Tom Morrison MP: written questions
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Written questions
Arms Trade: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of halting arms licences for export to foreign governments for which there is a demonstrable risk of complicity in international law violations.
Answer: All export licence applications are reviewed against the UK’s Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (SELC). These state that the Government will not issue export licences if there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious ...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Air Systems: IsraelDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on how exports made by UAV Tactical Systems Ltd to Israel since October 2023 have been used.
Answer: Two export licences have been issued to this company since October 2023, but each licence has been assessed to ensure that the items were not for use by the Israeli military in military operations in Gaza.This is pursuant to the decision on 2 September 2...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: FinanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55569More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was contributed to the running of the Child Maintenance Service from (a) Government funding and (b) the (i) 4% contribution from parents receiving and (ii) 20% contribution from parents paying
Answer: The summary table below shows the response to the PQ ask. In the first line, the amount funded by the government over the last 5 years, which equates to the amount of gross expenditure incurred in support of CMS Operations excluding Digital, Estates and o...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions the Child Maintenance Service has (a) taken criminal action against and (b) successfully prosecuted a parent who has knowingly provided false information to reduce their financial
Answer: The primary goal of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is to ensure that children receive the financial support they are entitled to. To achieve this, the CMS collaborates with HMRC and Benefit systems to accurately calculate maintenance payments. This c...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents who made a request to move from a deduction from earnings order to direct debit subsequently defaulted on their child maintenance payments in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the nonpayment of child maintenance. Where payments have defaulted, we use our enforcement powers fairly and quickly to get cases back into payment. The Department publishes quarterl...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Child Maintenance Service allowed a parent paying child maintenance with a (a) payment history of less than six months and (b) record of missed payments or arrears to move from a Coll
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the nonpayment of child maintenance. Where payments have defaulted, we use our enforcement powers fairly and quickly to get cases back into payment. The Department publishes quarterl...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: CompensationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55565More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many compensation payments the Child Maintenance Service has made to parents following complaints from (a) parents and (b) MPs in relation to the service received by those parents in each of the las
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55564More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsiderations of an initial child maintenance calculation have resulted in no change to the assessment in each of the last five years; and what the average time taken was for those
Answer: A Mandatory Reconsideration is where a parent has asked the Child Maintenance Service to reconsider a decision. It is a process that must be completed before the right to appeal to an independent tribunal with His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. A...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55563More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests for a mandatory reconsideration have been made by parents who have been instructed to pay child maintenance following an initial maintenance calculation in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: A Mandatory Reconsideration is where a parent has asked the Child Maintenance Service to reconsider a decision. It is a process that must be completed before the right to appeal to an independent tribunal with His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. A...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests by parents to move their cases to collect and pay following the failure of the other parent to make a child maintenance payment in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: A principle of The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support.The CMS has two service types: Direct P...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationals Abroad: DetaineesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of British citizens who have been detained abroad when entering another country due to mistaken identity based on their na
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes data on the assistance services provided to British nationals on gov.uk. It is not possible to differentiate data on whether mistaken identity was a factor in detentions.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: Greater ManchesterMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for fire and rescue services in Greater Manchester.
Answer: On 3 February, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published the 2025/26 Local Government Finance Settlement which sets out funding allocations for all local authorities including fire and rescue.These allocations, which include the ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47907 on Community Health Services, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of clinical homecare to moving healthcare out of ho
Answer: The Department remains committed to moving more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families receive the care they need when and where they need it. The 10-Year Health Plan will see more tests and scans and service...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 47908 on Community Health Services: Finance, what options to improve homecare services are under consideration; and what his planned timetable is fo
Answer: The Department remains committed to moving more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families receive the care they need when and where they need it. The 10-Year Health Plan will see more tests and scans and service...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: Public ConsultationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that local (a) planning committees and (b) communities are consulted as part of the planning process.
Answer: The Planning and Infrastructure Bill does not change the consultation rules on local planning applications.Representations can be made by interested parties, and these are considered by the relevant decision maker – whether that be a local planning office...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that all new housing developments have adequate access to infrastructure.
Answer: I refer the hon. Members to the answer given to Question UIN 26106 on 5 February 2025.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Development: Greater ManchesterDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what fiscal support she is providing to local authorities to help support (a) community sports clubs, (b) swimming pools and (c) grassroot facilities in Greater Manchester.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of ensuring public access to leisure facilities which are vital spaces for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy, and which play an important role within communities.The ongoing responsibility of providing acc...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund is being used for (a) digitisation projects and (b) physical improvements to GP premises.
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future and recognises the importance of strategic, value for money investments in capital projects. We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 mill...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Greater ManchesterDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund has been allocated to practices in Greater Manchester.
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future and recognises the importance of strategic, value for money investments in capital projects. We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 mill...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Capital InvestmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Boards are able to support the revenue consequences of primary care estate expansions enabled by capital investment.
Answer: We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 million Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund (PCUMF) to deliver upgrades this financial year to more than a thousand general practice (GP) surgeries across England.These schemes wil...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that GP practices with (a) poor building quality, (b) insufficient capacity and (c) other significant estate issues are allocated funding through future rounds of th
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that recognises the importance of strategic, value for money investments in capital projects, such as new facilities, significant upgrades, or other targete...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) integrated care boards and (b) local GP federations will be able to reprioritise bids for funding under the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund.
Answer: We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 million Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund (PCUMF) to deliver upgrades this financial year to more than a thousand general practice (GP) surgeries across England.These schemes wil...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Greater ManchesterDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52743More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England held discussions with (a) NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board and (b) Place Leads in Stockport before finalising the list of GP practices funded through the Primary Car
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future and recognises the importance of strategic, value for money investments in capital projects. We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 mill...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52742More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria were used to determine which GP surgeries received funding under the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund in the 2025-26 financial year; and what role integrated care board
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future and recognises the importance of strategic, value for money investments in capital projects. We recently announced schemes which will benefit from the £102 mill...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestinians: Recognition of StatesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to recognise the state of Palestine.
Answer: The UK commitment to a two-state solution is unwavering. We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state at a time that has the most impact in achieving this reality and is most conducive to long-term prospects for peace. We are clear that does not n...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
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