James Naish MP: written questions
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Parental Leave and Parental Pay: ReviewsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent progress his department has made on the parental leave and pay review.
Answer: The Parental Leave and Pay Review’s Call for Evidence closed on 25 August 2025 after receiving almost 1500 responses, which are currently being analysed and will go on to inform the review. We are engaging with a range of stakeholders, including advocacy ...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordNature ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on the 30by30 action plan, published on 29 October 2024.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to protecting 30% of land and sea in the UK by 2030 (30by30). Progressing this target on land in England means ensuring that our most important and wildlife-rich habitats are benefiting from effective, long-term conservation...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase training and funding for police firearm licensing authorities.
Answer: The College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs Council have developed national training on firearms licensing. The Statutory Guidance on firearms licensing for Chief Officers of Police, most recently revised and strengthened on 5 August 2025, make...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordGifts and Endowments: Income TaxTreasuryTabled 5 Jan 2026WithdrawnUIN 102911More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the taxation level of gifts from 10% in line with income tax rates.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordAviation: PetsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102910More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of easing regulatory rules to allow more pets to fly in-cabin on flights.
Answer: All pets travelling into Great Britain are checked for compliance with the necessary health and documentary requirements prior to entry to safeguard our biosecurity. When travelling to Great Britain by air, pets currently travel as manifest cargo to facil...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAdoption: Mental Health ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102909More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve levels of mandatory trauma accreditation within professionals working with adopted children.
Answer: The department has funded Adoption England with £8.8 million in the 2025/26 financial year to help develop national approaches for adoption services. This will help ensure the consistency of high quality adoption services across the country. This includes...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAdoptionDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve adoption services.
Answer: The department has funded Adoption England with £8.8 million in the 2025/26 financial year to help develop national approaches for adoption services. This will help ensure the consistency of high quality adoption services across the country. This includes...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordParental Leave and Parental Pay: ReviewsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to respond to his Department's consultation on parental leave and pay review which closed on 25 August 2025.
Answer: The Parental Leave and Pay Review launched in July 2025 alongside a Call for Evidence which ran until 25 August 2025. We received almost 1500 responses to this Call for Evidence which are currently being analysed with the findings going on to inform the R...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordJoint Replacements: ObesityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to end the blanket use of body mass index thresholds to determine eligibility for joint replacement surgery.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 November 2025 to Question 89688.
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordObesity: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase help access to weight loss injections for people with long-term health conditions.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19 November 2025 to Question 89687.
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made in meeting the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard.
Answer: The Government is committed to returning, by March 2029, to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment (RTT). NHS England’s Operational Planning Guidance ...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce elective care waiting times, including for joint replacement surgery.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19 November 2025 to Question 89685.
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the next phase of the Modern Service Frameworks.
Answer: Early priorities for Modern Service Frameworks will include cardiovascular disease, sepsis, severe mental illness and the first ever service framework for frailty and dementia. As advised by the National Quality Board, the Government will consider other c...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department are taking to help lower charging costs for electric vehicles at public charging points.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring public charging is affordable and accessible for all. As announced at the Autumn Budget, the Government is reviewing the cost of public EV charging, looking at the impact of energy prices, wider cost contributors, a...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordWood-burning StovesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to introduce restrictions on the number of wood burning stoves permitted per residential property; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact
Answer: We have no plans to introduce restrictions on the number of wood burning stoves permitted per residential property. In the recently published Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 we committed to consult on new measures to cut emissions from domestic combus...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordRape: DrugsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered reclassifying date rape drugs such as flunitrazepam and gamma-hydroxybutyrate as weapons.
Answer: Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB) and Flunitrazepam are controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. GHB, and the related substances Gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4-Butanediol (1,4-BD), were reclassified from Class C to Class B in 2022, in line wi...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGame: Gun SportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing in vicarious liability for landowners to reduce grouse shooting.
Answer: The introduction of new regulation, such as vicarious liability, requires evidence that it will be effective. Vicarious liability occurs where one person can be held liable for the actions of another person. With regards to grouse shooting, this could mea...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99350More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the beginning of the statutory time period of 9.30am nationally during weekdays for concessionary bus pass holders.
Answer: The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age. The ENCTS costs around £795 million annually and any changes to the statutory obligations, such ...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCriminal Proceedings: DNAMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost savings from expanding DNA testing in criminal trials.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not collect or hold data which would link the use of DNA testing, or any other type of evidence produced by the prosecution, with the overall efficiency of criminal trials. Therefore, it is not possible to make an estimate of ...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: SyriaHome OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of new immigration rules on people who arrived under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme.
Answer: In line with our Public Sector Equality Duty, Equality Impact Assessments are undertaken for new policies to ensure that there are no unintended or disproportionate impacts on people with protected characteristics. This includes consideration of nationali...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97438More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to address the difference in home fee status eligibility for siblings who are both British nationals where one child benefits from Withdrawal Agreement protections and anothe
Answer: UK nationals and their children living in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, who wish to study in the UK, will be eligible for automatic home fee status and student support for courses starting up to seven years from the end of the transitio...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will consider introducing discretionary provisions within home tuition fee eligibility criteria for British nationals living abroad who can demonstrate genuine and ongoing connections to
Answer: To qualify for automatic home fee status and higher education student support, students must normally be settled in the UK and have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands for at least three years before their course begins. However, if a student h...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Fees and ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of home tuition fee eligibility rules on British citizens who relocated to EU member states while the UK was part of the European Union; and wheth
Answer: UK nationals and their children living in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, who wish to study in the UK, will be eligible for automatic home fee status and student support for courses starting up to seven years from the end of the transitio...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits of calculating maintenance loans through net rather than gross household income and (b) impact of that change on single parental income
Answer: Entitlement to partially means-tested undergraduate loans for living costs is based on the income of the student’s household.The income used is the total income on which a person is charged income tax at step 1 of the calculation in Section 23 of the Inco...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: Public ConsultationDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Question 8287answered on 16 October 2024, what is the (a) status of the best practice guide to community consultation and engagement and (b) when this guide will be completed.
Answer: Following consultation with stakeholders, Active Travel England’s Rural Design Guidance is currently in its final development stages and is expected to be published by the end of the year.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
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