Mike Martin MP: written questions 2025
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Perinatal Mortality: CoronersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the powers of Coroners to include the investigation of stillbirths.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Justice jointly consulted on proposals to provide coroners with new powers to investigate term stillbirths in 2019. In 2023, a factual summary of responses to the consultation was published. The...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: RefugeesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of continuation of the conflict in Sudan on the number of Sudanese refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.
Answer: Over 3.6 million people have fled Sudan since the current conflict began in April 2023; many more (8.8 million people) have been internally displaced. Those fleeing Sudan in need of international protection should claim asylum in the first safe country th...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: Apprentices and Classroom AssistantsDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) fast-tracking higher-level teaching assistants to become teachers and (b) introducing teaching apprenticeships.
Answer: Teaching assistants (TAs) play a vital role in children’s education. They are crucial to ensuring we give children the best possible life chances. The ‘use of teaching assistants in schools’ departmental survey from 2023 found that 23% of TAs with a highe...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: Information SharingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that NHS patients who consent to have their data shared with UK medical institutions for research and development will not have their data shared overseas.
Answer: Research studies in which patients choose to share their data must adhere to strict legal and ethical standards, including compliance with the United Kingdom’s General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the common law duty of confidentiality. As par...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that private ambulance service personnel on NHS contracts receive (a) recognition and (b) honours.
Answer: Under the honours system of the United Kingdom, anyone can receive an award, and anyone can nominate someone if they demonstrate the exceptional contribution the person has made.Recognition for those working in the private sector is primarily a matter for...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing civil rather than criminal penalties on people found in possession of drugs for personal use.
Answer: There are no plans to decriminalise illicit drug use. The law allows for the prosecution of those who commit offences, including drug possession and supply. The police have a range of alternative options within the out of court resolution framework (such ...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of moving responsibility for drugs policy to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Answer: Responsibility for drug policy is shared across a number of departments and both the Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care have important roles to play in setting policy to tackle drug use and to reduce drug-related crime and drug heal...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAutism: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for an autism diagnosis in Kent in (a) 2025 and (b) 2020; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for receiving an autism diagnosis.
Answer: The information is not held centrally in the format requested, but may be held by individual providers or integrated care boards (ICBs). Some relevant information is available on autism assessment waiting times for the NHS Kent and Medway ICB.In the NHS K...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProtection From Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023Home OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for the implementation of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023.
Answer: The Government is committed to halving levels of violence against women and girls in a decade. An important part of this ambition is tackling public sexual harassment which often leaves people, disproportionately women, feeling very unsafe. The Protection...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the planned reforms to agricultural property relief, what steps her Department will take to support farmers who have lost their exemption because their (a) spouse or (b) civil partner has died.
Answer: The Government published information about the reforms to agricultural property relief at www.gov.uk/government/publications/agricultural-property-relief-and-business-property-relief-reforms. The reforms mean that individuals can access 100% relief for th...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Telephone ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to hospitals on using withheld numbers to contact patients about appointments.
Answer: National Health Services may sometimes choose to use withheld numbers when contacting patients, including to protect patient privacy and confidentiality, but we appreciate the frustration that patients can feel when they are unable to contact clinical sta...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWildlife: RodenticidesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Rodenticide Stewardship Scheme in reducing wildlife exposure to rat poisons; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking
Answer: The Rodenticides Stewardship Scheme was developed by The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK to promote responsible use and is overseen by the Government Oversight Group for Rodenticide Stewardship (GOG), chaired by the Health and Safety Executive...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordStansted Airport: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the penalties are when the LAeq noise contour threshold at Stansted Airport is exceeded; and who enforces those noise restrictions.
Answer: Stansted Airport’s noise contour limit has been set through a local planning agreement. Enforcement of local planning conditions at Stansted Airport is a matter for the local authority, Uttlesford District Council.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
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