Julie Minns MP: written questions
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Reading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the University of Florida's phonics programme.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. The last Labour government’s ...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordReading: Teaching MethodsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the validation process for new phonics programmes is.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. The last Labour government’s ...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFarming Recovery Fund: CarlisleDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which properties received Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Rural Payments Agency can confirm that no payments were made to properties under the Farming Recovery payments in Carlisle and North Cumbria constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVettingHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025WithdrawnUIN 29302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory DBS checks for tradespeople.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordPrimary Education: LiteracyDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the proportion of pupils meeting the expected standard in the year one phonics screening check.
Answer: High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. Through our Plan for Change, we will give children the best start in life...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: PovertyDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of pupils that have experienced hygiene poverty in each of the last five years.
Answer: This government is committed to tackling child poverty as part of our mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child.Child poverty has gone up by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family....
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHygiene: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of hygiene poverty.
Answer: Tackling poverty in all forms, from reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels to ensuring people can afford essentials like hygiene products, is a priority for this government. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHygiene: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people have experienced hygiene poverty in (a) England, (b) Cumbria and (c) Carlisle constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: Tackling poverty in all forms, from reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels to ensuring people can afford essentials like hygiene products, is a priority for this government. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChild Poverty TaskforceCabinet OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15068More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Child Poverty Taskforce plans to (a) assess the (i) extent and (ii) potential impact on children of and (b) make recommendations on tackling hygiene poverty.
Answer: The Taskforce recognises families' access to essentials, including hygiene essentials, as a fundamental aspect of child poverty. Addressing acute poverty, including access to essentials, is a core focus of the work to develop through the child poverty str...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBladder Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14793More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the clinical trial at Mount Sinai Health System, New York, published on 2 October 2024, on treating invasive bladder ca
Answer: The Department has not made a formal assessment of the policy implications following this clinical trial. The adoption of new treatments into the National Health Service in England is generally the result of National Institute for Health and Care Excellen...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordKinship CareDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 901024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve support for kinship carers.
Answer: This government recognises the valuable and important role that kinship carers play. This government also appreciates that kinship carers often take on this role at a time in their lives when they are least expecting to raise a family.We have recently ann...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBorders Railway Line: CarlisleScotland OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential economic impact of extending the Borders Railway line from Tweedbank to Carlisle.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to working with local partners in the Borders to boost economic growth, in line with our growth mission. The project referred to sits within the Borderlands Growth Deal. Local partners are submitting proposals for a reset to...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Health and SafetyMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list every date on which the Health and Safety Executive issued his Department a notification of contravention since 2013.
Answer: Health and Safety Notices of Contravention (NOC) can be issued to any organisation within Defence at a local level and this information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). However, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes detail...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: DeathMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
Answer: From 1 January 2013 to 13 October 2024, three UK Armed Forces personnel tragically died from heat related causes confirmed by a Coroner and listed on the death certificates. All three deaths occurred in July 2013. The inquest for all three deaths began on...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: DeathMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel died within 24 hours of completing their annual fitness test in each year since 2013.
Answer: Since 2013, two Army personnel have sadly died whilst undertaking the combat fitness test element of the annual fitness test. No other personnel have died within 24 hours of completing their annual fitness test during this period.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HealthMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many annual fitness tests were cancelled due to the safe temperature being exceeded (a) one (b) two and (c) three hours before the start time in each year since 2013.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence does not hold any information of annual fitness tests being cancelled due to the safe temperature being exceeded because this information is not recorded.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HealthMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of service personnel failed their annual fitness test in each year since 2013.
Answer: The requested information is provided in the following tables: Royal Navy Year AwardedFailedFail rate20159824%20161,4395%20171,5045%20181,6826%20191,4505%20201,5237%20211,4127%20221,8888%20231,9609%20241,0835% Table Notes: Data prior to 2015 is incomplet...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HeatstrokeMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9815More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's response to the Coroner report on the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole, dated 27 January 2020, when the common tri-service suite of reporting and investigation forms was completed
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving ...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMilitary Exercises: HeatstrokeMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what improvements have been made to (a) how and (b) what data is reported for heat illness cases following the inquest into the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole in 2019.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving ...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were unable to achieve a successful set of mammograms because (a) they were unable to hold the required position for sufficient time and (b) the mammogram machine was not accessible
Answer: NHS England does not hold this information centrally. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to accessing screening.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the accessibility of bus services outside of London and combined authority areas for (a) wheelchair users, (b) people who are blind or visually impaired and (c) p
Answer: The government wants everyone to have access to public transport and is committed to improving services so they are more inclusive and enable disabled people to travel safely, confidently and with dignity. On October 1st, the first phase of Public Service...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPedestrian Areas: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has had recent discussions with disability organisations on the potential merits of introducing a moratorium on floating bus stops.
Answer: The Department is fully aware of the concerns raised by some groups, particularly visually impaired people, over the use of floating bus stops and is working with Active Travel England on ways to address these concerns. It is a complex issue and we are ca...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPedestrian Areas: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for TransportTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of whether floating bus stops are compatible with Rule H1 of the Highway Code.
Answer: The Department is fully aware of the concerns raised by some groups, particularly visually impaired people, over the use of floating bus stops and is working with Active Travel England on ways to address these concerns. It is a complex issue and we are ca...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mobile breast screening units have wheelchair accessible mammogram machines.
Answer: NHS England does not centrally hold the numbers of static and mobile screening units, or those that have wheelchair accessible X-ray machines. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to a...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many static breast screening centres have wheelchair accessible mammogram machines.
Answer: NHS England does not centrally hold the numbers of static and mobile screening units, or those that have wheelchair accessible X-ray machines. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to a...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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