Tom Hayes MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Film: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5457More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will bring forward the implementation of the five per cent increase in tax relief for UK visual effects in film and high-end TV, with UK visual effects costs exempt from the 80 per cent cap on qual
Answer: Qualifying visual effects costs in film and TV are already eligible for the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit, which provides a tax credit worth 34% of a film or TV company’s production costs. The previous Government announced that from 1 April 2025, UK vis...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm: Work ExperienceDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5456More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing support for workplace exchange programmes in the visual effects and post-production sector; and whether she is taking steps to enco
Answer: The creative industries play a vital role in our economy and our nation’s cultural life. Making sure that the UK can provide a workforce with the right skills and capabilities is key to capturing the huge growth potential of the creative industries. The d...
Answered 9 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm: Apprenticeship LevyDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will bring forward legislative proposals to include employers’ running costs for providing visual effects and post-production placements in the Apprenticeship Levy.
Answer: This government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create more opportunities for learners and give employers greater flexibility to address critical skill ...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm and Video Games: Further EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide additional support for the provision of AIM level 3 extended diploma in games, animation and visual effects skills in further education colleges.
Answer: This government recognises the importance of the creative industries sector and the need to ensure a skills pipeline into professions in that sector. Whilst the government publicly funds qualifications in a range of subject areas, it is for schools and co...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm and TelevisionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of the contribution of visual effects and animation industry to the economy in the last ten years.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the UK’s visual effects and animation industries, ensuring that they are able to remain competitive nationally and internationally. We will continue to focus on maintaining a strong and globally competitive sector...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm and Television: Overseas WorkersDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support British citizens working in Quebec's (a) visual effects and (b) animation industry to return to the United Kingdom's creative industries.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the UK’s visual effects and animation industries, ensuring that they are able to remain competitive nationally and internationally. We will continue to focus on maintaining a strong and globally competitive sector...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm and Television: Trade CompetitivenessDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the competitiveness of the United Kingdom's (a) visual effects and (b) animation industry.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the UK’s visual effects and Animation industries, ensuring that they are able to remain competitive and with international reach. We will continue to focus on maintaining a strong and globally competitive sector b...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFilm and TelevisionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department to support the UK as a major location for the visual effects industry.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the UK’s visual effects and Animation industries, ensuring that they are able to remain competitive and with international reach. We will continue to focus on maintaining a strong and globally competitive sector b...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Film and TelevisionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of unemployment in (a) the visual effects sector and (b) UK film and TV post production.
Answer: The last Parliament saw the biggest increase in economic inactivity in nearly 40 years. Film and TV employment rates were drastically affected by the US writers’ and actors’ strikes in 2023, and VFX and post-production was affected for longer than most. F...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRent a Room SchemeTreasuryTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5244More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Rent a Room Scheme tax-free earnings threshold.
Answer: Rent a room relief provides an incentive for people to make spare rooms available for rent. As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep this under review.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: Overseas StudentsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Accreditation UK scheme for institutions providing courses to students on a Sponsored Study visa.
Answer: International students using the student and child student routes must be sponsored by an education provider that holds a Student sponsor licence.Education providers wishing to sponsor international students must obtain and maintain a Home Office Sponsor ...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTrade AgreementsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to include (a) a youth mobility scheme and (b) measures to support the English Language Training sector in the UK in future trade deals with non-EU countries.
Answer: It is not Government policy to make commitments on youth mobility as a routine part of any trade deal. The UK generally seeks provisions in trade agreements that focus on business mobility, these help to expand opportunities and enhance certainty for UK b...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Trade with EU: Trade AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5241More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to include (a) a youth mobility scheme and (b) measures to support the English Language Teaching sector in the UK in future trade deals with EU countries.
Answer: I apologise to the Honourable Member for the delay in responding to his question of 10 September. The Government set out clear priorities for the reset with the EU in the manifesto. There are no plans for a Youth Mobility Scheme. The UK generally seeks p...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the English Language Teaching industry.
Answer: This Department has not made an estimate of the number of English Language Teaching (ELT) centres that have closed permanently since the pandemic began, but is aware of data published by English UK which states that one in six of the UK's 415 language sch...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5239More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of English Language Teaching centres that have closed permanently since the pandemic began.
Answer: This Department has not made an estimate of the number of English Language Teaching (ELT) centres that have closed permanently since the pandemic began, but is aware of data published by English UK which states that one in six of the UK's 415 language sch...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Education: CommunicationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch a national public communications campaign ahead of winter 2024-25 on how to stay well including advice on (a) vaccinations for (i) flu and (ii) coronavirus, (b) keeping warm and (
Answer: This year’s national communications campaign to support the uptake of essential winter vaccinations, including influenza and COVID-19, launched on 23 September 2024, and will run throughout the autumn and winter. The campaign, called Get Winter Strong, wi...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: TrainingCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4823More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide disability awareness training to all civil servants in public-facing roles.
Answer: Due to the delegated nature of the Civil Service, departments as individual employers are able to set the learning requirements for their employees. However, Civil Service Expectations training is available to all Civil Servants. This provides an introduc...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to close the disability employment gap by 2030.
Answer: The Government has ambitious plans relating to employment, including disability employment, and we will be setting this out through a forthcoming White Paper, the Employment Rights Bill and the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. We know that there is mo...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward legislation to introduce target dates to eradicate poverty for vulnerable groups.
Answer: We are committed to tackling poverty. As set out in our manifesto, good work will be the foundation of our approach for people of working age. Our New Deal for Working People, including ensuring that the minimum wage is a genuine living wage, along with r...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Scheme: Rented HousingMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will introduce legal aid for tenants for (a) housing repair issues and (b) enforcing legal housing rights.
Answer: Legal aid is available for those facing homelessness, and disrepair claims (when there is a serious risk of illness or injury) subject to a financial means test. Tenants in this situation should contact the Civil Legal Aid telephone helpline for assistanc...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRents: IncreasesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce annual limits to in-tenancy rent increases linked to (a) inflation and (b) real median income growth.
Answer: The Government has no plans to do so. Our recently introduced Renters’ Rights Bill includes provisions designed to empower private renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases.
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Temporary AccommodationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce a legal right to (a) suitable emergency accommodation and (b) adequate support for people at risk of street homelessness.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high and we must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government will look at these issues carefully and will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with mayors and councils across the country to get ...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Service: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require Integrated Care Boards to have a dedicated focus on tackling health inequalities for inclusion health populations.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are expected to have a dedicated focus on tackling health inequalities, including for inclusion health populations. The Health and Care Act 2022 mandates that ICBs reduce inequalities in access to, and outcomes from, the heal...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordRefugeesHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the move-on period for newly-recognised refugees to a minimum of 56 days.
Answer: The government is aware of the need for a smooth transition out of asylum accommodation for recognised refugees. The Home Office works closely with MHCLG on ensuring move-on works effectively, so that those granted refugee status can integrate into societ...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordSlavery: VictimsHome OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to amend the Modern Slavery Statutory Guidance, published in May 2024, to ensure that people who (a) have been referred to the National Referral Mechanism and (b) do not have le
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling modern slavery; ensuring that victims are provided with the support they need to begin rebuilding their lives and that those responsible are prosecuted.The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK’s framework for...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
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