Daisy Cooper MP: written questions
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Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system in supporting children with acquired brain injuries.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special education needs and disabilities or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.Children who have had a bra...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of social security benefits for people unable to work because of an acquired brain injury.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of how many people with acquired brain injury are experiencing (a) homelessness and (b) rough sleeping.
Answer: According to the 2020 Rough Sleeping Questionnaire, 7% of respondents reported an acquired brain injury, with 82% reporting a mental health vulnerability and 83% of respondents reporting at least one physical health condition. More Rough Sleeping question...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Employers' ContributionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication entitled Explanatory note on the National Insurance Contribution compensation 2025 to 2026, published 18 December 2024, for what reason the allo
Answer: The government has announced an additional £515 million of support for local government, including Mayoral Combined Authorities and Fire and Rescue Authorities, specifically to manage the impact of changes to employer NICs announced at the Autumn Budget.A...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated for the public consultation on a new NHS 10-year-plan.
Answer: The public and staff must be at the centre of developing the Plan to make the National Health Service fit for the future, so it makes a positive impact on their day-to-day lives. That is why we are running a series of in-depth deliberative events and have...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s cancer strategy will include (a) a prostate cancer screening programme and (b) alternative measures to improve prostate cancer diagnosis for people at higher risk.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for cancer patients, including those living with prostate cancer. The Plan will aim to speed up diagnosis and treatment, ensuring patients have access to the latest trea...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department’s policy to notify successful applicants that they have been issued with an eVisa.
Answer: All applicants issued with an eVisa as evidence of their immigration status receive a written notification, either via email or post, once their immigration application has been successful, and their immigration permission granted. This notification confi...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordApprentices: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish a decision on which apprenticeships will be impacted by cuts to Level 7 apprenticeship funding.
Answer: This government is committed to spreading opportunities and economic growth supported by a strong skills system.This government has an extremely challenging fiscal inheritance. There are tough choices that need to be taken on how funding should be priorit...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: BricksMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2024 to Question 4279 on Housing: Bricks, what steps she plans to take to increase rates of swift brick installation in new build propertie
Answer: The revised National Planning Policy Framework we published on 12 December 2024 expects developments to provide net gains for biodiversity, including through incorporating features which support priority or threatened species such as swifts, bats and hedg...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22079More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing duty relief to brewers of cask conditioned beers.
Answer: Draught Relief provides a duty discount for eligible draught beer and cider. Cask conditioned beers will be able to benefit from Draught Relief if they are sold in a container of 20 litres or more, connected to a dispense system and are below 8.5 per cent...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSleeping RoughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the (a) Rough Sleeping Initiative, (b) Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme and (c) Night Shelter Transformation Fund will continue in 2025-26.
Answer: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced funding allocations for homelessness and rough sleeping on gov.uk in December 2024.This includes funding for sector support to strengthen the capacity of the voluntary sector, the Homeles...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department will publish a breakdown of planned spending on homelessness (a) support and (b) prevention for 2025-26.
Answer: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced funding allocations for homelessness and rough sleeping on gov.uk in December 2024.This includes funding for sector support to strengthen the capacity of the voluntary sector, the Homeles...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Public ConsultationTreasuryTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22076More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the her Department's consultation entitled Transforming business rates, published 30 October 2024, whether she plans to meet with (a) British Business Improvement Districts, (b) The BID Foundation
Answer: At Autumn Budget, the Government published a Discussion Paper setting out priority areas for reform of the business rates system. This paper invites industry to help co-design a fairer system that supports investment and is fit for the 21st century. Treas...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDrax Power: Disclosure of InformationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reclaiming any portion of the subsidies provided to Drax Power Limited, in the context of the finding by Ofgem that Drax had misre
Answer: Compliance with biomass sustainability criteria is a priority and Ofgem as the independent regulator is responsible for ensuring generators’ compliance. Ofgem’s recent investigation found that whilst Drax complied with sustainability standards, it had fai...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDrax Power: Disclosure of InformationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20029More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made representations to Drax on the increase in whistleblower reports recorded by the organisation between 2022 and 2023.
Answer: The Government takes reports of complaints very seriously. Compliance with biomass sustainability criteria is a priority and Ofgem as the independent regulator is responsible for ensuring generators’ compliance. Ofgem’s recent investigation found that whi...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLegal Profession: Money LaunderingMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has received representations from the Solicitor Regulation Authority on the adequacy of the level of financial penalties for those solicitors found to be in breach of money laundering regulations.
Answer: The legal profession in England and Wales operates independently of government. The responsibility for regulating the sector sits with the approved regulators, overseen by the Legal Services Board.The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is responsible f...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19780More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the private medical insurance industry's coverage of treatment for patients with rare cancers.
Answer: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is an independent body responsible for regulating and supervising the conduct of the financial services industry, including firms that provide private medical insurance. The Government is determined that all insurers ...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: RegulationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2024 to Question 403 on Health Professions: Regulation, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of expediting the removal of the five-year rule i
Answer: The Government has been considering its priorities for professional regulation and will be setting these out shortly.
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSanitary ProductsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue statutory guidance on the provision of absorbent products for adult incontinence products.
Answer: There are no plans to issue statutory guidance on the provision of absorbent products for adult incontinence, as there is already existing guidance to which the National Health Service must have regard.NHS England published Excellence in Continence Care o...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCare Homes: AllowancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure the weekly personal expense allowance for those living in care homes is increased by the rate of inflation each financial year.
Answer: The social care allowance rates, which include the Personal Expenses Allowance (PEA), are reviewed each year. The PEA rates have been uprated in line with inflation every year since 2022, and the rates for the 2025/26 financial year will be published in e...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordZimbabwe: CommonwealthForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his policy is on Zimbabwe's application to re-join the Commonwealth.
Answer: The criteria for membership include commitment to the Commonwealth values and principles as set out in the Commonwealth Charter. The UK has always been clear that we would like to see Zimbabwe return to the Commonwealth. Whilst we recognise there has been...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordZimbabwe: ElectionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to the Commonwealth Secretariat on publication of the independent report of the Commonwealth Observer Group on Zimbabwe's elections in 202
Answer: The UK greatly values the Commonwealth Secretariat's work on observation missions. The full report of the Commonwealth Observer Group to the 2023 Zimbabwe Harmonised elections was published on 6 November. We note some of the findings in the report and sup...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSewers: Property DevelopmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2024 to Question 6534 on Land Drainage: Property Development, whether he (a) has made and (b) plans to make an assessment of the potential regulato
Answer: A full regulatory impact assessment, including consideration of costs and benefits, would be prepared as part of any implementation of Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. No such assessment is available at this stage.
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has received recent representations from Hertfordshire County Council on levels of demand for in-year state school places.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has had no recent representations from Hertfordshire County Council on levels of demand for in-year state school places. The department has offered a routine meeting with the local authority to d...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: Local PressMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including local online news publications in the definition of local newspapers for the advertisement of planning not
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 15985 on 3 December 2024.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
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