Sarah Pochin MP: written questions
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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: FraudTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96530More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of revenue lost to furlough fraud committed during the pandemic.
Answer: The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner Tom Hayhoe’s final report to Parliament found many schemes - including Bounce Back Loans - were rolled out with huge fraud risks and no early safeguards – costing the taxpayer millions. Weak accountability, bad quality...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96529More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the future annual revenues from pay per mile vehicle tax schemes over the next five years.
Answer: As announced at Budget 2025, the Government is introducing Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) from April 2028, a new mileage charge for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, recognising that EVs contribute to congestion and wear and tear on the roads but pay...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96528More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of tax revenues from the new tax on electric vehicles announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 over the next five years.
Answer: As announced at Budget 2025, the Government is introducing Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) from April 2028, a new mileage charge for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, recognising that EVs contribute to congestion and wear and tear on the roads but pay...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for Budget ResponsibilityTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96526More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish all correspondence between herself and the Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility between 1 October and 1 December.
Answer: The Chancellor engages regularly with the OBR’s Budget Responsibility Committee (BRC), including its Chair, in preparation for fiscal events. The OBR publishes a log of its contact, including with the Chancellor, in the Foreword of the Economic and Fiscal...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for Budget ResponsibilityTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96524More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she had with the former Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility on his giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee following the Budget before his resignation; and if she will publish all
Answer: Richard Hughes resigned as Chair of the OBR on 1 December and the Chancellor wrote to thank him for his dedicated public service and leadership of the OBR over the last 5 years.These letters are published on the OBR website and on gov.uk, respectively.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide a breakdown of the value of vehicles provided under the Motability Scheme, with the number of vehicles in each of the following price ranges a) from £10,000 to £20,000, b) from £20,00
Answer: The Motability Foundation is independent of government and regulated by the Charity Commission to help disabled people with their mobility and transport needs. They own and have oversight of the Motability Scheme which is delivered by an independent comme...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordObesity: HealthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the soft drinks industry levy on reducing obesity and related illnesses.
Answer: Government data shows that sugar levels in drinks in scope of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) reduced by 47% between 2015 and 2024, removing approximately 57,000 tonnes of sugar from these drinks. This has had benefits across all socio-economic group...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPuberty Suppressing Hormones: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that puberty blockers are not administered to under 16 year old children with a mental illness or learning disabilities.
Answer: The Government has introduced an indefinite ban on the sale or supply of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, also known as puberty blockers, for gender dysphoria and/or incongruence, to under 18 year olds. Children’s healthcare must always be eviden...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPuberty Suppressing Hormones: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all risk assessments conducted by his Department into the administration of puberty blockers for under 16 year-olds.
Answer: In March 2024, NHS England published a suite of documentation relating to its decision to remove gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogues as a routine treatment option in the National Health Service for children under 18 years old with gender dysphoria. ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPuberty Suppressing Hormones: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commit to publishing the results of the Tavistock clinical trial into puberty blockers for children.
Answer: There have been at least two studies relating to puberty-suppressing hormones and the Tavistock clinic. The Early pubertal suppression in a carefully selected group of adolescents with gender identity disorders study, sponsored by University College Londo...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) Jaguar, (b) BMW, c) Mercedes, (d) Range Rover, (e) Audi, and (f) Tesla motor vehicles have been purchased under the Motability Scheme in each of the last three years for which figures are a
Answer: The Motability Foundation is independent of government and regulated by the Charity Commission to help disabled people with their mobility and transport needs. They own and have oversight of the Motability Scheme which is delivered by an independent comme...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: ExpenditureDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual cost was of the Motability Scheme in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Motability Scheme receives no direct funding from DWP. However, it does receive the direct transfer of benefit from DWP. This is claimant benefit the claimant would otherwise be receiving, and the cost of transfer is paid for by the Motability Foundat...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many vehicles issued under the Motability Scheme were subject to the Expensive Car Supplement in the last year for which figures are available.
Answer: The Motability Foundation is independent of government and regulated by the Charity Commission to help disabled people with their mobility and transport needs. They own and have oversight of the Motability Scheme which is delivered by an independent comme...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: Electric Bicycles and Electric ScootersHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes where (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes were used by the perpetrator have been recorded by his Department by police force in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Home Office collects information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales but this does not include whether or not an offence was committed with the use of e-scooters or e-bikes.
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: BatteriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to prevent the sale of high-powered after-market batteries for (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes.
Answer: Under existing UK regulations, businesses must only place safe products, including batteries for e-bikes and e-scooters, on the market. In 2024, the Department published statutory guidelines for lithium-ion e-bike batteries, clarifying that they must prot...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordKetamine: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90610More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the misuse of ketamine.
Answer: Tackling the harms caused by the use of illicit drugs is critical to delivering the Government’s key missions on safer streets and improving health outcomes, as well as contributing to the opportunity and national growth missions. We are taking an end-to-...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: VictimsHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of victims of grooming gangs who will have convictions for prostitution expunged.
Answer: The Home Office is setting up a disregards scheme for convictions and cautions issued to under 18s for persistently loitering or soliciting in a street or public place for the purpose of prostitution, contrary to Section 1 of The Street Offences Act 1959....
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxpayersTreasuryTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90608More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional rate taxpayers there were in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22, (c) 2022-23, (d) 2023-24 and (e) 2024-25 financial years.
Answer: Estimates of the number of additional rate taxpayers for the financial years 2020-21 to 2024-25 are published by HMRC in the Income Tax Liabilities Statistics. The latest available figures can be found in Table 2.1 of HMRC’s Income Tax Liabilities Statist...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Contributions: Private SectorTreasuryTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90607More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions on levels of private sector (a) jobs and (b) v
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer, the economic impacts of the policy, and the impacts on indi...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Remote WorkingHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of staff in her Department currently spend one or more days a week working from home.
Answer: On 24 October 2024 the Cabinet Office announced that 60% minimum office attendance for most staff continues to be the best balance of working for the Civil Service. Senior managers will continue to be expected to be in the office more than 60% of the time...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who have been wrongly released have committed a crime before being brought back to prison in each of the last five years.
Answer: This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordStop and SearchHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times police forces in England and Wales have used stop-and-search powers in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of stop and searches undertaken by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police, on a financial year basis. The latest data are available here: Stop and se...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that a person seeking asylum has not been involved in terrorism; and if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the application of these checks in the la
Answer: All asylum claimants undergo mandatory security checks to establish their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks - including war crimes, crimes against humanity and terrorism. To ...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all asylum applications have been subject to the same consideration criteria in the last five years.
Answer: All asylum claimants undergo mandatory security checks to establish their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks - including war crimes, crimes against humanity and terrorism. To ...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applications for asylum have been approved for people on the security services' watch list in the past 12 months.
Answer: The first priority of government is protecting national security.All applications for UK immigration status, including asylum claims, are subject to comprehensive security checks. Where an individual is assessed as presenting a risk to our country, we tak...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
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