Martin Wrigley MP: written questions
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USA: Defence EquipmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what equipment his Department has procured from the United States for the armed forces since 1 January 2024.
Answer: The Department does hold information relating to contract duration, spend to date, and total contract value, which could allow for basic modelling. However, information to identify projected spending over the next five years with US suppliers is not held ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas TradeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Q95 of the oral evidence given by the Chief of Policy of the Confederation of British Business to the Business and Trade
Answer: The EU is a significant trading partner for both goods and services. In the 12 months ending September 2024, the UK’s total trade with the EU was 5% below the level seen in 2018, after removing the effect of inflation and excluding precious metals. We wil...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the role of the Personal Independence Payment in enabling work.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment is not means-tested, it is payable in addition to any other income received and is available to people whether they are in work or not. This Government wants to alleviate people’s worries around trying work. The Pathways to W...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: EligibilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of tightening the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment on the ability of disabled people to afford their costs.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a contribution to the extra costs of being disabled. We have set out plans to introduce a new eligibility requirement in PIP so that people must score a minimum of four points in one daily living activity in PIP to b...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39209More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether anyone in receipt of Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity benefits will receive reduced levels of payments following the reforms announced in her Oral Ministerial Statement on 1
Answer: To address the fundamental imbalance between the health top up and standard allowance of UC, we will legislate to take a decisive step to reset payment rates in UC over this Parliament, starting from April 2026. For people who already receive the UC healt...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 34688 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will list (a) the names of organisations from the private parking industry with whom (
Answer: As per my 19 March answer, I have not yet held any meetings with the private parking industry, these are to take place shortly. However, my officials have regular meetings with the industry stakeholders. The organisations and meeting dates that took place...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: AppealsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Tribunals statistics quarterly; October to December 2024 report, published 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of PIP appeals overturned in favour
Answer: The PIP appeal overturn rate is 67%. It has remained stable around this rate since the second quarter of 2021/22. For initial decisions between October 2019 and September 2024 (the latest 5-year period), 3.3 million initial decisions following a PIP asses...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: NeurodiversityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) adults with (i) ADHD and (ii) autism and (b) other neurodivergent adults.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course. The Government is determined to improve the low current employment rate among neurodivergent adults. A further programme of analysis to support development of ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39205More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) disabled parents and (b) parents of disabled children.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course. Many parents of disabled children will welcome the proposed increase from 16 to 18 in the age of transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Indepe...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39204More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the Music Venue Trust entitled Annual Report 2024, published on 24 January 2025, on the potential impact
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including grassroots music venues, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic Venues: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39203More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing Business Rate Relief from 75% to 40% on Grassroots Music Venues.
Answer: As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including grassroots music venues, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27. This permanent ta...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) time taken and (b) effectiveness of treatment
Answer: Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will take steps to provide (a) faster and (b) wider availability for prostate-specific antigen t
Answer: Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Carers and ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to amend the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment for (a) carers and (b) children.
Answer: We have set out plans to introduce a new eligibility requirement in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) so that people must score a minimum of four points in one daily living activity in PIP to be eligible for the daily living component. PIP is open to ne...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: Civil ServantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 34339 on Fisheries: civil servants, if he will assign civil servants to work on trade and co-operation agreements with the fishing in
Answer: Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is the title of the 2020 agreement between the United Kingdom and European Union rather than a generic concept which Defra works on with the fishing industry. In respect of whether the Government will assign civil ser...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFishing Vessels: ElectricityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide funding to support the electrification of UK fishing fleets.
Answer: The UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions programme in the Department for Transport has opened a round of funding for feasibility studies and pre-deployment trials into clean maritime solutions, with fishing vessels in scope.
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30796 on Childcare: Finance, if she will collect data from councils on (a) how childcare providers deliver entitlements and (b) how many and what proportio
Answer: The department collects data directly from childcare providers on how many deliver early years entitlements, and how these can be used by families.For example, Table 7.5 of the most recent survey report, published in 2024, shows the proportion of provider...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes Outside National Territories: British Nationals AbroadHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will review the adequacy of its policies on police forces supporting foreign jurisdictions, in the context of the case of Ali Kololo.
Answer: Our thoughts are with Mrs. Tebbutt and her family, Mr. Kololo and all those who have been affected by this terrible crime.The operationally independent Metropolitan Police continue to progress matters relating to Mr. Kololo’s case.Under Section 26 of the ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordConsumer Goods: SafetyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of aligning UK General Product Safety Regulations with those in the EU to remove the need for an EU Responsible Person when trading with the EU.
Answer: Amending the General Product Safety Regulations that apply in Great Britain to align with the EU’s new GPSR would not remove the requirement that exists for a Responsible Economic Operator based within the EU or Northern Ireland when trading with the EU. ...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS nurses providing additional cover for staff shortages are adequately compensated.
Answer: These specific assessments have not been made.We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade. This will ensure the National Health Service has the right people, in the righ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: DevonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of ending enhanced payments for NHS nurses covering staff shortages on staffing levels at (a) Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, (b) No
Answer: These specific assessments have not been made.We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade. This will ensure the National Health Service has the right people, in the righ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that ending enhanced payments for NHS nurses covering staff shortages does not increase reliance on agency staff.
Answer: These specific assessments have not been made.We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade. This will ensure the National Health Service has the right people, in the righ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of ending enhanced payments for NHS nurses covering staff shortages on the finances of nurses; and what estimate his Department has m
Answer: These specific assessments have not been made.We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade. This will ensure the National Health Service has the right people, in the righ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38478More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that independent schools are subject to the same inspection standards as state-funded schools.
Answer: The regulatory regime for private schools, as set out in the 2008 Education and Skills Act, is based on compliance with the independent school standards, and failure can lead to a notice to improve, restrictions being placed on school operations or, follo...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: InspectionsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38477More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered replacing Ofsted with a new HM Inspector of Schools with a (a) revised inspection framework and (b) assessments of (i) staff and (ii) pupil wellbeing.
Answer: In 2024, Ofsted conducted its Big Listen, which was the largest consultation in its history, receiving more than 20,000 responses. It listened to the views of a wide range of parents, teachers, school leaders and others about the impact of inspection and ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
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