Martin Wrigley MP: written questions 2025
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Written Questions: Government ResponsesLeader of the HouseTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100734More
Question: To ask the Leader of the House, what steps hon. Members can take to seek additional information from the Government in instances where a response to a written parliamentary question is considered incomplete or unclear.
Answer: Parliament has a right to scrutinise Ministers, and hold the Government and public bodies to account. I expect Hon. Members to receive both timely and helpful responses to their questions.There are a number of mechanisms available to Members such as raisi...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWritten Questions: Government ResponsesLeader of the HouseTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100733More
Question: To ask the Leader of the House, what mechanisms are available to hon. Members to seek clarification or further information when a Department or public body is considered not to have provided a full or clear response to a Written Parliamentary Question.
Answer: Parliament has a right to scrutinise Ministers, and hold the Government and public bodies to account. I expect Hon. Members to receive both timely and helpful responses to their questions.There are a number of mechanisms available to Members such as raisi...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBoris JohnsonCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100732More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance was guidance in place in August 2019 on keeping a written record of meetings between the Prime Minister and external individuals where public policy, procurement, or government contracts were discu
Answer: Guidance on management of records for official ministerial meetings is published on gov.uk, and available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-management-of-private-office-information-and-records/guidance-for-the-management-of-private...
Answered 2 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100730More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 98184, whether meetings held by the Prime Minister with external individuals are routinely assigned a subject classification for record-keeping purposes.
Answer: Guidance on management of records for official ministerial meetings is published on gov.uk, and available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-management-of-private-office-information-and-records/guidance-for-the-management-of-private...
Answered 2 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordBoris Johnson and Peter ThielCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100721More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department holds any digital records in relation to the meeting held on 28 August 2019 between the then Prime Minister and Mr Peter Thiel.
Answer: The Cabinet Office does not hold any digital records relating to the meeting held on 28 August 2019 between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Mr Peter Thiel.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRape: Victim Support SchemesMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) discontinuement and (b) funding freeze of the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund on waiting lists.
Answer: My Department is committed to the Government’s pledge to halve Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in a decade. We have committed £550 million to victim support services over the next three years – the biggest investment in victim support services to ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRape: Victim Support SchemesMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when her department plans to confirm allocations for the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund for 2026/27.
Answer: My Department is committed to the Government’s pledge to halve Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in a decade. We have committed £550 million to victim support services over the next three years – the biggest investment in victim support services to ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100689More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of app-only banking policies on older and digitally excluded customers; and whether she will require banks operating in the UK to provide non-digital routes for account ope
Answer: The Government works closely with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the independent regulator of the UK’s financial services sector, to ensure that all customers get the right support with their financial products and services. FCA guidance highlight...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100688More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority regarding the absence of explicit rules governing app-only banking; and what steps are being taken to ensure that banks continue to provid
Answer: The Government works closely with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the independent regulator of the UK’s financial services sector, to ensure that all customers get the right support with their financial products and services. FCA guidance highlight...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100687More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to publish guidance or minimum service standards to help tackle financial exclusion arising from digital-only banking models.
Answer: The Government works closely with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the independent regulator of the UK’s financial services sector, to ensure that all customers get the right support with their financial products and services. FCA guidance highlight...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMobile Broadband: StandardsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of aligning the regulatory standard and the consumer information standard for 5G and 4G mobile coverage.
Answer: For the purpose of this answer, regulatory and consumer standards have been interpreted as how 4G and 5G is referred to by Ofcom in its Connected Nations reports and its consumer coverage checker, ‘Map Your Mobile’, respectively.The ‘Map Your Mobile’ tool...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what oversight exists when academy trusts increase executive pay in years where frontline teaching posts are reduced.
Answer: The department’s Academy Trust Handbook is clear that executive pay must be justifiable and should reflect individual responsibility alongside local retention and recruitment needs. The Handbook is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publication...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAcademies: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What benchmarks her Department uses to assess whether academy trust executive pay represents value for money when trusts are making redundancies.
Answer: The department’s Academy Trust Handbook is clear that executive pay must be justifiable and should reflect individual responsibility alongside local retention and recruitment needs. The Handbook is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publication...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAcademies: Curriculum and StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the relationship between academy trust executive pay levels and reductions in curriculum offer or staffing.
Answer: The department’s Academy Trust Handbook is clear that executive pay must be justifiable and should reflect individual responsibility alongside local retention and recruitment needs. The Handbook is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publication...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament record5GDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on ensuring the reporting of statistics on where the full allocation of 5G is not being used.
Answer: Ofcom is responsible for the management of spectrum in the UK. Ofcom monitors mobile coverage, including 5G, at a regional level and publishes a mobile coverage checker, Map your Mobile. Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations report (published 19 November 202...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament record5GDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps with Ofcom to ensure that all full 5G eligible sites offer full 5G.
Answer: For the purpose of this answer, ‘full 5G’ has been interpreted as meaning standalone 5G.Our ambition is for all populated areas to have access to higher quality standalone 5G by 2030. How network operators achieve this through both existing and new infras...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAerials: Newton AbbotDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many telecoms sites remain on the (a) pre-2017 Electronic Communications Code and (b) pre-2022 Product security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act framework in Newton Abbot c
Answer: The point at which agreements relating to telecoms infrastructure installations pre-dating the 2017 reforms to the Electronic Communications Code will transfer onto the legal framework established through those reforms depends on the type of agreement pre...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: InnovationDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to foster innovation in the Telecoms market.
Answer: This government recognises the importance of innovative and modern telecoms networks. Alongside deploying the best technology now, there is an opportunity to grow the UK’s role in shaping and developing Advanced Connectivity Technologies for the future. W...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Shared Prosperity Fund: DevonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans does the department have for future equivalent Shared Prosperity Funding for Devon.
Answer: In order to allow greater flexibility for local authorities and to maximise the spend on UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), the deadline for expenditure for 2025-26 allocations has been extended by six months to September 2026. Looking ahead, the governme...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: Feed-in TariffsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when her Department plans to publish the results of the Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) scheme: indexation changes consultation.
Answer: The consultation closed on 12 December. A government response to the consultation on indexation changes to the Feed-in Tariffs scheme is expected to be published in early 2026.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: InfrastructureDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when remaining mobile sites will be moved away from legacy frameworks and onto the new frameworks of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code and 2022 Product Security and Telecommunicat
Answer: The point at which agreements relating to telecoms infrastructure installations pre-dating the 2017 reforms to the Electronic Communications Code will transfer onto the legal framework established through those reforms depends on the type of agreement pre...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: InfrastructureDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer received on 21 November 2025 to Written Question 90488, how much additional re-investment her Department anticipates after bringing into force sections 61-64 of t
Answer: The government’s ambition is for all populated areas to have access to higher quality standalone 5G by 2030. Operators have set out investment plans that align with our ambition, and we are committed to ensuring we have the right policy and regulatory fra...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: InvestmentDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2025 to Question 90488, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 o
Answer: The government’s ambition is for all populated areas to have access to higher quality standalone 5G by 2030. Operators have set out investment plans that align with our ambition, and we are committed to ensuring we have the right policy and regulatory fra...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament record5GDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department holds on the quality of 5G UK mobile services compared to (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) the USA, (d) China, (e) Spain and (f) other international counterp
Answer: The department uses Ofcom's Connected Nations data which includes metrics on geographic, indoor and outdoor premises coverage across the UK. Ofcom describes quality of service using coverage confidence levels and signal strength thresholds. The methodolog...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTransgender People: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the Levy review does not reduce access to (a) hormonal therapy and (b) surgery for trans and non-binary 18-25 year olds.
Answer: NHS England is currently carrying out a review of adult gender services. The review, chaired by Dr David Levy, has examined the model of care and operating procedures of each service, and has carefully considered experiences, feedback and outcomes from cl...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
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