Seamus Logan MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Personal Independence Payment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed reforms to the personal independence payment on the NHS.
Answer: As part of the mission led government, regular cross government collaboration takes place at both Ministerial and official level. DWP will work across Government, including with the Department for Health and Social Care, to address any impacts caused by r...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the new guidance on the good character requirement for British citizenship complies with the UK’s obligations under Article 31 of the 1951 Refugee Co
Answer: We take our international obligations very seriously, including those under the Refugee Convention 1951. The good character policy is compliant with those obligations.Each citizenship application will continue to be considered on a case-by-case basis cons...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAttendance AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will review the name of the Attendance Allowance.
Answer: There are no plans to change the name of Attendance Allowance in England and Wales. Attendance Allowance is a devolved matter in Scotland. The Scottish Government is currently replacing it with Pension Age Disability Payment.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAttendance AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has targets for the time taken to process Attendance Allowance.
Answer: The Actual Average Clearance Time for Attendance Allowance claims for January 2025 was 23 working days. There is a quick application process for people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and aren't expected to live more than 12 months. These ...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a policy on the inclusion of provisions on the supply of services to the NHS within the proposed free trade agreement with the US.
Answer: The Government’s policy position is to protect the National Health Service and the services it provides in trade agreements.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Trade AgreementsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Trade Act 2021 to prevent future intern
Answer: The Government’s policy position is to protect the National Health Service and the services it provides in trade agreements. The Department of Health and Social Care will continue to work closely with the Department for Business and Trade to defend this p...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: NHSDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Trade Act 2021 to prevent future international trade agreements from including provisions re
Answer: Section 2(5) of the Trade Act already ensures that international trade agreements, within the scope of the Act, cannot include provisions which are inconsistent with maintaining a UK publicly funded healthcare service.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she will reply to correspondence sent from the Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East on pensioner poverty of (a) 25 November 2024 and (b) 14 January 2025.
Answer: I replied to the Hon.Member on 6 March. I apologise for the delay.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he will reply to correspondence from the Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East on climate change emissions of (a) 11 October 2024, (b) 25 November 2024 and (c) 14 January 2025.
Answer: I wrote to the Hon. Member on 21 February, in response to the Hon. Member’s correspondence about how the Government plans to deliver emission cuts, generate jobs, lower energy bills and restore nature. In that response I apologised for the delay in replyi...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: USADepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his policy is on the potential inclusion of US (a) beef and (b) chicken products being included in a trade deal with the US.
Answer: The UK and US have a strong economic relationship which is fair, balanced and reciprocal. We have $1.5 trillion invested in each other’s economies and over 2.5 million jobs across both countries. The Prime Minister and President Trump agreed to deepen thi...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: USADepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has (a) made an assessment and (b) commissioned analysis of the potential impact of a trade deal with the US on agriculture.
Answer: The UK and US have a strong economic relationship which is fair, balanced and reciprocal. We have $1.5 trillion invested in each other’s economies and over 2.5 million jobs across both countries. The Prime Minister and President Trump agreed that we shoul...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35115More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has (a) made an assessment and (b) commissioned analysis of the potential impact of a trade deal with the US on the NHS.
Answer: In their meeting on 27 February, the Prime Minister and President Trump agreed to work together on a trade deal focused on tech. The government is clear that we will only ever sign trade agreements that align with the UK's national interests. The NHS will...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of a free trade agreement with the US on the NHS.
Answer: The Department is considering the impact of a potential trade deal between the United Kingdom and the United States. As my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, said last week, “we’re clear the NHS is not on the table. It’s n...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 19 December 2024 on Hospice Funding, Official Report, column 451, what the level of the Barnet consequentials will be for each of the devolved Administration
Answer: The Barnett formula applies to all increases or decreases to the Government’s departmental expenditure limits. As this £100 million in capital funding for adult and children’s hospices is being re-allocated from within existing budgets, there will be no a...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture, Usage and Storage: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) carbon capture, usage and storage projects and (b) track two processes.
Answer: This Government is committed to the delivery of CCUS, as demonstrated by our record investment of £21.7 billion in October and the signing of contracts to launch the first CCUS projects in the UK in December. CCUS requires significant resources, and it is...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: LandfillDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support the landfill gas to energy sector.
Answer: Government recognises the benefits that Landfill Gas to Energy can offer, both as a form of baseload generation, and to capture and make use of methane in order to support our net zero goals. Government is aware that support under the Renewables Obligatio...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes made to employer's National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on bed provision in the private adult social care sect
Answer: We work collaboratively with the devolved governments to drive forward our objective of supporting people to lead more independent, healthier lives for longer. While health and social care are predominantly devolved, working together across the United Kin...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes made to employer's National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on costs to the private adult social care sector in (a
Answer: We work collaboratively with the devolved governments to drive forward our objective of supporting people to lead more independent, healthier lives for longer. While health and social care are predominantly devolved, working together across the United Kin...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceTreasuryTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22496More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 17 October 2024 from the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, reference number MC2024/14787.
Answer: A response has been sent to the Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East regarding his correspondence of 18 October 2024 about VAT on private school fees.
Answered 15 Jan 2025
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