Sarah Hall MP: written questions 2025
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Railways: 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
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