Vikki Slade MP: written questions
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Automatic Number Plate Recognition: ParkingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing local authorities with the ability to use automatic number-plate recognition in car parks to help (a) increase t
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQ 17350 on 12 December 2024.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: InfrastructureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS's 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance, published on 30 January 2025, what steps his Department is taking to include health infrastructure planning decisio
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a National Health Service that is fit for the future. This means we need to see world class NHS infrastructure across the entire NHS estate. Beyond hospitals, we know we need the right infrastructure in the right ...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Offences against ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders convicted of offences against children have been released under early release schemes; and what continuing supervision is taking place.
Answer: This Government inherited prisons days from collapse. We were forced to take decisive action to stop our prisons overflowing and keep the public safe. All sex offences, irrespective of sentence length, are excluded from SDS40.Offenders released on licence...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordInternal Drainage Boards: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a long-term funding strategy for Internal Drainage Boards.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 43491 on 10 April 2025.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInternal Drainage Boards: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to announce the allocation by local authority of the £5 million Internal Drainage Board support grant for 2025/26.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 43491 on 10 April 2025.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of an increase in waste incinerators on the UK's carbon emission reduction targets.
Answer: The Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. Defra published the Residual Waste Infrastructure Capacity Note and an accompanying statement on 30 December 2024, which set out that government will only back new Energy from Waste proje...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: HealthDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of waste incineration on (a) public health and (b) respiratory conditions.
Answer: The Environment Agency assesses the emissions from new waste incinerators, also known as Energy from Waste (EfW) plants, as part of the permitting process and consults the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on every application received. The UKHSA’s positi...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Capital InvestmentTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41632More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on investment by businesses.
Answer: The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services. One of the toughest decisions we took was to raise the rate of employer National Insurance contributi...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Business RatesDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the upper threshold for small business rates relief for early years providers.
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring children have the best start in life, and has set a target of a record number of children starting school ready to learn as part of the government’s Plan for Change.Local authorities are responsible for ensuring tha...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding rates for early years provision of three and four year olds.
Answer: As usual, the hourly funding rates will vary between local authorities reflecting the different communities that local authorities serve. However, for the 2025/26 financial year, the national average three and four year-old hourly funding rate of local au...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of areas without childcare providers in England; and what estimate her Department has made of the number of early years providers that have closed sinc
Answer: The government is committed to ensuring children have the best start in life, and has set a target of a record number of children starting school ready to learn as part of the government’s Plan for Change.Local authorities are responsible for ensuring tha...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the (a) changes to employer National Insurance contributions, (b) increase in the National Minimum Wage, (c) removal of the ability to c
Answer: This government believes giving children the best start in life is the foundation of the mission to break down barriers to opportunity. We have set a milestone of a record proportion of children starting school ready to learn in the classroom. We will mea...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: InternetDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help retain alternatives to digital booking systems for GP appointments for those that cannot access online systems.
Answer: We understand that not all patients can or want to use online services. The GP Contract is clear that patients should always have the option of telephoning or visiting their practice in person, and all online tools must always be provided in addition to, ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPassports: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of HM Passport Office accepting multilingual standardised birth certificates as part of passport applications for the children of British par
Answer: His Majesty’s Passport Office requires customers to provide a full birth certificate, issued in the country of birth, as part of a passport application. Multilingual Standard Forms do not meet this criteria: they are an extract of a civil registration rec...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversities: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to identify alternative sources of funding for the university sector.
Answer: The higher education (HE) sector needs a secure financial footing to face the challenges of the next decade and ensure that all students can be confident they will receive the world-class HE experience they deserve.The government is also determined to wor...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of vehicular accidents involving drivers who have not disclosed age-related health conditions on their driving license renewals in each of the last five years
Answer: This information is not held by the Department for Transport.The Department’s data on road injury collisions is based on information reported to the police via the STATS19 data collection system. STATS19 does not capture information on the health conditio...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordStamp Duty Land Tax: HousingTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40085More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of linking stamp duty thresholds to regional house prices.
Answer: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a national tax in England and Northern Ireland charged using the same percentage rates across the country. This ensures stable and predictable revenue for the Exchequer while maintaining fairness for taxpayers. The current st...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: RecruitmentTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40084More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on recruitment by businesses.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer, the economic impacts of the policy, and the impacts on indi...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: State Retirement PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling carers receiving Carer's allowance who defer drawing state pension to receive the same uplift as those who do not.
Answer: Where a person has deferred claiming their State Pension, they cannot accumulate increments that will increase their State Pension amount if they have received certain social security benefits including Carer’s Allowance. The underlying principle is to pr...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEqual PayWomen and EqualitiesTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37821More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she plans to complete the Pay Transparency pilot, launched on 8 March 2022.
Answer: We are a mission-led government and women’s equality is at the heart of all our missions. This means tackling the gender pay gap, where we are taking action much wider than just pay transparency. We are taking the first steps towards requiring employers t...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: EducationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Afghan counterpart on improving safe access to education for girls in that country.
Answer: We repeatedly condemn the Taliban's draconian restrictions on women and girls' rights, both bilaterally and internationally. Ministers do not engage with the Taliban. The UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha continues to press Taliban acting ministers and Af...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recommendations of the National Audit Office's report entitled Local Government Financial Sustainab
Answer: The government recognises many of the themes identified by the National Audit Office in their recently published report entitled Local Government Financial Sustainability.I refer the hon. Member to the written statement made by my rt. hon. Friend the Memb...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors: AustralasiaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to accelerate the NHS employment at appropriate grades of doctors trained in (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand.
Answer: National Health Service employers work at a local level to ensure they have the workforce they need, which includes making decisions about recruiting internationally educated doctors.The Health and Care Worker visa offers a reduced visa fee, faster proces...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTax AvoidanceTreasuryTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35576More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of people made bankrupt by the Loan Charge.
Answer: HMRC will only ever consider initiating bankruptcy as a last resort, where they have been unable to work with the customer to agree a manageable payment plan. HMRC will also not force anyone to sell their main home or access their pension funds early to p...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Election 2024: Proof of IdentityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she is taking steps to implement the recommendations of the report by the Electoral Commission entitled Voter ID at the 2024 UK general election, published on 10 Septembe
Answer: The government has recently published our response to the Electoral Commission’s reports on the 2024 General Election, and this is available here: Electoral Commission’s reports on the 2024 elections: government response - GOV.UK.As set out in that respon...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
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