Max Wilkinson MP: written questions 2025
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VAT: FraudTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77219More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent VAT fraud by (a) misrepresentation and (b) impersonation.
Answer: Tax fraud undermines our economy, hurts legitimate businesses and robs our vital public services of much-needed funds. The Government is committed to tackling tax non-compliance through technology, operational interventions and policy change.HMRC deploys ...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordConsumers: ProtectionTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77218More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Financial Conduct Authority plans to (a) investigate and (b) report on whether all firms’ (i) flood and (ii) storm definitions comply with the Consumer Duty.
Answer: This is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which is operationally independent from government. The FCA will respond to the Member by letter, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) bringing forward legislative proposals to charge interest on outstanding debts of child maintenance of more than a year's standin
Answer: Where a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) aims to take immediate action to recover the debt and re-establish compliance.If the paying parent is employed, the CMS will request that ongoing child maintenance ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: TrainingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussion she has had with the video games industry on the availability of business training for entrepreneurs in that sector.
Answer: The then Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism met with the newly formed Video Games Council in September where the availability of business training for entrepreneurs in the video games sector was discussed.As noted in the Creative Industrie...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: National Vocational QualificationsDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the video games industry on the number of vocational qualifications for 16 to 18 year olds.
Answer: Students deserve high-quality qualifications that meet their needs. The department continues to develop and improve qualifications so that they meet the needs of students and employers.The Digital Software Development T Level provides young people with th...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: Tax AllowancesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Independent Game Developers’ Association on the adequacy of the level of the Games Expenditure Credit for smaller studios.
Answer: As set out in the Creative Industries Sector Plan, the Government is committed to supporting the growth of the UK’s video games sector. DCMS have engaged with The Independent Game Developers Association, including through the industry-led UK Video Games C...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Games FundDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of potential impact of the UK Games Fund on (a) employment, (b) investment, (c) studio formation and (d) IP development over the next 12 months.
Answer: DCMS commissioned an independent evaluation of the UK Games Fund (UKGF) by Alma Economics which was published on 18th July 2025. This evaluation assessed the fund’s impact between April 2022 and March 2025, as well as previous iterations of the programme ...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Public AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76676More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will set out the appointment process for the Permanent Secretary, Director of Government Communications.
Answer: The appointment process for the Director of Government Communications followed the process for Permanent Secretary recruitment set out in the Civil Service Recruitment Principles (here, paragraphs 44 - 47). The role was advertised on Civil Service Jobs fr...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Infrastructure Levy and Planning ObligationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the cost to local authorities of developers successfully contesting (a) section 106 agreements and (b) a Community Infrastructure Levy.
Answer: The Planning Inspectorate publish quarterly data on planning appeals, including data on appeals received, decided, and allowed. This can be found on gov.uk here at table 2.8. The government has not undertaken a centralised assessment of costs to local pla...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability AidsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the provision of specialist (a) wheelchairs, (b) beds and (c) armchairs for tall disabled people.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services. National Health Service trusts work with the patient and wheelchair supplier to best meet the patient’s needs and requirements.A typical hospit...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Games FundDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many video games studios have been supported by the UK Games Fund.
Answer: The UK Games Fund (UKGF) provides grant funding to small and medium-sized enterprises in the video games sector for development of new intellectual property, as well as development programmes for new graduate talent. As part of the recently published Crea...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimation and Video Games: Higher EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds information on the number of students that undertook undergraduate degrees in Games and Animation in the (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2023-24 academic years.
Answer: In the 2023/24 academic year, there were 15,450 undergraduate enrolments across all UK higher education (HE) providers in the subject area ‘Computer games and animation’ (common aggregation hierarchy (CAH) subject code 11-01-06).In the 2013/14 academic ye...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: Higher EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage students to study video game design degrees.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects, including computer games design courses, which are vital to the UK’s research base, innovation capacity and Industrial Strategy.For the 2025/26 academic ...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76670More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of potential impact of the Video Games Expenditure Credit on levels of (a) employment, (b) investment, (c) studio formation and (d) IP development.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of the creative industries, including the key role they play in driving economic growth. Video games jobs are highly productive at nearly double the average national output, and technology developed by games busine...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of Video Games Expenditure Credit on levels of inward investment into the video games industry.
Answer: The Video Games Expenditure Credit was introduced in 2024 to replace the Video Game Tax Relief, modernising the reliefs and ensuring they continue to work as intended to support the video games industry.As set out in the Creative Industries Sector Plan, t...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76668More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many video games studios have received (a) Video Games Tax Relief and (b) Video Games Expenditure Credit since they were introduced.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of the creative industries, including the key role they play in driving economic growth. Video games jobs are highly productive at nearly double the average national output, and technology developed by games busine...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo Games: TrainingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what grant funding is available to help support training in small and medium-sized enterprises in the video games development sector.
Answer: The UK Games Fund (UKGF) provides grant funding to small and medium-sized enterprises in the video games sector for development of new intellectual property, as well as development programmes for new graduate talent. As part of the recently published Crea...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceTreasuryTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75705More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department to ensure that 5% of GDP is spent on defence before 2035.
Answer: At the Spending Review, we set budgets taking ‘core’ defence spending to 2.6% by 2027; next Parliament we have an ambition to reach 3% when fiscal and economic conditions allow. Additionally, under the new NATO Defence Investment Pledge, the government ha...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of pay for resident doctors.
Answer: The Government allows the independent Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) to make recommendations on headline pay for doctors, including resident doctors. Within their report they make an assessment on the level of pay with regard to...
Answered 18 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLarge Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving TestsDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential benefit of changing the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence test by (a) using CCTV on test vehicles and (b) introducing detailed written feedback for fail
Answer: No assessment has been made by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) of the benefits of using CCTV on test vehicles, as part of the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC). The existing testing framework for large vehicles alre...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Equipment: Manufacturing IndustriesMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75279More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support defence companies.
Answer: The Defence Industrial Strategy is the defence sector plan for the Modern Industrial Strategy and underlines this Government’s commitment to making defence an engine for growthThe DIS outlines how the Government will back UK-based businesses by launching ...
Answered 7 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is her Department's policy on targets for net migration.
Answer: This Government recognises and values the contribution that legal migration makes to the UK.But under the previous Government, between 2019 and 2024, net migration almost quadrupled, heavily driven by a big increase in overseas recruitment.The Restoring c...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support the solar industry.
Answer: The Government supports ground mount solar through its Contracts for Difference scheme, which has supported 7.5GW so far. It supports demand for rooftop solar by various means, including favourable tax treatment, permitted development rights, new building...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of conducting efficiency savings to fund more (a) clinical staff and (b) equipment in the NHS.
Answer: NHS England’s 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance made it clear that the National Health Service must live within the budget it is allocated, reduce waste and increase productivity to deliver growth against demand. The Autumn Statement 20...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to review NHS outsourcing contracts.
Answer: All public authorities, including the National Health Service, follow the guidance and principles set out in the Sourcing Playbook when planning and making sourcing decisions to deliver public services in partnership with the private and third sectors. Th...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
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