Saqib Bhatti MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Culture 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
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total budget is for the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public engagement campaign; and what time period this funding will cover.
Answer: The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with contract number C306779. The current contract start date is 13 September 2024, with a...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) Departmental officials had in the awarding of contracts to the organisations running the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public
Answer: The evaluation panel for the tender consisted of four people. Three from within the Department’s policy teams, and one from NHS England. No ministers or special advisers were part of the final award decision.
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Change NHS online portal, what the total cost to the public purse is of contracts issued to (a) Thinks Insight & Strategy, (b) Kaleidoscope Health and Care and (c) The Institu
Answer: The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with the contract number C306779.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the procurement process was to award contracts for the Change NHS online portal.
Answer: A procurement mini competition was launched via the RM6126 CCS Research and Insights framework on 2 August 2024, with bids returned by 19 August 2024.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordData Protection: UK Relations with EUDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions with the European Union on the future of EU Adequacy on data protection.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 18 October 2024 to Question 8500.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHuawei: 5GDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on removing Huawei from 5G networks by the end of 2027.
Answer: As he will know, the Designated Vendor Direction issued in October 2022 set out twelve requirements on the removal of Huawei equipment and services that telecoms providers have a legal obligation to meet. We are working closely with providers who received...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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