Seamus Logan MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Sudan: Bilateral AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much total spend, and predicted spend in Sudan, originating from the FCDO ODA budget for bilateral aid there was, and will be, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Answer: The £120 million Sudan allocation announced in April 2025 is funded from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.Humanitarian ODA allocations are included in country programme budgets, as set ...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with regards to the Prime Minister's announcement on the 15th April 2025 to spend £120M in emergency aid Sudan, a) which governmental budget this originates from and b) which
Answer: The £120 million Sudan allocation announced in April 2025 is funded from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.Humanitarian ODA allocations are included in country programme budgets, as set ...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearmsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when will the Government launch its public consultation on the controls on (a) shotguns and (b) other firearms.
Answer: The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February this year, included a commitment to having a public consultation on strengthening the licensing controls on shotguns, to bring them more into line with the contr...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to his Statement on the Electricity Market Review on July 10 2025, Official Report, column 1160, if he will publish his Department’s reformed national pricing delivery plan.
Answer: I confirm that the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero will publish a Reformed National Pricing delivery plan early next year. Some elements of Reformed National Pricing are already under way, including building network infrastructure, and we in...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: PovertyDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that measures outlined in the Child Poverty Strategy designed to support families with newborn babies, including voucher schemes, are accessible to families seek
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring that vulnerable migrant children receive the support to which they are entitled. Asylum seekers and their dependents who would otherwise be destitute can obtain support under Section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish a fuller equalities impact assessment of the Child Poverty Strategy, including its impact on groups at highest risk of poverty.
Answer: A full summary Equalities Analysis was published alongside the Strategy and is available at: Child Poverty Strategy: Summary Equalities Analysis - GOV.UK.The impacts of policies contributing to the Child Poverty Strategy will be kept under review and moni...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: RetirementMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 906946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of reducing the pension age of prison officers on levels of staff retention.
Answer: We have seen an improving picture on retention nationally – with resignation rates at their lowest level for four years for Band 3-5 prison officers.We recognise that pension age is an important issue for frontline staff and our recognised trade unions. M...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025 to Question 92670, whether a scientifically satisfactory method or testing strategy requires validation.
Answer: Where a novel method is devised, it is expected to undergo evaluation in studies that describe its performance in its capacity to predict outcomes of testing of chemicals of a known profile. Such studies will be a forerunner to formal validation of the me...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: ScotlandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase the take-up of Pension Credit amongst older households in Scotland; and what consideration he has given to the potential merits of an all entitlements take-up strateg
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that all pensioners receive the support to which they are entitled. That is why we have been running the biggest ever Pension Credit taken-up campaign across the whole of Greater Britain, promoting Pension Credit to...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: ScotlandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of retaining the freeze on Local Housing Allowance on older private renters in Scotland who are living in poverty.
Answer: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State confirmed in his Written Statement (HCWS1101) that Local Housing Allowance rates will not be increased for 2026/27. He considered a range of factors, such as rental levels and impacts across Great Britain, inclu...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnas SarwarCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96837More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions the Government has had with Anas Sarwar MSP on the formulation of public policy.
Answer: Cabinet Office ministers have had no official government meetings on the formulation of policy with the leader of Labour in Scotland, Anas Sarwar MSP. Ministers listen to a wide range of representations on policymaking, including those from Scottish Labou...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxation: ScotlandTreasuryTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95780More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue the UK Government anticipates it will obtain from the Sprits Excise Duty on Scotch Whisky, Energy Profits Levy and Agricultural Property Relief from Scotland by the end of this Parliament.
Answer: The ONS publish “Country and regional public sector finances revenue tables” which includes estimated breakdowns of revenue raised in Scotland from alcohol duty and Energy Profits Levy. HMRC also publishes Inheritance Tax Liabilities statistics. Tables 12...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95175More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 92495 on Civil Servants: Disclosure of Information, what is the evidence basis for the Government’s view that an independent Office for the Whistleblower wo
Answer: There are well established whistleblowing processes in place across government. Individual government departments are responsible for determining and setting their whistleblowing arrangements and procedures. In addition, the Civil Service Commission is an...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 906344 on Animal Experiments, whether she plans to enshrine the strategy targets into law.
Answer: The Government’s new strategy sets out our long-term vision for a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances, achieved by creating a research and innovation system that drives the development and validatio...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the strategy Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 2025, when the
Answer: The Government’s strategy to support replacing animals in science commits to publish biennially from 2026 a list of alternative-methods research and development priorities, coalescing UK scientists around these areas and incentivising partnerships between...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the strategy Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 2025, if the £
Answer: The Government has committed to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods with £60 million of new funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology that has not been derived from reallocation of existing budget...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the strategy Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 2025, if the p
Answer: The Government’s strategy commits to create a preclinical translational models hub, supported by £30m of government funding, by the end of 2026. This will bring together data, AI, cell engineering, genomic technology and cutting-edge disease modelling cap...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92495More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the contribution by the Minister of 12 November 2025, col 285, on the Nolan Principles, what the evidence basis was for stating that the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee did
Answer: The National Audit Office made four recommendations in the report following its investigation into whistleblowing in the Civil Service and the Public Accounts Committee made five recommendations in its subsequent report. Neither report recommended setting...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress has been made on the Fuel Finder scheme; whether the launch date of late 2025 is still applicable; and what further work is being done by the Government to help reduce fuel pric
Answer: This Government is committed to ensuring drivers get a fair deal which is why we are implementing Fuel Finder as quickly as possible. Subject to parliamentary passage, we aim to launch Fuel Finder by the end of 2025. In the meantime, a voluntary scheme is...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Capture and Storage: AberdeenshireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress he has made on the carbon capture and storage project at St Fergus.
Answer: The government has announced its support for Acorn and is providing the development funding to advance its delivery. A final investment decision will be taken later this Parliament, subject to project readiness and affordability. Since the Spending Review...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 906344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent progress he has made in phasing out animal testing.
Answer: The Labour Manifesto commits to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasing out of animal testing”, which is a long-term goal.On 11th November 2025 the government published “Replacing animals in science: A strategy...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86950More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the UK Statistics Authority publication entitled Letter from Professor Dame Carol Propper to Seamus Logan MP – statements on water quality published on 28 October 202
Answer: The former Secretary of State’s statement on the quality of water in Scotland compared to England was based on statistics from Scottish Water, Water Industry Commission for Scotland, Ofwat, and the Environment Agency.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86949More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the letter entitled Statements on Water Quality issued by Professor Dame Carol Propper, Chair of the UK S
Answer: Defra policies are based on the best available analysis and evidence, including official statistics. All Official Statistics in Defra are produced in line with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics. Defra acknowledges the statement...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the accuracy of data used by her Department, in the context of the letter entitled Statements on Water Quality by Professor Dame Carol Propper, Chair
Answer: The accuracy of data and statistics are crucial for the development and monitoring of Defra policies, and crucial for ensuring public trust in those statistics. All Official Statistics in Defra are therefore produced in line with the UK Statistics Authori...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to correspondence of 5 September 2025 from the Hon Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, case reference SL03537, on water quality in Scotland.
Answer: A reply to the hon. Member is being prepared and will be issued as soon as possible.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
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