Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: written questions
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Cannabis: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent studies her Department has considered on the effectiveness of regulated cannabis markets in reducing adolescent cannabis consumption.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabisHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered reallocating police resources currently spent on cannabis-related enforcement to other public safety priorities.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: IndustryHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a legal cannabis industry on UK (a) job creation, (b) investment and (c) economic growth.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: RegulationHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with international counterparts from countries that have legalised cannabis on the (a) economic and (b) public health impacts of regulation.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabisHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36760More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reallocating police resources currently spent on cannabis-related enforcement to other public safety priorities.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36759More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of legal cannabis regulation on the (a) workload and (b) costs associated with drug-related (i) policing, (ii) courts and (iii) prisons.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had on the regulation of cannabis as a means to improve public health outcomes and reduce the burden on the NHS.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a regulated cannabis market on (a) public health and (b) drug-related harms.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: RegulationHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36756More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an estimate of the potential annual public spending savings that could be achieved through the legal regulation of cannabis.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: TaxationHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36755More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a legally regulated cannabis market on tax revenue.
Answer: This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the certificate of sponsorship fee on recruitment in the social care sector.
Answer: The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025, laid on 21 January 2025, sets out increases to the fee maxima that applies to the Certificate of Sponsorship from £300 to £525. These changes were agreed via collective agreement. If fees incr...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting the adult social care sector from proposed increases in the certificate of sponsorship fee.
Answer: Fees for immigration and nationality applications are kept under review.However, there are no current plans to exempt the adult social care sector from the certificate of sponsorship fee increase.A provisional estimate of the impact of increasing sponsors...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of proposed changes to the level of the certificate of sponsorship fee per worker on the adequacy of the funding settleme
Answer: The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025, laid on 21 January 2025, sets out increases to the fee maxima that applies to the Certificate of Sponsorship from £300 to £525. These changes were agreed via collective agreement. If fees incr...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: BricksMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce a statutory requirement for swift bricks.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 22080 on 15 January 2025.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to introduce additional safe and legal routes, in the context of recent changes to its good character caseworker guidance.
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the most vulnerable people in the world and safe and legal routes will continue to play a role in our overall migration system. The government’s priority at present is the resettlement and relocation of those alre...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAfrica and Asia: ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the conservation projects it funds in (a) Africa and (b) Asia do not lead to (i) forced evictions and (ii) violent abuses of Indigeno
Answer: Defra aims to take a do no harm approach to aid programming. Official development assistance (ODA) projects are required to undertake risk management and due diligence assessments in order to understand and mitigate programmatic risks, including understan...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: TanzaniaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that its development funding in Tanzania is not implicated in the forced evictions of the Maasai people.
Answer: The UK works hard to uphold human rights around the world and UK Ministers and officials regularly raise human rights concerns with our international partners, including the Government of Tanzania.We have robust measures in place to ensure our aid spendin...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Relations with EUCabinet OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34326More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21018 on UK Relations with EU, which articles of the (a) EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, (b) Northern Ireland protocol, (c) Windsor Framework and (d) EU-UK Trade
Answer: I refer the Hon.Member for Clapham and Brixton Hill, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, to the answer provided to the Question on 20 January 2025 in the House of Lords. The response from The Baroness Twycross can be found here.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOlder People: AdvocacyWomen and EqualitiesTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33987More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Commissioner for Older People.
Answer: In its recent report into the rights of older people, the Women and Equalities Select Committee raised this matter and other issues. Together with other departments, we are considering those recommendations. More widely, I refer to Minister McGovern’s rec...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRents: InflationTreasuryTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33573More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the level of rent inflation on economic growth.
Answer: Rental prices are ultimately determined by the total supply of housing, relative to demand. Affordability of housing has fallen drastically, particularly in major cities, as too few homes have been built. This Government is taking meaningful steps to refo...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33572More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Carr-Hill formula in allocating funding for GP practices in areas with high levels of deprivation.
Answer: The Carr-Hill formula aims to ensure that resources are directed to general practices (GPs) based on an estimate of their patient workload. It takes into account many factors under two groups, namely 'drivers of workload' and 'unavoidable costs', includin...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ICTDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of the mechanisms in place for ICBs to hold Swift Queue to account for faulty services.
Answer: NHS England has not undertaken a specific assessment of the mechanisms in place for integrated care boards (ICBs) to hold Swift Queue accountable for service performance. However, ICBs, as commissioners of local health services, are responsible for ensuri...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: UnemploymentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the number of registered GPs not in employment; and whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of unemployed GPs.
Answer: We hugely value the critical role that general practitioners (GPs) play and are determined to address the issues they face by shifting the focus of the National Health Service beyond hospitals and into the community. The Government committed to recruiting...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33569More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in employer National Insurance contributions on GPs.
Answer: We have made necessary decisions to fix the foundations of the public finances in the Autumn Budget. Resource spending for the Department will be £22.6 billion more in 2025/26 than in 2023/24, as part of the Spending Review settlement. The employers’ Nati...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.
Answer: The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) is subject to annual review as part of the consultation on the GP contract with professional representatives.The consultation on the 2025/26 GP contract has now concluded and the General Practitioners Commi...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
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