Martin Wrigley MP: written questions
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Written questions
Heating: Biofuels and Natural GasDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make a comparative assessment of (a) gas and (b) biofuels for home heating.
Answer: Moving away from our reliance on natural gas for home heating is essential to achieving Net Zero and increasing our energy independence. The Government expects most properties will switch to heat pumps, along with heat networks, but recognises that in hom...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate and Nature BillDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to meet with campaigners involved with the Climate and Nature Bill.
Answer: We regularly meet with campaigners on a wide range of issues, including those who support the Climate and Nature Bill.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish data on consumption emissions.
Answer: Defra publish the Carbon Footprint for the UK – including UK consumption emission figures. The latest data is available up to 2021 here : Carbon footprint for the UK and England to 2021 - GOV.UK.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Minister for Local Government and English Devolution will meet with the hon. Member for Newton Abbot.
Answer: I meet with members routinely, and am pleased to do so. My office have contacted the hon. Member.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers' Constituency WorkMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Minister for Housing and Planning will meet with the hon. Member for Newton Abbot.
Answer: My private office has contacted the hon. Member by email to offer a meeting.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how new local authorities with overlapping national park authorities will (a) interact with each other, (b) have stakeholder obligations and (c) be statutory consultees to each o
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 32529 on 3 March 2025.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change and Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to meet the hon. Member for South Cotswolds to discuss legislative proposals on climate and nature.
Answer: I met with the honourable member for South Cotswolds in January this year.
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordOil: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to prevent oil produced in the UK arriving in Russia.
Answer: The export of oil from the UK to Russia is prohibited. Non-compliance with the UK's tough sanctions is a serious offence and punishable through large financial penalties or criminal prosecution. According to HMRC data, the UK did not export oil (HS 2709 a...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOil: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on oil exports to Russia which are (a) processed, (b) traded, (c) refined and (d) financially insured in the UK.
Answer: The UK did not export oil (HS 2709 and 2710) to Russia in 2023 or 2024.The department does not hold specific information on financial insurance services. However, the export of - and technical assistance, financial and brokering services related to - a pe...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: Export ControlsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to end all (a) non-humanitarian aid, (b) trade, (c) financial services and (d) exports to Russia.
Answer: In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UK has put in place an unprecedented package of sanctions.The UK has locked most of the Russian banking sector out of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), frozen Russia's...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOil: RussiaTreasuryTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34073More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department holds information on the proportion of Russian oil (a) imports and (b) exports insured by UK financial instruments.
Answer: The Oil Price Cap was designed to meet two core objectives: to bear down on Russian revenues that could otherwise be used to fund its illegal war, whilst also maintaining global energy security and flows of affordable oil to countries that need it. The me...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordExport Controls: RussiaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason his Department has issued licenses for the export to Russia of (a) medicinal and pharmaceutical products, (b) beverages and tobacco, (c) organic chemicals, (d) cars, (e) toilet and clea
Answer: Applications for licences to export goods and services to Russia otherwise covered by sanctions are assessed on a case-by-case basis, in line with the objectives of our sanctions regime, our wider international obligations, and the specific context of eac...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using (a) alternatives to traditional construction methods in the construction of prisons and (b) modular and rapid deployment cells to mee
Answer: Our new prisons are being delivered through Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) which use a standardised design, allowing us to build faster and more effectively. MMC describes contemporary innovations in co...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP Channings Wood: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department made an environmental impact assessment prior to the commencement of expansion works at HMP Channings Wood; and whether baseline data on (a) air and (b) noise pollution was collected to mea
Answer: Under the previous Government, ahead of delivery at HMP Channings Wood, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening template was completed by our delivery partner (Cushman & Wakefield) and submitted to the council. Using this template and suppo...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the policy paper entitled 10-year Prison Capacity Strategy, published on 11 December 2024, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that new prison developments do not negatively impact loc
Answer: All new prison developments require the Ministry of Justice to submit a detailed Environment Impact Assessment. In addition, the Ministry of Justice applies the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) policy, which require...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to support women impacted by changes to the State Pension age with top-up contributions.
Answer: The Government seeks to support people to help them to retain, return to or progress in work. That is why the Government is reforming employment support to ensure it supports people of all ages.For those people who are unable to work but who are not eligi...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new forum to bring together (a) his Department, (b) the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, (c) the hon. Me
Answer: The Government has already ensured a wide range of stakeholders play an integral role in the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) review process, on which we will continue to build. We have, for example, established a new Cross-Sector Stakeholder Advisory...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: Freezing of AssetsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it her policy to use frozen Russian assets to provide compensation for Ukrainian (a) war survivors and (b) victims of (i) economic crime and (ii) human rights
Answer: This Government is clear that Russia must be held responsible for its illegal war. Working with allies, we remain committed to considering all lawful means by which Russia is made to pay for the damage it has caused Ukraine. Our agreement with G7 partners...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAvian Influenza: CompensationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide compensation to poultry farmers who have had eggs destroyed as a result of Avian flu.
Answer: Compensation paid for birds culled by the Government for disease control purposes is designed to promote prompt reporting of suspicion of disease and is only payable for healthy birds as set out in the Animal Health Act 1981. There is no compensation avai...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Health Certificates and Pet Travel SchemeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34064More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the costs to pet owners for (a) pet passports and (b) Animal Health Certificates for travel between the UK and the EU in the last ten years.
Answer: The Government does not collect data on the cost of pet passports or Animal Health Certificates. All fees are set by veterinary surgeons or veterinary practices and are a private matter between individual practices and their clients and neither the Royal ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: GrantsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34063More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the transfer of intellectual property for projects for which a catapult grant has been awarded to that catapult grant on (a) sma
Answer: The intellectual property (IP) associated with any grants from Innovate UK is owned by the project participants. The sharing of IP between project participants in a collaborative R&D project is established through a collaboration agreement for that co...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the proportion of eligible children who claim their entitlement to a free school meal; and if she will take steps to (a) reduce the complexity of application form
Answer: There are currently around 2.1 million pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals (FSM). The department recognises the vital role played by FSM and strongly encourages schools and local authorities to support eligible families take this entitlemen...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change and Environment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide an annual assessment of the UK’s progress towards climate and nature targets.
Answer: This Government is absolutely committed to tackling the climate and nature crises. In January 2025 we committed to publishing an annual climate and nature statement to parliament and the country. In terms of frameworks already in place, under the Climate ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Special Representative for Nature: Climate Change Committee and Nature Conservation CommitteeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to strengthen the relationship between the (a) Joint Nature Conservation Committee and (b) Climate Change Committee and the UK Special Representative for Nature.
Answer: As part of the Government’s consideration of the Climate and Nature Bill, on 24 January 2025, I committed to strengthen relationships between the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and the Special representat...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBiodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction AgreementForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33677More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if the Government will ratify the agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction.
Answer: The Government is completely committed to ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement,...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
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