Zöe Franklin MP: written questions 2025

Written questions

• Candidates: 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

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• State 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

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• Child 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

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• Undocumented 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

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• Undocumented 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

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