Mary Glindon MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Telecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will support Ofcom in developing best practice guidance for telecoms companies on (a) board leadership, (b) governance and (c) the role of internal audit in managing cyber and da
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of major broadband providers not having internal audit functions on (a) risk management and (b) cybersecurity governance .
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGround Rent: Newcastle upon Tyne East and WallsendMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the affordability of ground rents in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Answer: The government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course. Data on ground rents is collected as par...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 62460 on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services, whether a date has been set for the showcase event for post-acute infection conditions.
Answer: A provisional date of 6 November 2025 has been set for the showcase event for post-acute infection conditions. The event looks to encourage researchers to join the myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID ...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable (a) access to long covid services, (b) care outcomes and (c) patient experience for people with long covid.
Answer: Since April 2024, the commissioning of post-COVID, or long COVID, services have been the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs), following the closure of the national post-COVID programme.ICBs are responsible for commissioning specialist se...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Tyne and WearDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of how many and what proportion of people waited less than 6 weeks for their first treatment for talking therapies in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne and (b) North Tyneside in M
Answer: The following table shows the number of referrals to NHS Talking Therapies with their first treatment in May 2025, and the number and percentage of referrals with first treatment within six weeks of the referral being received, for Newcastle upon Tyne and...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 10 Year Health Plan on victims of (a) modern slavery and (b) human trafficking.
Answer: When developing the 10-Year Health Plan, workshops were held for people experiencing multiple forms of social and economic exclusion played a large part in it, including victims of modern slavery.As part of the recommendations from the review into modern ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 10 Year Health Plan on people experiencing multiple forms of (a) social and (b) economic exclusion.
Answer: Social justice runs through our 10-Year Health Plan, which sets out a reimagined service designed to tackle inequalities in both access and outcomes, as well as to give everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from, the means to engage with it ...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWorld War I and World War II: WomenDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57634 on World War I and World War II: Women, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to sponsor a memorial for munitions workers in both worl
Answer: The Government recognises the hard work of the Munitions workers and is extremely grateful for their input and sacrifices made during both world wars.Munitions workers are included on the women's war memorial in Whitehall. In addition, several trees have ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the airstrike on Palestinians at a water distribution point at al-Nuseirat refugee camp on 13 Ju
Answer: Reports of women and children killed while waiting in line for water at al-Nuseirat camp are devastating. We have been clear that civilians in Gaza must be protected from attack and able to access aid without fear.No one should have to risk their life to ...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: ReformDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to consult charities on SEND reform.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and I continue to engage with special educational needs and disabilities charities, stakeholders and parent carers, and are conducting weekly engagement sessions via webinars, meetings and visits....
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of first-time applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy that were successful in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were made to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of rejected applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy that were judged eligible on review in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: IsraelForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in the F-35 programme partner nations on Israel’s (a) compliance with international humanitarian law and (b) use of F
Answer: Conversations with F-35 Partners occur regularly and cover a range of issues, however we are unable to disclose details of confidential conversations held within an international programme.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Written QuestionsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to answer Question 53853, tabled by the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend on 21 May 2025.
Answer: I can confirm that a response has been submitted to my hon. Friend, the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend to Question 53853.
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGolan Heights: IsraelForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral contribution in response to the question from the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend of 14 January 2025, Official Report, column
Answer: We continue to call on all parties to preserve Syria's territorial integrity and national unity. Continued Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) activity in the buffer zone is in violation of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces agreement and we have called on Israel ...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of funding in the higher education sector on the performance of British universities in the QS World University Rankings 2026, published on 19 June
Answer: To maintain the UK higher education (HE) sector's world-leading status, universities need a stable financial footing. This government is committed to securing our universities’ future, which is why we have acted quickly to address the sector’s financial c...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department considered the legal opinion by Tom Cross KC and Ruth Kennedy entitled In the Matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, published on 28 April 2025, during the d
Answer: It was not possible to consider the legal opinion entitled In the Matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill during the development of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: ECHR memorandum, as the legal opinion was published after the ...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: Newcastle upon Tyne East and WallsendDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce the (a) number and (b) duration of sewage discharges into waterways in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged unacceptable levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. The Government remains committed to reducing both the frequency and duration of storm overflow spills, in line with the Storm Overflows Discharge ...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: Children and Young PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase access to sport for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Answer: I regularly meet with Ministerial counterparts on a range of issues, including young people’s engagement in sport and the barriers around this for those from lower socio-economic groups.In the 2024/25 Financial Year, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend ...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: ChildrenDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on steps to increase access to sport for children from low income households.
Answer: I regularly meet with Ministerial counterparts on a range of issues, including young people’s engagement in sport and the barriers around this for those from lower socio-economic groups.In the 2024/25 Financial Year, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend ...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Newcastle upon Tyne East and WallsendDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support grassroots music venues in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Answer: The government has announced £2.5m of continued funding for the Arts Council England’s (ACE) Supporting Grassroots Music Fund (SGMF) for 2025-26. This enables grassroots music venues, recording studios, promoters and festivals to apply for grants of up to...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill on dissuading offenders unknown to the police from comin
Answer: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse considered such issues very carefully in the course of compiling its report to Government, and concluded that a mandatory reporting law was necessary to improve the protection of children and young people.Th...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill on levels of trauma in children who are not (a) ready an
Answer: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse considered such issues very carefully in the course of compiling its report to Government, and concluded that a mandatory reporting law was necessary to improve the protection of children and young people.Th...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
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