Olly Glover MP: written questions
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Fuel Poverty: OxfordshireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to tackle the proportion of people who die in fuel poverty in South Oxfordshire constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to a preventative approach to public health. Keeping people warm and well at home and improving the quality of new and existing homes will play an essential part in enabling people to live longer and healthier lives. The Govern...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make funding available for Local Authorities to clear the backlog of young people waiting for their EHCP to be implemented.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision (AP) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.The departmen...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: NeurodiversityDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to improve the inclusivity of mainstream schools for autistic and neurodivergent young people.
Answer: The government is committed to taking a community-wide approach, improving inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools, as well as ensuring special schools cater to children and young people with the most complex needs. The special educational needs a...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AutismDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28218More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support schools to (a) understand and (b) support autistic pupils.
Answer: The government is committed to taking a community-wide approach, improving inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools, as well as ensuring special schools cater to children and young people with the most complex needs. The special educational needs a...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Railways: CostsDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the annual cost of GBRX.
Answer: GBRX has been allocated up to £4m annually through Network Rail’s existing budget.
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British RailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will outline the (a) role and (b) responsibilities of GBRX.
Answer: Network Rail has established GBRX to drive innovation and overcome the barriers to adoption of advanced technologies on Britain’s railway. It aims to unlock strategic innovation where this is most challenging, at the crossroads of track and train, partner...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 18 November 2024 and (b) 16 January 2025 from the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage on a request for a meeting on AEAT pensions.
Answer: My office has been in touch to arrange a meeting, and I look forward to it taking place soon.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal, Social, Health and Economic EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Manchester's research entitled Social and Emotional Learning for Every Child: Why SEL Matters, published on 6 N
Answer: Schools have a statutory duty, as part of a broad and balanced curriculum, to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development. The department published guidance in 2014 to support schools in delivering that requirement.In healt...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to include (a) schools and (b) educational agencies in local arrangements for safeguarding.
Answer: The involvement of education and childcare agencies is fundamental at all levels of safeguarding arrangements. The department knows that teachers and educators are often the first to spot warning signs of abuse and neglect and are the largest referrer of ...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to conduct a review of the medicines supply chain to ensure that the causes of ongoing shortages of medicines for (a) epilepsy, (b) Parkinson’s and (c) ADHD are (i) un
Answer: The resilience of United Kingdom’s supply chains is a key priority, and the Department and NHS England are committed to helping to build long term supply chain resilience for medicines. The Department, working closely with NHS England, is taking forward a...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of either (a) removing the margin or (b) capping the interest rate on student loans.
Answer: Student loans are subject to interest to ensure that those who can afford to do so contribute to the full cost of their degree. The government does not make a profit from the student loan repayment system. The department is determined that the higher educ...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Mental Health ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support people working in education who experience mental health issues.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 19632.
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPaternity LeaveWomen and EqualitiesTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 901935More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the length of paternity leave taken by men on women.
Answer: It is really important that parents are able to spend sufficient time with their children without it negatively affecting their careers.The Parental Rights Survey found that 70% of employee fathers took Paternity Leave.More work needs to be done to suppor...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordElections: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will have discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of reforming the electoral system used to elect Members of Parliament.
Answer: The Government has no plans to change the voting system for Parliamentary elections.
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNurseries: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15120More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, on the the cost of nursery provision for parents.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage to the answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12804.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordElections: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will have discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of reforming the electoral system used to elect Members of Parliament.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 5974 on 14 October 2024.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordElectric Bicycles: ImportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the initial findings of the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) relating to the import of e-bikes, whether he plans to accept the TRA's recommendations on that matter; and what his planned
Answer: On 22 May 2023 the Trade Remedies Authority initiated transition reviews of the existing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade remedy measures on electric bicycles originating from China.As both reviews remain ongoing, I cannot comment further. The Trade Re...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Transport PlansDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department's planned timetable is for publishing new guidance on local transport plans.
Answer: The Government is currently reviewing guidance for Local Transport Authorities on Local Transport Plans.
Answered 9 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRestoring Your Railway FundDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support will be provided to schemes that have already received funding for early stage development under the Restoring Your Railway Fund.
Answer: Former Restoring Your Railway (RYR) projects are being considered as part of the Department’s capital spending portfolio review ahead of preparations for the Spending Review. As my Right Honourable Friend, the Chancellor has set out, decisions must be mad...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNorthumberland LineDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on the Northumberland Line; and what estimate she has made of the date by which that work will be completed.
Answer: Recent progress on the Northumberland Line includes completion of track and signalling upgrades which have allowed driver training to commence, and the stations at Ashington, Newsham and Seaton Delaval nearing construction completion ahead of undergoing a...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRestoring Your Railway FundDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the £500 million of funding announced for the Restoring Your Railway Fund in January 2020 has been allocated to (a) the Ideas Fund, (b) support advanced proposals for re-opening of railway lines, (c
Answer: The Ideas Fund element of RYR supported the development of early-stage business cases. As of 4 July 2024, £21.24m has been spent. The allocated funds were £50.84m.Advanced Proposals refer to proposed lines and stations that were already being considered b...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRestoring Your Railway FundDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the £500 million funding announced for the Restoring Your Railway Fund in January 2020 (a) has been fully allocated, (b) is still to be allocated and cannot be cancelled for cont
Answer: The Ideas Fund element of RYR supported the development of early-stage business cases. As of 4 July 2024, £21.24m has been spent. The allocated funds were £50.84m.Advanced Proposals refer to proposed lines and stations that were already being considered b...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRestoring Your Railway FundDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of 29 July 2024, Official Report, column 1037, which projects under the Restoring Your Railway programme will not go ahead.
Answer: Aside from Restore Your Railway projects currently at the RNEP ‘Deliver’ stage or in delivery/construction, all remaining Restore Your Railway originated projects are now being considered as part of preparations for the Spending Review. Ministers have bee...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
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