Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
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Armed Conflict: ExplosivesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken with (a) international counterparts and (b) the Secretary of State for Defence to remove explosive ordnance from areas that have previously bee
Answer: The FCDO-funded Global Mine Action Programme (GMAP) is the Government's main programme for removing mines, cluster munitions and other explosive ordinance from previous conflict zones. GMAP currently funds clearance in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Laos,...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to ensure legally compliant labelling on imported food and drink.
Answer: The UK maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels so that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy. The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mis...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that importers comply with the ban on disposable vapes from June 2025.
Answer: Single-use vapes are extremely wasteful and blight the streets of our towns and cities. Banning these vapes will stop them from being thrown into bins with general waste, where they typically end up in landfill or being incinerated, posing a fire risk due...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to prevent increased quantities of disposable vapes being imported before June 2025.
Answer: Single-use vapes are extremely wasteful and blight the streets of our towns and cities. Banning these vapes will stop them from being thrown into bins with general waste, where they typically end up in landfill or being incinerated, posing a fire risk due...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: SmugglingHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of illegal vapes seized at the border in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023.
Answer: Border Force have a strong track record in targeting illegal commodities, and continue to ensure that all goods brought into the UK by passengers are appropriately declared and abide by customs and excise rules.For information the latest transparency retu...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: ImportsTreasuryTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23421More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of imported disposable vapes manufactured in China in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023.
Answer: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OT...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to help alleviate child poverty in (a) Slough and (b) the Thames Valley region.
Answer: In the Labour manifesto we committed to developing an ambitious strategy to reduce child Poverty. I am part of the ministerial Child Poverty Taskforce which has since been established to drive this forward, aiming to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in Sp...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding provided by the Government to local councils.
Answer: We are providing a significant boost to local authorities in England. Taken together, the additional funding announced by the Chancellor at the Autumn Budget and at the 2025-26 provisional Local Government Finance Settlement will provide over £5 billion o...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) times blood donors have been advised in advance of delays to their NHS Blood and Transplant donor session and (b) the number of donors tha
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant does not advise donors in advance of delays to blood donation sessions. Delays are generally only known on the day of the session, and are usually the result of sessions running over, staff shortages, for instance from sickness ab...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times people have been called more than twice per day by NHS Blood and Transplant seeking blood donations in the last 12 months; and whether he is taking steps to ensure that the frequency
Answer: In 2024, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) attempted 8,532,133 outbound calls to all donors across whole blood, platelets, and plasma for medicine. Of this total figure, 37.5%, or 3,199,031, call attempts resulted in a donor receiving up to three call atte...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: SurveysDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of sending letters on the GP Patient Survey in the last 12 months; how many letters were sent to recipients; and whether any patients were contacted by e-mail.
Answer: The GP Patient Survey (GPPS) has been carried out in England for nineteen years. It is currently conducted by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. In total for the 2024 survey, Ipsos sent 2.56 million invite letters and 2.28 million reminder letters asking peo...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMobile PhonesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department is taking steps to allow people to retain their mobile numbers when changing mobile contracts while retaining the same network provider.
Answer: Consumers can retain their existing mobile number when renewing their contract or moving to a new contract.Ofcom has in place rules on retaining an existing number when moving providers, known as "porting", but these only apply when the consumer...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWorking HoursTreasuryTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22058More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of working age people who have reduced their working hours as a result of marginal state income deductions.
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility's October 2024 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) contains forecasts and assessments of government policy. Once the impact of all the Budget measures are taken into consideration, the OBR expect the employment level to ...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility Foundation: FinanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has provided the Mobility Foundation in each of the last five years; and for what purpose.
Answer: The Motability Foundation charity, which is independent of government, oversees Motability Operations in its delivery of the Motability Scheme. The Motability Scheme does not receive any direct funding from the Department for Work and Pensions. The Depart...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Equipment: ShortagesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the unavailability of (a) digital thermometers and blood pressure monitors and (b) other low cost equipment for clinical staff on NHS (i) st
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not currently plan to make an assessment. The Department closely monitors the supply and availability of a broad range of medical devices and equipment continually across the National Health Service in England and the Uni...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: UnemploymentCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21661More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of public sector workers of working age who have become economically inactive in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Hon. Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 3 January is attached.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHouse of Commons Commission: CorrespondenceHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21352More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, when the Director of Parliamentary Digital Services plans to provide a substantive reply to the correspondence of 27 November 2024 from the hon. Member for
Answer: The Managing Director of the Parliamentary Digital Service replied on 6 January 2025.
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNATO Countries: DefenceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps the Government is taking to help ensure NATO member states meet the target of spending 2% of GDP on defence.
Answer: At the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in December, the Foreign Secretary and I called on all Allies to boost their defence spending. This is a strategic imperative and it is why the UK is committed to setting out a pathway to 2.5% of GDP at a future fi...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17203 on Flood Control, what the potential cost to the public purse is of the University of Hull and Humberside Fire and Rescue S
Answer: Departmental budgets are set through the Spending Review Process. We therefore do not know budget allocations for the next decade. Budgets are then allocated to Departmental activities. To protect the country from the devastating impacts of flooding, we w...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of bowel cancer symptoms among people under 50.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of sympt...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTaxis: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the measures in the Employments Rights Bill on working rights for private hire drivers.
Answer: The Employment Rights Bill Impact Assessments show that by boosting protections and the quality of work for the lowest paid in the labour market, who are concentrated in more deprived areas of the UK, the package will help to raise living standards across...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle persistent absence in schools in Slough constituency.
Answer: This government is determined to tackle the generational challenge of school absence which is a fundamental barrier to learning and life chances. Missing school regularly is harmful to a child’s attainment, safety and physical and mental health, which lim...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on future earnings.
Answer: Every child should have every opportunity to succeed, no matter who they are, where they are from, or how much their parents earn. Too often opportunity for children and young people is defined by their background.That is why this government is committed ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordJagtar Singh JohalForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterpart in India on the detention of Jagtar Singh Johal.
Answer: We remain absolutely committed to pushing the Government of India for faster progress to resolve Jagtar Singh Johal's case. The Foreign Secretary has raised Mr Johal's case with his Indian counterpart on several occasions, most recently on 25 November. Th...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospitals: AdmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20019More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients admitted to hospital this year with (a) Covid, (b) flu (c) RSV and (d) norovirus; and what those figures were for the same period in (i) 2023 and
Answer: The data is not available in the format requested for flu, the respiratory syncytial virus, or norovirus. The following table shows the number admissions with COVID-19, in each of the last three years:YearNumber of admissions with COVID-19202427,594202346...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
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