Markus Campbell-Savours MP: written questions
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Written questions
Foreign Investment in UK: Saudi ArabiaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK-Saudi investment creates 100 new British jobs, published on 3 September 2025, how many new jobs have been created.
Answer: This answer is provided at a time when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East region more generally, is facing material challenges given the ongoing regional conflict.Given that the press release names specific companies, it is for those compani...
Answered 20 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTrade Promotion: Saudi ArabiaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding concluded with the Saudi Public Investment Fund on 28 October 2025, how much UK Export Finance has spent on promoting UK companies' engagement in the S
Answer: UK Export Finance (UKEF) does not have a marketing budget specifically related to promoting UK businesses’ engagement in the Saudi or other individual markets.Details of UKEF’s overall expenditure on marketing for the current financial year will be includ...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSaudi Arabia: Capital PunishmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2025.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 11 December in response to Question 97116.
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSaudi Arabia: Capital PunishmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to her Saudi Arabian counterpart on the risk of execution of men convicted of alleged crimes committed as minors, such as Youssef al-Manasif
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 11 December in response to Question 97116.
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the Court of Appeal originating from the Crown Court were successful in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Official statistics published by Ministry of Justice provide figures for appeals that were allowed and dismissed. Withdrawn cases are not separately recorded in the published dataset.In the most recent year for which data is available (2024), Court of App...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals to the Court of Appeal originating from the Crown Court in the most recent year for which data is available were (a) allowed, (b) dismissed, or (c) withdrawn.
Answer: Official statistics published by Ministry of Justice provide figures for appeals that were allowed and dismissed. Withdrawn cases are not separately recorded in the published dataset.In the most recent year for which data is available (2024), Court of App...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of Crown Court convictions and sentences in the most recent year for which data is available were appealed to the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division).
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold the information required to calculate the proportion of Crown Court convictions and sentences that were appealed to the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division).
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCounty Courts: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals against county court decisions in the most recent year for which data is available were successful.
Answer: Official statistics published by Ministry of Justice provide figures for appeals.In the most recent year for which data is available (2024), the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) recorded the outcomes for appeals originating from the county courts that wer...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCounty Courts: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals originating from the county courts were (a) allowed, (b) dismissed or (c) withdrawn in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Official statistics published by Ministry of Justice provide figures for appeals.In the most recent year for which data is available (2024), the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) recorded the outcomes for appeals originating from the county courts that wer...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCounty Courts: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of decisions made in the county courts were appealed to the High Court or Court of Appeal in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Data on the number of decisions made in the county courts and the proportion appealed to the Court of Appeal can be found in the following official publications: Royal_Courts_of_Justice_Annual_Tables_2024.ods.High Court data is not broken down by source c...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMagistrates' Courts: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of appeals to the Crown Court originating from magistrates’ courts were successful in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Data on appeals to the Crown Court from magistrates’ courts are published as part of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly release in table C11. Data is split into appeals against the verdict and appeals against the sentence with breakdowns provided for...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMagistrates' Courts: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals to the Crown Court originating from magistrates’ courts in the most recent year for which data is available were (a) allowed, (b) dismissed, or (c) withdrawn.
Answer: Data on appeals to the Crown Court from magistrates’ courts are published as part of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly release in table C11. Data is split into appeals against the verdict and appeals against the sentence with breakdowns provided for...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMagistrates' Courts: Appeals and Judicial ReviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103987More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of decisions made in magistrates’ courts in the most recent year for which data is available were appealed to the Crown Court, by way of case stated, or by judicial review.
Answer: Data on appeals to the Crown Court from magistrates’ courts are published as part of the Criminal Court Statistics quarterly release in table C11. Data is split into appeals against the verdict and appeals against the sentence with breakdowns provided for...
Answered 16 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current waiting times are for Access to Work applications.
Answer: For details on the average processing time for Access to Work grant applications from April to June 2025, please refer to the answer I gave on 3 July 2025 to Question UIN 63906. We are committed to reducing waiting times for new applications and have incr...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCompanies House: Proof of IdentityDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress he has made on the rollout of identity verification for Companies House via the Post Office and Authorised Corporate Service Provider routes.
Answer: The 12-month transition period commenced on 18 November 2025. More than 1.4 million people have already completed the first phase of identity verification through GOV.UK One Login. 47,867 people started their journey online and selected the Post Office op...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFreehold: Pension FundsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of pension schemes that have an exposure to freehold properties; and if he will make an assessment of the poten
Answer: An Impact Assessment (IA) was published in December 2023 for the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. It can be found here.An addendum to that IA was published on 14 April 2025 which can be found here.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAiding and Abetting: DatabasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on improving data on joint enterprise cases.
Answer: Joint enterprise is not a specific criminal offence. It is a common law doctrine which can apply in situations where two or more individuals have a common purpose to commit any criminal offence.The Ministry of Justice currently collects information on how...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Workplace PensionsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the financial impact of amending the 1987 Police Pension Scheme to allow widowers of police officers to retain survivor’s pension entitlement if they (a) remarry an
Answer: The 1987 Police Pension Scheme provides survivor benefits to widows, widowers, and civil partners of police officers who die. In line with most public service pension schemes of that era, these benefits cease upon remarriage or cohabitation.With the intro...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall BusinessesTreasuryTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62891More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of raising the VAT threshold for (a) wine merchants and (b) other small businesses; and what steps she is taking to (a) support those businesses and (b) promote e
Answer: At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system. As set out in the Plan for Change, the Government’s priority mission...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPhysiotherapy: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK-trained physiotherapists excluded from NHS employment pathways in (a) Penrith and Solway constituency and (b) the UK.
Answer: The Department has not made an estimate of the number of physiotherapists trained in the United Kingdom who have been excluded from National Health Service employment pathways either in the Penrith and Solway constituency or across England.Decisions about...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of introducing free bus passes for people aged 60 and over on (a) social inclusion, (b) the economy and (c) the environment.
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, currently sixty-six. The ENCTS costs around £700 million annually and any changes to the statuto...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordIndividual Savings AccountsTreasuryTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54123More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the purchase price limit of (a) lifetime ISAs and (b) help-to-buy ISAs.
Answer: This Government is committed to helping first time buyers own their own home and our plan to build1.5 million more homes is key to delivering this commitment.
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Savings and InvestmentsTreasuryTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54122More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of applying preferential (a) interest rates and (b) tax treatment for NS&I Green Savings bonds.
Answer: National Savings and Investments’ (NS&I) core remit is to raise cost-effective finance for the Government. In setting the interest rate on its products, NS&I must adhere to its operating framework. Specifically, this is to balance the interests of...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Penrith and SolwayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 903946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support primary care staff providing mental health services in Penrith and Solway constituency.
Answer: General practice is funded to deploy mental health practitioners, bridging the gap between primary care and specialist mental health services, with over 1,200 employed in England as of December 2024.Our 10-year health plan will deliver more care locally, ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEndometriosis: SurgeryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients waiting for gynaecological surgery are waiting for surgery for thoracic endometriosis.
Answer: This data is not held in the format requested. As set out in the Plan for Change, we will ensure that 92% of patients return to waiting no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
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