Tom Hayes MP: written questions 2025
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Géza Buzás-HábelForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Hungarian counterparts on the potential prosecution of Pecs Pride organiser Géza Buzás-Hábel.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given on 24 July 2025 to question 68978. I can assure him that we raise issues concerning LGBT+ rights and human rights regularly at ministerial and official level with our Hungarian counterparts, and I have done so di...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHungary: LGBT+ PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Hungarian counterparts on LGBTQ+ human rights.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given on 24 July 2025 to question 68978. I can assure him that we raise issues concerning LGBT+ rights and human rights regularly at ministerial and official level with our Hungarian counterparts, and I have done so di...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOffice for Budget Responsibility: ForecastsTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 906795More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the OBR's report entitled Economic and fiscal outlook, published in November 2025.
Answer: The OBR’s November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook is a detailed document, and plays a key role in our robust and transparent fiscal framework.The report shows that growth is up this year, that living standards are up over the Parliament, and that we are...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the role of early years settings is in helping to identify and support the needs of SEND children.
Answer: The government recognises the important role the early years sector plays in early intervention to ensure the right support is put in place for children as soon as possibleThe early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and ...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: QualificationsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage people to obtain early years qualifications.
Answer: Our Best Start in Life strategy sets out how we are improving the quality of early education by investing in training and qualifications, increasing understanding of high-quality practice and providing more access to proven, evidence-based early years pro...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Career DevelopmentDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that early years educators can have long, fulfilling and fairly-paid careers in the early years sector.
Answer: The early years workforce is at the heart of the government’s mission to give every child the best start in life and deliver our Plan for Change. The Best Start in Life strategy sets out our plans to work with the early years sector and local authorities ...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: BournemouthDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of free childcare places in Bournemouth.
Answer: In 2025/26 alone, the government expects to spend over £8 billion on early years entitlements, increasing to over £9 billion in 2026/27, and we have increased the early years pupil premium by over 45%. We have also provided further funding of £75 million ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) part-time and (b) flexible childcare places.
Answer: In 2025/26 alone, the government expects to spend over £8 billion on early years entitlements, increasing to over £9 billion in 2026/27, and we have increased the early years pupil premium by over 45%. We have also provided further funding of £75 million ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she intends to increase the level of free childcare funding for each child.
Answer: It is our ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life. That also means ensuring the sector is financially sustainable and confident as it continues to ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with children’s nursery operators on (a) the viability of that sector and (b) the adequacy of the level of funding for childcare provided by the Government.
Answer: In 2025/26 alone, the government expects to spend over £8 billion on early years entitlements, increasing to over £9 billion in 2026/27, and we have increased the early years pupil premium by over 45%. We have also provided further funding of £75 million ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government’s new school-based nurseries will be operated by the public or private sector.
Answer: High quality early years is central to our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity, give every child the best possible start in life and is essential to our Plan for Change. School-based nurseries are one part of our diverse and vibrant early ye...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Carbon EmissionsTreasuryTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 906173More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking with the financial sector to support the transition to net zero.
Answer: The UK’s sustainable finance sector is world leading, and the Government is actively mobilising capital to support the transition and improve our energy independence.Since July 2024, over £50 billion of private investment has been announced in clean energ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversities: StudentsDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to support support students affected by (a) course closures and (b) redundancies at universities in financial deficit.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of higher education (HE) in England, monitors the financial health of providers to ensure it has an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.Its latest report, published on 8 ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the financial sustainability of higher education institutions; and what information her Department holds on the proportion of higher education institutions that
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of higher education (HE) in England, monitors the financial health of providers to ensure it has an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector.Its latest report, published on 8 ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: Business and Local GovernmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) businesses to (i) comply with new plastic regulations and (ii) transition to sustainable alternatives.
Answer: We have interpreted this question as referring to Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, as well as our work on reducing Single Use Plastics. The Government has provided approximately £700,000 to support local authorities in enforcing the 2023 ba...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: InfrastructureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department plans to provide for plastic reprocessing infrastructure in each of the next three years; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of
Answer: Defra currently has no plans to fund plastics reprocessing infrastructure. There are existing mechanisms including the market-based Packaging Waste Recycling Notes (PRN) system to provide direct funding to the reprocessing sector. This year sees the start...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: ResearchDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed research on the potential (i) environmental and (ii) health impact of (A) microplastics and (B) nanoplastics on (1) ecosyst
Answer: In 2022, Defra initiated a research project to investigate the risks of intentionally added microplastics, which reviewed the emissions from microplastics, and the risks they pose both to human health and the environment. Earlier this year, we published t...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlastics: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) design innovation and (b) the recyclability of plastic products to help accelerate the the transition to a circular economy for plast
Answer: This Government is committed to moving to a circular economy – a future where we keep our resources in use for longer, waste is reduced, we accelerate the path to net zero, we see investment in critical infrastructure and green jobs, our economy prospers,...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity: SportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of biodiversity net gain requirements on the (a) cost and (b) timeline for the development of grassroots sports faciliti
Answer: The Government has recently concluded a consultation on improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for minor, medium and brownfield development. It sought views on a potential partial exemption to BNG for parks, public gardens and playing...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity: Recreation SpacesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77339More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting (a) parks, (b) gardens and (c) playing fields from biodiversity net gain requirements.
Answer: The Government has recently concluded a consultation on improving the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for minor, medium and brownfield development. It sought views on a potential partial exemption to BNG for parks, public gardens and playing...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if She will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of increasing funding for grassroots football on costs to (a) the NHS and (b) local authorities.
Answer: The Government’s NHS 10 Year Health Plan recognises the importance of physical activity in tackling the nation’s health and relieving NHS pressures. The latest evidence provided by Sport England shows that physical activity directly prevents 3.2 million c...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether grassroots football organisations are eligible for public health funding.
Answer: Grassroots football organisations can be eligible for local public health funding at the discretion of local authorities, and where the main and primary purpose of spend is on public health.Core funding for local authorities’ public health responsibilitie...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball Foundation: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has held recent discussions with the Football Foundation on the level of funding it requires from the Government to (a) plan strategically and (b) implement community projects.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK over the next four years. This fund...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to improve funding for grassroots football facilities.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That’s why the Government is investing £98 million throughout 2025/26 to build and upgrade pitches and facilities UK wide. Funding from t...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS cost recovery.
Answer: No formal assessment has been made. However, we continue to work with NHS England to ensure that the system works as effectively and fairly as possible.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
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