Joe Robertson MP: written questions
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Energy Performance Certificates: Private Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32686More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what financial assistance the Government is providing to landlords to help them meet the new EPC requirements for private rented properties.
Answer: The Government is now consulting on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector to EPC C or equivalent. We are proposing a phased implementation of the new standard from 2028 to 2030 to encourage early action. The consultat...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Private Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32685More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support landlords in areas with limited access to qualified professionals and contractors in meeting the proposed higher EPC requirements for private re
Answer: The Government is now consulting on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector to EPC C or equivalent. We are proposing a phased implementation of the new standard from 2028 to 2030 to encourage early action. The consultat...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPsychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning DisabilityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor progress on reducing the number of people with a learning disability and autism in mental health hospitals.
Answer: The Mental Health Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 6 November 2024, proposes a package of measures to ensure people with a learning disability and autistic people get the support they need in the community, improving care and keeping people out o...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAutism and Learning Disability: Community CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32598More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the final report from the Funding Flows task and finish group.
Answer: The Building the Right Support Delivery Board, including the Funding Flows Task and Finish Group, was commissioned under the previous Government and has been paused. We do not plan to take decisions on the delivery board, including publishing the final re...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAutism and Learning Disability: Community CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department allocated to improve community support for people with a learning disability and autistic people in 2024-25.
Answer: For 2024/25, NHS England allocated £124 million of transformation funding for learning disability and autism services in local integrated care board (ICB) areas. This funding includes money for local systems to reduce reliance on mental health inpatient s...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPsychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning DisabilityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his Department's policy that there should be no more than 30 adult inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism per million adult population in mental health inpatient uni
Answer: Our commitment remains, as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, that there should be no more than 30 adults with a learning disability, autism or both in a mental health inpatient setting per million adults. As part of NHS Operational and Planning Guidance ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDoctors' and Dentists' Review BodyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the members of the assessment advisory panel are for the Members of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration.
Answer: When new members or chairs are recruited to pay review bodies, Ministers are assisted in their decision making by an Advisory Assessment Panel, set up for each individual recruitment. The Panel includes a departmental official and a member independent of ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Pay Review BodyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the members are of the assessment advisory panel for the Members of the NHS Pay Review Body.
Answer: When new members or chairs are recruited to pay review bodies, Ministers are assisted in their decision making by an Advisory Assessment Panel, set up for each individual recruitment. The Panel includes a departmental official and a member independent of ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPigmeat: LabellingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has received representations on health warnings on bacon.
Answer: Department officials are not aware of any correspondence or meetings being held in relation to health warnings on bacon. Government advice is that people with relatively high intakes of red and processed meat, namely over 90 grams per day, should consider...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAlan MilburnDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which office in his Department Alan Milburn sits in.
Answer: Alan Milburn was appointed as Lead Non-Executive Member to the board of the Department on 8 November 2024. Non-executive board members provide independent advice and expertise to inform the Department's strategy, performance, and governance, and the lead ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a policy on unconscious bias training in the NHS.
Answer: In June 2023, NHS England published an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Improvement Plan that sets out targeted actions to address prejudice and discrimination in the National Health Service workforce. It is right that the NHS takes proactive steps to ad...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to undertake an impact assessment for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
Answer: An impact assessment is being developed, which will consider the relevant impacts of the bill as it stands at the end of Committee Stage, based on the available evidence.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Baroness Casey of Blackstock will be paid for her review into social care; and how many civil servants have been assigned to support that review.
Answer: Baroness Casey of Blackstock will be paid for her role as Chair of the independent commission. We are currently in the process of recruiting the Commission Secretariat and therefore the number of civil servants supporting the commission is still to be con...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: InsectsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has a policy on the introduction of insects into the human diet.
Answer: Defra does not have a specific policy on insects in the human diet, but continues to monitor the research in this area. In Great Britain, edible insects are considered novel foods. Novel foods require authorisation before they are permitted on the market....
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance he has issued on using Community Protection Notices for household waste receptacles.
Answer: The Home Office, who administer the legislation for Community Protection Notices, have issued guidance on their use. This is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6422a19b60a35e00120cae63/2023_Update_ASB_Statutory_Guidance_-_FINAL__...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that councils are aware of the guidance entitled Household waste bins: when and how councils may issue fixed penalties, published on 23 April 2018.
Answer: The guidance, 'Household waste bins: when and how councils may issue fixed penalties' outlines the rules that councils must follow when issuing fixed penalties under section 46A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. We routinely point councils to this...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ban (a) three and (b) four weekly residual bin collections.
Answer: The Government has introduced mandating weekly food waste collections.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32578More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish each of the responses to the final Simpler Recycling consultation.
Answer: In October 2023, Defra held two consultations on Simpler Recycling, and has since published consultation responses for both online, including a summary of responses:Simpler recycling in England: additional policies - GOV.UKExemptions and statutory guidanc...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 18949 on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, what assessment his Department made of the potential impact of not setting minimum
Answer: Defra has not produced a specific impact assessment regarding service frequency for residual waste collections. Modelling for this would be subjective to the circumstances of each individual local authority. Through Simpler Recycling, all householders wil...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFires: Air PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25593 on Wood-burning stoves: air pollution, what assessment his Department has (a) made and (b) commissioned of the impact of the
Answer: No assessment has been made of the impact of burning household waste in gardens as there is legislation and guidance to prevent fires causing pollution or a nuisance.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Recycling and Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 24365, on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: WRAP, what guidance (a) his Department and its agencies and (b) WRA
Answer: Under section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, waste collection authorities may require householders to place waste for collection in receptacles of a kind and number specified. If householders do not follow waste collections rules, there is g...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has conducted research on the potential links between fly-tipping and the availability of frequent and comprehensive household rubbish collections.
Answer: Research into fly-tipping commissioned by Defra, published in 2022, found that “Good infrastructure and services offered by local authorities will play a significant part in cutting fly-tipping at source”. The report is here. Local authorities are respons...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRodentsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) research and (b) data his Department holds on rodent infestations and problems.
Answer: Defra does not carry out research or hold data on rodent infestations and problems. Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), in collaboration with a number of partners including the devolved administrations, publishes a Code of Practice for th...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32572More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of the findings by the Taxpayers Alliance in their report entitled One in ten councils in the UK are considering reducing their bin
Answer: We recognise that as recycling services are expanded and improved as part of Simpler Recycling, local authorities may want to review residual waste services to ensure they are providing best value for money in line with local need. The Government’s priori...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWRAP: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 24365 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: WRAP, how much funding is being provided to WRAP in (a) 2024-25 and (
Answer: This information is published by WRAP in its Annual report and Accounts. Defra’s funding for WRAP in 2025/26 is subject to internal business planning allocations . To ensure value for money, Defra has access to all WRAP strategic boards, working groups, e...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
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