Jo Platt MP: written questions
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Written questions
Business Rates: Leigh and AthertonTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87826More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of retail businesses that will be affected by the (a) business rates reduction for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure properties and (b) higher business rates multiplier in Leig
Answer: The Government is creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century.As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitali...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Older PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to introduce a National Development Management Policy for older people’s housing.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 69042 on 24 July 2025.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFilm and Television: EU LawDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the continued inclusion of UK (a) film and (b) television content within the definition of European works in the forthcoming revision of the EU’s Au
Answer: As the UK is no longer an EU Member State, it is not formally involved in the review of the EU’s Audiovisual & Media Services Directive. However, the Government routinely engages with European partners (EU institutions, EU Member States and non-EU cou...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to establish a formal recognition scheme for British (a) citizens and (b) organisations undertaking (i) humanitarian and (ii) medical work in Ukraine.
Answer: We are proud of the fast, flexible and responsive support provided to Ukrainians living through Russia's invasion, including by British nationals, British organisations, and through projects initiated or funded by the UK. We pay tribute to the humanitaria...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure Integrated Care Boards maintain timely ADHD (a) assessment and (b) diagnosis services.
Answer: The Government has recognised that, nationally in England, demand for assessments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has grown significantly in recent years and that people are experiencing severe delays accessing such assessments. The Go...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Integrated Care Boards to use flexible commissioning to improve (a) dental provision and (b) efficiency.
Answer: Flexible commissioning is available to commissioners where they have identified a need that cannot be easily met through the provision of mandatory services.It is the responsibility of integrated care boards to commission primary care services, including ...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to clear the backlog for the Overseas Registration Exam.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC), as the independent regulator of dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom, is responsible for overseeing provision of the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE).The GDC shortly expects to be able to announce ...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure sustainable funding linked to inflation for the Holiday Activities and Food programme.
Answer: Through our Plan for Change, the government is committed to giving every child the best start in life. On 28 August 2025, the department confirmed over £600 million for the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme for the next three financial years, fr...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Holiday Activities and Food programme on levels of (a) food insecurity and (b) support for families during school holidays.
Answer: The holiday activities and food programme (HAF) ensures that children who are eligible for free school meals can access enriching activities and healthy meals during school holidays, benefiting their health, wellbeing and learning. On 28 August, the depar...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCharitable Donations: CompaniesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to take steps to help encourage companies to give more to charity.
Answer: Corporations donate around £4 billion per year to charity. This Government has three priorities for philanthropy, to: connect philanthropic investment with the places that need it most; unlock extra philanthropic investment; and partner with civil society...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCharitable Donations: CompaniesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84330More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of companies making charitable donations.
Answer: Corporations donate around £4 billion per year to charity. This Government has three priorities for philanthropy, to: connect philanthropic investment with the places that need it most; unlock extra philanthropic investment; and partner with civil society...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of part 2 overseas registration exam places to help increase the number of dentists delivering NHS care.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC), as the independent regulator of dentists and dental care professionals in the UK, is responsible for overseeing provision of the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE).The GDC shortly expects to be able to announce the outcome ...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81951More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will provide a revised target for the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 split between (a) total grant-funded completions and (b) completions for letting at soc
Answer: All homes delivered through the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme are supported by grant. Those homes are in addition to affordable homes that developers have committed to delivering under negotiated Section 106 agreements.My Department published an upda...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81950More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Flood Resilience Taskforce has made on (a) developing new toolkits for MPs and Mayors to support their understanding of flood warning systems, (b) streamlining the Fl
Answer: The Flood Resilience Taskforce developed a Flood Awareness Toolkit for MPs and Mayors which was distributed in September 2025. It provides information to support their constituents to prepare for, respond to and recover from flooding. The Floods Resilienc...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81949More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the outcomes of her Department’s Flood Funding Reform consultation will be announced.
Answer: On 14 October, following consultation, the government announced major changes to its flood and coastal erosion funding policy. The new funding policy will optimise funding between building new flood projects and maintaining existing defences and will ensu...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that affordable new homes are built to a high standard of flood resilience.
Answer: The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk (whether existing or in the future). Where development is necessary i...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCooperatives: Government AssistanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 58428 on Cooperatives: Government Assistance, when he plans to publish the call for evidence into co-operative growth.
Answer: The Department for Business and Trade committed to launching a Call for Evidence on co-operative and mutual business by the end of the year.
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78483More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her plans for business rates reform on grassroots music venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values (RVs) below £500,000, including grassroots music venues, from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78482More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business rates valuation methods on grassroots music venues.
Answer: I refer the honorable Member to the response to UIN 22711.
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFurther EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) colleges and (b) schools will be able to offer appropriate post-16 pathways in the (i) 2026-2027 and (ii) 2027-2028 academic years.
Answer: The department published the Post-16 education and skills white paper on 20 October 2025. This sets out comprehensive reforms to build a world-leading skills system that break down barriers to opportunity, meets student and employers’ needs, widens access...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: Domestic AbuseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that delivery of the 10 Year Plan effectively tackles domestic abuse.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan will transform the healthcare model in England to create a National Health Service that is fit for the future, delivering more integrated health and care, closer to home, with a renewed focus on prevention and neighbourhoods that w...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung People: DiscriminationDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the level of misogynist attitudes amongst young people at (a) primary and (b) secondary level.
Answer: Through compulsory relationships education, all pupils should learn how to form positive and respectful relationships and develop an understanding of the concepts and laws around misogyny, sexual harassment and sexual violence.The relationships, sex and h...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based Violence: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether measures to (a) recognise and (b) support under-16s who perpetrate abuse towards their (i) parents, (ii) siblings and (iii) intimate partners will be included in the forthcoming Violence again
Answer: The upcoming Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy will outline the steps we are taking to respond to teenage relationship abuse and child to parent abuse.The VAWG Strategy will underpin a transformative, cross-government approach to deliver on...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLicensing LawsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the early morning alcohol restriction orders to help tackle early morning street drinking.
Answer: Licensing authorities already have powers under the Licensing Act 2003 to introduce Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Orders (EMROs) which can prohibit the sale of alcohol between midnight and 6am where appropriate for promoting the licensing objectives.W...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordIndustry Strategy Council: Small BusinessesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if her Department will publish information on the planned role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Industrial Strategy Council.
Answer: The Industrial Strategy Advisory Council (ISAC) supports the government's objective of delivering a long-term Industrial Strategy. Members have been appointed based on their expertise and wide-ranging experience and there is extensive business experience ...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
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