Saqib Bhatti MP: written questions
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Water: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that the risks of (a) cold water, (b) open water and (c) drowning are covered in the national curriculum.
Answer: Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill and that is why pupils are taught to swim and how to be safe in and around water at primary school. Swimming and water safety are compulsory elements of the primary physical education (PE) curriculum at key ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22711More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to take steps with the Valuation Office Agency to introduce new valuation methods for business rates for grassroots music venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including those on the high street, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut will ensure that they benefit...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22710More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permanently reducing business rates for grassroots music venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties from 2026-27 for properties with rateable values below £500,00. This permanent tax cut will ensure that...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector DebtTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22709More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increased borrowing costs on the UK's debt repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInvestment Returns: MortgagesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22708More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of higher bond yields on mortgage repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector DebtTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22707More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increased borrowing costs on the UK's debt repayments.
Answer: The government does not comment on specific financial market movements. Gilt yields are determined by a wide range of international and domestic factors, and it is normal for the price and yields of gilts to vary when there are wider movements in global f...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Sports: LoansDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the (a) sports and (b) cultural sector on the repayment of Covid-19 loans by September 2025.
Answer: Loan financing was provided to organisations on favourable terms, tailored to meet the unique legal and financial circumstances of sporting and cultural organisations. The Government is clear that these loans must be repaid and, where necessary, steps wil...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Sports: LoansDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that Covid-19 loans to the (a) culture and (b) sports sectors are repaid in full.
Answer: Yes.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh Implants: CompensationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by (a) Baroness Cumberlege entitled Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, published 8 Jul
Answer: The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review’s overarching conclusion was that the system failed to listen to patients or put patients at the centre of their care. Subsequent work has focussed on improving how the system listens to and resp...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice Stations: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the £264 million additional core grant funding for police will support police stations to remain open.
Answer: The 2025-26 provisional police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.5 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement, and equates to a 5.5% cash inc...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoliceHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of recent pay rises for police officers on trends in the level of police numbers.
Answer: The independent Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) and Senior Salaries Review Body (PRRB) make recommendations to the Government on the appropriate level of pay and allowances for police officers. In reaching their recommendations, the Review Bodies c...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordParthenon SculpturesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with representatives of the British Museum on the Elgin Marbles.
Answer: As the British Museum is a DCMS Arm’s Length Body, both the Secretary of State and I have recently met its Chair and Director. The sculptures were one of a number of issuesdiscussed.Decisions relating to the care and management of its collection are a mat...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordParthenon SculpturesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in the Greek Government on (a) loaning and (b) donating the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
Answer: I met Greece’s Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni on 4 November for a meeting regarding tourism, when she raised the Parthenon Sculptures among many other matters.Decisions relating to the care and management of the Parthenon Sculptures are a matter for t...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTourismDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled New ambition for 50 million annual visits to UK announced by Tourism Minister, published on 27 November 2024, what steps she plans to tak
Answer: The new Visitor Economy Advisory Council will work closely with industry and government to develop a national strategy for growth in the sector to achieve this target. We believe it is important to set this ambitious target, because although the UK attrac...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the level of the bus fare cap on bus usage.
Answer: In the Budget on 30 October, the government confirmed it will invest over £150 million to introduce a new £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London from 1 January until 31 December 2025. Under the plans of the previous administration, the curre...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: Meriden and Solihull EastDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in the level of the bus fare cap on bus usage in Meriden and Solihull East constituency.
Answer: In the Budget on 30 October, the government confirmed it will invest over £150 million to introduce a new £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London from 1 January until 31 December 2025. Under the plans of the previous administration, the curre...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: West MidlandsDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14987More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her oral statement on Bus Funding of 18 November 2024, Official Report, column 50, whether the £50 million funding settlement for the West Midlands is in addition to previously announced fundi
Answer: At the Budget on 30 October, we confirmed over £1 billion in funding in 25/26 to improve services, protect vital routes and keep fares down. On 17 November, we confirmed how we are distributing £955 million of that funding, with £712 million for local cou...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: SolihullDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14986More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the change in the bus fare cap on bus usage in North Solihull.
Answer: In the Budget on 30 October, the government confirmed it will invest over £150 million to introduce a new £3 cap on single bus fares in England outside London from 1 January until 31 December 2025. Under the plans of the previous administration, the curre...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: MidlandsDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to continue the previous Government's commitment to provide a £230 million funding package for bus services in the Midlands.
Answer: At the Budget on 30 October, we confirmed over £1 billion in funding in 25/26 to improve services, protect vital routes and keep fares down. On 17 November, we confirmed how we are distributing £955 million of that funding, with £712 million for local cou...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: North of EnglandDepartment for TransportTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the £50 million in settlement funding for bus travel is in addition to funding announced as part of the Network North package.
Answer: At the Budget on 30 October, we confirmed over £1 billion in funding in 25/26 to improve services, protect vital routes and keep fares down. On 17 November, we confirmed how we are distributing £955 million of that funding, with £712 million for local cou...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board is in alignment with NICE guideline 28, updated in 2022, related to the fair and equitable adoption of continuous
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended that all people living with type 1 diabetes and people living with type 2 diabetes who required insulin therapy should be eligible for real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The gui...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure alignment of Integrated Care Boards with NICE guideline 28, updated in 2022, related to the fair and equitable adoption of continuous glucose monitoring for eligib
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended that all people living with type 1 diabetes and people living with type 2 diabetes who required insulin therapy should be eligible for real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The gui...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10785 on Department of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy Research, whether NHS England has awarded any contracts to the IPPR
Answer: NHS England has not awarded any contracts to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is using (a) artificial intelligence and (b) a third-party organisation to assess responses to the consultation entitled Change NHS: A health service fit for the future, publ
Answer: The Department has commissioned an external supplier, Thinks Insight and Strategy, to help run the engagement for the 10-Year Health Plan for England. The portal is hosted via the online platform Go Vocal, who are a contracted supplier of Thinks Insight a...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contracts his Department have awarded to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Department has not awarded any contracts to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Answered 29 Oct 2024
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