Steve Barclay MP: written questions
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Written questions
Home Office: EqualityHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent roles there are in her Department relating to equality, diversity and inclusion; and how many of those roles are unfilled but budgeted for.
Answer: In 2023, the previous government commissioned an audit of spending in this area, which provided a figure of 16.6 FTE Home Office staff working in central Human Resources roles relating to implementation of statutory functions arising from the Public Secto...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30617More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list all civil service roles that have been (a) internally and (b) externally-advertised between 4 July 2024 and 11 February 2025.
Answer: Between 4 July 2024 and 11 February 2025, approximately 8,000 vacancies were advertised through the Civil Service Jobs website. To note, an advertised vacancy may contain a number of posts, hence the variance between the number of vacancies and the number...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the amount that was spent by local authorities on services supporting (a) refugees and (b) people seeking asylum to access healthcare ser
Answer: The department does not hold this information to the level of detail requested. The department releases data on local authority spend through the local authority revenue expenditure and financing statistics, in which line 49 accounts for services or inter...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for the treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in accordance with the NICE Quality Standard QS204 in each of the last fi
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum DisorderDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in (a) England, (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Peterborough Integrated Care Board.
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Management Companies: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to increase the transparency of charges levied on residents of new estates where freehold estate management fees apply.
Answer: I refer the Rt hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: PeterboroughDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish all relevant reports submitted to the Environment Agency in 2024 by the operator of the Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station in compliance with thei
Answer: Relevant reports will be published in due course. The permit (AWCNF428/10348) requires various information and data to be submitted to the Environment Agency as follows: Annual Summary report for Storm Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data – start & s...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: PeterboroughDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the operator of the Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station fitted an early duration monitor on the combined sewage overflow.
Answer: Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station has an EDM (Event Duration Monitor) on site as this is now a legal requirement for sites that discharge storm sewage. Further information on EDM data across the UK can be found at Storm Overflow Spill ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConcreteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the debate on New Hospitals of 25 May 2023, Official Report, column 477, whether a further assess
Answer: Following the General Election in July 2024, the Government inherited a programme to deliver new hospitals that was unfunded beyond March 2025 and was repeatedly delayed. We now have a plan to deliver the New Hospital Programme which is realistic and affo...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrabs: Non-native SpeciesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect (a) the Cambridgeshire Fens and (b) the UK from Chinese mitten crabs.
Answer: The Government takes invasive species seriously and has legislated to prevent the further introduction and spread of Chinese mitten crab. As a ‘Species of Special Concern’ it is subject to the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22603 on Community Diagnostic Centres: Cambridgeshire, how many tests were delivered at North Cambs Diagnostic Centre in each month since June
Answer: Published data is not held in the format requested. Data for the number of tests delivered by Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) is held centrally and published at the national level, and is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/stat...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: LicensingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Government to crack down on waste incinerators with stricter standards for new builds, published on 30 December 2024, whether
Answer: The statement and analysis issued by my department sets out that any new waste incineration facilities should demonstrate a clearly defined domestic residual waste treatment capacity need, to facilitate the diversion of residual waste away from landfill o...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were seen at North Cambs Diagnostic Centre in each month since its opening in June 2023.
Answer: Published data is not held in the format requested. Activity data, specifically the number of tests delivered, rather than patients seen, for community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is held centrally and published at the national level, and is available at th...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Ethnic GroupsHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025WithdrawnUIN 21980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the perpetrator ethnicity data for grooming and sexual violence collected by the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials were working in his Department, excluding Arm’s Length Bodies, on (a) 13 November 2023, (b) 5 July 2024 and (c) 27 November 2024.
Answer: The Department only holds data on the number of officials working in the Department at the end of each calendar month. The following table shows the data for the end of each calendar month from July 2022 to October 2024:MonthHeadcountFull-time equivalentJ...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to Inheritance Tax announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of production of the five key crops by tonnage in the
Answer: The level of crop production is always subject to factors such as weather conditions and prevailing prices. Beyond such normal factors, the Government does not expect the inheritance tax changes to have a material impact on crop production. We have robust...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: OwnershipDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the proportion of farm holdings that are owned by a single person or entity.
Answer: In 2021, the statistical estimates for the proportion of farmers in England who have financial and legal responsibility for an agricultural holding is shown below: Financial and legal responsibility for a holdingProportion of holdingsOne person46%Two or m...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: ValuationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of farm holdings that are estimated to have a net value of (a) between £1,000,000 and £1,499,999, (b) between £1,500,000 and £1,999,
Answer: Defra does not hold financial data for farms at holding level. Some financial information is published at a farm business level (where multiple farm holdings can constitute a single farm business). This information is based on the Farm Business Survey whi...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what is the cost of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme; and when she plans to make a decision on the renewal of that scheme.
Answer: The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme providing grants towards Vat paid on reports and maintenance is a demand-led programme and operates with a total budget of up to £42m per year, funded jointly by DCMS and HMT reserve. In the financial year 23/24 a...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12076More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data HM Revenue and Customs holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland.
Answer: HMRC receives information in relation to the agricultural value of agricultural land, buildings, and other assets as part of claims for agricultural property relief. This information relates to the agricultural property owned by the individual who may not...
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordInheritance Tax: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12075More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 118 of Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, and page 32 of the Budget Policy Costings document, if she will publish the (a) methodology and (b) data sources on how the revenue from the (i) agricultural
Answer: The Government has published information about reforms to agricultural property relief at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/what-are-the-changes-to-agricultural-property-relief. Almost three-quarters of estates claiming agricultural property relief (or ...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: LandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland at a (A) hereditament and (B) local authority level.
Answer: The Defra June Survey of Agriculture has statistical estimates of the English farmland areas at local authority level, the latest available is for 2021. Please note this survey only covers commercial holdings (defined as farms with more than five hectares...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: LandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data the Rural Payments Agency holds on the (a) area and (b) value of (i) farms and (ii) farmland at a (A) hereditament and (B) local authority level.
Answer: The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) does not hold data at hereditament level, or any data on values of farms or farmland. It does hold data on areas of land for businesses registered with the RPA and associated agricultural land, i.e. land registered as Arabl...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIncineratorsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the mix of waste sent for incineration since 2017 on the carbon emissions of each unit of electricity generated by inc
Answer: Defra made no assessment of the effect of changes in the mix of waste sent for incineration on the carbon emissions of each unit of electricity generated by energy recovery facilities when the Rt Hon member for North East Cambridgeshire was Secretary of S...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWaste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Oct 2024WithdrawnUIN 9452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will list identified abandoned waste sites.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
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