Amanda Hack MP: written questions
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Biofuels: Palm OilDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Transport & Environment, publication entitled Palm Oil?, published on 9 April 2025, what assessment his Department has made of the potential disruption to the transport fuel supply.
Answer: We take the concerns raised in Transport & Environment’s publication relating to the biofuel feedstock Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) seriously. Fuel supplied in the UK under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) is subject to robust checks as...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSewers: Property DevelopmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44742More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of requiring developers to use sustainable urban drainage systems in new developments.
Answer: The government is committed to securing the delivery of high-quality sustainable drainage systems to help manage flood risk and adapt to the effects of climate change. The revised National Planning Policy Framework we published on 12 December 2024 amended...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSewers: Property DevelopmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44741More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) using (i) sustainable urban drainage systems and (ii) similar mechanisms to manage rainwater on site of new devel
Answer: Comparative and impact assessments of the type requested are not currently available. This is primarily because the design of Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for any given development site will depend on a range of factors, including topography of the...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSewers: Urban AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the cost of (a) using sustainable urban drainage systems to manage rainwater on site of new developments and (b) allowing this ra
Answer: Comparative and impact assessments of the type requested are not currently available. This is primarily because the design of Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for any given development site will depend on a range of factors, including topography of the...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Land RegistryMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications the Land Registry has received in each month since January 2020.
Answer: The table below outlines the number of applications HM Land Registry has received in each month since January 2020. These include register change applications that are a legal requirement and occur at the very end of a property transaction, after stamp du...
Answered 16 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Land RegistryMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to (a) recruit more Land Registry caseworkers and (b) reduce backlogs in the Land Registry application system.
Answer: HM Land Registry (HMLR) has recruited over 3,300 new staff in the last five years. It has made significant progress in reducing waiting times for applicants. The age of outstanding post-completion applications is now under 12 months across all service lin...
Answered 16 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to outdoor sports facilities during school holidays.
Answer: Everyone, including children and young people, should have the opportunity to play sport and do regular physical activity. The Government has committed to continued funding for grassroots facilities which will ensure that communities have access to high-q...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the offence of assaulting a retail worker to wholesale workers operating in business-to-business premises.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with ever greater numbers of offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers as part of their crime. We will not stand for this. Everybody has a right to feel safe at their place of work.Thr...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of formally extending the scope of the Holiday Activities and Food Programme to include all children in households with below-average resources.
Answer: The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme supports disadvantaged children and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving socialisation and benefiting their health and wellb...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of index-linking all future funding with the Holiday Activities and Food Programme to ensure it (a) keeps pace with inflation and (b) continues to effe
Answer: The government is committed to the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme and the impact it has on children, young people and families. The department is very pleased that the overall funding for the HAF programme in 2025/26 will again be more than £...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimals: EuthanasiaHome OfficeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unused animals originally acquired for scientific procedures were euthanized in 2023 due to (a) a surplus to requirement and (b) any other reason.
Answer: The Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2023 was published on the 11 September 2024. The statistics provide full details on the number of licensed procedures carried out, the species of animals and the purposes for ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39797More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many animals housed in (a) UK laboratories, (b) breeding centres and (c) universities were not used in scientific procedures in 2023.
Answer: The Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2023 was published on the 11 September 2024. The statistics provide full details on the number of licensed procedures carried out, the species of animals and the purposes for ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: East MidlandsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18741More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for ambulances in the East Midlands.
Answer: The Government has committed to supporting the National Health Service to improve performance and achieve the standards set out in the NHS Constitution, including for ambulance response times.As a first step, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to implement a national food strategy.
Answer: Defra is developing an ambitious food strategy which will set the food system on the path for long-term success, ensuring it is able to feed the nation, realising its potential for economic growth, boosting our food security, improving our health, and ens...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFood: Public SectorDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that at least 50% of all food purchased by the public sector is (a) locally produced and (b) sustainable.
Answer: The Government has an ambition to be able to supply half of all food into the public sector from British producers or certified to higher environmental standards, whilst being in line with World Trade Organisation and domestic procurement obligations. Off...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will conduct a review of the funding model for school meals in (a) locally maintained and (b) Multi Academy Trust schools.
Answer: An uplift to the per-meal rate for universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) and further education (FE) free meals was announced on 4 December 2024. The uplifted meal rate will be increased from £2.53 to £2.58 for 2024 to 2025, backdated to the start of ...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce the rates that will be paid to (a) locally maintained and (b) Multi Academy Trust schools for universal infant free school meals this academic year.
Answer: An uplift to the per-meal rate for universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) and further education (FE) free meals was announced on 4 December 2024. The uplifted meal rate will be increased from £2.53 to £2.58 for 2024 to 2025, backdated to the start of ...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: FoodDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to take further steps to ensure that Government Food Standards are adhered to in (a) locally maintained and (b) Multi Academy Trust schools.
Answer: It is important that children eat nutritious food at school and the department encourages schools to have a whole school approach to healthy eating. The School Food Standards regulate the food and drink provided at lunchtime and at other times of the scho...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: FoodDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance entitled School food standards: resources for schools, published on 26 March 2019, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure that this guidance is being followed in all
Answer: It is important that children eat nutritious food at school and the department encourages schools to have a whole school approach to healthy eating. The School Food Standards regulate the food and drink provided at lunchtime and at other times of the scho...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning: InspectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce backlogs of cases before the Planning Inspectorate.
Answer: The Planning Inspectorate has been performing well across a number of key areas such as local plan examinations, nationally significant infrastructure project applications, s62a applications and planning appeals proceeding by hearings and inquiries. It is...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEducation: ChildbirthDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that children born prematurely are not disadvantaged in education.
Answer: The government is determined to break down barriers to opportunity and ensure the best start in life for every child, including those who are born prematurely.The early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework sets the standards and requirements that all e...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet ProtocolDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure those switching from public switched telephone network landline phones to Voice over Internet Protocol landline phones are not sold unneces
Answer: The Government engages regularly with communications providers to ensure that the industry-led switch-off of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) proceeds safely and with minimum inconvenience for end users. ...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet ProtocolDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department holds data on phone-only Voice over Internet Protocol products available for consumers.
Answer: The Government engages regularly with communications providers to ensure that the industry-led switch-off of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) proceeds safely and with minimum inconvenience for end users. ...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVoice over Internet ProtocolDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information his Department holds on whether customers who are required to transition from Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) landline phones to Voice over Internet Protocol (
Answer: The Government engages regularly with communications providers to ensure that the industry-led switch-off of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) proceeds safely and with minimum inconvenience for end users. ...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department holds on average response times to queries from users of the Child Maintenance Service since 2019.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) are committed to delivering the best possible service to all customers. Customers can contact the CMS in a number of different ways. This could be via the telephone, by post or through the CMS online service. Depending ...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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