Zöe Franklin MP: written questions
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Active TravelDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising active transport schemes.
Answer: The Government recognises the merits of prioritising investment in active travel schemes to support its economic growth, health and net zero missions. Active travel can help to revitalise high streets, enable people to live longer, healthier lives and red...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: SurreyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the debate following her oral statement of 5 February 2025 on English Devolution and Local Government, Official Report, column 780, if she will meet the hon. Me
Answer: It is for Surrey councils to develop a proposal or proposals in line with the criteria and guidance set out in the invitation. This should include for Surrey, as an area covering a council in Best Value intervention, demonstrating how reorganisation may c...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordM25: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to provide support to local businesses potentially impacted by delays to the completion of M25 junction 10 works.
Answer: The project has been delayed due to a number of factors. Severe weather, with unexpected heavy rainfall since October 2023 caused poor ground conditions. This postponed planned winter work and required a redesign of embankments and drainage. Additionally,...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordM25: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason hon. Members representing local constituencies were recently informed of delays to the completion of M25 junction 10 works; and what the cost to the public purse is of those delays.
Answer: The project has been delayed due to a number of factors. Severe weather, with unexpected heavy rainfall since October 2023 caused poor ground conditions. This postponed planned winter work and required a redesign of embankments and drainage. Additionally,...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Teaching AidsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to increase access to audio-based learning resources in schools.
Answer: The department respects the autonomy of teachers in terms of what resources they choose to use or recommend to their individual pupils, based on individual need in their own educational context and circumstances.
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will reconsider its decision not to provide compensation to women born in the 1950s and 1960s following the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s recommendation that those affec
Answer: We carefully considered the Ombudsman’s findings to ensure our decision was fair and based on the evidence. We have accepted the Ombudsman’s finding that there was a 28-month delay in sending out letters and for this we have apologised. However, we do not...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the difference in waiting times for gender dysphoria treatment between England and Wales.
Answer: The NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee commissions gender identity services for children and young people from NHS England. There are no plans to assess the difference in waiting times for specialist gender services for adults between England and Wal...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRadio: CompetitionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of Ofcom's role in regulating the BBC's impact on fair and effective competition in radio.
Answer: The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of the government. It has a responsibility under its Royal Charter to have particular regard for the effects of its activities on competition in the United Kingdom. This includes requirements to work co...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to improve access to cardiac screening for people aged 14 to 35 years including (a) at university (b) grassroots sports clubs.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) last reviewed screening for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in people under the age of 39 in 2019 and concluded that screening should not be offered. The committee’s review is available at the following link:https:/...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCandidates: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to establish a funding scheme to support disabled candidates for elections in England.
Answer: It is the Government’s ambition to see more disabled people in public office. The Government takes positive action to promote disabled people’s participation in public life, including protecting disabled people through the Equality Act 2010. In relation t...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the time taken for the state pensions top-up process.
Answer: People have until 5th April 2025 to fill some gaps in their National Insurance record. The original deadline was set as far back as 5 April 2023. This was extended to 12 June 2023 and then to end 5 April 25. From 6 April 2025 customers can continue to pay...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Independent Panel InquiryMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25927More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published on 20 October 2022.
Answer: The Government is focused on delivering meaningful change for victims of these horrendous crimes.Before Easter, we will lay out a timetable for responding to the 20 recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. The new victims and su...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with (a) Europol, (b) Eurojust, (c) French authorities and (d) other international partners to (i) tackle migration challenges and (ii) help reduce deaths in the Ch
Answer: This government is committed to working with international partners to tackle shared migration challenges and is working across multiple lines of effort to reduce the impact of irregular migration into the UK.To do this the Home Secretary has launched the...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902123More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of people who die when crossing the Channel in small boats.
Answer: Criminal gangs only care about the profits they make, not about the lives they put at risk. The Border Security Command is leading the UK’s efforts to disrupt and bring to justice those facilitating illegal migration, including small boats crossings.Borde...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle unlawful discharges of sewage by water companies into waterways in Surrey.
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged record levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. That is why we are placing water companies under special measures through the Water (Special Measures) Bill, which will strengthen regulation, including...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCommunity Development: SurreyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support cross-community inter-faith work in Surrey.
Answer: Ministers have been meeting a wide range of faith and belief leaders, along with interfaith practitioners, to hear more about the vital work undertaken in communities to help foster good relations.This department was pleased to support Inter Faith Week in...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGender Based Violence: SurreyAttorney GeneralTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20415More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to increase prosecution rates for cases relating to violence against women and girls in Surrey.
Answer: In 2023-24, in the Surrey police force area, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecuted 487 cases flagged for domestic abuse and 41 cases flagged for rape.The CPS uses thematic monitoring flags to track progress and performance surrounding certain typ...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to emergency dentistry in Surrey.
Answer: The Dental Statistics - England 2023/24, published by the NHS Business Services Authority on 22 August 2024, is available from the following link:https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324In 2023/24, ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnergy: HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on steps to ensure all new homes are built to high energy efficiency standards.
Answer: The Government has dual ambitions of delivering 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament and achieving clean power by 2030. These objectives are not mutually exclusive, and with good planning and smart design we can build the high quality, low ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Pupil ExclusionsDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) suspensions and (b) exclusions among pupils with SEND.
Answer: Every pupil deserves to learn in a safe, calm classroom, and the department will always support our hardworking and dedicated teachers to make this happen. Schools can use sanctions as a measure to improve behaviour and, in the most serious cases, exclusi...
Answered 2 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFuel Poverty: SurreyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to tackle fuel poverty in Surrey in winter 2024-25.
Answer: There are multiple targeted schemes to deliver energy efficiency measures to low-income and fuel poor households. The Warm Home Discount schemes also provide a £150 rebate off bills to eligible low-income households across Great Britain. The Government ha...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversity of Surrey: Solar PowerMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to make a decision on the planning application for a solar facility at the University of Surrey.
Answer: The application in question is currently being considered by Guildford Borough Council.Following requests to call in the application, a holding Direction restricting the grant of permission was issued by MHCLG, to allow those requests to be considered.A d...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of lowering the voting age to 16.
Answer: As per the manifesto, the Government is committed to act during this Parliament to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections, strengthening our democracy, empowering young people to participate and building an informed and empowered ele...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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