Nadia Whittome MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Children's Centres: East MidlandsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many council-run children’s centres have closed in the East Midlands since 2010.
Answer: Data on Sure Start children’s centres is supplied by local authorities via the department’s Get Information about Schools database portal at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.Based on information supplied by local authorities in the Eas...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including absences for religious observances within the category of absences entitled unable to attend school because of unavoidable cause.
Answer: The department does not currently have plans to reclassify absences for religious observance.The law recognises that absences for a small number of circumstances, including for religious observance, are allowable. Where parents choose not to send their ch...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial ServicesTreasuryTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44615More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with (a) UK Finance, (b) individual lenders, (c) credit reference agencies and (d) other relevant organisations to ensure that (i) credit reference agencies and (ii) lenders differentiat
Answer: The Government recognises that credit, when provided responsibly, can be crucial for people facing unexpected expenses or managing their cash flow. That is why it is committed to expanding access to affordable credit, so that everyone has the opportunity ...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) take steps to help reduce financial pressures on pharmacy students and (b) make an assessment of the potential merits of including pharmacy students in the Learning Support Fund sche
Answer: The Government is committed to financially supporting healthcare students in England, including pharmacy students, throughout their studies. Support is predominantly provided through the Department for Education and the student loans system.For the 2025/2...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of the level of funding for independent pharmacies.
Answer: The Government recognises that pharmacies are an integral part of the fabric of our communities. They provide an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.We have now conc...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with independent pharmacy owners on the contracts offered to community pharmacies.
Answer: The Government recognises that pharmacies are an integral part of the fabric of our communities. They provide an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.We have now conc...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start Scheme: Nottingham EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many families are receiving Healthy Start support in Nottingham East constituency.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly figures for the number of people on the digital Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at ...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRacial Discrimination: PalestiniansDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of incidents of anti-Palestinian racism (a) on university campuses, (b) in further education colleges and (c) in schools in each of the last 18 months.
Answer: The department does not hold data on the number of incidents of anti-Palestinian racism in education.
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRacial Discrimination: PalestiniansDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March to Question 38689 on Racial Discrimination: Palestinians, if she will hold discussions with Educate against Hate on developing resources to tackle anti-Palestinian racism.
Answer: This government is committed to ensuring that teachers, parents, and young people are equipped with the guidance and resources designed to develop critical thinking, logical reasoning, and empathy, to build resilience to, and reject hateful narratives.The...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordClass Sizes: East MidlandsDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40868More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress she has made on reducing school class sizes in (a) the East Midlands and (b) Nottingham East constituency.
Answer: The average class size for state-funded primary schools in the East Midlands is 26.3 pupils, which is below the national average of 26.6 pupils, and 26.7 for Nottingham East, which is a fraction higher than the national average. The average class size for...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: ConstructionDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to expand the availability of evening school classes for (a) plumbing, (b) bricklaying, (c) electrical work and (d) other building trades in Nottinghamshire.
Answer: Skills are crucial to this government’s mission to grow the economy under our Plan for Change and deliver our commitment to build 1.5 million homes across this Parliament.On 23 March, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced measur...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Force and Army: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help reduce the time it takes for (a) Army and (b) RAF applicants to complete the recruitment process.
Answer: This Government inherited a recruitment crisis, with targets being missed every year for the past 14 years and is taking decisive action to get recruitment back on track. This has included the largest pay rise to personnel in decades and scrapping 100 out...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRacial Discrimination: PalestiniansDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle anti-Palestinian racism in (a) schools and (b) universities.
Answer: There is no place for racism in our education system or anywhere else in society. Students, regardless of their background, should be able to study in a safe and supportive environment that allows them to thrive.The Equality Act 2010 enshrines in law that...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAlternative Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38148More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new funding stream for students who have been educated in registered alternative provision to continue in that setting after t
Answer: The statutory duty on local authorities to provide alternative provision applies to children of compulsory school age. If any alternative provision schools would like to offer post-16 placements, they should approach the department to discuss this. Funded...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Telephone ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to improve waiting times for the Personal Independence Payment helpline.
Answer: Telephony is our customers’ primary channel to contact us. We continually assess the number of calls we are receiving and the associated waiting times, deploying resources accordingly to support service levels wherever this is possible. However, due to re...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping and LitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37328More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to education people on the potential impact of (a) littering and (b) fly-tipping on local communities.
Answer: Littering and fly-tipping are crimes which blight our communities and harm the environment. Defra chairs the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group which aims to develop and disseminate various practical tools on tackling fly-tipping. These include a guide...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIraq and Kurds: Conditions of EmploymentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the (a) Iraqi Government and (b) Kurdish Regional Government on (i) resolving the teachers’ dispute and (ii) protecting workers'
Answer: Through the UK's diplomatic engagements with the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), we continue to encourage greater cooperation to resolve outstanding issues. This includes disputes between Baghdad and Erbil around federal bu...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDual Carriageways and Motorways: LitterDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help tackle litter along (a) motorways and (b) dual carriageways.
Answer: National Highways is responsible for litter collection on motorways and some ‘A’ roads whilst the relevant local authorities manage litter collection on the rest of the roads in England.National Highways is committed to keeping its roads predominantly fre...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a new national strategy for tackling littering.
Answer: At this time, the Government is not planning to implement a new national litter strategy. This Government is committed to reducing waste by transitioning to a circular economy. To support the government in achieving this goal we have convened a Circular E...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require periodic redeclaration of circumstances every six months for Universal Credit claimants from April 2025.
Answer: As announced at Autumn Budget 2024, the department will prompt Universal Credit claimants to confirm whether they have had a change in circumstances that might affect their claim. Any changes in circumstances declared will be processed and verified in the...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Overseas Territories: CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Overseas Territories' registers of beneficial ownership accessible only to those with a legitimate interest (a) support tra
Answer: At the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) in November 2024, the Falkland Islands and Saint Helena committed to join Montserrat and Gibraltar in implementing fully public registers by April 2025. Other OTs, including the British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Bermud...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Remote WorkingCabinet OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34657More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of policies aimed at increasing office attendance on civil service staff, including regional employees.
Answer: The Government renewed its commitment to the 60% office attendance expectation on 24 October, emphasising the importance of collaboration through face-to-face interactions. This decision is supported by a variety of studies highlighting the benefits of hy...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Climate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of 24 January 2025 on the Climate and Nature Bill, how his
Answer: As part of the Government’s consideration of the Climate and Nature Bill, on 24 January 2025, I committed to strengthen relationships between the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and the Special representat...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of 24 January 2025 in the Climate and Nature Bill debate,
Answer: This Government is absolutely committed to tackling the climate and nature crises and has agreed steps to take forward the spirit and substance of the Climate and Nature Bill with the Bill’s Sponsors. An update on these steps will be set out in a Minister...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSupported Housing: Housing BenefitDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of weeks that people who live in supported accommodation and who have increased their working hours above 16 hours can cla
Answer: Most working-age customers residing in supported housing now receive Universal Credit for their daily living costs and Housing Benefit for their rent support. Customers in receipt of Universal Credit are not eligible for extended rent support as Universal...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
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