Siân Berry MP: written questions
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Written questions
Further Education: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the 2024-25 pay award does not apply to teachers in (a) sixth form and (b) further education colleges; and if she will make it her policy to apply the award to those teachers.
Answer: Further education (FE) providers are not in scope of the School Teacher Review Body’s remit. The government neither sets nor makes recommendations about FE teacher pay, and it is instead the responsibility of individual colleges to make awards in line wit...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022Home OfficeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to repeal the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
Answer: Certain sections of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are currently being reviewed by the Government in line with commitments made in Parliament when the Act was passed. In addition, the entirety of the Act will be subject to post-legislat...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: Social MediaHome OfficeTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of prosecution under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006 of (a) social media platforms and (b) their owners for facilitating (i) the disseminatio
Answer: Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006 contains offences relating to the sale and other dissemination of books and other publications, including material on the internet by an individual, that encourage people to engage in terrorism, or provide information t...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish an updated Road Safety Statement; and whether that update will include a Vision Zero approach.
Answer: The Government has announced that it intends to publish a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. Work is already underway on this and further details will be set out in due course.
Answered 3 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to set conditions for and regulate the use and deployment of live facial recognition technology by police forces in England and Wales.
Answer: Live facial technology is already being used effectively by some police forces to identify suspects more quickly and accurately.Its use is governed by data protection, equality, and human rights legislation supplemented by specific policing guidance.
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding her Department has provided for (i) walking, (ii) cycling, (iii) healthy and safer streets, (iv) disabled access and (v) other ways to support active travel in Engla
Answer: The table below outlines Departmental funding for active travel for the period 2011/12 to 2023/24. It is not possible to disaggregate this into separate amounts for walking, cycling, healthy streets and so forth. Comparable data for 2010/11 is unavailable...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Work: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the (a) revenue and (b) capital funding provided by each government department for youth work in England and Wales in each financial year since2010-11.
Answer: The Government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people. In England, since 2010, DCMS has directly provided over £1.5 billion to the youth sector - mainly through three l...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRight to Buy SchemeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2677More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government , if she will make an estimate of the real-terms value of the total of discounts claimed under Right to Buy in each local authority in England and Wales in each year since 1989.
Answer: The total amount of Right to Buy discounts per local authority from 2011-12 onwards is available in Section B of the Local Authority Housing Statistics (LAHS) available here Local authority housing data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), with the latest data included...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing councils with grants to buy homes from the market to convert the tenure of these homes to council housing.
Answer: The Government will support councils and housing associations to build their capacity and make a greater contribution to affordable housing supply. As a first step, we have given councils the ability to combine Right to Buy receipts with section 106 contr...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Right to Buy and associated discounts on the value for money of grant spending on new council housing through the Affo
Answer: Local authorities can bid for grant funding through the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) to support delivery of affordable homes. If a home built using AHP grant is sold via the Right to Buy, then the local authority must either recycle the relevant grant...
Answered 30 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the value for money of grant spending on new council housing through the Affordable Housing Programme.
Answer: The Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) receives bids from housing associations and local authorities. Our delivery partners, the GLA and Homes England, assess the viability of these against criteria set out in the internal programme evaluation. The National...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the amount held by each (a) council and (b) other planning authority in unspent Section 106 and developer contributions towards affordable housing
Answer: Local planning authorities are required to publish an infrastructure funding statement annually on their websites. These should include information on the amount of unspent developer contributions they hold at the end of each reporting year and the amount...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTransport: CostsCabinet OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2672More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the percentage change in real terms of the average cost per kilometre to an individual of travelling by (a) private car, (b) bus, (c) train and (d) domestic aeroplane since (i) 199
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon Lady’s Parliamentary Question of 30/07/24 is attached.
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 788More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure communities have equal access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) across different (a) risk, (b) demographic and (c) geographic groups.
Answer: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a priority for the Government, and we will commission a new plan to end new HIV transmissions within England by 2030. As part of our work in developing a new plan, we will explore options for ensuring equity and equal...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available (a) in pharmacies and (b) from an online service.
Answer: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a priority for the Government, and we will commission a new plan to end new HIV transmissions within England by 2030. As part of our work in developing a new plan, we will explore options for ensuring equity and equal...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
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