Mary Glindon MP: written questions
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Social Rented Housing: Repairs and MaintenanceTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77057More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of VAT on incentives to refurbish void properties in the social housing sector.
Answer: The Government confirmed an initial £1.29bn of funding for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund 2025-2028 at the 2024 Autumn Budget. The Government will provide £13.2bn of housing retrofit funding to 2030, delivering our manifesto pledge. Residential renov...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Repairs and MaintenanceTreasuryTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77056More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of zero-rating VAT on the refurbishment of social housing.
Answer: The Government confirmed an initial £1.29bn of funding for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund 2025-2028 at the 2024 Autumn Budget. The Government will provide £13.2bn of housing retrofit funding to 2030, delivering our manifesto pledge. Residential renov...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Tyne and WearDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 73856 on Long Covid: Health Services, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to long Covid care for people in (a) Newcastle upo
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning specialist services for long COVID that meet the needs of their population, subject to local prioritisation and funding. For Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside, this is the North East and...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNorway: Type 26 FrigatesMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decision of Norway to purchase five Type 26 frigates from BAE Systems on businesses in the North East.
Answer: I refer the hon. Members to the answer given by my noble Friend, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence (Lord Coaker), on 16 September 2025 to Question number HL10176 in the House of Lords. The Norwegian Government’s announcement on 31 August 20...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAmmunition: FactoriesMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Strategic Defence Review published on 2 June 2025, whether his Department has considered establishing one of the new munitions factories in the North East.
Answer: The Strategic Defence Review committed to build at least six new energetics and munitions factories in the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently developing a plan to deliver this commitment alongside our wider Defence Industrial Strategy, deliver...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including guidance on the role of internal audit in providing independent assurance on telecommunications security risks, i
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of governance arrangements for broadband providers regulated by Ofcom, in the context of the open letter from the Chartered Institute of Int
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will support Ofcom in developing best practice guidance for telecoms companies on (a) board leadership, (b) governance and (c) the role of internal audit in managing cyber and da
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTelecommunications: Risk ManagementDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of major broadband providers not having internal audit functions on (a) risk management and (b) cybersecurity governance .
Answer: The Government keeps the financial health of the market under close review and Ofcom have powers to request financial information from providers. The Telecommunications Security Code of Practice provides guidance on how communications providers can meet s...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGround Rent: Newcastle upon Tyne East and WallsendMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the affordability of ground rents in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.
Answer: The government is committed to addressing unregulated and unaffordable ground rents and we will do this in legislation. We will set out further details on our detailed plans for existing ground rents in due course. Data on ground rents is collected as par...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 62460 on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services, whether a date has been set for the showcase event for post-acute infection conditions.
Answer: A provisional date of 6 November 2025 has been set for the showcase event for post-acute infection conditions. The event looks to encourage researchers to join the myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID ...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable (a) access to long covid services, (b) care outcomes and (c) patient experience for people with long covid.
Answer: Since April 2024, the commissioning of post-COVID, or long COVID, services have been the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs), following the closure of the national post-COVID programme.ICBs are responsible for commissioning specialist se...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Tyne and WearDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of how many and what proportion of people waited less than 6 weeks for their first treatment for talking therapies in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne and (b) North Tyneside in M
Answer: The following table shows the number of referrals to NHS Talking Therapies with their first treatment in May 2025, and the number and percentage of referrals with first treatment within six weeks of the referral being received, for Newcastle upon Tyne and...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 10 Year Health Plan on victims of (a) modern slavery and (b) human trafficking.
Answer: When developing the 10-Year Health Plan, workshops were held for people experiencing multiple forms of social and economic exclusion played a large part in it, including victims of modern slavery.As part of the recommendations from the review into modern ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 10 Year Health Plan on people experiencing multiple forms of (a) social and (b) economic exclusion.
Answer: Social justice runs through our 10-Year Health Plan, which sets out a reimagined service designed to tackle inequalities in both access and outcomes, as well as to give everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from, the means to engage with it ...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWorld War I and World War II: WomenDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57634 on World War I and World War II: Women, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to sponsor a memorial for munitions workers in both worl
Answer: The Government recognises the hard work of the Munitions workers and is extremely grateful for their input and sacrifices made during both world wars.Munitions workers are included on the women's war memorial in Whitehall. In addition, several trees have ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the airstrike on Palestinians at a water distribution point at al-Nuseirat refugee camp on 13 Ju
Answer: Reports of women and children killed while waiting in line for water at al-Nuseirat camp are devastating. We have been clear that civilians in Gaza must be protected from attack and able to access aid without fear.No one should have to risk their life to ...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: ReformDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to consult charities on SEND reform.
Answer: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and I continue to engage with special educational needs and disabilities charities, stakeholders and parent carers, and are conducting weekly engagement sessions via webinars, meetings and visits....
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of first-time applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy that were successful in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were made to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the proportion of rejected applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy that were judged eligible on review in (a) 2024 and (b) the first six months of 2025.
Answer: In 2024, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) received 27,491 applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Additionally the Department reviewed and confirmed the ineligible outcome of 1,070 principal applications where the applican...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
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