Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
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Prisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2023-2024, published on 28 November 2024, how many of the 50 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as female were convicted of a sexua
Answer: Of the 245 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male (i.e. those who now identify as women, non-binary or gender-fluid) on 31 March 2024, 151 were convicted of a sexual offence. This includes both contact and non-contact sexual offence...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2023-2024, published on 28 November 2024, how many of the 245 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male were convicted of a sexual
Answer: Of the 245 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male (i.e. those who now identify as women, non-binary or gender-fluid) on 31 March 2024, 151 were convicted of a sexual offence. This includes both contact and non-contact sexual offence...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Seasonal WorkersHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Border Force plans to continue using its seasonal workforce beyond 31 January 2025.
Answer: Border Force will continue to secure the border through effective planning and deployment of its resources, which after 31 January 2025 will not include utilisation of the seasonal workforce.
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16402More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish guidance on (a) how many dogs may be walked by one professional dog walker at one time and (b) other issues relating to professional dog walking.
Answer: Professional dog walkers must comply with the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and other relevant legislation. The Canine and Feline Sector Group has published best practice guidance to assist dog walkers which can be found here: https://www.cfsg.org.uk/. Some loc...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce regulations to ensure that a pharmacist is always present in an open pharmacy to facilitate the sale of pharmacy medicines,
Answer: Pharmacy regulations already require that a registered pharmacy business can only operate and be open to the public, to sell or supply prescription only medicines or pharmacy medicines, when a responsible pharmacist, the pharmacist legally responsible for...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHate Crime: DisabilityHome OfficeTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendation in the report by The Law Commission entitled Hate Crime Laws: Final Report, published on 6 December 20
Answer: As set out in our manifesto, we have committed to changing hate crime legislation to bring parity of protection for disabled people under the aggravated offences. This mirrors one of the recommendations made by the Law Commission in 2021.
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what short-term steps his Department is taking to help support hospices to maintain levels of service; and whether his Department is taking long-term steps to reform funding for hospices.
Answer: Most hospices are charitable, independent organisations which receive some statutory funding from the National Health Service. The amount of funding each charitable hospice receives varies both within and between integrated care board (ICB) areas. This wi...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIraq: Age of ConsentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of proposals to be considered by the Iraqi Parliament to amend the Personal Status Law to reduce the age of c
Answer: The UK is analysing the proposed amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law and its implications for women and children's rights, which we note have not yet been passed through the House of Representatives. As we continue to privately engage with a range of...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide financial support for grassroots music venues, in the context of the removal of business rate relief for retail, leisure and hospitality venues.
Answer: The government response to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee report on grassroots music venues, sets out the steps the government is taking, working closely with industry, to support a sustainable grassroots music sector. In particular, we are...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordVoting Methods: Visual ImpairmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to trial new accessible voting devices to help blind and partially sighted people vote independently.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 10319 on 29 October 2024.
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure all women across England with ovarian cancer get access to the best possible treatment.
Answer: NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to raise public awareness, increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, and address barriers to acting on them to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. Previous ph...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to launch a campaign to raise public awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to raise public awareness, increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, and address barriers to acting on them to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. Previous ph...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity Infrastructure LevyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of the proportion of Community Infrastructure Levy spent on each category of infrastructure listed in subsection 2 of s216 of the Planning Act 20
Answer: Local planning authorities are required to publish an Infrastructure Funding Statement annually. These should include information on the items of infrastructure on which the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) has been spent, and the amount of CIL spent o...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPornography: ChildrenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to prevent children being exposed to pornography in Reigate constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to keeping children safe online. Our priority is the effective implementation of the Online Safety Act so that children benefit from its wide-reaching protections.The Act requires that all in scope services that allow pornograp...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordProstitution: ReigateHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the scale of commercial sexual exploitation in Reigate.
Answer: The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has set out a mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of the levers available to us to deliver this.The Govern...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordM25: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2024 to Question 5795 on M25: Noise, how much Next Generation Concrete Surfacing is expected to reduce noise levels by.
Answer: Trials conducted on the M1 suggest that Next Generation Concrete Surfacing (NGCS) could yield a reduction of between 3.4 and 3.7 dB(A) in the noise generated between the vehicle tyre and the concrete road surface.
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether
Answer: The Notification of Child Death Form, part of the National Child Mortality Database, continues to capture the sex of the child for anyone under the age of 18 years old, in line with sex being a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.Although...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: ReigateDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of SEND support for children in Reigate constituency.
Answer: The department is continuing to support and challenge Surrey to improve the delivery of its special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services, following the most recent local area SEND inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission in Septe...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9366More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of independent schools recovering VAT through the Capital Goods Scheme on the benefit to the public purse of charging VAT on school fees.
Answer: Following scrutiny of the Government’s costing by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, the Government will confirm its approach to these reforms at the Budget on 30 October, and set out its assessment of relevant expected impacts in a Tax Inf...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9365More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure HMRC is adequately resourced for changes in the level of VAT registrations by schools from 1 January 2025.
Answer: HMRC is putting in place extra measures to support schools and ensure they can register for VAT on time. This includes new bespoke guidance, hosting webinars, updating VAT registration systems and training additional staff to manage increased demand for r...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Houses: ReigateDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support pubs in Reigate constituency.
Answer: Pubs, including those in Reigate, are at the heart of our communities and vital for economic growth. That is why the Government is creating a fairer business rate system by introducing permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure busin...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordParking: Pedestrian AreasDepartment for TransportTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8914More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2024 to Question 5796 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, if she will set a target date to respond to the consultation entitled Pavement Parking: options for change, which closed i
Answer: We are currently considering the views expressed in the consultation responses. Our plan is to publish a formal response to the consultation, summarising the views received and announcing the Government’s next steps for pavement parking policy in due cour...
Answered 18 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of families with children about whom (a) care and (b) protection issues have been raised who are offered a family group conference.
Answer: The department does not hold this data Statutory guidance for local authorities, such as ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and the ‘Children’s social care national framework’, encourages local authorities to consider family group decision making, s...
Answered 18 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordM25: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2024 to Question 5795 on M25: Noise, when Next Generation Concrete Surfacing will take place between Junctions 8 and 9 on the M25.
Answer: A section of the M25 between Junction 8 and Junction 9 was treated with Next Generation Concrete Surfacing (NGCS) in September 2024 and wider implementation of NGCS on the M25 is expected to be undertaken from 2026. At present, National Highways is unable...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFood Supply: Supply ChainsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing the draft regulations proposed following the UK fresh produce sector: review of the supply chain, published on 14 De
Answer: The Government will deliver a resilient and healthy food system, with a new deal that ensures fairness in the supply chain across all sectors, including the fresh produce supply chain. Farmers should always receive a fair price for their products and the ...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
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