Sarah Bool MP: written questions
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Written questions
Ministers' Private Offices: Civil ServantsMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many appointments to ministerial private office have been made by exceptions to the civil service recruitment principles since July 2024; and how many transfers of civil servants from other departments by exc
Answer: Between July 2024 and 03 November 2025 there were no appointments made by exception to Ministerial Private Offices among the delegated grades (below Senior Civil Servant (SCS) level). However, during this period there was one direct Ministerial appointmen...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAmmunitionMinistry of DefenceTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 906145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to replenish UK munitions stockpiles.
Answer: As announced in the Strategic Defence Review, we our investing £6 billion this Parliament in munitions to replenish our stockpiles. This investment includes £1.5 billion specifically to develop an “always on” munitions pipeline, building six new munitions...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDeer: ConservationHome OfficeTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents relating to deer management required an armed response from police officers in the year 2023-24.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of incidents related to deer management reported by police forces, or how many required an armed police response.While the Home Office does collect and publish annual statistics on the number of police ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDeer: ConservationHome OfficeTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81760More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents relating to deer management were reported by police forces in 2023-24.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of incidents related to deer management reported by police forces, or how many required an armed police response.While the Home Office does collect and publish annual statistics on the number of police ...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDeer: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81759More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to streamline the deer management night licensing regime.
Answer: Defra provides a wide range of support to help landowners and managers tackle deer impacts on woodlands. This includes grants for managing their impacts and for capital items, as well as funding of relevant projects, including those that facilitate landsc...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDeer: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to incentivise deer management by local landowners at a landscape scale.
Answer: Defra provides a wide range of support to help landowners and managers tackle deer impacts on woodlands. This includes grants for managing their impacts and for capital items, as well as funding of relevant projects, including those that facilitate landsc...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDeer: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a deer management strategy.
Answer: Defra provides a wide range of support to help landowners and managers tackle deer impacts on woodlands. This includes grants for managing their impacts and for capital items, as well as funding of relevant projects, including those that facilitate landsc...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMinisters' Private Offices: Civil ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appointments to ministerial private offices since July 2024 have been made by civil service recruitment principles exceptions including the transfer of civil servants from other department
Answer: The Department has made one appointment to ministerial private offices since July 2024 to 4 September 2025 by exception to the Civil Service recruitment principles.
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEducation: Armed Forces CovenantDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending the Armed Forces Covenant Duty on her departmental responsibilities.
Answer: The department has a long-standing commitment to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant and support the education of children and young people from military families within the state-funded education system in England.The department is support...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDisabled Facilities GrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government’s commission on adult social care will consider reform to the means test of the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Answer: In England, we continue to fund the locally administered Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG), which helps eligible older and disabled people on low incomes to adapt their homes.We have provided an additional £172 million across this and the last financial yea...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the upcoming National Cancer Plan addresses challenges relating to delayed diagnosis for unstageable cancers.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve out...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what metrics are used to track early diagnosis in blood cancer.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a proxy measure for early diagnosis in blood cancer, in the absence of staging information.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAnaemiaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Scottish Government on including aplastic anaemia on NHS Inform.
Answer: Working under the United Kingdom Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as aplastic anaemia.Collaboration at all levels across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales rema...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Land UseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73089More
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 breakdown in the type of agricultural production on the 50% of land with solar panels which
Answer: The statistics are based on results from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. The specific survey category was “Area of solar panels on land also used for grazing or agricultural production” but no breakdowns of the type of produc...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Land UseDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73087More
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 proportion of the 50% of land with solar panels that is still being used for agricultural produc
Answer: The statistics are based on results from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. The specific survey category was “Area of solar panels on land also used for grazing or agricultural production” but no breakdowns of the type of produc...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: 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
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