Neil Shastri-Hurst MP: written questions
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Royal Army Medical CorpsMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time regular personnel were serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps on 14 March 2025; and if he will make an estimate of the number of full-time regular personnel who will be serving in the (a) 20
Answer: The Royal Army Medical Corps have been amalgamated with Royal Army Dental Corps and Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps to form the Royal Army Medical Service. As at 1 January 2025 there were 3,954 Trade Trained Regular personnel in the Royal Army ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmoured Fighting VehiclesMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many additional (a) tanks and (b) armoured vehicles are expected to be operational in 2027-28, in the context of increases in defence spending.
Answer: Whilst the Army’s modernisation will continue over the next decade with a programme of investment worth billions of pounds, future capability development priorities will be guided by the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). There are no current plans to procur...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of additional service personnel who will be recruited to the (a) Royal Navy, (b) British Army, (c) Royal Air Force in the 2027-28 financial year, in the context of increase
Answer: The increase in defence spending is a vital part of ensuring the nation can realise the ambition which will be set out in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). All Defence personnel - in and out of uniform - are at the heart of Defence's plans. The SDR has ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst Aid: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of mandating CitizenAID training within the national curriculum.
Answer: All state-funded schools are required to teach about first aid as part of the statutory health education set out within the relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance. Independent schools are required to cover health education as pa...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeorgia: RussiaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the risk of interference by Russia in Georgia.
Answer: Georgia remains at the forefront of Russian hybrid aggression, with Russian military units stationed just 30 minutes from the capital, Tbilisi. In December 2024 I discussed with Georgian Dream representative, Maka Botcharishvili, Russian interference in G...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the application of VAT on independent school fees on the number of independent school closures in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 f
Answer: Approximately 50 mainstream private schools close each year. There are a range of reasons for closure, including financial viability and action taken by the department where schools are not meeting standards. We expect the number of private school closure...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: DeathDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of road traffic fatalities related to potholes in (a) Solihull Borough, (b) the city of Birmingham, (c) Warwickshire, (d) Oxfordshire and (e) Worcestershire i
Answer: Statistics on reported road injury collisions in Great Britain are published based on data reported by police via the data collection known as STATS19. Within STATS19, reporting police officers can assign up to 6 factors which they believe may have contri...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many 3M Combat Arms Earplugs V2 his Department purchased between 2003 and 2015.
Answer: 3M Combat Arms Ear Plugs V2 were purchased by the Ministry of Defence during this period, however records of the quantities purchased are no longer held.
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed ForcesMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average annual workforce and activity cost is of the (a) Regular Army Infantry Battalion, (b) Army Reserve Infantry Battalion, (c) Royal Armoured Corps Regular Army Regiment and (d) Royal Armoured Corps
Answer: We do not hold a central record of detailed workforce costings and activity at the granular unit level requested.
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed ForcesMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) workforce and (b) other costs are to maintain the (i) 4th Light Brigade Combat Team, (ii) 20th Armoured Brigade Combat Team, (iii) 102 Operational Sustainment Brigade and (iv) 1st Deep Reconnaissance
Answer: We do not hold a central record of detailed workforce costings and activity at the granular unit level requested.
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNegligence: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timetable is for implementing fixed recoverable costs to clinical negligence claims.
Answer: Currently, the Government is considering the way forward on a wide range of matters, including clinical negligence costs reform, and we will announce our position in due course.
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to he Answer of 27 January 2025 to question 24346 on NHS: Standards, how many additional Value Weighted Activity appointments have been delivered since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Between July 2024 and November 2024, the latest available data, there were 1,635,136 more value-weighted activity appointments compared to the period July 2023 to November 2023.This includes elective ordinary and day case admissions, outpatient first appo...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many 3M Combat Arms Earplugs V2 his Department has purchased in the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence holds no records of any 3M Combat Arms Earplugs V2 being purchased in the past five years.
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMedicine: Professional OrganisationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions he has met representatives of each medical Royal College since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Meetings with external organisations are routinely disclosed in the Department’s transparency publications. Two returns have been published since 5 July 2024, one in September, and one in December. Further information is available at the following link:ht...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he is measuring the delivery of 40,000 more NHS appointments a week.
Answer: Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission, and we will deliver an additional two million operations, scans, and appointments during our first year in Government, which is equivalent to 40,000 per week, as a first step in our commitment to...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which appointments will count towards the plan to deliver 40,000 more NHS appointments a week.
Answer: Tackling waiting lists is a key part of our Health Mission, and we will deliver an additional 2 million operations, scans, and appointments during our first year in Government, which is equivalent to 40,000 per week, as a first step in our commitment to e...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: SanitationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress the Health and Safety Executive has made in its review of the Approved Code of Practice and guidance in the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 on provision of disposal
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are reviewing the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and guidance of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 regarding provision of disposal facilities in workplace toilets. This work is included wit...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Navigation Satellite Systems: CybersecurityMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to improve the UK's space-based (a) positioning, (b) navigation and (c) timing capabilities, in the context of encrypted and alerting services.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not currently have any UK space-based position, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities, nor any plans for a future space based PNT system. The MOD works closely with the National PNT Office, in the Department for Scien...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Medical ServicesMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Defence Medical Services cadre is operationally fit to deploy.
Answer: I am withholding the information as its disclosure would, or would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces. Whilst a statistical release of overall Armed Forces strength is published annually, strength and capa...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that police resources for tackling knife crime at a local level are used effectively.
Answer: This Government has set out an unprecedented mission to halve knife crime over the next decade.As part of the £1 billion increase for policing in 2025-6 set out by the Home Secretary at the provisional police funding settlement, the Home Office is providi...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSubversion: RussiaHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help deter Russian interference in democratic processes in the UK.
Answer: Protecting the integrity and security of UK democratic processes from threats of foreign interference is a priority across government.The National Security Act 2023 provides the security services and law enforcement agencies with the tools and powers they...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIran: National SecurityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to help deter malign Iranian activity in the UK.
Answer: Iran's malign activity is unacceptable. In response the to the regime's human rights violations, nuclear weapons programme, malign influence internationally and state threats, the UK has more than 450 sanctions designations in place on Iranian individuals...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: CostsTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23612More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the costs to HMRC of processing changes to rates of National Insurance contributions.
Answer: Tax Information and Impact Notes (TIINs) covering recent changes to rates of National Insurance contributions (NICs) are available on GOV.UK and include information about estimated costs associated with these measures. A TIIN covering employer NICs change...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: HospicesTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23611More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the increase of tax paid by hospices as a result of changes to National Insurance contributions rates.
Answer: The latest forecasts for tax revenues were published alongside the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) October Economic and Fiscal Outlook. These forecasts are based on economic determinants, including wage growth and employment levels. The OBR do no...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Charitable DonationsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the value of charity given to (a) state schools and (b) local communities by independent schools in each of the last five years.
Answer: The department does not collect data about the value of charity given to state schools and local communities by private schools. Therefore, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has not made an estimate of its value in each of the las...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
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