Mary Glindon MP: written questions
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Written questions
Universal Credit: Free School Meals and Healthy Start SchemeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Universal Credit system to automatically register eligible households for (a) free school meals and (b) the NHS Healthy Start sche
Answer: No such assessment has been made. The Universal Credit system permits Department of Health and Social Care to check a citizen’s entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers, and Department for Education to check eligibility for Free School Meals.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timeline is for the implementation of recorded assessments as standard for Personal Independence Payments.
Answer: We announced our intention to record assessments as standard in the Pathways to Work Green Paper as a valuable tool to improve people’s trust in the health assessment process. We are developing our plans to implement this measure and will set out further ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNeuroendocrine Cancer: RadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43451 on Neuroendocrine Cancer: Radiotherapy, what recent discussions his Department has had with Integrated Care Boards on the commissioning of s
Answer: NHS England commissions selective internal radiation therapy for chemotherapy refractory / intolerant metastatic colorectal cancer in adults in accordance with criteria which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Departmental ResponsibilitiesHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) charities, (b) asylum seekers and (c) refugees are included in the development of her Department's (i) policy and (ii) procedures.
Answer: The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration and asylum system under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and other stakeholders.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: InterviewsHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses artificial intelligence to transcribe asylum interviews.
Answer: No.
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: InterviewsHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of substantive asylum interview appointments that were cancelled due to an inability to secure a translator in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
Answer: The number of substantive interviews completed per month is published in tab ASY_05(M) of the Immigration and Protection dataset: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q4-2024.The requested information on cancelled app...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Pension Scheme: Climate ChangeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the level of turnover of Local Government Pension Scheme trustees on an understanding of the duty to consider climat
Answer: Administering authorities are already required to consider factors that are financially material to the performance of their investments, including environmental considerations such as climate risks.The government has consulted on proposals to ensure that...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Climate ChangeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the University of Exeter report entitled Planetary Solvency, published on
Answer: Trustees of pension schemes in scope of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) are required to undertake scenario analysis to assess the resilience of their investment strategy against climate-related risks and opportunities. Truste...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTrusts: Climate ChangeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using proposed biennial governance reviews of administering authorities to ensure that trustees regularly review science-
Answer: Administering authorities are already required to consider factors that are financially material to the performance of their investments, including environmental considerations such as climate risks.The government has consulted on proposals to ensure that...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Climate ChangeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she has made an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that newly appointed pension fund trustees are aware of the responsibility to consider climate risks in investments.
Answer: There are a range of governance and reporting requirements that trustees, including new trustees, must meet. For trustees in scope, this includes disclosing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies in the Statement of Investment Principles (SIP...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Risk AssessmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that fiduciary duty explicitly places a duty on pension fund trustees to consider system risks.
Answer: Trustees have a range of duties set out in governing provisions of the scheme, common law and relevant statutory provisions. These include duties to make investment decisions in the best interests of members of the pension scheme. The Law Commission concl...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Funds: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential implications for her policies of (a) the report by the Law Commission entitled Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries, published on 30 Ju
Answer: Trustees have a range of duties set out in governing provisions of the scheme, common law and relevant statutory provisions. These include duties to make investment decisions in the best interests of members of the pension scheme. The Law Commission concl...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit and (c) Carers’ Allowance on (i) adult social service capacity and (ii) housing
Answer: DWP is working across Government, including with DHSC and MHCLG, to consider the impact of the reforms to the welfare system. We will also consider the impacts on benefits for unpaid carers as part of our wider consideration of responses to the consultati...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNeuroendocrine Cancer: RadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the National Institute for Health and Social Care on providing guidance on the adoption of selective internal radiation therapy for patients with neuroendocrine
Answer: The Department has had no such discussions. In May 2024, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published interventional procedures guidance that recommends that selective internal radiation therapy can be used as an option for neuro...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNeuroendocrine Cancer: RadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of selective internal radiation therapy on the (a) survival outcomes and (b) quality of life for neuroendocrine tumour patients.
Answer: No assessment has been made on the potential impact of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) on survival outcomes and quality of life for neuroendocrine tumour patients. However, the Department recognises the need to offer suitable treatment, includ...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: LebanonForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanese Hizballah.
Answer: The UK has made clear the importance that all sides maintain a cessation of hostilities and work towards securing a lasting peace. This is the only way to restore security and stability for the people living on either side of the border. The UK continues ...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Service ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the affordability of service charges for leaseholders; and if he will take steps to limit their rate of increase.
Answer: The government recognise the considerable financial strain that rising services charges are placing on leaseholders. The level of service charge that leaseholders pay depends on many factors, including the terms of a lease and the age and condition of a b...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of recent changes made to her Department's guidance entitled Nationality: good character requirement, published on 10 February 2025, on commu
Answer: The British Nationality Act 1981 is clear that it is for the Home Secretary to determine the good character policy. There is no definition of good character in primary legislation, nor is there statutory guidance as to how this should be interpreted or de...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCost of Living: Low IncomesTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39840More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support (a) low and (b) middle-income households with the cost of living.
Answer: Living standards, as measured by Real Household Disposable Income per capita, are expected to increase by an annual average of 0.5% over this parliament (Q3 2024 – Q2 2029). This is in stark contrast to the previous parliament which was the worst for livi...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic InterestDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of widening the definition of a public interest entity in the context of (a) BHS, (b) Bulb and (c) ISG.
Answer: The Government’s plans to widen the definition of a Public Interest Entity were announced in the King’s Speech as part of the announcement on the draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill.
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Employment and TrainingHome OfficeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help (a) people seeking asylum and (b) refugees to (i) develop their skills and (ii) increase their employability.
Answer: The UK has a long history of providing protection to those that need it and supporting refugee integration and employment. This includes work across government to ensure that mainstream services meet the needs of refugees. Refugees granted refugee status ...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAudit, Reporting and Governance AuthorityDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority the statutory power to sanction all company directors.
Answer: As announced in the King’s speech, the Government intends to publish a draft Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill in due course. We expect the Bill to include further details on the proposed directors’ enforcement regime, including in respect of the...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: InfrastructureDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential (a) costs and (b) merits of making internal audit functions a mandatory requirement for all contractors delivering public sector infrastructure projects.
Answer: The Government announced that it would publish a draft audit reform and corporate governance bill in the King’s Speech, which is expected to include extending enhanced Public Interest Entity audit requirements to very large private companies. The financia...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies: AuditDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to require the largest (a) public and (b) private companies to have (i) an Audit Committee and (ii) an internal audit function, in the context of the collapse of ISG.
Answer: Companies whose securities are traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and banks, building societies and insurers are required to have an audit committee. Other private companies are not required to have an audit committee, but may choose t...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEconomic PolicyTreasuryTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36643More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role a) climate and b) nature experts perform in the creation of economic policy in her Department.
Answer: HM Treasury works across government to leverage expertise on climate and nature issues. HM Treasury also engages extensively with external stakeholders to inform related economic policy, as we recognise the value of incorporating expertise from outside go...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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