Vikki Slade MP: written questions
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Written questions
Pre-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
Original Parliament recordDrax Power Station: SubsidiesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33334More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of pausing the current government subsidies for Drax’s power generation until the Public Accounts Committee reports on its inquiry on Gov
Answer: The Government has agreed new Heads of Terms with Drax for short term support from 2027 to 2031. It halves the subsidy paid to Drax, strengthens the sustainability arrangements to require 100% sustainable biomass, and reduces Drax’s generation so that it ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic OffencesHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling the use of electronic signatures, matched to the DVLA database, for admissions of vehicular offences on S172 forms.
Answer: Whilst the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 does not explicitly require wet signatures, the Penalty Notice System for Policing does not currently have the capability to match signatures between DVLA and s.172 forms.A number of forces have additional softwa...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: Low IncomesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33332More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking with HMRC to establish data-sharing processes to enable the auto-enrolment for Pension Credit for individuals on very low incomes.
Answer: HMRC and DWP already have well established data-sharing processes and procedures, which are governed by the rules on how data can be accessed, shared and used whilst safeguarding individuals’ data and privacy. DWP officials are currently considering optio...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMRKH Syndrome: IVFDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making people with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome automatically eligible for IVF treatment.
Answer: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidelines set out the best practice for the National Health Service to follow for those suffering from clinical infertility. It is for integrated care boards to make local decisions about...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33330More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Official Development Assistance budget is spent overseas.
Answer: The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring asylum costs fall and has already acted. This includes taking measures to reduce the asylum backlog and end the use of expensive hotel accommodation.As the Prime Minister said in the House, as we clear the asylu...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to create effective information sharing processes with the Department for Health and Social Care so that people with a permanent disability are no longer required to
Answer: Personal Independence Payment, the main disability benefit, is based on an assessment of the customer’s needs and not whether they have a particular condition or not. Award reviews are a key feature of these benefits to ensure that the level of benefit ma...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSupply Teachers: Conditions of Employment and PayDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33328More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential benefits of creating an agency for supply teachers to standardise pay and conditions.
Answer: Supply teachers perform a valuable role and the department is grateful for their important contribution to schools across the country.Schools and local authorities are currently responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and are best placed ...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to recruit NHS staff from UK citizens who obtained their medical qualification outside of the UK.
Answer: There is no central programme to recruit United Kingdom citizens who have obtained their medical qualification outside the UK into the National Health Service. NHS employers work at a local level to ensure they have the workforce they need, which includes...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31402More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when local elections will be held for (a) areas submitting reorganisation proposals by May 2025, (b) Devolution Priority Programme areas (DPP) submitting proposals by September 2
Answer: For both (a) and (b) the postponed May 2025 elections will take place in May 2026 alongside the scheduled district councils in the area. In addition, (a) For areas submitting reorganisation proposals by May 2025, the most ambitious timeline is likely to l...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: Disclosure of InformationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement in the Economic and Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 to publish full lists of shareholders on (a) survivors o
Answer: Requiring certain companies to provide a one-time full shareholder list will allow Companies House to present shareholder information that is already displayed on the register in a more user-friendly way.The Government aims to strike the right balance bet...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the availability of Great British Insulation scheme grants for loft insulation to properties in Council Tax Band
Answer: The Great British Insulation Scheme (GBIS) is not a government-funded grant scheme but an obligation on larger energy suppliers to support eligible households in the least energy-efficient homes by installing insulation measures. Support is offered to hou...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
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