Phil Brickell MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Syria: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to use UK-based assets that were expropriated by the Assad regime for (a) aid and (b) re-development projects to help the Syrian people.
Answer: UK-based assets expropriated by the Assad regime remain frozen. As with all our sanctions, we keep our approach under review.We do not comment on future designations as to do so lessens their potential impact.
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEconomic Crime: Crown DependenciesHome OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure UK law enforcement authorities use criminal measures against professional enablers of economic crime who have exploited Crown Dependencies.
Answer: Professional enablers are a critical facilitator of serious and organised crime.As part of the Economic Crime Plan 2, the National Economic Crime Centre launched a cross-system strategy to tackle the threat posed by professional enablers to the UK earlier...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: Crown DependenciesHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Crown Dependencies are not used to launder the proceeds of corruption.
Answer: The Crown Dependencies are separate, self-governing jurisdictions responsible for their own domestic affairs, including financial services regulation. The Ministry of Justice is responsible for managing the UK’s constitutional relationship with the Crown ...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCompany Accounts: FinesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much the late filing penalties from companies failing to file their annual accounts within the deadline were in each financial year between 2018-19 and 2023-24.
Answer: Official statistics on the value of collected late filing penalties are published in the annual report of Companies House. We have excerpted and reproduced the relevant figures for companies failing to file their annual accounts within the deadline below:...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Crime Agency: StaffHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what headcount cap has she set for the National Crime Agency for financial year (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.
Answer: The Home Secretary has not set headcount caps for the National Crime Agency.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBritish Council: FinanceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure the financial stability of the British Council.
Answer: This Government is committed to a successful British Council that is financially stable. Our funding to the British Council underlines our support. The FCDO will provide the British Council with £162.5 million Grant-in-Aid in 2024/25. Funding for 2025/26 ...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHong Kong: Human RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the meeting between the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Indo-Pacific and Hong Kong’s Convenor of the E
Answer: I met Regina Ip on 31 October. Human rights were raised as part of the discussion. The UK will continue to speak often and candidly with Hong Kong authorities across both areas of contention as well as areas for cooperation. Engagement with representative...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeposit Return SchemesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on implementing a deposit return scheme.
Answer: This Government is committed to delivering the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drinks containers in October 2027, as agreed with the devolved Governments of the UK, and in accordance with the Joint Policy Statement published in April 2024. We plan to lay ...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBritish Overseas Territories: CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 8363, what minimum requirements his Department set out as being an expectation in any legitimate interest access regime
Answer: Tackling illicit finance in the UK, as well as in our Overseas Territories (OTs) and Crown Dependencies (CDs) is a priority for this Government. We consider publicly accessible registers of beneficial ownership (PARBOs) a vital tool for combatting financi...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Security: Risk AssessmentCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13112More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish the 2025 edition of the National Risk Register; and whether she plans to enable Parliament to (a) feed into and (b) scrutinise that register.
Answer: The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. All risks in the National Risk Register, which is the public-facing version of the internal, classified National Security Risk Assessment, are kept under review to ensure that they are the most a...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic Commerce: Money LaunderingTreasuryTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13110More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the number of (a) Suspicious Activity Reports and (b) Defence Against Money Laundering Suspicious Activity Reports from electronic pay
Answer: HM Treasury’s Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 place requirements onto electronic payment providers to establish policies, controls and procedures to mitigate the risks of money launde...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: InternetTreasuryTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13108More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many electronic money institutions have (a) had their activities restricted and (b) been de-authorised following an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Answer: This question is a matter for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which is an independent, non-governmental body. The FCA will respond to the Honourable Member by letter and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDisclosure of InformationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will expand the list of prescribed people for whistleblowing to include (a) job applicants, (b) trustees, (c) independent contractors and (d) trade union representatives.
Answer: The whistleblowing framework enables workers to seek redress if they are dismissed or suffer detriment because they have made a ‘protected disclosure’. The standard employment law definition of worker has been extended to provide whistleblowing protection...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDisclosure of Information: ReviewsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for the review of the whistleblowing framework.
Answer: The Employment Rights Bill delivers on the government's commitment to strengthening protections for whistleblowers, by updating protections for women who report sexual harassment at work. The Government is keen to work with organisations and individuals w...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSerious Fraud Office: Disclosure of InformationAttorney GeneralTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13091More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what progress she has made on plans to create a whistleblowing incentive program within the Serious Fraud Office.
Answer: This Government is committed to cracking down on serious fraud and economic crime.The Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has expressed support for the incentivisation of whistleblowers and the SFO Strategy 2024-29 committed to explore options for ...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSudan: Human RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report entitled Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the
Answer: Following publication of its first report in September, the UK co-led the renewal on 9 October 2024 of the Fact-Finding Mission's mandate for a further year. The UK will continue to use its position as penholder at the Security Council and the Human Right...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic Commerce: Money LaunderingTreasuryTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9979More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) potential risk of the use of e-payment platforms for money laundering and (b) likelihood that those platforms are used to launder criminal money originating f
Answer: This government is committed to supporting safe innovation within our financial technology sectors. The UK’s 2020 National Risk Assessment for money laundering and terrorist financing judged that payment and e-money services were at medium risk of money l...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHouse of Lords Appointments CommissionCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9978More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) placing the House of Lords Appointment Commission (HOLAC) on a statutory footing, (b) providing HOLAC with a right of veto where candidates are not de
Answer: The Government committed in its manifesto to reform the process of appointments to the House of Lords to ensure the quality of new appointments and to seek to improve the national and regional balance of the second chamber and is actively considering how ...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAll-party Parliamentary Groups: MembershipHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9977More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will require All Party Parliamentary Groups to publish a list of all their members.
Answer: APPGs are already required to publish a list of all their members. The reporting requirements for APPGs are set out in the Guide to the APPG Rules. Paragraph 67(b) of the Guide to the Rules requires APPGs to publish on their website, or provide on request...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAdvisory Committee on Business AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9976More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reform the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by (a) making it statutory, (b) providing it with greater enforcement powers and (c) increasing its level of resourcing.
Answer: The government has committed to reviewing and updating the Business Appointment Rules. An update on this work will be provided in due course.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase levels of retention in the NHS workforce.
Answer: Every day, millions of NHS staff go the extra mile to make a broken system work as well as it can for their patients.As we develop our ten-year plan for the NHS - and the Long Term Workforce Plan that will support it – a critical concern will be ensuring ...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRights of WayDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 900424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to extend the right to roam.
Answer: Our countryside and green spaces are a source of great national pride, but too many across the country are left without access to the great outdoors. That is why the last Labour Government expanded public access by introducing the Countryside and Rights o...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: Victim Support SchemesHome OfficeTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of support provided to terrorism victims.
Answer: This government understands the devastating impact terrorism has on individuals and their families and is determined to make sure victims and survivors receive the support they deserveSince October 2020, the government has funded support services to provi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordYoung Offenders: Duke of Edinburgh's Award SchemeMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing young people in the secure estate to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
Answer: We value the contribution that the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme can make in enabling young people in custody to develop essential skills and discover new talents. In this way, they can learn to take responsibility for themselves and others. Those who ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding model for hospices.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care. To support ICBs in ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
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