Pippa Heylings MP: written questions
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Forests: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101910More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Tree Action Plan intends to support the restoration of ancient woodland, particularly on smaller plantations on ancient woodland sites or sites that are harder to restore.
Answer: The Government will continue to support the restoration of ancient woodland. Woodlands as small as 0.5ha are now eligible for the Countryside Stewardship supplements “Manage and restore Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWs)” and “Manage native wood...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordForests: Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101909More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of EIP25 targets for improving plantations on ancient woodland soils with Forestry England’s 2044 target on PAWS restoration.
Answer: The Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 (EIP25) target and Forestry England’s Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS) restoration target are compatible. The EIP25 target for improving PAWS is strategic, setting a national ambition to enhance biodiver...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCommunity Care and Preventive MedicineDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve preventative and community care.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve GP to patient ratios.
Answer: We are starting to see consistent growth in the general practice (GP) workforce. We have funded primary care networks with an additional £160 million to recruit recently qualified GPs through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. Over 2,500 individua...
Answered 23 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordForests: Oxford-Cambridge ArcDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timeline is for woodland creation for the Oxford–Cambridge National Forest; what interim milestones have been set; and when plans for boundaries and targets will be pu
Answer: The Government intends for woodland creation to commence in the Oxford Cambridge Corridor in November 2026. Further detail concerning milestones, targets and boundaries for this New National Forest will be made public in due course.
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordForests: Oxford-Cambridge ArcDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether indicators of progress for tree planting, canopy cover, ancient woodland condition, tree survival and biodiversity for the Oxford–Cambridge Forest will be published annually.
Answer: Forest Research publishes Forestry Statistics annually and these include comprehensive data on woodland creation, canopy expansion, species mix, and sustainability trends across England and the UK. These national reports provide an important context for p...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTree Planting: Oxford-Cambridge ArcDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in relation to the Oxford–Cambridge Forest, what assessment has been made of the impact of afforestation on hydrology in the region.
Answer: As part of our approach to the New National Forest in the OxCam region -spatial data will be used to prioritise sites for woodland creation that will deliver public benefits such as flood management and mitigation as well as other water management functio...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance CertificatesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to introduce reforms to Energy Performance Certificates, in the context of the development and implementation of the Home Energy Model.
Answer: The government consulted on reforms to EPCs to provide consumers with more useful information on the energy performance of buildings, and so that they better support our key objectives of achieving Clean Power by 2030 and accelerating to Net Zero. We are ...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure the effectiveness of funding for renewable energy projects through the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7.
Answer: An initial budget of £900 million is available for fixed-bottom offshore wind in Allocation Round 7, which is the largest ever initial budget for OFW. The Government has the ability to view unsuccessful bids and adjust the budget later, if it is good valu...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance CertificatesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his timeline is for publishing the outcome and response to the Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings regime consultation.
Answer: We are analysing the feedback received to the consultation on reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings regime, and will publish a government response in due course.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the strategy Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 2025, which sp
Answer: These will be developed with stakeholders during the implementation of the Government’s strategy to support replacing animals in science. The strategy also commits to publish biennially from 2026 a list of alternative-methods research and development prio...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on
Answer: The Government’s new strategy sets out our long-term vision for a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances, achieved by creating a research and innovation system that drives the development and validatio...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond substantively to Question 90841 tabled by the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire on 13 November 2025.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5 January 2025 to Question 90841.
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEnergy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his timeline is for launching the proposed framework to scrutinise additional costs and levies on consumer energy bills.
Answer: At the budget, the Chancellor agreed to subject any additional costs, including new levies, to enhanced scrutiny under a new framework to ensure they are affordable, represent value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesse...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Public ConsultationDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to recover the 6120 missing responses from the Railways Bill consultation; and what steps she is taking to ensure the integrity of the consultation process for future consultations.
Answer: The Secretary of State has written to the Transport Select Committee on this issue, a copy of which can be found here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/50296/documents/271772/default/. We have no evidence of other consultations being affected...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Transport: Public ConsultationDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department's consultations comply fully with the Gunning Principles in the future.
Answer: The Department, its executive agencies and arm’s-length bodies publish a large number of consultations and calls for evidence. The Department conducts consultations in line with the Government Consultation Principles. These state that consultations should...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetics: Preventive MedicineDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of progress against the commitment in the NHS 10 Year Plan for Health to launch a new large-scale study to sequence the genomes of 150,000 adults and assess how g
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan for England committed to launching a large-scale study, led by Genomics England, to sequence 150,000 adult genomes and assess how genomics can support routine preventive care. Work is now underway to design the study, develop scien...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordClean Energy: National GridDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timeline is for rolling out the Connections Accelerator Service.
Answer: As set out in the Government’s Industrial Strategy, the Connections Accelerator Service will be operational by the end of 2025.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGenetics: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to launch the study to sequence the genomes of 150,000 adults.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan for England committed to launching a large-scale study, led by Genomics England, to sequence 150,000 adult genomes and assess how genomics can support routine preventive care. Work is now underway to design the study, develop scien...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBrownfield Sites: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025 to Question 91533 on Brownfield Sites: Biodiversity, whether she plans to consult further on the definition of (a) small and (b) medium sites
Answer: The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBrownfield Sites: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025 to Question 91533 on Brownfield Sites: Biodiversity, if she will ensure adequate Parliamentary scrutiny of that impact assessment before fina
Answer: The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBrownfield Sites: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95945More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025 to Question 91533 on Brownfield Sites: Biodiversity, whether the full impact assessment will be published prior to her response to the consul
Answer: The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBrownfield Sites: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025 to Question 91533 on Brownfield Sites: Biodiversity, when the full impact assessment will be published.
Answer: The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to make sites below 0.5 hectares exempt from Biodiversity Net Gain.
Answer: The Government response to the ‘Improving biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development’ consultation and the impact assessment will be published in due course. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published in Ma...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Access to Work scheme on the economy and society.
Answer: Access to Work (AtW) is a demand-led, personalised discretionary grant which supports the recruitment and retention of disabled people in employment. The Scheme has been providing support for over 30 years. In 2024-2025, 74,190 people received a payment f...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
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