Wendy Morton MP: written questions
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Housing: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the regional allocation of (a) local authority housing and (b) affordable homes programme funds in the Spending Review 2025.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 2 July (HCWS771).
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what modelling he undertook during the Spending Review process for funding for the (a) palliative and (b) end of life care sectors for (i) 2025-26, (ii) 2026-27 and (iii) 2027-28.
Answer: Department and NHS England officials used a variety of data sources, local examples, and academic research in the modelling for the palliative care and end of life care bids that were made as part of the Spending Review (SR) process.The SR announced that ...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 61535 on Palliative Care: Finance, what discussions he plans to have with the hospice sector on the allocation of funding for (a) palliative and (b
Answer: Department and NHS England officials used a variety of data sources, local examples, and academic research in the modelling for the palliative care and end of life care bids that were made as part of the Spending Review (SR) process.The SR announced that ...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: ChildrenTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66177More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a longer term settlement for children’s hospices beyond 2025-26.
Answer: The Government recognises the vital role hospices play in supporting people at the end of life alongside their families. We are determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, and hospices will have a big role to play in that ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66176More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to consult with the hospice sector prior to the Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer: The Government recognises the vital role hospices play in supporting people at the end of life alongside their families. We are determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, and hospices will have a big role to play in that ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66175More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she had with the hospice sector ahead of publishing the Spending Review 2025.
Answer: The Government recognises the vital role hospices play in supporting people at the end of life alongside their families. We are determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, and hospices will have a big role to play in that ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPeople Smuggling: ProsecutionsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions there have been of people involved in people smuggling gangs since 5 July 2024.
Answer: From 5 July 2024 (to 10 July 2025) Home Office Immigration Enforcement Criminal and Financial Investigation have convicted 168 people involved in people smuggling.In many cases, someone convicted in this date range may have been arrested in a previous tim...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the use of asylum accommodation.
Answer: The Home Office continues to work with a range of stakeholders to fulfil our statutory obligations and deliver our commitment to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of hotels by the end of this Parliament.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration ControlsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66172More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory cap on levels of migration.
Answer: The Home Office’s Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, sets out proposals for reform in a wide range of areas across the immigration and asylum system, including a cap on the amount of lower skilled migration into the UK.
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Community RelationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take with local authorities to help encourage social cohesion at a neighbourhood level.
Answer: Local Authorities are being actively supported to improve social cohesion through a range of national initiatives. This includes the recently announced communities funding for up to 350 places, incorporating the existing 75 Plan for Neighbourhoods, announ...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: FinanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish the Defence Investment Plan.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I provided to the hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge), on 13 June in response to Question 58671.
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Employment SchemesMinistry of DefenceTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help support veterans into employment.
Answer: This Government is committed to ensuring that veterans have the support they need after leaving military Service, which includes securing sustainable employment which makes full use of their skills and qualifications. There is a range of tailored employme...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Private EducationMinistry of DefenceTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Continuity of Education Allowance rates for the children of service personnel.
Answer: The Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) scheme recognises the enormous sacrifices our military families make and aims to minimise the disruption to their children’s education caused by Service commitments involving frequent moves of the family home. T...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRecreation Spaces: Caravan SitesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current measures to protect public green spaces from (a) unauthorised encampments and (b) environmental damage.
Answer: The designation of land as Local Green Space through local and neighbourhood plans allows communities to identify and protect green areas of particular importance to them.Local plans are expected to identify, map and safeguard locally designated sites of ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of neighbourhood planning policies in involving local communities in the planning process.
Answer: As set out in Paragraph 30 of the National Planning Policy Framework, neighbourhood planning gives communities the power to develop a shared vision for their area. Neighbourhood plans can shape, direct, and help to deliver sustainable development, by infl...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that developers take account of adopted neighbourhood plans.
Answer: The government remains of the view that neighbourhood plans can play an important role in the planning system.Once passed at referendum, neighbourhood plans form part of the statutory development plan for the local area which is the basis for making decis...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood PlansMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the role of neighbourhood plans in the planning process.
Answer: The government remains of the view that neighbourhood plans can play an important role in the planning system. Communities can continue to prepare neighbourhood plans where they consider that doing so is in their best interests.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAntisocial BehaviourHome OfficeTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of community policing in tackling antisocial behaviour linked to waste crime.
Answer: Tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) is a top priority for this Government and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. As a result of our Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, every police force in England and Wales now has a dedicated lead officer for ASB,...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: ProsecutionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities seeking to prosecute repeat fly-tipping offenders.
Answer: The Government encourages councils to make good use of their enforcement powers, including prosecution, and we are taking steps to help them do so. We intend to develop new fly-tipping enforcement guidance and are also reviewing their powers to seize and ...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLandfillDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether landfill sites in England will receive waste from Scotland following the Scottish Government’s decision to ban landfill in that country.
Answer: I met with Gillian Martin MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy in the Scottish Government on 3rd July 2025 to discuss this important issue. The Scottish Government has assured me that they do not believe that it is acceptable for a large amount ...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordLandfillDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Scottish Government’s decision to ban landfill in Scotland on levels of landfill in England.
Answer: I met with Gillian Martin MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy in the Scottish Government on 3rd July 2025 to discuss this important issue. The Scottish Government has assured me that they do not believe that it is acceptable for a large amount ...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to local authorities of clearing fly-tipped waste.
Answer: According to Defra official statistics, in 2023/24, around 4% of fly-tipping incidents dealt with by local authorities in England were of ‘tipper lorry load’ size or larger. For these incidents, the cost of clearance to local authorities was £13.1 million...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will increase levels of funding for local authorities for enforcing the prevention of illegal waste dumping.
Answer: The recent Spending Review provides over £5 billion of new grant funding over the next three years for local services that communities rely on. This results in an average overall real terms increase in local authority core spending power of 2.6% per year....
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of levels of penalties for waste crime.
Answer: Legislation relating to waste crime such as fly-tipping and illegal waste sites allows for an unlimited fine and up to five years imprisonment. We are making the regulations for the transport and management of waste tougher so that those who break the new...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle fly-tipping in (a) rural and (b) suburban communities.
Answer: Fly-tipping is a serious crime which blights communities and places significant costs on both taxpayers and businesses. Local authorities are responsible for tackling fly-tipping in their areas and we want to see an effective enforcement strategy at the c...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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