Lee Pitcher MP: written questions
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Child Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 906019More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: The Government has announced ambitious plans to reform the CMS. Moving all cases to a single service, where payments are collected and transferred will provide an improved service, quickly identifying and tackling missed payments and lifting more children...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFunctional Neurological Disorder: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equitable access England to (a) diagnosis, (b) treatment and (c) specialist rehabilitation services for patients with Functional Neurological Disorder.
Answer: The majority of services for people with neurological conditions, including functional neurological disorder (FND), are commissioned locally. Integrated care board (ICB) commissioners are best placed to configure services for their populations and are sup...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the rate of office-to-residential asset conversions to accelerate the delivery of social housing.
Answer: Under nationally set permitted development rights a wide range of commercial buildings such as offices and shops are able to change use to residential without the need for a planning application. The government continues to keep permitted development righ...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture and Small Businesses: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80434More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report by CenTax entitled A fair solution to inheritance tax on farms and small businesses, published on 15 August 2025.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving TestsDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80433More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Transport Secretary acts to make thousands of extra driving tests available each month, published on 23 April 2025, how many driving test places have be
Answer: The table below shows the number of car practical driving tests provided for the months April 2025 to September 2025.AprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberTotal155,582161,039172,327185,901158,511183,762
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHigh Rise Flats: InsulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cladding remediation works on high-risk buildings are not subject to avoidable delays in the building control approval process
Answer: The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has established a dedicated external remediation team who assess all building control approval applications for cladding remediation. The team is already delivering engagement events to improve developers’ understanding...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadbandDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 80431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) remote and (b) other hard-to-reach properties are provided access to reliable fibre broadband.
Answer: Project Gigabit is the Government’s programme to deliver gigabit-capable broadband to UK premises that are not included in suppliers' commercial plans. Our goal is for nationwide gigabit coverage by 2032, ensuring at least 99% of UK premises can access a ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing FirstMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of a national Housing First rollout.
Answer: The Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant (RSPARG) is providing a total of £185.6 million to local authorities across England in 2025/26. The RSPARG gives local authorities the flexibility to determine the most suitable rough sleeping services requ...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSleeping RoughMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help people sleeping rough access long-term and stable accommodation.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This can have a devastating impact on those affected. We are determined to address this and deliver long term solutions.The Government is looking at these issues carefully and is developing a new cross government stra...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Scooters: Anti-social BehaviourHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72390More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to regulate the use of privately owned e-scooters involved in anti-social behaviour.
Answer: Tackling anti-social behaviour is a top priority for this Government and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. Our Crime and Policing Bill will give the police greater powers to clamp down on all vehicles, including e-scooters, involved in anti-social ...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Crime PreventionHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the use of digital asset management systems by local retailers to support crime prevention.
Answer: the Retail Crime Forum to ensure we understand the needs of retailers and to promote collaboration between the retail sector, security providers and law enforcement. This is an opportunity to share best practice and awareness of different initiatives to t...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: ChildrenMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of children living in temporary accommodation in Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme constituency.
Answer: The government publishes statistics on homelessness including the number of children in temporary accommodation each quarter through gov.uk. You can find the data gov.uk here.
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce the remaining local authorities selected for the pilot inquiries into group-based child sexual exploitation.
Answer: The Government is committed to getting to the truth of both historical and current group-based child sexual exploitation or grooming gangs offending, to ensure that perpetrators are punished and to deliver justice and accountability for victims and surviv...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWater TreatmentDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to promote water reuse.
Answer: The Government recognises that recycled water e.g. from rainwater or domestic greywater showers play a key role in helping non-household users and businesses meet the statutory water demand reduction target of 20% by March 2038. We encourage water compa...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Unmanned Air SystemsHome OfficeTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the use of drones to record footage over police cordons at emergency scenes on privacy; and whether she plans to introduce addi
Answer: The use and deployment of drones by policing is an operational matter made independently by police forces, who are best placed to assess their own operational needs while ensuring they have the tools necessary to protect the public.However, in the use and...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: FamiliesMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many units of service family accommodation are located in Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme constituency.
Answer: There are no Service Family Accommodation properties in Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme constituency.
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLung Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to extend eligibility for NHS lung screening programmes to include people with a history of occupational exposure to (a) asbestos, (b) coal dust and (c) other hazardous substa
Answer: The NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme is offered to people between the ages of 55 and 74 years old who are current smokers or have previously been smokers. This is in line with the recommendation made by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) in 2...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement TherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the supply of Creon; and what support his Department is providing to patients who are not able to use alternative medicines.
Answer: The Department continues to engage with suppliers of Creon and other pancreatic enzyme replacement therapies (PERT) to boost production to mitigate the supply issue. The supplier of Creon expects to receive increased quantities for 2025. Suppliers of alte...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle (a) grooming gangs and (b) child sexual exploitation.
Answer: On 6 and 16 January, the Home Secretary announced to Parliament a raft of measures to go further in tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including 'grooming gangs' offending.The Home Secretary has written to the National Police Chiefs' Council re...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
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