Adrian Ramsay MP: written questions
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Water Companies: NationalisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full the (a) modelling and (b) assumptions underpinning her Department's £100?billion estimate of nationalising the water sector.
Answer: Defra has estimated the cost of nationalising the water sector to be around £100 billion. We have published in full the assumptions and methodology informing our estimate here: Nationalising the water sector: how we assessed the cost - GOV.UK.
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnaestheticsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report from the Royal College of Anaesthetists entitled Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025: Key Interim Findings, pu
Answer: No assessment has been made. Officials have noted the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ report. As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, published in July 2025, over the next three years we will create 1,000 new specialty training posts with a focus on specia...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Welfare: UK Trade with EUDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to maintain animal welfare standards in the context of negotiations with the EU on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement.
Answer: The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to retain our own rules. It is too soon to discuss the details of the SPS agreement, which is subject to negotiation. We have been clear with the EU about the importance of establis...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAarhus ConventionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her department intends to respond to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee's report to the Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention on Decision VII/8s, publishe
Answer: The United Kingdom Government recognises the important role played by the Compliance Committee in making recommendations to promote compliance with the Aarhus Convention. The UK is considering the Committee's recommendations in the run up to the Aarhus Co...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAarhus ConventionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Aarhus Convention’s Compliance Committee finding that the UK is non-compliant with the Convention on the Governme
Answer: The United Kingdom Government recognises the important role played by the Compliance Committee in making recommendations to promote compliance with the Aarhus Convention. The UK is considering the Committee's recommendations in the run up to the Aarhus Co...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Minister for Water and Flooding, dated 15 October 2025, if she will make it her policy to introduce measures before the r
Answer: Defra is taking forward action on climate adaptation including developing stronger adaptation objectives, improving governance through the cross Government senior officials forum, the Climate Resilience Steering Board, enhancing monitoring and evaluation,...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, entitled advice on the UK’s adaptation objectives, published on 15 October 2025,
Answer: Defra is taking forward action on climate adaptation including developing stronger adaptation objectives, improving governance through the cross Government senior officials forum, the Climate Resilience Steering Board, enhancing monitoring and evaluation,...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the change in the number of dental appointments available in the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board area in 2025-26 compared to 2024-25.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. Activity within the National Health Service dental contract is measured through Courses of Treatment delivered, rather than the number of appointments. The NHS Business Services Authority publishes Dental S...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking during the transition to the NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board to ensure that the level of the dental workforce meets any change in demand in the Eas
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have a critical role to play in the future as strategic commissioners, and this is going to be central to realising the ambitions that have been set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. Any proposed changes to the ICBs in the east...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Waveney ValleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many golden hellos for new dentists have been allocated to Waveney Valley constituency.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have started to recruit posts through the Golden Hello Scheme. This recruitment incentive will see dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.We do not hold Golden Hello ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDevonport Dockyard: Radioactive WasteMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether nuclear waste is due to be offloaded at Devonport.
Answer: Yes. The offload of radioactive materials at Devonport predominantly occurs through the maintenance, upkeep or refit work on our in-service submarines or the removal of radioactive materials from decommissioned submarines stored at Devonport. All such mat...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFish Farming: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce species-specific slaughter legislation for farmed fish.
Answer: Since publication of the Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing a GB-wide joint government-industry working group on farmed trout has been examining the issues raised in the report. This co-design w...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFish Farming: Animal WelfareDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department to ensure the humane slaughter of farmed fish.
Answer: Since publication of the Animal Welfare Committee’s updated Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing a GB-wide joint government-industry working group on farmed trout has been examining the issues raised in the report. This co-design w...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change: Risk AssessmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76767More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he took to consider climate change tipping points when preparing the update to the National Risk Register in January 2025.
Answer: The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. The National Risk Register focuses on the reasonable worst case ‘acute’ risks, which are discrete events requiring an emergency response and likely to occur over the next two-five years. All risk...
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74511More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to delay any local elections as a result of the new local government structures proposed in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
Answer: No.
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ExpenditureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on primary care NHS dental services net of patient charge revenue in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each financial year since 2010-11.
Answer: The table attached shows the total spend on primary care National Health Service dental services net of patient charge revenue in cash and real terms in each financial year since 2010/11. Data for 2024/25 is not published yet.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBiofuelsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will review his Department's conversion factors for GHG reporting for (a) bioenergy and (b) WTT bioenergy in the light of the most recent remote sensing data from independent system(s)
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given on 4 September to Question UIN 69532 which describes the review process used to update conversion factors. This includes for the conversion factors for bioenergy and well-to-tank bioenergy. The UK is one of only ...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWater Companies: NationalisationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his oral answer to the hon. Member for Waveney Valley of 21 July 2025, Official Report, col 579, on what evidential basis his Department has estimated the cost of bri
Answer: Defra has estimated that nationalising the water industry would cost approximately £100 billion. This is based on the sector’s Regulatory Capital Value (RCV), which was £99.3 billion in 2024 and £106.7 billion in 2025. It reflects the cost of purchasing e...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBiofuelsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will set out the (a) review process and (b) changes for the greenhouse gas conversion factors for (i) bioenergy (ii) well-to-tank bioenergy each year since 2015.
Answer: A proportionate risk-based approach is taken to reviewing and updating conversion factors, considering size of UK emission among other factors. As part of the annual peer review process, priority improvements for each year are advised by a Steering Group,...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's document entitled Dentistry Cost Survey published on 13 May 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of incorporating the results of the cost of
Answer: The Government is conducting a research project to better understand the costs and pressures associated with running a dental practice in England. The aim is to support ambitions on dental reform by ensuring that the Government has an objective and accura...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBiofuels: Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the research entitled Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2024, published on 8 July 2024, how the conversion factors for (a) bioenergy and (b) well-to-tank bioenerg
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero publish Government Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Conversion Factors for Company Reporting annually. Their scope is defined to be relevant to Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regulations, following GHG P...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the research entitled Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2024, published on 8 July 2024, whether the conversion factors for (a) fuels and (b) well-to-tank fuels ha
Answer: A proportionate risk-based approach is taken to reviewing and updating conversion factors, considering size of UK emission among other factors. As part of the annual peer review process, priority improvements for each year are advised by a Steering Group,...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the research entitled Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2024, published on 8 July 2024, if he will review his Department's conversion factors for (a) fuels and (b
Answer: A proportionate risk-based approach is taken to reviewing and updating conversion factors, considering size of UK emission among other factors. As part of the annual peer review process, priority improvements for each year are advised by a Steering Group,...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the research entitled Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2024, published on 8 July 2024, how the conversion factors for (a) fuels and (b) well-to-tank fuels were d
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero publish Government Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Conversion Factors for Company Reporting annually. Their scope is defined to be relevant to Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regulations, following GHG P...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local council elections postponed in 2025 will take place in 2026.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 65017 on 14 July 2025.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
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