Carla Denyer MP: written questions
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Written questions
Poverty: ChildrenCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103540More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department about the potential impact of the extension of the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain on the success of the Child Pov
Answer: The Government’s Child Poverty Strategy, Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty, was published on 5 December 2025. It sets out the steps this Government will take to reduce child poverty and to reverse the trend from 2010-2024. Responsibility fo...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children whose families are subject to No Recourse to Public Funds restrictions are living in poverty.
Answer: The Department does not hold this data. We recognise the distinct challenges faced by those subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition and have engaged with organisations who have made representations on behalf of children subject to NRPF...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: North SeaDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what definition his Department uses for new exploration in the context of a Transitional Energy Certificate; and whether that definition includes seismic activity.
Answer: The North Sea Transition Authority will publish detailed guidance on the application and assessment process for Transitional Energy Certificates in due course, including plans to ensure that the changes do not adversely impact seismic and other activity w...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: North SeaDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98182More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the North Sea Future Plan published on 26 November 2025, if he will clarify his Department's definition of a (a) managed, (b) prosperous and (c) orderly transition; and how
Answer: The North Sea Transition Authority will publish detailed guidance on the application and assessment process for Transitional Energy Certificates in due course.
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether Transitional Energy Certificates will be required to supply environmental statements that (a) include Scope 3 emissions and (b) consider potential environmental impacts in line with w
Answer: Transitional Energy Certificates will give the holder exclusivity over a specific area of the seabed. These areas of the seabed must be adjacent to an existing licensed block and will be managed on an ‘out of round’ basis by the North Sea Transition Autho...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: Bristol CentralDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to address the 18% of people who are dying annually in poverty in Bristol Central, as identified in Marie Curie's Dying in Poverty 2025 report.
Answer: This Government is committed to providing a financial safety net for those who need it. Support is available through the social security system to those who are unable to work, are on a low income or have additional costs as a consequence of a long-term h...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Supported HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the timeline for the introduction of new earned income disregards for Housing Benefit claimants in supported housing.
Answer: The Autumn Budget 2025 included an announcement to introduce four new earned income disregards into Housing Benefit for residents in Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation. This will remove a significant barrier to entering work or increasing hours...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Supported HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are expected to be supported by the introduction of new earned income disregards for Housing Benefit claimants in supported housing.
Answer: The Autumn Budget 2025 included an announcement to introduce four new earned income disregards into Housing Benefit for residents in Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation. This will remove a significant barrier to entering work or increasing hours...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRelationships and Sex Education: GenderDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason her department’s July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education notes that schools should not teach as fact that all people have a gender identity; and how schools should follow
Answer: The statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance makes it clear that, at secondary school, there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships when learning about relationships. It strong...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordRelationships and Sex Education: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education, whether primary schools are required to teach about same-sex families.
Answer: The statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance makes it clear that, at secondary school, there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships when learning about relationships. It strong...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordRelationships and Sex Education: TeachersDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out the (a) resources and (b) training her Department will make available to support teachers to implement July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education.
Answer: The statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance makes it clear that, at secondary school, there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships when learning about relationships. It strong...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAviation: BiofuelsDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of (a) the availability of global supply of the feedstocks used for sustainable aviation fuel and (b) the amounts of that feedstock the Government has identified as being needed for
Answer: As of the 1st of January 2025, a market for low carbon fuels for use in aviation and road transport has been supported under two separate schemes: the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate and the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO). Targets unde...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCorporation Tax: AduraTreasuryTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94765More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Adura joint venture, whether HMRC has investigated potential breaches of loss-buying prohibitions under the Corporation Tax Act 2010.
Answer: In 2024-25 HMRC secured £19.7bn in additional tax revenue from the largest and most complex businesses. This is money that would otherwise have gone unpaid. I cannot comment on specific taxpayers or provide comment on individual businesses. In reviewing a...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: TaxationTreasuryTabled 21 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93531More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct and publish a comparative assessment of the (a) fiscal returns from the Energy Profits Levy and (b) value of tax reliefs and investment and capital allowances granted to oil and gas producers sin
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) forecast at Autumn Budget 2025 estimates that revenues from the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) will be £8.5 billion between 2025-26 and 2030-31. This is in addition to more than £11 billion in tax revenues already r...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFossil FuelsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department's proposed policy on tiebacks in oil and gas drilling allows for the exploitation of new fields via tiebacks to existing infrastructure in fields that have already been
Answer: On 26 November, the Government published its North Sea Future Plan.The plan implements the Government’s manifesto commitments to manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan, and to not issue new licences to explore new oil and gas fields. As...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Bodies: Human RightsWomen and EqualitiesTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89012More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 86020 on Business: Codes of Practice, what assessment she has made of whether her expectation was met that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (a) eng
Answer: The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is independent of the government. It was for the EHRC to ensure that the consultation process on its Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations was appropriate and meaningfully engaged ...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her letter to the Chair of the Education Select Committee dated 22 October 2025, when she will begin (a) to seek views through listening sessions in every region of the country and (b) fortnig
Answer: In early December, the department launched a national conversation on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reform, building on extensive engagement over the past year with children, young people, parents and professionals.We are hosting nine ...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Codes of PracticeWomen and EqualitiesTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86020More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on the adequacy of the scope of its engagement on the Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations.
Answer: The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is an independent regulator, and the Government respects its independence and the role it plays as the equalities regulator. It was for the EHRC to ensure that the consultation process meaningfully engaged w...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies: RegistrationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of mechanisms to safeguard against a residential address being fraudulently used to register a company without the knowledge of the resident of the address
Answer: The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 strengthened Companies House’s powers to query or reject inaccurate or suspicious addresses, enabling the Registrar to act swiftly and decisively against misuse of residential addresses.Many fraudulen...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Speed 2 Line: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate (a) her Department and (b) HS2 Limited have made of the cost of construction of HS2 in each of the last five years.
Answer: Construction of HS2 Phase One started following notice to proceed in April 2020. Since October 2020, the cost to date of delivering HS2 is set out in the 6 monthly Parliamentary Report. Capital expenditure on Phase One is reported in the HS2 Ltd Annual Re...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79904More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2025 to Question 76417 on Carbon Emissions, whether the Financial Policy Committee (a) is (i) monitoring and (ii) assessing evidence on the likelihood of planetary boundaries b
Answer: The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is responsible for identifying, monitoring and taking action to mitigate systemic risks to the UK financial system. In its November 2024 Financial Stability Report, the FPC explained its approach to a...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: ReformHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Policy paper Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper, published on 12 May 2025, whether she consulted civil society organisa
Answer: The Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper, sets out the government's plans to create an immigration system that promotes growth but is controlled and managed.We will be consulting on the new settlement rules later this year. Following...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the (a) funding required to fully decarbonise the public sector and (b) adaptation costs from not fully decarbonising that secto
Answer: The internal estimate made by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero in 2022 suggests that fully decarbonising the public sector would cost between £25–30 billion. The Department is currently updating this based on more recent cost assumptions. No...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector Decarbonisation SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason he plans to end grant funding for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme after 2028; and if he will provide funding to support the decarbonisation of the public sector beyon
Answer: The decision not to provide further funding for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme was taken in the context of wider fiscal pressures and competing priorities which required difficult choices during the 2025 Spending Review. In addition to the £1bn ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector Decarbonisation SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of ending the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme after 2028 on (a) commitments to reach 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
Answer: By the time the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme concludes in 2028, it will have delivered approximately £3.5 billion in capital funding to over 1,400 projects across England. These investments have supported heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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