Sarah Pochin MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Motability: 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
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) security and (b) criminal record checks are made by her Department when considering an application for asylum.
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: OffendersHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have been approved for people with a criminal record in the UK prior to the commencement of their asylum application.
Answer: The requested data on asylum applications from foreign national offenders is not currently published by the Home Office.As explained in this note published in April 2025, systems for collecting and compiling data related to foreign national offenders in t...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Translation ServicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether translation (a) cards or (b) services are provided to foreign national prison officers to aid communication with prisoners.
Answer: Translation cards or services are not provided to any prison officers working in Public Sector Prisons (PSPs). The process for recruiting prison officers across all PSPs is the same for all applicants, both UK and non-UK nationals, with candidates being a...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordStop and SearchHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of stop and searches resulted in the seizure of a weapon in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
Answer: Code A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) governs the use of stop and search powers. Guidance on the use of stop and search is also issued to forces by the College of Policing in its Authorised Professional Practice.Stop and search is an ...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordStop and SearchHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has recent discussions with police forces on their use of stop and search powers under Section 60 of the Public Order Act 2023.
Answer: Code A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) governs the use of stop and search powers. Guidance on the use of stop and search is also issued to forces by the College of Policing in its Authorised Professional Practice.Stop and search is an ...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
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