Sarah Hall MP: written questions 2025
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Money LaunderingTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72750More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review thresholds for mandatory reporting of large cash withdrawals or transfers by banks under anti-money laundering regulations.
Answer: The government recognises the importance of minimising administrative friction around payments for people, banks, and businesses, while maintaining strong safeguards against the growing threat to the economy from money laundering and economic crime. The d...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Secondary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to improve the delivery of financial literacy skills in secondary schools.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Solihull West and Shirley to the answer of 9 April to Question 43513.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of financial education provision in the national curriculum for preparing young people to manage personal finances.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Solihull West and Shirley to the answer of 9 April to Question 43513.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCryptocurrencies: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72747More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the UK are subject to clear and robust regulation.
Answer: On 29 April, HM Treasury published draft legislation for the future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets. The draft legislation includes a new regulated activity for operating a cryptoasset trading platform, meaning firms carrying on this...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney Laundering: Electronic Funds TransferTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72746More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce administrative friction in transferring large sums between personal accounts while maintaining robust fraud prevention and anti-money laundering measures.
Answer: The government recognises the importance of minimising administrative friction around payments for people, banks, and businesses, while maintaining strong safeguards against the growing threat to the economy from money laundering and economic crime. The d...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMoney LaunderingTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72745More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of anti-money laundering regulations on the ability of small businesses to make large legitimate payments without disruption.
Answer: The government recognises the importance of minimising administrative friction around payments for people, banks, and businesses, while maintaining strong safeguards against the growing threat to the economy from money laundering and economic crime. The d...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBank Services: Powers of AttorneyTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72744More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that individuals holding a registered Power of Attorney can access banking services on behalf of people with conditions such as dementia without undue delay or administr
Answer: Ensuring all individuals have access to the appropriate financial services and products they need is a key priority for Government. Like all service providers, banks and building societies are bound under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustmen...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TribunalsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve and (b) simplify the SEND tribunal process for parents.
Answer: There will always be a legal right to additional support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to ensure they are supported throughout their education and into adult life.The SEND tribunal will remain an impo...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBlue Badge Scheme: EU CountriesDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increased coordination with the European Union on the mutual recognition of the Blue badge parking scheme for UK citizens travelling in EU memb
Answer: This Government is committed to championing greater accessibility for disabled people and has informal reciprocal agreements in place with many other European countries so that Blue Badges can be used there; information and guidance on this can be found o...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a 24/7 single point of access for palliative and end of life care (a) advice, (b) guidance and (c) support, following the publication of the 10-Year Plan for Health.
Answer: One of the three ‘shifts’ that the 10 Year Health Plan will deliver is around the Government’s determination to shift healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropria...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72478More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 10-Year Plan for Health, if he will publish further detail on proposals to increase the provision of palliative and end of life care in community settings.
Answer: One of the three ‘shifts’ that the 10 Year Health Plan will deliver is around the Government’s determination to shift healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropria...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72477More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the 10-Year Plan for Health promotes equitable access to (a) palliative and (b) end of life care.
Answer: One of the three ‘shifts’ that the 10 Year Health Plan will deliver is around the Government’s determination to shift healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families receive personalised care in the most appropria...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve early diagnosis of bowel cancer in patients under 50.
Answer: The latest available data, from 2022, showed that there were 2,648 diagnoses of bowel cancer in people under the age of 50 years old. It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including bowel cancer at ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the annual number of bowel cancer patients diagnosed under the age of 50.
Answer: The latest available data, from 2022, showed that there were 2,648 diagnoses of bowel cancer in people under the age of 50 years old. It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including bowel cancer at ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve early diagnosis of bowel cancer through the National Cancer Plan.
Answer: Early diagnosis of cancers, including bowel cancer, is a key focus of the National Cancer Plan. We are committed to transforming diagnostic services and will support the National Health Service to increase diagnostic capacity to meet the demand for diagno...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRented Housing: Credit RatingTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72040More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that renters can include regular rent payments in credit reports to support access to credit and financial products.
Answer: Ensuring individuals have access to the appropriate financial products and services they need is a key priority for the Government. This is why I have committed to publish a Financial Inclusion Strategy later this year which will seek to tackle a range of...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoptionDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support parents with the adoption process.
Answer: The government is funding Adoption England with £8.8 million this year to improve adoption services. Adoption England has published national standards for the adopter journey which covers all stages of the approval process from initial contact, through ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund fair access limit on the mental health of adopted children and children living with a specia
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Warrington South to the answer of 2 May 2025 to Question 47954.
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Seized ArticlesHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to section 8 of the Crime and Policing Bill, what guidance will be given to police forces on the circumstances in which a vehicle should be seized without warning.
Answer: We are amending the Police Reform Act 2002 through the Crime and Policing Bill to allow the police to seize vehicles which are used in an anti-social manner without having to first give a warning to the offender, as is currently required in some circumsta...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving TestsDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the availability of driving tests.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it works hard to reduce car practical driving test waiting times.On the 23 April, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared before the Transport Se...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Development: Recreation SpacesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to prevent developers from leaving (a) play areas, (b) green spaces and (c) other shared communal spaces unfinished or to a substandard level.
Answer: Local planning authorities (LPAs) already have a wide range of enforcement powers, with strong penalties for non-compliance, which they can use in instances where development has not taken place in accordance with the relevant planning consent. These enfo...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospitals will be investigated as part of the inquiry into maternity care in England.
Answer: The investigation will carry out rapid reviews of up to ten trusts with specific issues. The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust will be one of those trusts, as outlined on 23 June. The other trusts will be identified in due course.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAttendance and Discipline: Warrington SouthDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any schools in Warrington South constituency are receiving support through the new attendance and behaviour hubs; and how her Department is monitoring the impact of this programme on pupil (a) attendanc
Answer: The department recently announced our Attendance and Behaviour Hubs programme and will be announcing the appointment of lead Hubs and further information about available support in the coming months. Schools in need of support will then be matched with le...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Warrington SouthDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the £740 million investment to support inclusive classrooms has been allocated to schools in Warrington South constituency; and what criteria were used to determine allocations for (a) adaptations,
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or who require alternative provision sits with local authorities.The department provides local authorities with capital funding to sup...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: NeurodiversityDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group has made on developing recommendations to improve inclusivity for neurodivergent children in mainstream schools.
Answer: The Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group, chaired by Professor Karen Guldberg from Birmingham University, is providing an expert view and making recommendations on how to best meet the needs of neurodivergent children and young people within mainstream e...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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