Sarah Bool MP: written questions 2025
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Agriculture: Land UseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, what the geographic distribution of the land with solar panels on that is used for agricultural produ
Answer: The statistics are based on results from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. This survey covers England but no lower geographic breakdowns are available. The number of responses to the question was too small to give accurate esti...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Land UseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the statistic that 50% of land with solar panels on is
Answer: The statistics are estimates from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture, a representative large scale sample survey of Defra registered farms* from across the country. Indications of accuracy in the estimates of the area of land wit...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Development Consent OrdersDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what tests his Department applies when assessing the necessity of the use of best and most valuable land in a Development Consent Order application.
Answer: The National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1) and the National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure (EN-3) detail the Secretary of State’s considerations regarding the necessity of Best and Most Versatile (BMV) agricultural land. EN-1 no...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Development Consent OrdersDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what tests his Department applies when assessing the prioritisation of the best and most valuable land in a Development Consent Order application.
Answer: The National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1) and the National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure (EN-3) detail the Secretary of State’s considerations regarding the prioritisation of Best and Most Versatile (BMV) agricultural land. EN...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, what the procedure is if a person is issued with an enquiry letter and a Penalty Charge Notice but wer
Answer: If a patient receives an Enquiry Letter or Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) and is eligible for a Medical Exemption Certificate, they are advised to apply for the certificate and pay the prescription charge. Once the application has been received and processed...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how many of the people who received one of the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices issued for incorrectly cl
Answer: The information requested is not held in the format requested, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through manual matching of data from multiple unlinked data sources.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how many of the people who received one of the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices issued for incorrectly cl
Answer: The information is not held in the format requested, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through manual matching of data from multiple unlinked data sources.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how many of the individuals who received one of the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices issued for incorrect
Answer: The information requested is not held in the format requested, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost through manual matching of data from multiple unlinked data sources.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how many of the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices issued for incorrectly claiming medical exemption from N
Answer: Overall, 55,347 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued to 50,330 individuals for incorrectly claiming a medical exemption from NHS prescription charges in the period 1 June 2024 to 1 July 2025. 32,724 PCNs have had a payment made against them.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses,, how many enquiry letters were to individuals regarding incorrectly claiming medical exemption from NH
Answer: Between 1 June 2024 and 30 June 2025, a total of 67,777 enquiry letters were issued in relation to National Health Service prescriptions for which a medical exemption certificate had been claimed.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, whether the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices were issued as separate individual cases; and how many were
Answer: Overall, 55,347 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) were issued to 50,330 individuals for incorrectly claiming a medical exemption from prescription charges between 1 June 2024 and 1 July 2025. Of these, 4,339 individuals received multiple PCNs, while 45,991 re...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Terminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 67788 on Prescriptions: Terminal Illnesses, how much revenue was raised from the 50,330 Penalty Charge Notices.
Answer: Between 1 June 2024 and 1 July 2025, a total of £980,266.02 was recovered from the 50,330 people who were issued Penalty Charge Notices for incorrectly claiming a medical exemption from prescription charges.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBluetongue Disease: VaccinationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what correspondence his Department has had with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the development of a vaccine for Bluetongue Virus serotype 12.
Answer: Defra has not had any correspondence with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute regarding the development of a vaccine for bluetongue virus serotype 12. However, Defra continues to work closely with key domestic and international partners, including vaccine ma...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 67789 on Diabetes: Health Services, if he will make it his policy to collect data on the cost of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Answer: A central mission of the Government is to build a health and care system that is fit for the future. Tackling preventable ill health, such as type 2 diabetes, is crucial. Shifting the focus from treatment to prevention is one of three shifts for the Gover...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 67790 on Diabetes: Screening, when he expects the UK National Screening Committee to complete the review of the 2024 submission on autoimmune type
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is currently awaiting the outcome of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) assessment of the drug teplizumab, which is expected in November.Once the NICE recommendation on teplizumab ha...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the annual resources required to treat diabetic ketoacidosis.
Answer: A central mission of the Government is to build a health and care system that is fit for the future. Tackling preventable ill health, such as type 2 diabetes, is crucial. Shifting the focus from treatment to prevention is one of three shifts for the Gover...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWarehouses: Solar PowerMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to update building regulations to require the inclusion of solar panels on new warehouse developments.
Answer: The Future Buildings Standard, which will be set through changes to the Building Regulations in autumn this year, will apply to new non-domestic buildings, including new warehouse developments. The Government published a consultation on the Future Buildin...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: WarehousesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of warehouse rooftop solar installations to the UK’s 2035 solar capacity target.
Answer: The Government is aware of the significant potential that commercial rooftops have in our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower. We are working to unlock this potential. The recently published Solar Roadmap sets out actions for government and i...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: WarehousesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to accelerate the deployment of rooftop solar panels on commercial warehouses as part of the Solar Taskforce roadmap.
Answer: The Government is aware of the significant potential that commercial rooftops have in our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower. We are working to unlock this potential. The recently published Solar Roadmap sets out actions for government and i...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the meal rate for Universal Free School Meals to cover the costs school face in providing them.
Answer: The department spends around £600 million annually supporting the provision of free and nutritious meals to around 1.3 million infants and almost £1 billion supporting around 2.2 million of the most disadvantaged pupils. In addition to this, we have set a...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Import controlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47160 on Food: Import Controls, how many seizures have been conducted related to the ban on personal imports of meats and diary prod
Answer: We do not have information on the number of seizures relating to the ban on personal imports of certain meat and dairy products from EU countries. Border Force and local authorities are responsible for detaining and seizing illegally imported animal produ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Import controlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47160 on Food: Import Controls, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the ban on personal imports of meats and diary p
Answer: Defra publishes assessments of the risk of animal diseases entering Great Britain through trade in animal products at www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-diseases-international-monitoring. Our August 2025 attitude tracker demonstrated a high level of...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Import controlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47160 on Food: Import Controls, what additional funding has been provided to ports and airports relating to the ban on personal impo
Answer: Defra is currently funding Dover Port Health Authority to help identify illegal meat and dairy imports. We have not provided additional funding to ports and airports relating to the ban on personal imports of certain meat and dairy products from EU countr...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Import controlsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47160 on Food: Import Controls, what steps he has taken to ensure the adequacy of signage at ports and airports relating to the ban
Answer: As part of our national mission to protect our food sector and farmers, we communicated the ban on personal imports of certain meats and dairy products from EU countries via a press release, social media and information on GOV.UK. We have worked in partne...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHewlett-Packard: Workplace PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with Hewlett Packard on the change in value of pre-1997 pension scheme members’ pensions; and what steps she is taking to support affected pensioners.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions has had no discussions with Hewlett Packard on this issue. Discretionary increases in benefits above the statutory minimum and those required by scheme rules are a matter for the scheme sponsor and trustees.Most scheme...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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