Mary Glindon MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Electronic CigarettesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will include measures in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to ensure that vapes remain easily accessible as a smoking cessation tool.
Answer: Our position on vapes is clear, that they can be an effective quit aid for adult smokers, but that they are not recommended for non-smokers or children, and there are legitimate concerns about the unknown long-term harms from vaping.Following the introduc...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: IndustryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to consult with the vaping industry before the reintroduction of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
Answer: Since September 2023, the Department has not met with the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). However, we have received and responded to several items of correspondence.The UKVIA, and other members of the vaping industry, did respond to the smoke-free...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic CigarettesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet the UK Vaping Industry Association to discuss work with the vaping industry on the Government’s smoke-free ambitions.
Answer: Since September 2023, the Department has not met with the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). However, we have received and responded to several items of correspondence.The UKVIA, and other members of the vaping industry, did respond to the smoke-free...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic CigarettesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the UK Vaping Industry Association since September 2023.
Answer: Since September 2023, the Department has not met with the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). However, we have received and responded to several items of correspondence.The UKVIA, and other members of the vaping industry, did respond to the smoke-free...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarers: LeaveDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how his proposed review into the implementation of unpaid carers' leave is to be conducted; and whether the review will be published.
Answer: The Government made a commitment to review carer’s leave in the Plan to Make Work Pay. We will provide an update on progress in this area in due course. The Plan to Make Work Pay also includes a number of measures which will help unpaid carers workers to ...
Answered 11 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFoster Care: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to give worker status to foster carers.
Answer: As set out in our Plan to Make Work Pay, we will consult on a simpler two-tier employment status framework that differentiates between workers and the genuinely self-employed. We will confirm plans for this in due course.I pay tribute to the vital efforts...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNurses: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to encourage more people to train as nurses.
Answer: The National Health Service has faced chronic workforce shortages for years, but the Government will build a health service fit for the future. We will make sure the NHS has the staff it needs to be there for all of us when we need it.Training the necessa...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of the sustainability of the homelessness sector.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government will look at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with mayors, councils and key stakeholders across the ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to support local authorities to provide temporary accommodation services alongside local authorities' efforts to increase housing supply i
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government will look at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with mayors, councils and key stakeholders across the ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of social housing waiting lists on the capacity of homelessness services.
Answer: We recognise England is in an acute housing crisis, with the social housing waiting list standing at 1.29 million in March 2023, and there is insufficient social housing to meet demand.This Government will deliver the biggest increase in social and afford...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to ensure local housing allowance keeps pace with median rent prices.
Answer: The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum housing support for tenants in the private rented sector. Households in similar circumstances living in the same area are entitled to the same maximum rent allowance regardless of the contractual re...
Answered 4 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordZero Hours ContractsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to maintain zero-hours contracts for people who prefer these to other employment options.
Answer: As outlined in our Plan to Make Work Pay, we will end exploitative zero hours contracts by giving workers the right to a contract that reflects the number of hours they regularly work. We will also introduce a new right to reasonable notice of shifts, wit...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of foreign nationals living overseas who were in receipt of (a) non-means and (b) non-merits tested legal aid in 2023.
Answer: This information requested is not held centrally.In making decisions about who qualifies for legal aid, the Legal Aid Agency must apply the provisions of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, and any regulations made under that Ac...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: Take-upDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 9 of the policy paper entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, what estimate her Department made of the level of uptake of Pensio
Answer: The estimate included within Fixing the Foundations assumed a 5 percentage point increase in the take-up of Pension Credit during 2024/25 as a behavioural response to the new link between Winter Fuel Payment entitlement and receipt of Pension Credit. The ...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordFuel Poverty: Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of means testing the winter fuel payment on levels of fuel poverty in the winter of 2024-25.
Answer: The Department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of means testing the Winter Fuel Payment on levels of fuel poverty in winter 2024-25. A statistical publication estimating the rate of fuel poverty for those in receipt of Winter Fuel Payme...
Answered 4 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the additional resources it will need to means test winter fuel payments.
Answer: The department will deliver this year’s Winter Fuel Payments within the existing planned headcount. This is due to linking eligibility to Winter Fuel Payments with existing means tested benefits rather than means testing Winter Fuel Payments separately.
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: Take-upDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing the uptake of Pension Credit.
Answer: The latest available take-up estimates Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) cover the financial year 2021/2022 and suggest an overall Pension Credit take-up rate of 63%. The next take-up estimates...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordAbortion: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that abortion providers meet their obligations to ensure that a woman’s gestational age is accurately assessed before she may be prescribed abortion pills to be ta
Answer: In accordance with the Abortion Act 1967, home use of early medical abortion pills is only permitted if the pregnancy has not exceeded 10 weeks gestation, at the time the first medicine in the course is administered. Before prescribing abortion medicine f...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordAbortion: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that offers of practical help to women outside abortion clinics will be permitted when section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 is implemented.
Answer: Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 does not criminalise any specific activity within safe access zones. It introduces a new criminal offence for a person who is within a Safe Access Zone to do an act with the intent of, or reckless as to whether it ha...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2024 to Question 25516 on Universal Credit, when her Department plans to publish the findings of the survey of people who have not claimed Universal Credit followi
Answer: The survey is currently being conducted. The Department intends to publish the findings once it is complete in the Autumn.
Answered 30 Jul 2024
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