Pippa Heylings MP: written questions 2025
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Leukaemia: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the level of leukaemia cases diagnosed in an emergency setting on (a) patient outcomes and (b) NHS resources.
Answer: We recognise the importance of earlier diagnosis of cancer to survival, and we know that patients with cancer who are diagnosed via an emergency route are most likely to have poor survival. Whilst a specific assessment on leukaemia has not been made, we a...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLeukaemia: Clinical TrialsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve the level of participation in clinical trials for (a) leukaemia patients diagnosed with acute subtypes and (b) all leukaemia patients.
Answer: The Department is committed to maximising our potential to lead the world in clinical trials and ensuring that clinical trials are more accessible.The Department funded National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds research and research infr...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmunotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve equity of access to CAR-T therapy; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making it available as a first-line treatment for e
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the body responsible for developing independent, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the NHS, based on an asses...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with local authorities to maximise the recycling of household waste.
Answer: Waste is a devolved policy area. The upcoming Simpler Recycling reforms in England will ensure that people will be able to recycle the same materials, whether at home, work or school - to make recycling easier and improve recycling rates. Defra has previo...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to increase the active travel budget.
Answer: The Government has already increased the active travel budget by £100 million for 2025/26 compared to 2024/25. On 12 February, the Government announced the details of almost £300 million of funding for active travel in 2024/5 and 2025/6. This will help lo...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Inspectorate: AppealsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resources of the Planning Inspectorate in dealing with (a) local and (b) national planning appeals within target timeframes.
Answer: The Inspectorate is performing well across a number of key areas such as local plan examinations, nationally significant infrastructure project applications, s62a applications, and planning appeals proceeding by hearings and inquiries. It is, for example:...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33135More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a clawback mechanism into the proposed changes to APR and BPR.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Business: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33134More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with (a) the Country Land and Business Association and (b) other industry bodies to support working farms, in the context of her proposed changes to (i) agricultural property relief and
Answer: As the Minister responsible for the UK tax system, I have participated in several meetings with agricultural organisations since Autumn Budget 2024 to listen to views. Similarly, ministers from other Departments, such as the Department for Environment, Fo...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of specialist training opportunities for young doctors; and whether he has plans to increase the availability of these opportunities.
Answer: We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. We will ensure that the number of medical specialty training places meets the demands of the National Health Service i...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet Protocol: SafetyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will meet with Silver Voices to discuss their safety concerns in relation to the digital switchover.
Answer: This is an issue that the new Government takes especially seriously, which is why my officials have been in regular contact with Silver Voices and met them on two occasions.I will write separately with further detail on the Public Switched Telephone Netwo...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAli KololoHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will formally apologise to Ali Kololo about the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in his overturned conviction.
Answer: The Metropolitan Police are operationally independent.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordClean Energy: InvestmentDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to encourage occupational pension schemes to invest in clean energy (a) projects and (b) infrastructure.
Answer: The Government is committed to working with the pensions sector to transition to net zero. DESNZ collaborates with DWP and others in Government on this. Pension schemes in scope of DWP’s requirements must produce an annual Taskforce on Climate-related Fin...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescription Drugs: Rural AreasDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the supply of prescription medicines in (a) rural and (b) other areas.
Answer: Integrated care boards are responsible for understanding the health needs of their areas and commissioning services to meet those needs. Local authorities are required to undertake a pharmaceutical needs assessment every three years, to assess whether the...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPatient Choice SchemesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the NHS England Consultation on changes to Right to Choose under the NHS Payment Scheme Policy will take into account the views of patients and their families.
Answer: NHS England has followed standard procedure in its consultation on the NHS Payment Scheme. A consultation on changes to the payment scheme takes place every year as required to by law. While the legal requirement is to consult commissioners and providers,...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of increases to employers National Insurance contributions on home to school transport for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilit
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire to the answer of 29 January 2025 to Question 26397.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: Seas and OceansDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that the deployment of offshore renewables is not detrimental to blue carbon stores.
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering clean power by 2030, to accelerating to net zero and to restoring nature. The Government needs to ensure that the UK’s marine ecosystems are healthy and capturing and storing carbon too. This means that new energy...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: Nature ConservationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that the rollout of offshore wind is not detrimental to halting species decline by 2030.
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering clean power by 2030, to accelerating to net zero and to restoring nature. New energy infrastructure should be built in a way that protects the natural environment and supports nature recovery, by following a “miti...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment ProtectionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support green technologies.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting the growth and scaling-up of green technologies, including through the creation of GB Energy, as part of its Clean Energy Superpower Mission. A combined total of £1.3 billion has been committed through the 2021-25...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to increase the use of nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change.
Answer: The Government is supporting farmers to implement nature-based farming practices through a range of measures. These include habitat restoration and creation; activities to reduce the impact of invasive non-native species on sites or to address pressures o...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: Nature ConservationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32428More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to promote nature-positive renewable energy.
Answer: The Government will ensure that the protection of nature is embedded into the delivery of clean power and we will be driving for nature to not only be protected but restored through clean power infrastructure. As part of our Clean Power Action Plan, we ar...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve road safety for vulnerable road users.
Answer: The Government treats road safety with the utmost seriousness, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. My Department is developing our road safety strategy and will set out more details in due course.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: Data ProtectionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS England in upholding (a) article 5 and (b) article 6 of the UK's General Data Protection Regulation.
Answer: The Department requires all health and care organisations, including NHS England, to annually assess themselves against the standards set out in the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT). The DSPT measures health and care organisations’ data protect...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help ensure that people in (a) low-paid and (b) insecure work receive an adequate income in retirement.
Answer: The new State Pension has been designed to provide a foundation for private saving, supported through Automatic Enrolment (AE). The new State Pension improves State Pension outcomes for those who often did less well under the previous system, including th...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Pension SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Local Government Pension Scheme on levels of economic growth in local communities.
Answer: The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) already invests approximately 30% of its assets in the UK, as part of its duty to invest to pay pensions. The government believes that the LGPS can make a distinctive contribution to local economic growth buildin...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPension FundsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that reform of regulations for accessing surplus in defined benefit pension schemes help improve economic growth.
Answer: Trustees will continue to be at the heart of decision making. Working with employers, they will consider how best to use DB scheme surplus to benefit members and employers. More flexibility can fuel growth, provide benefits for the economy and ensure memb...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
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