Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions
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Energy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made with Ofgem of the potential impact of the RIIO2 price control on network company performance.
Answer: Through the price control, Ofgem regulates network company investments and sets a fair rate of return to ensure necessary investments can be made. Ofgem utilises a framework of incentives and penalties to drive up performance and is currently considering ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will undertake a review of the necessity of using dogs in regulatory testing across all sectors.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting the uptake and development of alternative methods to the use of animals in science. The Labour Manifesto includes a commitment to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasin...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing plant protection product testing to remove the need to use dogs for testing.
Answer: GB pesticides regulations contain rules that require sharing of tests and studies involving vertebrate animals between pesticide companies to ensure that such testing is minimised. The assimilated regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 requires that testing on vert...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce and (b) replace the use of dogs in testing required under plant protection product legislation.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternatives exist and under controls which keep suffering to a minimum. The GB pesticides r...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing on dogs in the last five years.
Answer: While we have not made an assessment of the potential impact of plant protection product legislation on trends in the level of animal testing, the UK Government is committed to maintaining a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research an...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring private health providers to pay a fee back to the NHS.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the merits of private health providers paying a fee back to the National Health Service.Independent healthcare providers do have a role to play to strengthen the overall health service in England. NHS England and the Indepen...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for health professionals to spend at least three years in the NHS following training before they can practice priva
Answer: The Department consulted on a tie-in to National Health Service dentistry for graduate dentists in 2024. We are considering the responses and will set out our position in due course. No assessment has been made for other healthcare professionals.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the processes in place for dentists from overseas who wish to set up in (a) private practice and (b) the NHS.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentistry in the United Kingdom. Only dentists and dental care professionals registered with the GDC can legally practise dentistry, both within the National Health Service and privately, in...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIndividual Savings Accounts: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32885More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to ensure that savers are aware of their tax liabilities in relation to the use of ISAs.
Answer: ISAs are tax-free savings accounts, which incentivise individuals to save and invest. An ISA investor does not pay tax on interest, income, or gains received in an ISA and there is no need to declare any ISA interest, income, or capital gains on a tax ret...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund: DorsetDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will announce a future funding settlement for the Adoption Support Fund beyond this year.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Poole to the answer of 29 January 2025 to Question 26025.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurs: TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to publish a response to the consultation entitled the Fur Market in Great Britain, published on 31 May 2021, after the Animal Welfare Committee publishes
Answer: The call for evidence on the Fur Market in Great Britain was undertaken by the previous government and next steps will be announced in due course. Defra is continuing to build the evidence base on the fur sector. This includes commissioning our expert Ani...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurs: TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Animal Welfare Committee’s review of responsible sourcing of fur will be published before second reading of the Fur (Import and Sale) Bill on 13 June 2025.
Answer: Defra is continuing to build the evidence base on the fur sector. The Animal Welfare Committee’s opinion on the sustainable sourcing of fur is due to complete in 2025 and will be published on GOV.UK thereafter. As with all projects, the precise dates for ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Accommodation: RegistrationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's timetable is for introducing a statutory registration scheme for holiday lets.
Answer: Parliament legislated for a registration scheme for short-term lets in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, and we are committed to introducing such a scheme as soon as possible. The initial phase of digital development is now complete, with public...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2023, published on 11 September 2024, and to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, for what r
Answer: The 2023 Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain, provides details of the uses of the animals. The purposes of use of the 205 ‘other dogs’ in experimental procedures are in Table 3.2. The purposes, and numbers of dogs u...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that a range of arts subjects are included in the national curriculum.
Answer: The current national curriculum includes art and design, music, dance within physical education and drama within English.The independent Curriculum and Assessment Review will seek to deliver a curriculum which is rich and broad, inclusive and innovative, ...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: LabellingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish the outcomes of his Departments consultation entitled Fairer Food Labelling, which closed in May 2024.
Answer: A public consultation on fairer food labelling was undertaken between March and May 2024 by the previous Government. This sought views on proposals to improve and extend current mandatory method of production labelling. The consultation also sought views ...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: EvictionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to introduce a moratorium on Section 21 eviction notices until Parliamentary consideration of the Renters' Reform Bill is concluded.
Answer: The Renters’ Rights Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday 4 February. The Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to overhaul the regulation of the private rented sector, including by abolishing Section 21 ‘no fault’ evi...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for International DevelopmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will re-establish the Department for International Development.
Answer: As set out in the 2024 Labour Party manifesto, the Government's plans are to strengthen international development work within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that disabled travellers are not discriminated against when using (a) aircraft, (b) trains and (c) ferries and cruise ships.
Answer: Discrimination on transport is not acceptable, and this Government is committed to making our transport networks safe and easy to use, allowing disabled passengers to travel confidently and with dignity. Aviation must be accessible; everyone should be abl...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Overseas TradeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that UK (a) defence equipment supplied to and (b) trade with Israel is not used to support the continued presence of I
Answer: The UK's robust export licensing criteria states that the Government will not issue export licences if there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). In September 2024...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordInternational Criminal CourtForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will make additional resources available to the ICC.
Answer: The UK is a strong supporter of an effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC) . This year we are providing support of £13.6 million to the ICC's annual (2025) budget. At present we have no plans to make additional resources available to ...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordIsraeli Settlements: BusinessForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking(a) legislative and (b) regulatory steps to prohibit UK (i) nationals, (ii) companies and (iii) financial i
Answer: The UK Government considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law and goods produced in these settlements are not entitled to benefit from tariff and trade preferences under the UK's current trade agreements with the Palestinian Authority an...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLong CovidDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he expects ICBs to take to support people with long covid.
Answer: NHS England’s commissioning guidance from December 2023 presents guidance for the commissioning and oversight of post-COVID services by integrated care boards (ICBs) in England for adults, and children and young people from April 2024. Since then, in line...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to increase regulation of private car park companies.
Answer: The Government recognises the need for high standards in the private parking industry and is working with both consumer groups and the two parking trade associations to raise standards and deliver better protection and support for motorists.The Parking (C...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTravel: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help end discrimination against disabled people when travelling abroad.
Answer: Discrimination on transport is not acceptable, and this Government is committed to making its UK transport network safe and easy to use, allowing disabled passengers to travel confidently and with dignity.On travel abroad, the Government works through int...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
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