Alex Ballinger MP: written questions
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Gambling: RehabilitationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will be responsible for commissioning gambling harm treatment services in relation to the portion of the Gambling Levy allocated for treatm
Answer: Under the new statutory levy on gambling operators which came into effect in April, NHS England and appropriate bodies in Scotland and Wales are the commissioners for gambling-related harm treatment and support services. They will receive 50% of available...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: Motor InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a comparative assessment of penalty levels for uninsured driving in (a) the UK and (b) other European countries.
Answer: The Department has not made a comparative assessment of penalty levels for uninsured driving in the UK and other European countries.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: Motor InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of penalty levels for uninsured driving.
Answer: My department is developing our Road Safety Strategy and will set out more details in due course. All drivers must be insured to drive or ride the vehicle they are using and for the purpose it is used for. The Government takes uninsured driving seriously....
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad Traffic Offences: Motor InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered including measures to combat uninsured driving in the Road Safety Strategy.
Answer: The Department is developing our Road Safety Strategy and will set out more details in due course.All drivers must be insured to drive or ride the vehicle they are using and for the purpose it is used for. The Government takes uninsured driving seriously....
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 73072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Road Safety Strategy will be published.
Answer: The Government treats road safety seriously, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. The Department is developing our Road Safety Strategy with plans to publish it this year. We will set out more details in d...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings the Secretary of State for Defence attended on (a) OP RUBIFIC and (b) the Afghan Response Route between September 2023 and 4th July 2024; and if he will provide the date of such meetings.
Answer: When the Taleban seized control in 2021, many thousands of people who served and supported our British Armed Forces were left in Afghanistan.The UK made a commitment to honour the moral obligation we owe to those Afghans who stood with us, there was cross...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings the Minister for Defence Procurement attended on (a) operation RUBIFIC and (b) the Afghan Response Route between August 2023 and 4 July 2024.
Answer: When the Taleban seized control in 2021, many thousands of people who served and supported our British Armed Forces were left in Afghanistan.The UK made a commitment to honour the moral obligation we owe to those Afghans who stood with us, there was cross...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCOBRCabinet OfficeTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69691More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a COBR meeting took place on OP RUBIFIC between 21 May 2024 and 25 June 2024.
Answer: It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees is not normally shared publicly.
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHacking: AfghanistanCabinet OfficeTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69690More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any COBR meetings took place on the (a) data breach relating to Afghanistan and (b) Afghan Response Route between August 2023 and May 2024.
Answer: It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees is not normally shared publicly.
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Supply ChainsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that companies are legally obliged to prevent (a) human rights abuses and (b) environmental harms in their supply chains.
Answer: The UK has a range of measures in place to promote RBC across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government also launched a review into the UK's approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slav...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Supply ChainsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to consult tea producers for the review of Responsible Business Conduct.
Answer: 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 abuses, modern slavery, and environmental harms in global supply chains. Throughout the review, we ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67702More
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 implementation by some NHS Integrated Care Boards of minimum waiting times for elective treatment; and what assessm
Answer: There is no formal policy supporting minimum waits in the National Health Service. However, the NHS Standard Contract technical guidance for 2025/26 states that commissioners may choose to include minimum waiting times in Activity Planning Assumptions to ...
Answered 8 Aug 2025
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