Mike Amesbury MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Prisoners' Release: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Mar 2025WithdrawnUIN 36121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are in prison as a result of recall.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordBuildings: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Q118 of the evidence given by her Department's Permanent Secretary to the Public Accounts Committee on 3 February 2025, HC 362, whether the cladding remediation
Answer: The cladding remediation funding announced in the Autumn Budget relates to the allocation required over the spending review period from the Government’s total agreed £5.1 billion contribution and new investment to speed up remediation of social housing.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32213More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the differences between the definition of connected buildings which are regulated as (a) one higher-risk buildi
Answer: The Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023 define higher-risk 'buildings' differently in the design and construction phase and once a building is occupied, with each phase being distinctly different and having i...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Q52 of the evidence given by her Department's Director General for Buildings and Resilience to the Public Accounts Committee on 3 February 2025, HC 362, what di
Answer: Officials in my department engage regularly with the insurance industry.The insurance industry has the opportunity to feed into the PAS 9980 review currently being conducted by the British Standards Institution (BSI).
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference Q49 of the evidence given by her Department's Director for Remediation Policy to the Public Accounts Committee on 3 February 2025, HC 362, what estimate she has ma
Answer: The developer remediation contract and the associated Responsible Actors Scheme includes provisions to make sure that signatory developers comply with their obligation to carry out remedial works that comply with the standard set out in the contract. The ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShared Ownership Schemes: Sub-lettingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has had assurances from social housing providers that they are complying with the guidance that requests from shared owners to sub-let should be accepted
Answer: The relevant government guidance is clear: for properties affected by building safety issues, requests from shared owners to sub-let should always be accepted by registered providers of social housing in England (though where required, the shared owner ma...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraphs 58 to 60 of the the Housing Communities and Local Government Committee's 2nd Report of the 2019-2021 session on Cladding: Progress of remediation, pu
Answer: We are committed to ensuring that buildings with defective cladding are remediated as quickly as possible. As set out in our Remediation Acceleration Plan on 2 December 2024, the department is pursuing a wide range of measures to progress remediation, inc...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which freeholders have signed up to the Remediation Acceleration Plan.
Answer: There is no requirement for freeholders to sign up to the Remediation Acceleration Plan (RAP). The plan, published on 2 December 2024, sets out the steps this government will take to increase the pace of building remediation, while better protecting resid...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBuildings: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of buildings under the (a) ACM programme, (b) Building Safety Fund, (c) Cladding Safety Scheme, (d) Developer remediation contract and (e) social hou
Answer: We publish a monthly Building Safety Remediation data release, covering the ACM programme, Building Safety Fund, Cladding Safety Scheme, Developer Remediation Contract and the social housing remediation programme at Building Safety Remediation - GOV.UK. H...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPets: InsuranceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of trends in the cost of pet insurance in the last (a) 12 and (b) 24 months.
Answer: Pet insurance providers are private businesses and are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are therefore not able to provide further information.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - December 2024, published on 23 January 2025, how many of the buildings
Answer: We do not hold information on whether buildings outside the scope of government funded remediation programmes are collectively owned.
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - December 2024, published on 23 January 2025, in how many of the buildi
Answer: The Department does not hold this information.The contribution condition is met when the landlord group’s net worth is at least £2,000,000 per relevant building owned by the landlord group. If the landlord group of a relevant building meets the contributi...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCladding Safety SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - December 2024, published on 23 January 2025, how many buildings which
Answer: 125 buildings have transferred from the Building Safety Fund (BSF) to the Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS). We are exploring opportunities to transfer further buildings from the BSF to exploit the benefits of the CSS.No buildings, to date, have been found to ...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCladding Safety SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to transfer any buildings that have not yet started work under the Building Safety Fund to the Cladding Safety Scheme.
Answer: 125 buildings have transferred from the Building Safety Fund (BSF) to the Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS). We are exploring opportunities to transfer further buildings from the BSF to exploit the benefits of the CSS.No buildings, to date, have been found to ...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: CheshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of dentistry in (a) Halton, (b) Cheshire West and (c) Chester in the last (i) three months, (ii) six months, (ii) 12 months and (iv) two
Answer: Dental Statistics - England 2023/24, published by the NHS Business Services Authority on 22 August 2024, is available at the following link:https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324Data for adults is...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the backlog in Home Office asylum cases in (a) England, (b) North West region and (c) Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHunting Act 2004Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of strengthening the provisions of the Hunting 2004.
Answer: This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans in a generation to improve animal welfare and that is exactly what we will do. The Government has already committed to a ban on trail hunting which will provide significant pro...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: HomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment has she made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of the support available to veterans affected by homelessness.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected. We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross government strategy, working...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastic Surgery: RegulationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, What recent assessment has he made of the potential merits of developing an (a) regulatory framework and (b) NHS style oversight for the aesthetic industry.
Answer: The Government is committed to taking action to address concerns about the safety of the cosmetics sector and is exploring options for further regulation in this area. We will set out the details of our approach in due course.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for the fire and rescue service.
Answer: Overall, fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.87 billion in 2024/25. Decisions on how their resources are best deployed to meet their core functions are a matter for each fire and rescue authority based on its analysis of risk and local circ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBank of EnglandTreasuryTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30749More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of limiting the amount of money that the Bank of England can pay in interest to commercial banks.
Answer: The Bank of England has operational independence from the government to carry out its statutory responsibilities for monetary policy and financial stability. Monetary policy, including quantitative easing, is the responsibility of the independent Monetary...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEndometriosis: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce diagnosis times for endometriosis.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health and improving the diagnosis times for gynaecological conditions, including endometriosis.We have taken urgent action to tackle gynaecology waiting lists through the Elective Reform Plan. In gynaec...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: Tax Rates and BandsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will commission a review into the adequacy of housing bands used to calculate council tax bands.
Answer: The government has no plans to commission a review of council tax bands. The Government is committed to keeping taxes on working people as low as possible.
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTax Rates and BandsTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30236More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing tax allowance rates to £20,000.
Answer: The Government is committed to not raising taxes on working people, which is why we are not increasing the basic, higher, or additional rates of income tax, employee National Insurance contributions, or VAT. The previous Government made the decision to f...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve the quality of care in maternity units.
Answer: The Government continues to work with the National Health Service as it delivers its three-year plan for maternity and neonatal services. The plan sets out how the NHS will make maternity and neonatal care safer, more personalised, and more equitable for ...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
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