Nick Timothy MP: written questions
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Gun Sports: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of clay pigeon shooting on (a) business growth and (b) job creation in rural communities.
Answer: Rural areas offer significant potential for growth and are important to our economy, contributing over £315 billion a year to England alone. Defra has not made a formal assessment on contribution of clay pigeon shooting to the rural economy; however, we k...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations his Department has received from shooting organisations on restrictions on the acquisition, storage, and use of lead shot.
Answer: Defra has received representations from a variety of stakeholders, including shooting organisations, setting out a diverse range of views on this issue. The main shooting organisations that have made representations have been: The British Association for ...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of exempting elite shooting athletes from the Health and Safety Executive’s proposed restriction on the acquisition, sto
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) final Opinion on their restriction proposal for lead in ammunition, informed by information from public consultations as well as independent scientific advice, included consideration of the use of lead shot by athle...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Visits: SuffolkDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many ministerial visits he has made to Suffolk since 4 July 2025; and where those visits took place.
Answer: The Secretary of State and the Ministerial team conduct visits across the UK on a regular basis including in Suffolk. A central list of every visit conducted is not publicly available.
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the projected cost for spend on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England by 2030.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list (a) the contracts signed by NHS trusts for (a) designing and (b) constructing new NHS buildings that are net zero in operation and (b) the value of each of those contracts.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of benefit claimant households had received welfare payments for (a) five, (b) ten, (c) twenty and (d) more than twenty years in each year since 2010 in the latest period fo
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average amount received in benefits by benefit claimant households in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.
Answer: Monthly statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit and Housing Benefit in Great Britain by local authority are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore. Universal Credit statistics, by monthly average award amount, are available from August 201...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits claimant households received (a) Universal Credit, (b) New Style Jobseekers’ Allowance, (c) New Style Employment and Support Allowance, (d) Personal Independence Payment and (e) legacy
Answer: Monthly statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit and Housing Benefit in Great Britain by local authority are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore.Universal Credit statistics are available from August 2015 to November 2024 in the Household...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) Officials in his Department have undertaken with the sporting and cultural events sector to discuss proposals for the Care Quality Commission to increase its reg
Answer: Following the Manchester Arena Inquiry Volume Two report, the Government sought to make the necessary changes in the law to enable the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to regulate event healthcare at sporting venues and gymnasiums, and at temporary sporting ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Care Quality Commission to regulate sporting and cultural events.
Answer: Following the Manchester Arena Inquiry Volume Two report, the Government sought to make the necessary changes in the law to enable the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to regulate event healthcare at sporting venues and gymnasiums, and at temporary sporting ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to consult on the temporary exemption for sporting and cultural events at associated premises to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulati
Answer: From 26 April 2024 to 21 June 2024, a public consultation was run to gather views on the Government’s proposal. An easy read version was then made available from 13 August 2024 to 27 September 2024. The Government’s response to the consultation was publis...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers arrived in the UK without appropriate documents in in each year since 2020.
Answer: The information requested is not available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school buildings will be (a) sold, (b) refurbished and (c) demolished between 2025 and 2030.
Answer: The department supports responsible bodies, such as local authorities and charitable trusts, that own and manage the school estate, with capital funding, building programmes and extensive guidance. The department does not generally hold data on planned sa...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department is projected to spend on ultra-low carbon measures for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools by 2030.
Answer: The department is committed to supporting the UK net-zero carbon targets. Since 2021, the department’s own building standards require that all new school buildings we deliver are net-zero carbon in operation and are adapted to climate change to between 2 ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent on ultra-low carbon measures for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in England in each year since 2015.
Answer: The department is committed to supporting the UK net-zero carbon targets. Since 2021, the department’s own building standards require that all new school buildings we deliver are net-zero carbon in operation and are adapted to climate change to between 2 ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts have been agreed by her Department for (a) designing and (b) constructing new school buildings that are net zero in operation; and what the value was of each contract.
Answer: The department’s building projects are currently delivered through our £7 billion construction framework 2021 (CF21) which was published under the previous government. The specification for that framework requires buildings to be net zero carbon in operat...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) petrol, (b) diesel, (c) hydrogen, (d) hybrid, (e) plug-in hybrid and (f) fully electric vehicles were leased by Motability in each year since 2010.
Answer: The Department works closely with Motability Foundation and whilst we are responsible for the disability benefits that provide a passport to the Motability Scheme, we do not fund vehicles, be they electric or otherwise. Motability Foundation is an indepen...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Motability vehicles by (a) manufacturer, (b) annual cost and (c) age were leased in each year since 2010.
Answer: The Department works closely with Motability Foundation and whilst we are responsible for the disability benefits that provide a passport to the Motability Scheme, we do not fund vehicles, be they electric or otherwise. Motability Foundation is an indepen...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) petrol, (b) diesel, (c) hydrogen, (d) hybrid, (e) plug-in hybrid and (f) fully electric vehicles were purchased through Motability in each year since 2010.
Answer: The Department works closely with Motability Foundation and whilst we are responsible for the disability benefits that provide a passport to the Motability Scheme, we do not fund vehicles, be they electric or otherwise. Motability Foundation is an indepen...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41548More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Motability vehicles were purchased in each year since 2010 by (a) manufacturer, (b) annual cost and (c) age.
Answer: The Department works closely with Motability Foundation and whilst we are responsible for the disability benefits that provide a passport to the Motability Scheme, we do not fund vehicles, be they electric or otherwise. Motability Foundation is an indepen...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBatteries: StorageDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41547More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what fire prevention policies battery energy storage systems sites are required to follow.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulates battery energy storage systems (BESS) under a framework which requires responsible parties to take measures to ensure health and safety throughout all stages of a BESS’s deployment. Of particular relevance t...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: Electric VehiclesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41546More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much each NHS trust in England has spent on purchasing electric vehicles in each year since 2015.
Answer: Data on the costs of purchasing electric vehicles is not collected centrally by NHS England. This data is held by National Health Service organisations locally.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
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