Yasmin Qureshi MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Joint Replacements: South Bolton and WalkdenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for joint replacement surgery in South Bolton and Walkden constituency.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting patients first, nationally and in the South Bolton and Walkden Constituency. This means making sure that patients, including those waiting for joint replacement surgery, are seen on time and ensuring that people have...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMusculoskeletal Disorders: Neighbourhood Health CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of proposed neighbourhood health centres being able to (a) improve musculoskeletal health and (b) treat musculoskeletal health issues
Answer: Improving health and work outcomes of people with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions will help deliver the Government's mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and kickstart economic growth. The 10-Year Health Plan sets out our...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical HubsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expedite the roll-out of surgical hubs.
Answer: Dedicated and protected surgical hubs transform the way the National Health Service provides elective care by focusing on providing high volume low complexity surgery, as recommended by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.That is why we are investing...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRheumatology: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is his Department taking to ensure people with suspected autoimmune or inflammatory conditions are referred to rheumatology services within 3 weeks.
Answer: We are committed to supporting people with long-term conditions and ensuring they receive the support that they need, including referral to specialist services as appropriate.To support health and care professionals in the early diagnosis and management o...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHonours: ForfeitureCabinet OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85708More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to help reduce the (a) number of steps required and (b) time taken to remove (i) honours and (ii) titles.
Answer: Peerages, styles, titles and honours are granted by the Sovereign. The Sovereign may change the entitlement to the titles and styles such as “Prince” and “Royal Highness” under the Royal Prerogative. An Act of Parliament is required to remove a peerage on...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMerchant Shipping: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions ships' captains were given a direction under the Marine Safety Act 2003 between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2024; and if she will list the (a) date, (b) ship and (c) nature of each dire
Answer: Safety directions are issued under Schedule 3A of the Merchant Shipping Act (MSA) 1995 (as amended); Schedule 1 of the Marine Safety Act 2003 was inserted as Schedule 3A of the MSA 1995 (as amended).In the period in question, ships’ masters were directed ...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLitterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle littering.
Answer: Local councils are responsible for keeping streets clear of litter with the role of central Government to support local action. The Pride in Place Strategy sets out how Government will support local action by bringing forward statutory enforcement guidanc...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOmed Baroshki and Sherwan SherwaniForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the authorities in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq on the cases of (a) Sherwan Sherwani and (b) Omed Baroshki.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer provided on 17 September to Question 71439.
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: Mobile PhonesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76563More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of emergency alerts being displayed in the language that the recipient's phone is set to.
Answer: The Emergency Alert system is a UK Government capability that allows time critical life saving information to be broadcast to phones within a certain area. English is the primary language Emergency Alerts are sent in. This is to ensure standardisation in ...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordShellfish: Animal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to amend the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to include decapod crustaceans.
Answer: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for the Animal Welfare Act 2006 which provides a framework for animal protection and welfare. Defra is building an evidence base for considering if decapods should have greater ...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: Workplace PensionsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2025 to Question 51054 on Teachers: Workplace Pensions, what progress has been made on reducing the number of teachers waiting for compensation since 30 May 2025.
Answer: As part of the Transitional Protection (McCloud) remedy, affected members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) can choose either final salary or career average benefits for the remedy period (April 2015 to March 2022). From June 2025, the TPS administrat...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: Retail TradeHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she defines mainly by retail in Clause 15 of the Crime and Policing Bill.
Answer: Section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 created a statutory aggravating factor in sentencing cases of assault against public facing workers. It applies where an assault is committed against those providing a public service, perfor...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: Bureaux de ChangeHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends the offence of assaulting a shop worker to apply to people working in a bureau de change.
Answer: Section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 created a statutory aggravating factor in sentencing cases of assault against public facing workers. It applies where an assault is committed against those providing a public service, perfor...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPoultry: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 on the (a) stress and (b) injury chances of farmed chickens and t
Answer: The Government is firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare. The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 introduces new requirements prohibiting one-leg catching of laying hens, meat chickens and turkeys weighing 5kg...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Overseas Territories: CompaniesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that all British Overseas Territories have implemented publicly accessible registers for beneficial ownership before the end of the year.
Answer: Please refer to my Written Ministerial Statements of 3 July and 22 July which provide an update on progress achieved to date and details of next steps. We have clearly conveyed to our partners in the remaining Overseas Territories the urgency of meeting p...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving 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
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