Olly Glover MP: written questions
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Written questions
Railways: ElectrificationDepartment for TransportTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which railways are planned for (a) full and (b) partial electrification; whether these proposals are funded; what the target delivery dates are; and whether this information is published in tabular format.
Answer: The railway is already a green form of transport and the Department want to develop an integrated strategy that joins up infrastructure investment and rolling stock plans to decarbonise rail travel effectively and efficiently for as many people as possibl...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFertility: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 904027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for Women and Equalities on access to fertility treatment for same sex couples.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not had recent discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on access to fertility treatment for same sex couples.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEast Coast Main Line: TimetablesDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with Network Rail on the December 2025 East Coast Main Line timetable.
Answer: The Department has been in regular discussion with Network Rail since 2018 on the new East Coast Main Line (ECML) timetable including through industry planning forums. Last year, the Department commissioned an industry taskforce, including Network Rail, t...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients continue to receive ADHD medication without cost when their shared care agreement has come to an unpredicted end.
Answer: It is the responsibility of integrated care boards in England to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including access to medication services for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)....
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDyslexia: ScreeningDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered the merits of introducing a statutory requirement for schools to screen children for dyslexia before the age of 7.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40829.
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the Third Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of Session 2023-24 on Defined benefit pension schemes, HC 144, published on 26 March 2024.
Answer: The Government is grateful to the previous Work and Pensions Select Committee for their valuable report on defined benefit (DB) pensions schemes and to the Chair for her sustained focus on this important area. I will respond to the Committee in the coming...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help accommodate excess domestic renewable power within local power networks.
Answer: The Government is working to accelerate network infrastructure build, which will reduce constraints on the network by allowing low-cost renewables onto the system more quickly. We are also taking steps outlined in the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan to suppo...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParish and Town Councils: StaffMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support she is providing to maintain the roles of (a) parish and town clerks and (b) responsible financial officers on local councils.
Answer: Town and parish council clerks and responsible financial officers do vital work which enables councils to represent their communities. The department supports town and parish council officers by establishing clear frameworks for councillor standards and c...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCompulsorily Detained Psychiatric PatientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish rates of sectioning under the Mental Health Act 1983 by diagnosis of (a) bipolar and (b) other mental health conditions for each of the last five years.
Answer: An individual is detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 if they pose a serious risk to themselves or others and they require care in a hospital setting. Detentions are not made based on diagnoses of severe mental health conditions.NHS England is curren...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBipolar Disorder: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending Early Intervention in Psychosis services to include people with bipolar who do not experience psychosis.
Answer: Early Intervention in Psychosis services provide evidence-based, specialist interventions, and treatment for individuals presenting with psychosis. These services recognise that bipolar disorder diagnoses can be uncertain and are therefore available to in...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBipolar Disorder: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training is provided to early intervention in psychosis teams on (a) recognising and (b) supporting people with bipolar.
Answer: We recognise how important it is for individuals with bipolar to get the right care and support they need. NHS England commissions training for staff working in early intervention in psychosis services to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy for both psy...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBipolar Disorder: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help establish specialist care pathways for people with bipolar to (a) improve treatment and (b) reduce the levels of misdiagnosis
Answer: We recognise that there can often be a long time taken to diagnose bipolar disorder because of under-reporting, the episodic nature of the condition, and the prevalence of comorbid conditions in individuals.We are committed to increasing access to communi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBipolar Disorder: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the average time taken to diagnose bipolar disorder in line with early intervention targets for other conditions
Answer: We recognise that there can often be a long time taken to diagnose bipolar disorder because of under-reporting, the episodic nature of the condition, and the prevalence of comorbid conditions in individuals.We are committed to increasing access to communi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCross Country TrainsDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the performance of Arriva Cross Country under the terms of its contract.
Answer: CrossCountry performance was not good enough in 2024. A Remedial Agreement was in place from August 2024 to March 2025 when the operator took steps to improve services. The operator was monitored closely. In 2025 CrossCountry cancellations are now lower a...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDyslexia: Primary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that teachers are adequately trained on identifying dyslexia in the early years of primary education.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40829.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDyslexia: ScreeningDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of children in England with undiagnosed dyslexia; and what steps she is taking to help reduce that number.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40829.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDyslexia: ScreeningDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of early dyslexia screening on literacy outcomes in primary school children.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40829.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInland Waterways: Rights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right to roam for waterways.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of providing access to the outdoors including blue spaces for people’s health and wellbeing and is working to ensure this is safe and appropriate. This is why we have set out our ambitious manifesto commitments to ...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: HandbooksDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish the guidance entitled Manual For Streets 3.
Answer: The Department is working to bring together and update the Manual for Streets and Manual for Streets 2 to ensure the advice within them is still relevant and enables those designing streets to do so in a way that contributes to sustainable, healthy and ac...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: InvestmentDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made on the preparation of the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
Answer: The Department’s officials are scoping out options for the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, and the Department will say more on this in due course. The Department will consult stakeholders before the publication of the Strategy, as required ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: DistributionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by National Infrastructure Commission entitled Electricity distribution networks: creating capacity
Answer: The government welcomes the overall thrust of the National Infrastructure Commission’s study and its focus on supporting strategic investment in the distribution network. We are reviewing the detail of the study with our key delivery partners and will pub...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2025 to Question 32531 on Active Travel: Finance, how much funding her Department allocated for active travel by (a) (i) capital and (ii) revenue funding and (b) funding fo
Answer: The below table sets out capital and revenue funding allocations to (a) local authorities (LA) and (b) non-government organisations (NGO), alongside funding for Active Travel England’s (ATE) operating costs from financial year 20/21 to 23/24. Final paymen...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37916More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2024 to 24262, whether the Innovative Devices Access Pathway pilot will conclude in March 2025; and what his planned timetable is for assessing the findings of
Answer: The Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) pilot will conclude in March 2025. We are continuing to seek feedback from the pilot, which will capture key insights and learnings to help inform the feasibility and development of a future pathway. This will ...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British RailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated cost of the Great British Railways livery rebrand is.
Answer: We're delivering a once in a generation overhaul of the railways and will establish Great British Railways, a new body bringing track and train together, delivering reliable services for passengers and freight customers, and catalysing growth across the c...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Exhaust EmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle the public health risks associated with high levels of nitrogen oxide pollution from diesel vehicles.
Answer: Despite significant progress, air pollution remains a significant environmental threat to human health. Leading our Health Mission, the Department of Health and Social Care is working across Government, including with the Department for Transport, to prom...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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