Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
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FireworksDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help mitigate the impact of fireworks on communities.
Answer: There is a comprehensive legislative framework regulating the manufacture, storage, supply, possession and use of fireworks in the UK. Local Authorities and the Police have a wide range of powers available to them to tackle the misuse of fireworks.To ensu...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDogs: Animal BreedingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of Canine Fertility Clinics on the number of dogs from the brachycephalic breeds.
Answer: Defra does not hold the requested information. However, to understand the impact of dog breeding activities, including canine fertility businesses, on individual and overall breed health and welfare, Defra has commissioned an opinion from the Animal Welfa...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9210More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Questions 7840, 7842 and 7843 on Armed Forces: Private Education, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of exempting from VAT the fees paid by
Answer: On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by a private school in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to the fee...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9209More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Questions 7840, 7842 and 7843 on Armed Forces: Private Education, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the Continuity of Educa
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 October 2024 to Question 6838 to the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty).
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Questions 7840, 7842 and 7843 on Armed Forces: Private Education, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of imposing VAT on independent school
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 October 2024 to Question 6838 to the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty).
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Questions 7840, 7842 and 7843 on Armed Forces: Private Education, whether he has held discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of (a) i
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 October 2024 to Question 6838 to the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty).
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCervical Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase the uptake of cervical screening appointments.
Answer: A range of national improvements and innovations have been implemented to help increase uptake in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. In some areas cervical screening appointments can now be made in any primary care setting rather than just at an indivi...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFood PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the level of food insecurity in (a) England and (b) the South East.
Answer: This government is committed to tackling poverty and reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Statistics on the proportion of people living in food insecure households at regional level are published annually in the Households Below Average Inc...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: StandardsDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve passenger rail performance.
Answer: Improving railway performance and driving forward rail reform is the Department’s top priority. The Secretary of State and Rail Minister are meeting with Train Operating Companies and Network Rail to hold them to account in a joined-up manner across track...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer through the non-specific symptoms pathway.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the number of people diagnosed with ovarian cancer through non-specific symptom cancer pathways in the last five years. Data on cancer incidence is published by NHS England and the National Disease Registration ...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with (a) the NHS and (b) stakeholders to help increase awareness of ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of ...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: BerkshireHome OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the current availability of fire appliances in (a) Slough and (b) Berkshire.
Answer: It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to determine how to allocate funding based on its analysis of risk and local circumstances, including the availability of fire appliances. Decisions on future local authority funding will be a mat...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8218More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of Community Diagnostic Centres are operated by private healthcare providers.
Answer: The independent sector is involved in the delivery of community diagnostic centres (CDCs), in line with the role they play in supporting the NHS as trusted partners to recover elective services. There are 170 approved CDCs, 13 of which are fully owned and...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: RadiologyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of trained radiologists within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as of October 2024.
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These report staff working for hospital trusts and other core organisations. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources sy...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer through the non-specific symptoms cancer pathway in the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the number of people diagnosed with ovarian cancer through non-specific symptom cancer pathways over the last five years. Data on cancer incidence is published by NHS England and by the National Disease Registra...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual cost to the public purse is of the Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) recognises the unique circumstances faced by our serving personnel and that frequent mobility can disrupt children’s education. The Continuity of Education Allowance helps by providing the children of serving personnel with a...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel receive the Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) recognises the unique circumstances faced by our serving personnel and that frequent mobility can disrupt children’s education. The Continuity of Education Allowance helps by providing the children of serving personnel with a...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to work with (a) the NHS, (b) stakeholders and (c) charities to increase awareness of ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, 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 symptoms...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many children are educated with financial assistance from the Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) recognises the unique circumstances faced by our serving personnel and that frequent mobility can disrupt children’s education. The Continuity of Education Allowance helps by providing the children of serving personnel with a...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: PublicityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending targeted letters directly to people who are potentially eligible to claim Pension Credit.
Answer: In November we will be writing to approximately 120,000 pensioners who are in receipt of Housing Benefit and who may also be eligible for, but not currently claiming, Pension Credit. We will be inviting these pensioners to claim Pension Credit by the 21 D...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCervical Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce disparities in access to cervical screening, (b) increase cervical screening rates and (c) improve cervical cancer outcomes within high-risk populations.
Answer: A range of national improvements and innovations are being implemented to help address disparities, and increase uptake in cervical screening. In some areas appointments can now be made in any primary care setting rather than just your general practice, a...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWater Charges: InfrastructureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure that proposed increases to consumer water bills are used for infrastructure investment.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Chippenham, Sarah Gibson, on 12 September 2024, PQ 3559.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeAttorney GeneralTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4767More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates for knife crime.
Answer: This Government is committed to halving knife crime in the next decade as set out in our Safer Streets Mission.From Tuesday 24 September, it will be illegal to own zombie-style knives and machetes as they will be added to the list of dangerous prohibited ...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
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