Yasmin Qureshi MP: written questions
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Driving LicencesDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending Northern Ireland’s rules for new drivers to all new drivers across the UK.
Answer: Whilst we are not considering Graduated Driving Licences, we absolutely recognise that young people are disproportionately victims of tragic incidents on our roads and continue to tackle this through our THINK! campaign. We are considering other measures ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordClothing: Manufacturing IndustriesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a fashion watchdog to help tackle exploitation in the supply chains of clothing manufacturers.
Answer: The UK is one of the leading countries confronting the scourge of modern-day slavery, including forced labour. We engage through bilateral and multilateral fora to find ways to tackle forced labour in global supply chains and ensure workers benefit from h...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average increase in the cost of running a dental practice in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Government is conducting a research project to better understand the costs and pressures associated with running a dental practice in England.As part of this research, a survey was launched on 13 May and closed on 16 June 2025. This included questions...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding allocated for the NHS in the Spending Review 2025 will be allocated for dental provision in each of the next five years.
Answer: The Department settlement announced at the 2025 Spending Review means that annual National Health Service day-to-day spending will increase by £29 billion in real terms, a £53 billion cash increase, by 2028/29 compared to 2023/24. This will take the NHS r...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Environment Protection and Human RightsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Bill.
Answer: The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government launched a review into the UK’s approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Medical ExaminationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59340More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment assessments make an adequate assessment of claimants’ (a) physical symptoms and (b) medical evidence and (c) other s
Answer: PIP assessors give due consideration to all available evidence when completing their advice to the Department. DWP decision makers also consider all available evidence when making entitlement decisions on PIP. The Department closely monitors all aspects o...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergency CallsMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make purposely delaying calling emergency services during a medical emergency a crime.
Answer: The Government has no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make it a crime to delay calling emergency services during a medical emergency.Although no general duty applies to members of the public to act in such circumstances in England ...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56755More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement HCWS652 of 22 May 2025, what assessment he has made of adequacy of the Advertising Standards Authority to perform the role of frontline regulator for the upc
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.As announced in our Written Ministerial Statement on...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement UIN HCWS652 of 22 May 2025, what his planned timeline is for regulations on the advertising of HFSS food and drink products.
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.As announced in our Written Ministerial Statement on...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NT-proBNP testing is implemented in Community Diagnostic Centres.
Answer: NT-proBNP is a well-established blood test used across the National Health Service in the detection of heart failure. All standard and large model community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are required to offer blood tests via a phlebotomy service, and the majo...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations his Department received on the Advertising Standards Authority's guidance on the advertising of foods high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt in (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025.
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.We have not undertaken an assessment of the impact o...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 May 2025 on Childhood obesity, HCWS652, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) delaying implementation of advertising r
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.We have not undertaken an assessment of the impact o...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 7 April 2025 on Childhood Obesity, HCWS579, whether her Department received representations from industry after that statement was made.
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.We have not undertaken an assessment of the impact o...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 May 2025, HCWS652, on Childhood obesity, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of delaying the legal implementation of advert
Answer: The Government is committed to implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food and drink on television and online, as part of its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children ever.We have not undertaken an assessment of the impact o...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMyanmar: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the initiative of the UN Secretary General to create a humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh into Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Answer: We are concerned about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Rakhine, including the deteriorating food security situation. The UK continues to advocate for safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need in Myanmar. The long-term solution for ...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordProcessed Food: HealthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to issue guidance on ultra-processed food consumption as part of a public health strategy.
Answer: We face an obesity crisis, and the Government will take action to tackle the root causes of obesity head on, easing the strain on our National Health Service and creating the healthiest generation of children ever.We have already laid secondary legislatio...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProcessed Food: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on the health impacts of ultra-processed food; and when he expects findings to be published.
Answer: The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR launched a research call in July 2024 on the health and health inequality impacts of interventions that effect consumption...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all correspondence between his Department and the Food and Drink Federation on changes to the HFSS guidance between October 2022 and June 2023.
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling the childhood obesity crisis and to raising the healthiest generation of children ever. Department officials regularly engage with a range of external stakeholders on diet and obesity policies.The Food (Promotion a...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of removing references to minimally processed and nutritious food from the HFSS promotions guidance on 1 June 2023.
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling the childhood obesity crisis and to raising the healthiest generation of children ever.The Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021 were laid during the previous Parliament. The regulations provide ...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCanada: MigrationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making it easier to migrate between the UK and Canada.
Answer: The UK and Canada's deep and broad relationship is strengthened by the large diaspora of each nation's citizens present in both countries. The existing UK immigration offer supports migration through a variety of different routes which enable Canadian ind...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCanada: Overseas TradeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase (a) trade and (b) trading opportunities between the UK and Canada.
Answer: Canada is one of the UK’s closest allies and we are taking various steps to increase UK-Canada trade. Our trading relationship was worth £28 billion in 2024, up 10% in current prices on 2023, and is underpinned by the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement....
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to review the treatment of Maternity Allowance as unearned income when calculating means-tested benefits.
Answer: We want new mothers to be able to take time away from work in the later stages of their pregnancy and in the months following childbirth, in the interests of their own and their baby’s health and wellbeing. Maternity Allowance is a benefit paid by the Sta...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordShellfish: Animal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of her Department's call for evidence entitled Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023.
Answer: The Government is carefully considering the results from the call for evidence regarding the use of decapods in science to inform future policy options. The Home Office will be guided by decisions made under the Animal Welfare Act regarding any considerat...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGame: BirdsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animal welfare inspections of game bird farms were undertaken in (a) England and (b) Wales in (i) 2022, (ii) 2023 and (iii) 2024; how many and what proportion of those visits
Answer: The total number of inspections carried out in gamebirds premises are included in the table below; of those, a total of 5 inspections disclosed non-compliances with welfare legislation however none of the non-compliances identified were due to the use of ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPartridges and Pheasants: Animal HousingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of cages for (a) pheasants and (b) partridges for breeding.
Answer: We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of cages and other close confinement systems for farmed animals, including for gamebirds, is an issu...
Answered 8 May 2025
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