Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions 2025
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Football: TaxationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72945More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will consider introducing a 2 per cent levy on football transfers over £10 million.
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring the long-term health of English football at all levels. At this moment in time, the government is not considering a levy on football transfers.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric ScootersDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to review the regulations on the use of e-scooters on roads.
Answer: Until changes are made, private e-scooters remain illegal to use on public roads, cycle lanes and pavements. In the Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, which is part of the Industrial Strategy, the Government has committed to pursuing legisla...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing free bus travel to under 22 year olds.
Answer: The Government knows how important affordable and reliable bus services are in enabling people to get to education, work and access vital services. On 1 January, we introduced a £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London to help passengers conti...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealthwatchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the views of (a) patients and (b) the public continue to be heard when the responsibilities of Healthwatch are moved to Integrated Care Boards.
Answer: The Department has accepted the recommendation of the Dash review of patient safety across the health and care landscape, to abolish Local Healthwatch.In future, integrated care boards will be responsible for seeking patient, user and wider community inpu...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what administrative steps her Department takes in relation to an overseas care worker whose sponsorship visa has (a) expired or (b) been terminated.
Answer: There are no unique arrangements for care workers whose leave has expired and have been unable to find a suitable full-time vacancy in the sector prior to the expiration of their leave.Individuals would be expected to regularise their stay or make arrange...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overseas care workers hold sponsorship visas which will expire within the next 12 months.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work visas by occupation in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants of visas for ‘Caring Personal Services’ occupations, by quarter, are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the sponsore...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overseas care workers are working on sponsorship visas from their employers.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on sponsored work visas by occupation in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on grants of visas for ‘Caring Personal Services’ occupations, by quarter, are published in table ‘Occ_D02’ of the sponsore...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxation: DomicilTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72602More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional rate taxpayers have left the UK in relation to their tax liabilities in the last 12 months up to 1 August 2025.
Answer: Taxpayers are not always required to inform HM Revenue and Customs when they leave the UK. Some taxpayers outside of Self Assessment might file a P85 form after leaving the UK, but only where they are seeking to claim a repayment of income tax. Taxpayers ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Insurance FundTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72601More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the most recent statement of accounts for the National Insurance Fund.
Answer: The most recent statement of accounts for the GB and NI National Insurance Funds were published on 27 November 2024 and relate to the 2023-24 financial year. The respective National Insurance Fund accounts for the 2024-25 financial year will be published ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordShingles: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the equity of access to the shingles vaccine.
Answer: Previously, the shingles vaccine was available to people turning 65 and 70 years old, up until their 80th birthday, and to severely immunosuppressed individuals aged 50 years old and over.As of 1 September 2025, approximately 300,000 more people have beco...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Support AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71743More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether existing claimants of Employment Support Allowance, who leave the social security system and later need to return to claim (a) Employment Support Allowance and (b) Universal Health, will be cons
Answer: Customers who leave the social security system and later need to return to claim New Style Employment Support Allowance or the Universal Credit health element will be considered new claimants, unless they stopped receiving Universal Credit as a result of ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: InjunctionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of super injunctions with (a) governance and (b) transparency.
Answer: It is for the courts to determine individual applications for interim injunctions to restrain publication of confidential information (and the existence of the injunction) on the merits of each case, and in accordance with the law and specific Practice Gu...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDisabled Students' Allowances: Assistive TechnologyDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a statement on how the decision to cut funding for Assistive Technologies within the Disabled Students’ Allowance was made.
Answer: The department made the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar (SPAG) software from the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) funding on the grounds that there are now free-to-access versions available with the required functionality to meet ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDisabled Students' Allowances: Assistive TechnologyDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that the decision to cut funding for Assistive Technologies within the Disabled Students’ Allowance will not affect students starting university in September.
Answer: The department made the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar (SPAG) software from the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) funding on the grounds that there are now free-to-access versions available with the required functionality to meet ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordInfected Blood InquiryCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68292More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's planned timetable is for responding to the Additional Report by the Infected Blood Inquiry, published on 9 July 2025.
Answer: I am grateful to Sir Brian Langstaff for his constructive Additional Report. We share his ambition to ensure that fair compensation is provided to every person that is eligible without delay.On 21st July, I delivered an oral statement to the House confirm...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Foreign RelationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the relationship between the UK and Israel.
Answer: The UK government has taken action in response to the egregious activity of the Israeli government in Gaza and the West Bank. The actions of this Israeli government are isolating Israel from its friends and partners around the world and in response we hav...
Answered 22 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordEquitable Life Assurance Society: CompensationTreasuryTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67794More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is the average payment to those eligible With-Profit-Annuitants within the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.
Answer: The Government allocated £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme had issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders. The remainder of the £1.5 billion has been set aside...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEquitable Life Assurance Society: CompensationTreasuryTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67793More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many eligible With Profit annuities are currently covered by the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.
Answer: The Government allocated £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme had issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders. The remainder of the £1.5 billion has been set aside...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEquitable Life Assurance Society: CompensationTreasuryTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67792More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the the Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been paid out to eligible With-Profit-Annuitants.
Answer: The Government allocated £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme had issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders. The remainder of the £1.5 billion has been set aside...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67766More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing draft duty relief for (a) consumers (b) pubs and (c) breweries in Poole constituency.
Answer: The Chancellor’s draught rate cut at Autumn Budget 2024 applied to approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. Draught beer and cider now pay 13.9% less in duty than their packaged equivalents – a 50% increase on the previous draught discount ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people in the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group will be classed as being a new claimant when they migrate onto Universal Credit for the purposes of the Universal Credit Bill.
Answer: We are rebalancing Universal Credit to fix a system which encourages people to claim health benefits and shuts the out of employment support. It’s a targeted reform that protects those with the most serious, long-term conditions and existing claimants, wh...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Trade with EU: Import ControlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the UK-EU Summit - Joint Statement, updated 19 May 2025, whether his Department will prioritise the removal of the need for sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) certifica
Answer: As announced at the UK-EU Leaders Summit on May 19, 2025, the UK and EU have agreed to work towards a common Sanitary and Phytosanitary Area which will slash costs and remove red tape. The removal of the need for Export Health Certification will save trad...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Young PeopleDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to includes measures for young people in the forthcoming food strategy.
Answer: We are developing an ambitious new food strategy to set the food system up for long term success. The strategy will deliver wide ranging improvements. Everyone including young people will benefit from a healthier, more affordable, sustainable and resilien...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous Dogs: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66497More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing dog bite prevention to the school curriculum.
Answer: Dog bite prevention is not taught within the statutory curriculum at present. Schools have the flexibility to include it within their local curriculum if they wish, for example in relationships, sex and health education or citizenship.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to introduce standardised (a) recording and (b) reporting for dog (i) bites and (ii) strikes.
Answer: The Government has reconvened the Responsible Dog Ownership Taskforce to explore measures to promote responsible dog ownership across all breeds of dog. As part of this work, the taskforce is considering improvements in data collection and reporting. We l...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
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