Tessa Munt MP: written questions 2026
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Written questions
ME/CFS: Medical RecordsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to her answer to written parliamentary question 19983, which department or body holds the patient data recorded using the four categories of severity for myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic
Answer: SNOMED CT codes are used by general practices (GPs) to record patient diagnoses on their medical records. This is a different system to the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision codes that are used in hospital admissions data.The NHS Engl...
Answered 21 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoner EscortsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what statistical information his Department holds on the adequacy of Prisoner Escort and Custody Services contractors’ performance for each month in the last five years.
Answer: During the period January to July 2026, of the 26 recorded instances of court time lost at Bristol Crown Court owing to the late delivery of a prisoner, one was attributable to Serco. The remaining 25 instances were attributable to a range of factors else...
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoner EscortsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Prisoner Escort and Custody Services contractors’ performance.
Answer: During the period January to July 2026, of the 26 recorded instances of court time lost at Bristol Crown Court owing to the late delivery of a prisoner, one was attributable to Serco. The remaining 25 instances were attributable to a range of factors else...
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoner Escorts: BristolMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26523More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure Serco delivers prisoners on time at Bristol Crown Court.
Answer: During the period January to July 2026, of the 26 recorded instances of court time lost at Bristol Crown Court owing to the late delivery of a prisoner, one was attributable to Serco. The remaining 25 instances were attributable to a range of factors else...
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMiddle East: British Nationals AbroadForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK citizens located in countries in the Middle East, whether temporarily or permanently, provided their contact details to his Department during the Iran conflict co
Answer: Register Your Presence (RYP) is an online portal hosted by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which allows British Nationals and other eligible persons to log their name, location and contact details with the FCDO during a crisis resp...
Answered 10 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the potential merits of adopting an Australian-style shred-only export mandate to i) permanently eliminate non-compliance at foreign receivin
Answer: Defra is aware of Australia's shred-only policy for exports of waste tyres, and officials have met with stakeholders, including from Australia, to better understand the rationale for the policy, its implementation, and the impacts reported to date. The De...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWaste: ExportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will reinstate the insistence on digital Annex VII prior to shipment and the insistence on geo-tagged location evidence of individual container shipments reaching the
Answer: The Environment Agency's (EA) enhanced compliance checks found no evidence of widespread diversion to illegal pyrolysis. As a result, it does not currently require digital Annex VII documentation or geo-tagged proof of arrival for every shipment. The EA r...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her timetable is for laying statutory instruments to withdraw the T8 waste exemption for end-of-life tyres announced in August 2025; and what steps her Department is taking to sup
Answer: Defra is finalising the drafting of the legislation to withdraw the T8 waste exemption for end-of-life tyres, and it will be laid in parliament when parliamentary time allows.Regarding domestic reprocessing, there are a range of options for recycling tyre...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency’s 13 August 2026 progress update of waste pneumatic tyres and their export, how many (a) prohibition notices have been served on brokers export
Answer: (a) The Environment Agency (EA) has served 50 prohibition notices on exporters of waste tyres from England. (b) The EA has restricted exports to 31 destination facilities where exporters were unable to provide satisfactory return-tracking evidence, includ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Environment Agency changed the evidence threshold for geo-tagged photographic proof of arrival under the enhanced Annex VII verification procedure for waste tyre ex
Answer: The Environment Agency's (EA) enhanced verification checks, which required evidence to demonstrate that waste had been correctly received overseas, examined more than 10,000 waste tyre shipments between October 2025 and July 2026 and found no evidence of ...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordME/CFSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19984More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the publication of the Government's Final Delivery Plan on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome on 22 July 2025, when will the one-year update be published.
Answer: We intend to circulate the one-year update to stakeholders in due course.
Answered 7 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordME/CFSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in England have been recorded using the SNOMED CT codes as having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis for the four categories of severity that the SNOMED CT codes r
Answer: The Department does not hold information on SNOMED CT for myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome.
Answered 9 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren: Care HomesDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are assigned to Children's Homes awaiting registration with Ofsted in (a) England, (b) Somerset and North Somerset and (c) Wells and Mendip Hills constituency.
Answer: This is a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver. I have asked him to write to the hon. Member for Wells and Mendip Hills and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren: Care HomesDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Children's Homes are awaiting registration with Ofsted in (a) England, (b) Somerset and North Somerset and (c) Wells and Mendip Hills constituency.
Answer: This is a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver. I have asked him to write to the hon. Member for Wells and Mendip Hills and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 25 February to question 113532, how many exporters or brokers who failed to comply with the requirement to provide post shipment information within
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her on 9 June 2026 for PQ UIN 6746.
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 25th February to question 113532, how many of the 14 exporters or brokers referenced who had been issued with a warning notice have subsequently com
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her on 9 June 2026 for PQ UIN 6745.
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question 124082, how many of the 548 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 and
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her on 4 June 2026 to PQ UIN 6743.
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question 124082, how many of the 3277 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 an
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her on 9 June 2026 for PQ UIN 6742.
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChinook Helicopters: AccidentsHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department (a) currently holds and (b) previously held any documentation relating to the Chinook ZD576 which crashed on 2 June 1994.
Answer: The Home Office has conducted an extensive search of The National Archive’s (TNA) search engine, Discovery, and their own records and have been unable to locate any records relating to Chinook ZD576.Our thoughts and sympathies remain with the families, fr...
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordChinook Helicopters: AccidentsTreasuryTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8513More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department (a) currently holds and (b) previously held any documentation relating to the Chinook ZD576 which crashed on 2 June 1994.
Answer: The Treasury has conducted an extensive search of The National Archive’s (TNA) search engine, Discovery, and their own records and have been unable to locate any departmental records relating to Chinook ZD576.Our thoughts and sympathies remain with the fa...
Answered 16 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChinook Helicopters: AccidentsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8512More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department (a) currently holds and (b) previously held any documentation relating to the Chinook ZD576 which crashed on 2 June 1994.
Answer: The Cabinet Office has conducted an extensive search of The National Archives (TNA) search engine, Discovery, and their own records and can confirm that the records relating to Chinook ZD576 that it still holds are in the process of being transferred to T...
Answered 7 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordChinook Helicopters: AccidentsNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8511More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department (a) currently holds and (b) previously held any documentation relating to the Chinook ZD576 which crashed on 2 June 1994.
Answer: The Northern Ireland Office has records held at The National Archives regarding the events involving Chinook ZD576. Our thoughts and sympathies remain with the families, friends, and colleagues of all those who died in the Mull of Kintyre crash.
Answered 16 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChinook Helicopters: AccidentsScotland OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department (a) currently holds and (b) previously held any documentation relating to the Chinook ZD576 which crashed on 2 June 1994.
Answer: The Scotland Office has conducted an extensive search of our own records, as well as the National Archive’s (TNA) search engine, Discovery, and has been unable to locate any documentation relating to Chinook ZD576. My thoughts and sympathies remain with t...
Answered 16 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8012More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of EU Regulation 2024/1157 on the UK market for end-of-life tyres; and whether she has assessed the risk that the UK could become a
Answer: Under EU Regulation 2024/1157, the EU is restricting exports of ‘green list’ waste, including end-of-life tyres, to non-OECD countries from 21 May 2027. Non-OECD countries will, however, be able to apply to the European Commission for an exemption from th...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8011More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria were used by the Environment Agency to assess the 50 approved recovery sites for end-of-life tyres in India; and whether those criteria applied the principles of Environm
Answer: The criteria include having the relevant permits, authorisations and contracts in place to move and process waste tyres. Approved recovery sites must have the Indian tyres extended producer responsibility registration. Evidence of these is assessed on a ...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
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