Mary Kelly Foy MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender Independent ReviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he had discussions with transgender individuals on the Sullivan Review.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not met with transgender individuals to discuss the Sullivan Review. We have acted on the findings of Professor Sullivan’s report by suspending applications for National Health Serv...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) continuity of care in cancer treatment pathways, (b) assigning named points of contact and (c) back-up contacts for all patients.
Answer: The Government and NHS England are committed to improving continuity of care and provision of support contacts for cancer patients. All patients, including those with secondary cancers, should have access to the right expertise and support, including a Cl...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure NHS trusts consistently meet the 62 day target for starting cancer treatment.
Answer: As set out in the new plan for reforming elective care, the Government is committed to improving performance on cancer waiting times. The National Health Service’s annual operational planning guidance set out a national commitment to improve waiting times...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCounty Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: InspectionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Care Quality Commission plans to inspect medical care services at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
Answer: It is not usual practice for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to announce when inspections will take place.Unannounced inspections of healthcare services allow the CQC to obtain a realistic view of how the service is operating. It also allows the CQC to ...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPensions: Inheritance Tax and ProbateTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55099More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential impact of making pensions subject to (a) inheritance tax and (b) probate on bereaved families.
Answer: Most unused pension funds and death benefits will be included within the value of a person’s estate for inheritance tax purposes from 6 April 2027. This removes distortions resulting from changes that have been made to pensions tax policy over the last de...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDerwentside Immigration Removal Centre: ContractsHome OfficeTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any penalties have been applied to Serco for non-compliance with contractual obligations at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in the past 12 months.
Answer: Onsite Home Office Compliance Teams are responsible for ensuring that Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) contracted centre providers are fulfilling their contractual requirements. Performance is monitored through a robust and comprehensive system of contrac...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDerwentside Immigration Removal Centre: ContractsHome OfficeTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight mechanisms her Department has established to ensure that Serco fulfils its contractual obligations as the operator of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
Answer: Onsite Home Office Compliance Teams are responsible for ensuring that Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) contracted centre providers are fulfilling their contractual requirements. Performance is monitored through a robust and comprehensive system of contrac...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: WomenHome OfficeTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Evaluation of Action Access, an Alternative to Detention Pilot by UNHCR, published in January 2022, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential
Answer: The Home Office keeps all aspects of the immigration system under regular review, in consultation with a range of experts and stakeholders.
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDerwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Translation ServicesHome OfficeTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that women have access to high-quality (a) interpretation and (b) translation services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
Answer: There is detailed guidance for staff working at all Immigration Removal Centres (IRC), including Derwentside. Detention Services Order ‘Interpretation Services and use of Translation Devices’ provides instruction and guidance on the use of interpretation ...
Answered 4 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeed LimitsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring local authorities to consider the curtilage of properties when assessing local speed limits.
Answer: Traffic authorities have the power to make speed limits on the public roads which they manage. English authorities are asked to consider the best practice guidance ‘Setting Local Speed Limits’, designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately an...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeed LimitsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the weight that should be given to quality of life issues when assessing local speed limits.
Answer: Traffic authorities have the power to make speed limits on the public roads which they manage. English authorities are asked to consider the best practice guidance ‘Setting Local Speed Limits’, designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately an...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeed LimitsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on considering the hierarchy of road users when assessing local speed limits.
Answer: Traffic authorities have the power to make speed limits on the public roads which they manage. English authorities are asked to consider the best practice guidance ‘Setting Local Speed Limits’, designed to make sure that speed limits are appropriately an...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May to Question 904060 on Personal Independence Payment: Reform, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed PIP changes on people in the
Answer: Estimates of the impact of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reforms are made for England and Wales only and not on region or any other geographic area.The department does not forecast benefit receipt at a regional level, nor have estimates of the b...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCycling: HelmetsDepartment for TransportTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of making the wearing of cycle helmets a legal requirement for cyclists.
Answer: The Department for Transport considered the case for mandating the wearing of cycle helmets as part of a cycling and walking safety review in 2018. The review concluded that the safety benefits were likely to be outweighed by the fact that this would put ...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 904060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment on people in the North East.
Answer: It is vital that our social security system, including PIP, is sustainable now and into the future.That is why we are reforming the system, so we protect those who can never work and so that those who can work get the help they need and deserve – includin...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTravellers: Caravan SitesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department includes local authority (a) owned and (b) managed Gypsy and Traveller sites within its definition of social housing under the Housing and Regeneration Act
Answer: All registered providers of social housing, including local authorities, are required to deliver the outcomes of the consumer standards set by the independent Regulator of Social Housing (‘the regulator’). The regulatory standards apply to social housing ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHumanities: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to to help improve access for students to courses at all levels in (a) history, (b) arts and (c) the humanities.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting access to creative subjects, such as the arts, history and humanities, in higher education.For the 2024/25 academic year, the department has allocated around £12.9 million in high-cost subject funding from the Str...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: DisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support post-92 institutions to (a) improve the educational experience and (b) widen participation of disadvantaged students.
Answer: All higher education (HE) providers registered with the Office for Students (OfS) that intend to charge higher level tuition fees must have an access and participation plan approved by the OfS. Access and participation plans articulate how HE providers wi...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase financial decision-making transparency in universities.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of English higher education (HE) providers, collects and analyses providers’ financial data to ensure they have an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.The OfS’ May 2024 repo...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Health ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to remove the immigration health surcharge for international students.
Answer: It is right that international students pay the immigration health surcharge (IHS), which sees them make a financial contribution to the comprehensive range of NHS services available to them during their stay in the UK. Students are subject to the discoun...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage strategic financial planning in the higher education sector.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of English higher education (HE) providers, collects and analyses providers’ financial data to ensure they have an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.The OfS’ May 2024 repo...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of levels of research funding in the higher education sector.
Answer: Total government investment in research and development will amount to £20.4 billion in 2025-26, protecting the highest levels of public investment in the sector. UKRI has been allocated £8.8 billion, of which £6 billion has been allocated through researc...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: RedundancyDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help mitigate potential job losses in the higher education sector.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of English higher education (HE) providers, collects and analyses providers’ financial data to ensure they have an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.The OfS’ May 2024 repo...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of a review of the governance of higher education.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of English higher education (HE) providers, collects and analyses providers’ financial data to ensure they have an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.The OfS’ May 2024 repo...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing student number controls to address competition in the sector.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education will set out a plan for reform of the higher education sector in the summer. These reforms will ensure our world-leading sector can provide the skills required to deliver economic growth through t...
Answered 2 May 2025
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