Frank McNally MP: written questions
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Written questions
Listed Buildings: ScotlandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether additional funding has been provided to the Scottish Government to support religious organisations following the end of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
Answer: At the Spending Review 2025, HM Treasury agreed budgets for Departments for a three-year period for Resource DEL, and a four-year period for Capital DEL. The Department then completed a Business Planning process to allocate this funding to programmes. Thi...
Answered 12 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordListed Buildings: ScotlandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support religious organisations to make repairs to listed buildings in Scotland.
Answer: Heritage is a devolved competence, however some funders operate across the UK. To ensure continued support for listed places of worship across the UK, we are working with sector funders to maximise opportunities for all nations. The National Lottery Herit...
Answered 12 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordEthnic Groups: DiscriminationWomen and EqualitiesTabled 22 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 907544More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle discrimination against ethnic minorities.
Answer: We are taking steps to tackle discrimination by working across Government to secure a more inclusive future for everyone. We remain committed to introducing mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and making the right to equal pay effective for ethnic minor...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 905634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to increase funding for motor neurone disease research.
Answer: I’m aware that my Hon. Friend recently visited the UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh to see their important work.We have invested £12.5 million in the Institute to support the best discovery science in MND.Since 2022, UKRI has ...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Expenditure: ScotlandTreasuryTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 904942More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Spending Review 2025 on Scotland.
Answer: This Government has ensured the Spending Review delivers for Scotland. The Scottish Government is receiving an average of £50.9 billion per each year between 2026-27 and 2028-29, the largest real terms funding settlement since devolution. It also delivers...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSurrogacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timetable is for responding to the joint report of the Law Commissions of England and Wales and Scotland entitled Building families through surrogacy: a new law, published on
Answer: The Government does not intend to put forward the Law Commissions’ legislative proposals at this current time, due to the limited time available for introducing new legislation. However, we will publish a Government response as time and capacity allows, a...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce energy costs for domestic consumers.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring energy bills are affordable for all consumers – that’s why we are running to deliver our clean power by 2030 mission. And whilst we make this transition, we will do everything we can to support households we know ar...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordProperty Development: TaxationTreasuryTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9567More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding the Scottish Government (a) has received and (b) is forecast to receive in additional Barnett Formula consequential funding as a result of income raised via the Residential Property Developer Tax.
Answer: The Residential Property Developer Tax is a UK-wide tax. UK-wide tax revenue goes into the UK Consolidated Fund. The Barnett formula then applies to changes in UK Government departmental budgets.The Scottish Government receives around 25% more funding per...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordProperty Development: TaxationTreasuryTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9044More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding the Welsh Government (a) has received and (b) is forecast to receive in additional Barnett Formula consequential funding as a result of income raised via the Residential Property Developer Tax.
Answer: The Residential Property Developer Tax is a UK-wide tax. UK-wide tax revenue goes into the UK Consolidated Fund. The Barnett formula then applies to changes in UK Government departmental budgets. The Welsh Government receives around 20% more funding per p...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSurrogacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to respond to the report by the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission entitled Building families through surrogacy: a new law, published on 28 March 2
Answer: The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health will be meeting with the Law Commission shortly to discuss its report and draft bill on surrogacy, and to inform consideration of the Government’s next steps.
Answered 18 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordResearch: Motor Neurone DiseaseDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when he next intends to meet with (a) Scottish Government ministers and officials, and (b) representatives from Scottish charities, universities and industry to discuss the ongoing prio
Answer: The Secretary of State has had positive early engagement with Scottish Government Ministers and looks forward to working further on their shared priorities for Scotland. The Minister for Science, Research and Innovation also met with Scottish Government M...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordResearch: Motor Neurone DiseaseDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to provide additional funding for motor neurone disease research in Scotland.
Answer: Funding has been distributed to 92 charities across the UK supporting 1200 doctoral students and early career researchers including over £330,000 to MND Scotland. MND research has benefited more generally from over £1.6 million of funding across the UK.Th...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the devolved administrations on co-operation on research funding for motor neurone disease.
Answer: The Department funds research into motor neurone disease (MND) via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Government funding for MND research includes programmes that are working collaboratively across the United Kingdom. For example,...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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