Bradley Thomas MP: written questions
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Written questions
Stop and Search: West MidlandsHome OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase the use of stop and search to tackle knife crime in the West Midlands.
Answer: Halving knife crime over the next decade is a central objective of the Government’s Safer Streets Mission and we are taking decisive action to achieve it.Stop and search is an important tool for tackling knife crime. Police officers have the power to stop...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67666More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce waiting times for specialist operations.
Answer: Tackling waiting lists, including for specialist operations, is a key priority for the Government. We have now exceeded our pledge to deliver an additional two million appointments, tests, and operations, having delivered 4.6 million more since July 2024....
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve employment opportunities for young people in rural areas.
Answer: The Get Britain Working White Paper set out our cross-Government plan to get people into and progress at work. A key focus is on supporting young people into employment, education or training. This is why the Government is implementing a Youth Guarantee –...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department monitors agreed (a) standards and (b) targets within privately-provided services; and whether there are any contractual consequences if performance targets are not met.
Answer: The independent sector plays a vital role in partnership with the National Health Service, delivering more than 100,000 elective appointments and procedures every week for the NHS. Contracts are awarded to independent sector providers (ISPs) in line with ...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has put mechanisms in place to allow NHS patients to provide feedback to the commissioners of publicly-funded private healthcare treatments.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are the National Health Service organisations responsible for planning health services for their local population, including local commissioning decisions around publicly funded healthcare treatments by private providers. ICB...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provisions his Department has put in place to monitor the quality-of-care patients receive in NHS-funded treatments at private hospitals.
Answer: Throughout its history, the National Health Service has always worked with non-NHS healthcare providers to deliver essential services to patients. The Independent Sector Partnership Agreement, signed in January 2025, extends how the NHS and independent se...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the oversight of NHS-funded care at private providers.
Answer: Throughout its history, the National Health Service has always worked with non-NHS healthcare providers to deliver essential services to patients. The Independent Sector Partnership Agreement, signed in January 2025, extends how the NHS and independent se...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025WithdrawnUIN 67660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the oversight of NHS-funded care at private providers.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the wait times for children’s neurodevelopmental pathway assessments.
Answer: The Government has recognised that, nationally, the demand for assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions, and specifically autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), has grown significantly in recent years, and that people are experie...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of prioritising NHS jobs for British citizens who have gained medical qualifications (a) within the UK and (b) from institutions within other Eur
Answer: As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan published on 3 July, we will work across Government to prioritise United Kingdom medical graduates for foundation training, and to prioritise UK medical graduates and other doctors who have worked in the National Heal...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving under Influence: West MidlandsHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many breathalyser tests were carried out across West Mercia in the last 12 months; how many tested positive; and how many resulted in a prosecution.
Answer: The Home Office collects and publishes data on roadside breath tests for alcohol as part of its annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Roads policing’ statistical release. The latest data is available here Police powers and procedures: Roads policing, to D...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many fines were issued to parents for unauthorised school absence in (a) Bromsgrove constituency and (b) Worcestershire in the last 12 months.
Answer: The information is not held by the department at constituency level.Information on penalty notices for unauthorised absence is collected at local authority level. The latest available data, covering the 2023/24 academic year is available in the parental r...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve palliative care in the context of assisted dying.
Answer: Irrespective of any legislation on assisted dying, we must continue to work towards creating a society where every person who needs it receives high-quality, compassionate palliative and end of life care. The Government will shift the focus of healthcare ...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment with the Secretary of State for Education of the potential impact of trends in the level of bus fares on school attendance.
Answer: The Department for Transport has made no such assessment. The government recognises the importance of affordable local bus services in facilitating access to education. We have acted to ensure bus services remain affordable by introducing the £3 cap on si...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy SupplyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what contingency plans his Department has put in place in the event of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of a closure on energy se
Answer: Oil and gas markets are well supplied and functioning normally. Though they have responded to events in the Middle East, prices remain within the bounds we have seen over the last year. We have not witnessed any material reduction of traffic passing throu...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: Young PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to increase participation in sport for (a) adolescent girls and (b) all adolescents.
Answer: The Government believes that opportunities to play sport and get physically active should be available to everyone and we recognise that there are barriers which prevent some people from getting active, with women and girls less likely to be active than o...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications Cables: Seas and OceansDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the resilience of the UK’s digital economy in the event of disruption to undersea data cables.
Answer: The Government recognises the critical role of undersea data cables in the UK’s digital economy. Individual subsea cables can be vulnerable to disruption. There is an average of 12 breaks a year from fishing, anchor drag, landslides and other causes. Most...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of local authority planning decisions have been overturned by the Planning Inspectorate in the last 12 months.
Answer: Between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 the Planning Inspectorate overturned 4,747 planning decisions made by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs). These represent 31% of the 15,344 decisions made by the Planning Inspectorate on LPA planning cases in this per...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRedundant ChurchesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to promote the use of redundant churches for (a) cultural, (b) community and (c) educational purposes.
Answer: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Arms-Length body the Churches Conservation Trust is the national charity that saves redundant historic churches at risk, and has a portfolio of over 350 churches that have been kept open and now used to serve ...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordQueen Elizabeth II: AnniversariesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a public holiday to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Answer: The Government recognises the remarkable legacy of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.We regularly receive requests for additional bank and public holidays to mark a variety of occasions. While an additional bank hol...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBeekeepingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote beekeeping.
Answer: In 2024 the annual Hive Count exercise produced a figure of 252, 647 honey bee colonies in the UK which indicates that there continues to be interest in keeping bees. There are over 52,700 beekeepers in England, Wales and Scotland registered on BeeBase, t...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCountryside Stewardship Scheme: BromsgroveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme in Bromsgrove.
Answer: Agreements under the Countryside Stewardship scheme in the Bromsgrove Parliamentary Constituency area contain 2,139 hectares of land as of 2024. The scheme supports a range of enhanced environmental outcomes from restoring wildlife habitats, creating wood...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOfficial CarsCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59929More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government bodies use the Government Car Service; and what the average number of journeys has been in each Department in the last 12 months.
Answer: Since April 2012, the Government Car Service has provided a Departmental Pool Car (DPC) service to several Government Departments for their ministerial travel, whereby the official car is contracted to a Department rather than allocated to an individual. ...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCadets: SchoolsMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent school fees on cadet force partnerships between state and independent schools.
Answer: Both independent schools and state schools with established Combined Cadet Force contingents continue to play an important role in supporting junior partners. There are currently 45 ‘junior partnerships’ where independent schools are supporting state scho...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCadets: SchoolsMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59927More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to expand the cadet forces in state schools with limited provision.
Answer: We want every young person to have the opportunity to enjoy the many benefits that can be gained from the cadet experience. The joint Ministry of Defence and Department for Education Cadet Expansion Programme (CEP) has already increased the number of cade...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
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