Neil Coyle MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Somalia and SomalilandForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Somali counterparts on efforts to build relations between leaders in Somalia and Somaliland.
Answer: The UK is one of Somalia's closest and longest standing partners and remains committed to supporting Somali authorities to build a safe, free, and secure country for all Somalis. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) regularly engages wi...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDisinformationCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76593More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to ensure (a) Rt hon. and hon. Members and (b) other elected representatives are held to account for (i) misleading the public and (ii) repeating inaccurate information.
Answer: Honesty is one of the Seven Principles of Public Life, which form the ethical basis of officeholders' standards in public life. All officeholders, including MPs and other elected representatives, have a responsibility to provide accurate information to th...
Answered 26 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists's report entitled A work in progress: evaluating the women’s health strategy, published in July 2025, whether he plans to upd
Answer: The 2022 Women's Health Strategy identified many important issues which remain valid, and we have already made excellent progress turning the commitments in the strategy into tangible action. This includes delivering 5.2 million extra appointments, tackli...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting people with experience of transnational suppression from proposals to increase the qualifying time for Indefinite Leave to Remain to t
Answer: We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year. All will be welcome to participate. We will provide details of how the scheme will work after that consultation. Any attempt by any foreign power to intimidate, harass or harm individu...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Hong KongHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to launch its consultation on changes to indefinite leave to remain for Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa holders; and how long her Department expects to run that co
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting members of the Hong Kong community who have relocated to the UK and those who may come here in future.I welcomed the opportunity to listen to the views of Members around these subjects in the recent 8th September ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPregnancy: GrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider the potential merits of reintroducing health in pregnancy grants to support early years development.
Answer: Children’s early years are crucial to their development, health, and life chances. This is why the Government offers financial support to families with young children on low incomes through the Healthy Start scheme and the Sure Start Maternity Grant (SSMG...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordExport Controls: UkraineDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve the processing of export licensing to Ukraine to aid the war effort.
Answer: All export licence applications to Ukraine are treated with the highest priority by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU). As with all export licence applications, assessments are made on a case-by-case basis according to the Strategic Export Licensing Cri...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: CourtsHome OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will work with (a) housing associations, (b) police authorities, (c) mayors, (d) local authorities and (e) other landlords to introduce fast track courts to tackle antisocial behavio
Answer: Tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) and the harm it causes is a top priority for this Government and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. Every police force in England and Wales now has a dedicated lead officer for ASB, who will work with communities...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessness and Temporary Accommodation: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how (a) temporary accommodation use and (b) all forms of homelessness were factored into assessments of levels of need in the Fair Funding review of local authority needs.
Answer: The government has set out our proposal for consolidating funding across all forms of homelessness, through the first multi-year settlement in a decade, in the Fair Funding Review 2.0 consultation on gov.uk here. The Fair Funding Review 2.0 includes propo...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve specialist paediatric Pancreatic Cancer services in the NHS as part of the 10 year plan.
Answer: In England, children with cancer have their care managed by specialist paediatric cancer multi-disciplinary teams, whose responsibility it is to provide high-quality care through the effective coordination of integrated, disease specific pathways. This in...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Disclosure of InformationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that all Primary Care Network accounts are (a) publicly available and (b) otherwise transparent.
Answer: There are no current plans to change the way that primary care network (PCN) accounts, where required, are published. There is no requirement for practices to form separate legal entities when establishing a PCN account, and the Directed Enhanced Service ...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Improvement: EnergyTreasuryTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68779More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a VAT exemption for home renovations to improve energy efficiency.
Answer: This Government is committed to improving the quality and sustainability of our housing stock, through improvements such as low carbon heating, insulation, solar panels, and batteries. This will be vital to making the UK more energy resilient and meeting ...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHeat PumpsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many heat pumps have been removed from homes in the last 12 months.
Answer: Schemes like the Boiler Upgrade Scheme offer a one-off, upfront grant payment to help property owners transition to low carbon heating. The scheme’s independent evaluation follows up with a sample of participants and the interim report published in Januar...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWarm Homes PlanDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans his Department has to include grants for replacement windows in the upcoming Warm Homes Plan.
Answer: The Warm Homes Plan will help people find ways to save money on energy bills and transform our ageing building stock into comfortable, low-carbon homes that are fit for the future. We are investing £13.2 billion in the Warm Homes Plan over the Spending Re...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: GlassMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has put guarantees are in place for using British-made glass in the windows and doors in her Department’s housebuilding programme.
Answer: My Department has not stipulated the use of British-made glass in developments funded through housebuilding programmes.
Answered 28 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGlass: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the UK glass manufacturing sector.
Answer: The Government continues to support the glass sector, including with their energy costs.We recently launched the consultation to increase the Network Charging Compensation component of the British Industry Supercharger from 60% to 90% from 2026, as traile...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreas: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve access to pancreatic specialists in children’s healthcare.
Answer: The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever. This includes ensuring that children receive the appropriate care and support whenever they need it. A range of measures across National Health Service systems support this...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSelf-employed: FraudDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to tackle bogus self-employment in the digital economy.
Answer: The Government is clear that bogus self-employment is unacceptable. Employers should never seek to deny people their employment rights and avoid their own legal obligations by claiming someone is self-employed when in reality they are not. We recognise th...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Care: Annual ReportsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to require all primary care networks to publish annual accounts.
Answer: The network directed enhanced service contract for primary care networks is held by individual practices, and there is no requirement to form separate legal entities or produce separate accounts. Where local arrangements have led to the creation of separa...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrime: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66934More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) insurance and (b) reinsurance market for businesses affected by cyber-attacks.
Answer: The government recognises that cyber insurance is an important tool for businesses' economic resilience. HM Treasury works closely with industry, regulators, other government departments and relevant stakeholders to monitor insurance markets, including cy...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorismHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ask the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation to publish guidance on what constitutes terrorism in the event of an attack by a hostile state.
Answer: To declare an attack as a terrorist incident is an operationally independent decision for the Police, taken in line with the definition of terrorism as set out in Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: InsuranceTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66182More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether existing (a) insurance and (b) reinsurance mechanisms cover (i) subsea cabled and (ii) other off-shore assets in the event of a terrorist attack.
Answer: The owners or operators of subsea cables and other off-shore assets are responsible for the insurance of their assets.There is a wide variety of insurance products available in the UK market, including from speciality insurers. The government would always...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWest Bank: Overseas CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing sanctions on any British company operating in the illegal settlement activity in the West Bank.
Answer: We are deeply concerned by the levels of settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank and continue to urge the Government of Israel to stop settlement expansion and take action to hold violence to account. Settlements are illegal under inter...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: ExploitationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle exploitative employers that target immigrant workers.
Answer: The Fair Work Agency will bring existing labour market enforcement functions together into one place, so employment rights for all workers are enforced more effectively and efficiently. In addition, the White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration ...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCertification OfficerDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to improve the operations of the Certification Officer.
Answer: The Certification Officer (CO) is independent of Government and day-to-day operations are the remit of the Officer. The CO is required by statute to report their activities to the Department for Business and Trade, and ACAS, on an annual basis. This repor...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
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