Melanie Onn MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Special Educational Needs: StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued on the (a) criteria and (b) number of students needed for a school to have a dedicated Special Educational Needs Coordinator position.
Answer: All mainstream schools, including academies and free schools, must have a special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO). The SENCO must be a qualified teacher, or the head teacher, working at the school.SENCOs play a vital role in setting the direction f...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that every school has a dedicated Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO).
Answer: All mainstream schools, including academies and free schools, must have a special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO). The SENCO must be a qualified teacher, or the head teacher, working at the school.SENCOs play a vital role in setting the direction f...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Community Interest CompaniesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of community interest companies that are no longer able to offer free mental health support due to financial constraints on th
Answer: It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to children and young people’s mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continu...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Community Interest CompaniesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support community interest companies that are mental health providers.
Answer: It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to children and young people’s mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continu...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordKinship Care: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that special guardianship and kinship carers receive adequate financial support.
Answer: The government recognises the important role that kinship carers play in caring for some of the most vulnerable children. Kinship carers often take on this role at a time when they were least expecting to raise a family and we recognise the challenges the...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on improving dementia care.
Answer: To improve care for patients with dementia, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, NHS England's RightCare team has refreshed the RightCare Dementia Scenario. The scenario works through the Dementia Well Pathway journey, from diagnosing well through to...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Society: VATTreasuryTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25687More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing VAT exemptions for (a) small charities and (b) volunteer organisations.
Answer: VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. Taxation is a vital source of revenue that helps to fund vital publ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSeafood: Trade PromotionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of working with organisations such as the UK Seafood Federation to (a) advocate and (b) promote seafood.
Answer: I welcome the creation of the UK Seafood Federation, and I am pleased that Defra officials attended the launch on 15 January 2025. UK seafood businesses play an important role in boosting the growth of local economies by providing jobs, and are a vital pa...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: CleethorpesDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made on discussions to establish a direct rail link between London and Cleethorpes.
Answer: The Secretary of State knows the introduction of a direct train to London from Cleethorpes and Grimsby has been a longstanding local ambition. We are working with industry to understand the timetabling, financial, operational and infrastructure issues tha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads : FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made with National Highways on the next round of RIS3 funding: and whether the A180 will be included in this funding stream.
Answer: The multi-year Spending Review, concluding in late spring, will help frame the 5-year RIS3 funding envelope that National Highways has to operate, maintain, renew and improve the strategic road network in the next road period starting in 2026. Once the le...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22031More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when it was decided that community interest companies should be ineligible for capital funding provided to NHS mental health trusts in the 2024-25 financial year; and whether he plans to make an as
Answer: Government capital funding is provided for specific purposes, and for the National Health Service is for NHS organisations to manage their assets and provide NHS services. Community interest companies (CICs) are therefore outside the remit of most of this...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
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