Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions 2025
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Motorcycles: Common LandHome OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to prevent the use of off-road bikes on common land without lawful authority.
Answer: Tackling anti-social behaviour and the harm it causes is a top priority for this Government and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission.The Crime and Policing Bill will give police greater powers to clamp down on anti-social behaviour involving vehicles, ...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: BerkshireDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken with local authorities to help tackle pavement parking in (a) Slough and (b) Berkshire.
Answer: The Department has been considering all the views expressed in response to the 2020 pavement parking consultation and is currently working through the policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. We will announce the next steps and publish...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBirds: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to help protect populations of the (a) House Sparrow and (b) Song Thrush in the South East.
Answer: This Government is committed to restoring and protecting nature. In England, we have four legally binding targets for biodiversity: to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030; to reverse declines by at least 10% by 2042, when compared with 2030; to ...
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordComputer Misuse Act 1990Home OfficeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Answer: The Computer Misuse Act (CMA), which criminalises unauthorised access to computer systems and data, plays a vital role in ensuring that the UK has the right legislative framework to allow us to tackle cyber harms.The Government is committed to ensuring th...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: SanctionsTreasuryTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77591More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps she has taken to help tackle illicit financial activities committed by sanctioned individuals.
Answer: The UK’s financial sanctions regime places stringent restrictions on the financial activities of individuals who have been designated under sanctions. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), alongside law enforcement partners, takes a pro...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on (a) providing maternity care and (b) settling legal cases of medical negligence related to maternity care in each of the last four years.
Answer: In regard to maternity care spend, according to the Patient-Level Costing dataset from the National Cost Collection for the National Health Service, the annual spend for providing maternity care was as follows:£4,855,676,069.19 for 2021/22;£4,722,376,594....
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: TrappingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the use of snares on animal welfare.
Answer: Defra recognises many people in this country have concerns about the use of snares. Free-running snares are currently legal in England and are regulated by law. They must be checked at least once a day and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 prohibits t...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: SloughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the affordability of (a) private and (b) social housing in Slough.
Answer: According to 2024 Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, private renters in Slough spent on average 27.9% of their income on rent. This compares to 29.6% in the South East as a whole and 36.3% in England. The ONS does not publish data on social housin...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: AutismDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the levels of educational support available to autistic children in mainstream schools.
Answer: The Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group brought together experts to provide advice and recommendations to the department on how to best meet the needs of neurodivergent children and young people within mainstream education settings.To support schools, t...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTrusts: SanctionsTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76617More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps she has taken to prevent sanctioned individuals from using trusts to conceal their (a) identities and (b) assets.
Answer: The government is committed to preventing sanctioned individuals from misusing trusts to conceal their identities and assets. To this end, we have strengthened the transparency of the beneficial ownership of trusts through our various registers, including...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCrowdfunding: RegulationTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76040More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the adequacy of the regulation of peer-to-peer banking.
Answer: Treasury Ministers and officials meet with their counterparts at the Financial Conduct Authority often, as part of their regular engagement on various topics. This includes peer-to-peer lending, which the FCA is responsible for regulating. Peer-to-peer in...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: South EastDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to improve passenger railway services in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.
Answer: The Secretary of State is committed to improving rail services by working together with train operators, Network Rail, and where appropriate, Transport for London, to continue to improve reliability and punctuality in the South East. Slough already benefi...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that imported meat products are slaughtered to animal welfare standards equivalent to those in the UK.
Answer: The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter. Under existing legislation, imports of meat must meet standards at least equivalent to welfare at slaughter requirements set out in assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to prevent the importation of low-welfare animal products.
Answer: The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. We will promote robust standards nationally and internationally. All agri-food products must comply with our import requirements in o...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the supply of epilepsy medications.
Answer: The Department is working hard with industry to help resolve intermittent supply issues with some epilepsy medications. As a result of ongoing activity and intensive work, including asking manufacturers to expedite deliveries, most issues have been resolv...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: EpilepsyDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of children (a) with epilepsy and (b) without an individual healthcare plan in Slough.
Answer: The department does not collect data on pupils who have specific health issues, such as epilepsy, and only collects information where a pupil has a learning need. As such, we do not hold figures on either the number of children with epilepsy, or the propo...
Answered 6 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: Urban AreasHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76034More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to support (a) local authorities and (b) police forces to tackle anti-social behaviour (i) in town centres and (ii) on high streets.
Answer: This Government wants town centres to be vibrant, welcoming places where businesses thrive and people feel safe and come to shop, socialise and live.The Safer Streets Summer Initiative commenced on 30 June and runs until the end of September. It is tackli...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76033More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national prostate cancer screening programme.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which advises ministers on all screening matters, commissioned an evidence review modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This included different poten...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: South EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76032More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department is taking to reduce treatment waiting times for people with prostate cancer in the South East.
Answer: The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all patients with prostate cancer, including in the South East.NHS England has introduced a best-practice timed pathway for prostate cancer so that those suspected of prostate c...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76031More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress his Department has made on increasing (a) solar and (b) rooftop solar capacity.
Answer: Accelerating solar deployment is a key part of the Government’s clean energy mission. As set out in the recently published Solar Roadmap, solar capacity will need to rise to 45-47GW by 2030. Since the Government took office, UK solar capacity has increase...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: BerkshireDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on the number of rooftop solar panels in use in (a) Slough and (b) Berkshire.
Answer: The Government does not have data for the number of rooftop solar panels in total by parliamentary constituency; however, we do hold figures for domestic solar installations across parliamentary constituencies, and these are available online. Our latest f...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent steps his Department has taken to raise public awareness of the availability of government grants for the installation of solar panels on homes.
Answer: Although domestic rooftop solar remains a key priority for the Government, there are currently no grants on offer to support the installation of solar panels specifically. However, alongside the £13.2bn we are investing in the Warm Homes Plan, officials w...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Order Offences: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to police forces to ensure that they use their public order powers at protests in compliance with human rights legislation.
Answer: Guidance on the use of public order powers is jointly produced by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council.The College of Policing publishes the Public Order Public Safety Authorised Professional Practice, while the Protest Operatio...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Scooters: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of recorded offences related to the illegal use of an e-scooter in a public place in the past 5 years.
Answer: The Home Office collects information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.The Home Office does not hold information on whether an offence was related to the use of e-scooters.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPaternity Leave: Self-employedDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of statutory paternity leave entitlements for self-employed parents.
Answer: Self-employed parents are not currently eligible for statutory paternity leave or pay. On 1 July the Government launched the Parental Leave and Pay Review. The Review will consider all existing and upcoming parental leave entitlements, including whether s...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
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