Will Stone MP: written questions
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Written questions
Private Rented Housing: DatabasesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31148More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to prevent duplication between the planned landlord database and local licensing schemes to reduce inefficiencies.
Answer: The Private Rented Sector Database will operate alongside selective licensing to drive improvement in standards in the private rented sector, not as a replacement for these schemes.We will continue to review the use of selective licensing as we implement ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: AccountabilityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory annual reporting by councils on enforcement activity to ensure transparency and accountability.
Answer: The Department recognises the importance of good quality data on enforcement in the Private Rented Sector to support good decision making at both national and local level, and the monitoring and evaluation of Renters’ Rights Bill implementation.The Bill p...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironmental HealthMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new national post of Chief Environmental Health Officer to provide leadership on enforcement.
Answer: The government has no plans to create a new post of National Chief Environmental Health Officer.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the resources local authority enforcement teams (a) currently have and (b) will need to implement the Renters’ Rights Bill.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to Question UIN 32068 on 5 March 2025.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: SafetyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the reason that only 7% of Housing, Health and Safety Ratings System (HHSRS) inspections led to an Improvement Notice being served.
Answer: The government is committed to making sure homes are safe, decent and warm.Local housing authorities have powers to take a proactive approach to enforcement against unacceptable conditions in rented housing.Improvement notices are just one of the types of...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: ChildrenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31119More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) requiring social media accounts to be linked to a form of ID and (b) preventing people with certain convictions from interac
Answer: The Online Safety Act gives online platforms new duties to protect users from illegal content and safeguard children.The Act stipulates that where there is a risk to children from the most harmful types of content (‘primary priority content), in-scope ser...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGreyhounds: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of greyhounds that have been killed at racetracks since 2023.
Answer: The Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) has published data for injuries, retirements and euthanasia of greyhounds from GBGB affiliated tracks and trainers each year since 2018. This data is published online at https://www.gbgb.org.uk/welfare-care/inju...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLarge Goods Vehicle Drivers: Skills BootcampsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) progress she has made and (b) steps she plans to take with the Secretary of State for Transport on the HGV skills bootcamp programme.
Answer: Skills Bootcamps are an important offer in the skills landscape, supporting the development of crucial skills such as HGV driving.Published statistics show that across the 2021/22 and 2022/23 financial years, there were 10,545 starts on HGV Skills Bootcam...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire: HCRG Care GroupDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of whether the Bath, Swindon, and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board's decision to award a contract to HCRG Care Group for community-based care (a) includes social value
Answer: Following a procurement process, HCRG Care Group will lead an innovative partnership with the National Health Service, local authorities, and voluntary sector groups, and will take responsibility for community services from 1 April 2025, under a contract ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSteroid Drugs: DeathCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20049More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many death certificates mentioning steroids were issued in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 13th December is attached.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the 5.5% pay award for teachers in academized sixth forms to non-academized colleges.
Answer: Unlike 16-19 academies, sixth form colleges are part of the statutory further education (FE) sector. The department does not set or recommend pay in FE providers, which have the freedom to make their own arrangements in line with their local circumstances...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGreyhounds: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of trends in the number of greyhounds that have died at racetracks since 2023.
Answer: The Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) has published data for injuries, retirements and euthanasia of greyhounds from GBGB affiliated tracks and trainers each year since 2018. This data is published online at https://www.gbgb.org.uk/welfare-care/inju...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: VisasHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of dropping the salary requirement for people on visas employed by the Government.
Answer: The Home Secretary confirmed on 30 July that we will be retaining the salary threshold increase brought in by the previous government. Further details can be found in her Written Ministerial Statement here: Written statements - Written questions, answers ...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: SwindonDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on the potential opening of public direct travel between Swindon and Oxford using the current freight track.
Answer: In September, Great Western Railway began a trial of direct services between Bristol, Bath, Swindon and Oxford. This trial is on Saturdays only with two direct services in each direction. It will run until May 2025, to understand levels of passenger deman...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11471More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her timeline is for implementation of (a) the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 and (b) other government initiatives to tackle leasehold issues.
Answer: I refer my Hon Friend to the answer I gave to Question UIN 8491 on 18 October 2024.
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDiplomatic Service: Married PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing spouses of people sent on British diplomatic missions to continue working if (a) they work for a Government
Answer: The FCDO supports the principle of spouses, partners or dependents overseas taking up employment outside the Mission, in accordance with the law of the receiving State. Where local laws or regulations impose restrictions on such employment, we encourage P...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for the introduction of legislation to ban imports of hunting trophies.
Answer: The Government committed to banning the import of hunting trophies in its Manifesto. We intend to deliver on this and are currently considering the most effective way to do so.
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSports: DisadvantagedDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to (a) improve access to and (b) increase involvement in sports in deprived areas.
Answer: The Government is committed to improving access to sports and physical activity for everybody, wherever they live. Sport and physical activity is central to achieving our health and opportunity manifesto missions, with the biggest gains coming from suppor...
Answered 18 Oct 2024
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