referred to in my response to questions 82466 and 82468, relates to amending the Air Navigation Directions and Air Navigation Guidance. These are the Department for Transport statutory documents issued to the...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85444More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has had recent discussions with Ofcom on the costs of the per-metre charging regime to rural network builders.
Answer: As the independent regulator for telecommunications, Ofcom is responsible for making regulatory decisions in the fixed telecoms sector, including on the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product.DSIT is engaging on this issue with Ofcom at an official ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 62291 on Broadband: Newton Abbot, what steps her Department is taking to expand broadband coverage for rural communities with market co
Answer: As the independent regulator for telecommunications, Ofcom is responsible for making regulatory decisions in the fixed telecoms sector, including on the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product.In July, we published our draft Statement of Strategic Pr...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 35864 on Broadband: Devon and Somerset, whether her Department plans to take steps to help ensure that the physical infrastructure ac
Answer: As the independent regulator for telecommunications, Ofcom is responsible for making regulatory decisions in the fixed telecoms sector, including on the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product.In July, we published our draft Statement of Strategic Pr...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyCabinet OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85441More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which elements of the digital ID system will use One Login infrastructure; and whether he expects to undertake additional procurement for this purpose.
Answer: The new digital ID scheme will build on existing infrastructure, including GOV.UK One Login which has already been used to verify the identities of over 13 million people. Users will store the digital ID credential in the GOV.UK Wallet, as they will with ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes in mobility awards on (a) disabled people’s ability to travel to employment and (b) local labour markets.
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that Personal Independence Payment (PIP) remains a non-means tested cash benefit which is there for people in and out of work, now and into the future. The Timms Review aims to ensure we have a system that supports ...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: MotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had their mobility component of benefits (a) removed and (b) reduced and have (i) reported a reduction in hours worked and (ii) stopped working by parliamentary constituency since 1
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: MotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has updated (a) internal guidance, (b) decision-maker scripts, (c) assessor training materials and (d) scoring matrices used to assess the PIP mobility component since 1 January 2
Answer: There have been no substantive changes to departmental training or guidance materials relating specifically to the mobility component of Personal Independent Payment (PIP) since 1 January 2024. Departmental instructions are regularly updated to ensure the...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: MotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP claimants had (a) an award with a mobility component, (b) a mobility component (i) removed and (ii) reduced following a (A) decision and (B) reassessment and (c) an active Motability agreem
Answer: The figures requested have been provided in the attached tables. Regarding part (b), PIP claimants do not undergo reassessments, but they do have award reviews. Therefore, figures have been provided for the most recent decision made during the award revie...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Newton AbbotDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP claimants in Newton Abbot constituency had (a) an award with a mobility component, (b) a mobility component (i) removed and (ii) reduced following a (A) decision and (B) reassessment and (c
Answer: The figures requested have been provided in the attached tables. Regarding part (b), PIP claimants do not undergo reassessments, but they do have award reviews. Therefore, figures have been provided for the most recent decision made during the award revie...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
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