Jack Rankin MP: written questions
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Health Professions: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of granting Indefinite Leave to Remain to people with Health and Care Worker visas on welfare services.
Answer: Internationally educated staff remain an important part of the workforce, and our Code of Practice for International Recruitment ensures stringent ethical standards when recruiting health and social care staff from overseas. Health and Care Worker visa ho...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ImmigrationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of an increase in Indefinite Leave to Remain visa grants on NHS capacity.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential impact of changes in the levels of grants of Indefinite Leave to Remain on National Health Service capacity or waiting times, and there are no current plans to undertake such an assessment.Internationally educa...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ImmigrationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes in the levels of grants of Indefinite Leave to Remain on NHS (a) capacity and (b) waiting times.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential impact of changes in the levels of grants of Indefinite Leave to Remain on National Health Service capacity or waiting times, and there are no current plans to undertake such an assessment.Internationally educa...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: FinanceTreasuryTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26715More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has plans to conduct a fiscal impact analysis of trends in the level of Indefinite leave to remain grants on the economy.
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) produces forecasts of the UK’s economic and fiscal position.The government sets its fiscal policy on the basis of the official OBR forecast.Box 4.5 of the OBR’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in March 2024...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Care Workers and Health ServicesHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the potential impact of the number of people granted Health and Care Worker visas on the public finances since in the period since
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the impact of people who have arrived in the UK on the Skilled Worker Visa on the economy since that scheme was established.
Answer: Impact Assessments evaluating the impacts of policy changes to the Skilled Worker route since it was established can be found at Impact assessments covering migration policy - GOV.UK. These provide insight into economic impacts of the route, addressing ma...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the impact of people who arrive in the UK on the health and care visa and their dependents on the economy since that scheme was established.
Answer: Impact Assessments evaluating the impacts of policy changes to the Health and Care Worker route since it was established can be found at Impact assessments covering migration policy - GOV.UK. These provide insight into economic impacts of the route, addre...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: FinanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25945More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the supervision and processing of (a) Direct Pay arrangements and (b) Collect and Pay arrangements cost the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: The cost of running the Child Maintenance Service is not separated between supervision and processing of (a) Direct Pay arrangements and (b) Collect and Pay arrangements, therefore, the information requested is not held.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: FinanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual budget of the Child Maintenance Service was in each year since 2021; and what the forecast budget is for 2025.
Answer: The table below outlines the Child Maintenance Service budget for each year since 2021, sourced from the CMS Management Accounts. The budget for 2025/2026 has not yet been finalised and therefore is not included. Year21/2222/2323/2424/25 Budget£117.0m £...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff work for the Child Maintenance Service by each civil service pay bracket.
Answer: The number of staff who work for the Child Maintenance Service by each civil service pay bracket has been provided in the tables 1 and 2 below. Table 1: The Child Maintenance Service, Great Britain (CMS GB) have a total of 3,831 staff in post. GradeChild ...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child maintenance administrative liability orders were rejected by courts in each year between 2021 and 2024; and for what reasons courts rejected these applications.
Answer: Where parents fail to take responsibility for paying for their children, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will not hesitate to use the range of enforcement powers available, and a liability order facilitates this.A liability order allows the CMS to for...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25941More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to (a) end direct pay arrangements and (b) use the collect and pay model for all future child maintenance agreements; and what estimate her Department has made of the number
Answer: A consultation on proposed reforms to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) was published by the previous Government on 8 May 2024. This included removing Direct Pay and managing all CMS cases in one service to allow the CMS to tackle non-compliance faster,...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: IncreasesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to announce her decision on requests from local authorities for approval of council tax increases above the referendum cap.
Answer: The Government is currently analysing results of the consultation on the provisional local government finance settlement for 2025-26 including the council tax referendum principles that will be set. The ability for councils in exceptional financial circum...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: IncreasesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of approving requests from local authorities for council tax increases above the referendum cap.
Answer: The Government is currently analysing results of the consultation on the provisional local government finance settlement for 2025-26 including the council tax referendum principles that will be set. The ability for councils in exceptional financial circum...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of full-time undergraduate students with British nationality non-domiciled in the UK are paying international fees.
Answer: The department is not able to identify which non-UK domiciled students who hold British nationality are paying international fees.The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for collecting and publishing data on the UK higher education se...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCharities: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in employer National Insurance contributions on charities.
Answer: The Government highly values the charity sector, and its positive contribution across society.Due to the difficult economic inheritance from the previous government, we have had to take a number of difficult decisions on tax, welfare and spending to fix t...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of full-time undergraduate students paying international fees who are (a) British nationals and (b) non-domiciled in the UK.
Answer: The department is not able to identify students who are paying international fees who are (a) British nationals and (b) non-domiciled in the UK.The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for collecting and publishing data on the UK highe...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 19590 on Newspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UK, whether the response to the consultation is contingent on free trade negotiations.
Answer: The Consultation on The Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2024 closed on 9 July 2024. Ministers recognise the high importance of this issue and are considering the responses carefully. Ministers t...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: OwnershipDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December to Question 19589 on Newspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UK, whether her Department has (a) considered and (b) taken legal advice on issuing Foreign State
Answer: The Secretary of State has a quasi-judicial role when considering foreign state ownership, influence and control in newspapers and news magazines, and as such we cannot comment further.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December to Question 19589 on Newspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UK, what level of indirect investment by foreign states will trigger the issuing of a Foreign Sta
Answer: The Consultation on The Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2024 closed on 9 July 2024. Ministers recognise the high importance of this issue and are considering the responses carefully. Ministers t...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to reintroduce The Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2024.
Answer: We are currently considering responses to the consultation, and hope to publish a response in the near future.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many Foreign State Intervention Notices have been issued in the last six months.
Answer: There have been no Foreign State Intervention Notices issued in the last six months.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNewspaper Press: Foreign Investment in UKDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to the consultation on the Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2024, published in May 2024.
Answer: We are currently considering responses to the consultation, and hope to publish a response in the near future.
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19209More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support hospices that rely on charitable donations, in the context of changes to National Insurance thresholds.
Answer: We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26. The emp...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: Accountability and ComplaintsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve (a) management accountability and (b) the complaints and oversight system for staff at multi-academy trusts.
Answer: All school staff should feel safe and supported at work, and confident in being able to report concerns. We expect school leaders, as employers, to take appropriate action to tackle any issues that are raised.All school employers, including trusts, have a...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
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