Melanie Ward MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Polling Stations: Visual ImpairmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the cost of procuring (a) audio and (b) tactile voting solutions at every polling station to guarantee blind and partially sighted people a secret
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring eligible disabled electors are supported in being able to register and vote in elections.The current law requires Returning Officers to take account of what electors want in terms of support and the Electoral Commis...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
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Local Broadcasting: RadioDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support community radio.
Answer: In December 2024, the Community Radio Order 2025 was laid in draft in Parliament. It enables Ofcom to extend community radio licences for a fourth time and to remove restrictions that limit the amount of income a community radio licence can receive from a...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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Emergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902347More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on strengthening national resilience.
Answer: As my Rt. Hon friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, set out in his statement to the House last week, we continue to make improvements to strengthen our national resilience. In April the UK Resilience Academy will be launched and will train ove...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
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Suicide: InternetDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to tackle websites which (a) promote and (b) normalise suicide.
Answer: Under the Online Safety Act, websites that allow user-generated content must proactively prevent all users from encountering illegal suicide content, and children of all ages from encountering legal content which encourages, promotes or provides instructi...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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Israel: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Israeli government on the attack on Balata refugee camp in December 2024.
Answer: The Foreign Secretary has regularly raised issues of International Humanitarian Law compliance with the Israeli Government. Stability in the West Bank is crucial to ensure that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza can last. All sides should work to ensure a lowe...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
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AsylumHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claimed asylum by country of origin in each month of 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum claims, by nationality, is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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Railway Stations: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her planned timetable is for allocating the next round of Access for All funding.
Answer: Improving the accessibility is an important element of our plan to fix Britain’s broken rail system. The Department is carefully considering the best approach to station accessibility and recognises the huge social and economic benefits it brings to commu...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
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Community Ownership Fund: ScotlandMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of funding from the most recent round of the Community Ownership Fund was allocated to bids from Scotland.
Answer: In Round 4 Window, this government awarded £36.2 million to 85 projects across the UK, with £5 million allocated to 11 projects in Scotland.The full list of successful projects can be found on GOV.UK.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
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