Sarah Hall MP: written questions
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Consumer Goods: ImportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to take steps to reduce the volume of substandard goods entering the UK market from (a) Temu and (b) other cheap import companies.
Answer: UK product safety law requires all products to be safe before being placed on the market. The Office for Product Safety and Standards coordinates targeted and intelligence-led interventions at our ports and borders with Local Authority Trading Standards, ...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that all eligible patients with SOD1-related Motor Neurone Disease can access Tofersen.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: SportsgroundsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to support the introduction of safe standing to professional football grounds.
Answer: ‘Safe standing’ has been a licensing option for all professional football grounds currently subject to the all-seater policy since July 2022.
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: OwnershipDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support fan ownership in sports.
Answer: Fan ownership can be a model of success for many sporting clubs and organisations, as can other models incorporating appropriate fan engagement. The Government is committed to supporting investment into sports clubs and organisations, whether that is fan ...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: UniformsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44743More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the branded school uniform cap on families from less affluent backgrounds.
Answer: For too many families, the cost of school uniform remains a financial burden. This is why the department has introduced legislation to limit the number of branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools can require, to bring down costs for parents and r...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: North of EnglandDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for when Northern Powerhouse Rail will be complete.
Answer: As announced in the Autumn 2024 Budget, which can be accessed on the following webpage: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024, the Government is maintaining momentum on Northern Powerhouse Rail by progressing planning and design wo...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMissing Persons: Care LeaversHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce missing incidents and (b) provide additional support to people at risk of going missing who are care experienced.
Answer: Effective multi-agency working is the key to reducing missing person incidents, particularly for vulnerable cohorts, such as children with care experience who are at more likely to go missing repeatedly.The Missing Persons Authorised Professional Practice...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMissing Persons: Ethnic GroupsHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30923More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce missing incidents and (b) provide additional support to people at risk of going missing from BAME communities.
Answer: Effective multi-agency working is the key to reducing missing person incidents, particularly for vulnerable cohorts, such as children with care experience who are at more likely to go missing repeatedly.The Missing Persons Authorised Professional Practice...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSuicide: Missing PersonsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department's work on reducing suicide rates includes measures to help those that have been reported missing.
Answer: The actions set out in the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England will apply to missing people where relevant. However, we are not taking any specific actions targeted at measuring and reducing suicide rates among people reported missing. As par...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSuicide: Missing PersonsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the correlation between trends in the number of people (a) going missing and (b) committing suicide.
Answer: The actions set out in the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England will apply to missing people where relevant. However, we are not taking any specific actions targeted at measuring and reducing suicide rates among people reported missing. As par...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMissing People: ChildrenDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30920More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of repeat missing incidents amongst children.
Answer: The government takes the issue of missing children extremely seriously. The existing statutory guidance, ‘Children who run away or go missing from home of care’, outlines what local authorities and their partners must do to prevent and protect missing chi...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMissing People: ChildrenDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to update the statutory guidance on children that (a) run away and (b) go missing from home or care.
Answer: The government takes the issue of missing children extremely seriously. The existing statutory guidance, ‘Children who run away or go missing from home of care’, outlines what local authorities and their partners must do to prevent and protect missing chi...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on establishing Attendance Hubs; what datasets her Department is collecting to measure the success of that programme; and if she will publish the data collected in relation
Answer: The attendance hubs are established and led by schools with strong practice and intended to give senior leaders in schools a forum to discuss and share effective attendance practice. To date 31 hubs have been established and these have offered support to ...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHorizon IT System: CompensationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to compensate employees of (a) the Post Office, (b) sub-postmasters and (c) shops that fulfilled Post Office functions who were (i) prosecuted, (ii) arrested and (ii
Answer: Regardless of employment status, individuals who had their Horizon-related convictions overturned, or were prosecuted but not convicted, are eligible to apply for redress through the Overturned Convictions Scheme or Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme. Pos...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what account her strategy to tackle homelessness takes of the findings of the report published by Centrepoint entitled Human costs and lost potential: the real cost of youth home
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected, including young people.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to deliver the long-term so...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to prioritise ending youth homelessness.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected, including young people.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to deliver the long-term so...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the government strategy to end homelessness will include a section on youth homelessness.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected, including young people.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to deliver the long-term so...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to prioritise young people in the new cross-departmental strategy to end homelessness.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected, including young people.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to deliver the long-term so...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to push for greater humanitarian access to Gaza.
Answer: As the Prime Minister has said, the world will not tolerate any more excuses on humanitarian assistance. We continue to press Israel to end its aid restrictions and ensure that the UN and humanitarian partners can work safely and effectively. The Foreign ...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen partnerships with (a) humanitarian organisations, (b) women-led organisations and (c) local civil society in the UK’s develo
Answer: The Department has strong relationships with the main humanitarian agencies. The Foreign Secretary and I have met or spoken to the main UN humanitarian agencies and to the International Committee of the Red Cross.The work of grassroots women's rights orga...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBusiness: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to improve the (a) visibility and (b) accessibility of the Export Academy for micro businesses looking to export.
Answer: The UK Export Academy is here to support all businesses to grow by giving attendees the confidence and know-how to land overseas deals, and it is reaching more micro-businesses than ever before. Already this year, more than 3,700 micro-businesses have reg...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordExport Credit GuaranteesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses engaged with UK Export Finance in financial years (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24.
Answer: The numbers of businesses that UK Export Finance (UKEF) supported in the financial years in question are shown in the table below: Total exporters supported2021/225452022/235322023/24650 Further information is available in UKEF’s annual report and account...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to provide export support for small businesses.
Answer: Under the umbrella of the recently announced Business Growth Service, UK businesses can access DBT’s wealth of export support via Great.gov.uk. This comprises an online support offer and a wider network of support including the Export Academy, UK Export F...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDementia: Care WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20879More
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 Alzheimer’s Society’s report entitled Because we’re human too: Why dementia training for care workers matters, and
Answer: The Department welcomes knowledge sharing across the sector and officials will consider the report in future policy development. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, care providers are required to provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, co...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Parks: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to prevent companies from polluting (a) Lake Windermere and (b) other national parks.
Answer: Labour introduced National Parks 75 years ago, and introduced the Rights of Way Act that secured public access and preserved natural beauty. A thriving natural world underpins our economy, health and society. That’s why this Government is investing £400 m...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
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