Preet Kaur Gill MP: written questions
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Patients: JewsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26493More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing recommendation 6 of the NHS Race & Health Observatory's report entitled Review of NHS health communications with (and for) the Je
Answer: The merits of including Jewish or Sikh as an option when recording ethnicity in National Health Service data, and other issues relating to how the NHS records information on protected characteristics, are being considered by the Unified Information Standa...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric BicyclesDepartment for TransportTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of requiring electric bike users to (a) have a number plate and (b) be insured.
Answer: The Government has no intention of requiring cyclists, including those who ride Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles, to display number plates or to have insurance. This would require a national registration scheme for all cycles which would be complex and ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousehold Support FundDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her policy to allow Household Support Fund allocations to be used by local authorities to purchase (a) slow cookers and (b) kettles.
Answer: In England, the Household Support Fund is a scheme providing discretionary support to those most in need towards the cost of essentials, such as food, energy and water and to support with essentials linked to these for example, energy efficient items whic...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Licences: Digital TechnologyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the digital driving licence will be accepted as a valid form of photo ID.
Answer: While the legal purpose of the driving licence is to convey driving entitlement, they are already commonly accepted as proof of age or identity. The Department for Science and Technology’s (DSIT) ambition is that, in time, the digital driving licence will...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to his Department's press release of 21 January 2025 entitled Shake up of tech and AI usage across NHS and other public services to deliver plan for change, whether he ha
Answer: The Government is excited about the opportunity presented to adopt AI for the public good, including for parliamentary staff and the public sector at large. In service of this, the Government has introduced the GDS Blueprint which outlined the GovAI toolk...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRemittancesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will collect data on family remittances from the UK.
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not collect or report this data on the flow of family remittances out of the UK. The best source is the World Bank Group's remittance data which captures flows through formal banking systems and is pub...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRemittances: Fees and ChargesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to reduce transfer fees on family remittances.
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) co-convene, with Save the Children, a UK-based Remittances Working Group which works with key partners including remittance service providers, diaspora communities, NGOs, and other UK government depa...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Gender EqualityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of bilateral programme funding had a gender equality policy marker in the last two years for which information is available; and what proportion of that fundi
Answer: Official data, sourced from the Statistics for International Development, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Creditor Reporting System, is available for 2022 and 2023. This data ind...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to deliver humanitarian aid to Sudan.
Answer: The UK continues to provide humanitarian assistance to support people in Sudan and those who have fled the country. The UK has recently doubled its Official Development Assistance (ODA) this year in response to the conflict in Sudan to £226.5 million - th...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDiagnosis: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the use of artificial intelligence in NHS diagnostics.
Answer: The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the National Health Service is still at a relatively early stage, with the majority of AI technologies, including diagnostic tools, being deployed in a research capacity. To address this, the Department is...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure the long-term stability of (a) NGOs and (b) aid agencies that (i) provide humanitarian support and (ii) have other opera
Answer: The UK is a strong supporter of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and aid agencies in Afghanistan. We are planning £161 million in aid to Afghanistan this financial year (2024-25), much of which supports NGOs to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid for...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: WomenForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made recent representations to the authorities in Afghanistan on the treatment of women and girls in that country.
Answer: We repeatedly condemn the Taliban's draconian restrictions on women and girls' rights, both bilaterally and internationally. The UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha continues to press Taliban acting ministers and Afghan officials on their grotesque human ri...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Infrastructure Bank: WomenTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20240More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of funding from the UK Infrastructure Bank went to female-led (a) projects and (b) businesses in the last 10 years.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund does not record the gender of the leadership teams of the projects and businesses, in which it invests. The National Wealth Fund makes investment decisions in line with its investment principles, which can be found on its website....
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordReligious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to promote (a) internet freedom and (b) access to information to advocate freedom of religion internationally.
Answer: The UK is committed to media freedom, and advocating freedom of religion or belief (FoRB). The UK is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), a partnership of 41 governments, co-ordinating diplomatic efforts and engaging with civil society and priv...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWomen: HealthWomen and EqualitiesTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901199More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help improve women's health.
Answer: I would like to thank my Hon. Friend for her continued interest in women’s health.Women’s health is a priority for this government, and we are considering how to take forward the Women’s Health Strategy.Work continues to improve health outcomes for women,...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordLiving Wage and Minimum Wage: BirminghamDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 1 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of workers that will benefit from the increase to the (a) National Minimum Wage and (b) National Living Wage in Birmingham.
Answer: In total, over 3 million workers are expected to receive a pay rise due to increases to the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage in April 2025. We will also publish an Impact Assessment alongside the legislation that implements the increase to t...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordLiving Wage and Minimum Wage: West MidlandsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 1 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many workers aged above 16 years old are paid within 50p of the (a) National Minimum Wage and (b) National Living Wage in (i) Birmingham and (ii) the West Midlands.
Answer: The Low Pay Commission publishes a report that provides a coverage of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) each year, shortly before the rates are updated in April. The report provides a Local Authority and Regional breakdown of ...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNigeria: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help promote freedom of religious belief for (a) Christians and (b) other religious minorities in Nigeria.
Answer: The UK continues to champion Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for all in Nigeria, and beyond. No one should live in fear because of what they do, or do not believe in. We work to uphold the right to FoRB through our position at the UN, G7 and other mu...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNitazenes: BirminghamDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) hospitalisations and (b) deaths from people using nitazenes in Birmingham; and what steps he is taking to reduce these numbers.
Answer: The number of hospital admissions in Birmingham due to the use of nitazenes is not collected.On 3 October 2024, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) published the research report, Deaths linked to potent synthetic opioids, providing in...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to coordinate with the interim government of Bangladesh to protect Hindu and other religious minority communities.
Answer: The UK has a long-standing commitment to the protection of human rights. We are committed to Freedom of Religion or Belief for all. In July, the UK government expressed concern about the situation in Bangladesh and called for all sides to end the violence...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordYemen: Baha'i FaithForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in Yemen on the restriction of religious or belief for Bahai's in that country.
Answer: We actively track the treatment of the Baha'i community in Yemen, including through meeting their representatives in the UK and lobbying the relevant authorities. Following the Houthis' arbitrary abduction of 17 members during a peaceful gathering in Sana...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal license plates have been seized by the police in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Government is working closely with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime.We do not hold information centrally on illegal licence...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal license plates.
Answer: The Government is working closely with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime.We do not hold information centrally on illegal licence...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to promote compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Afghanistan.
Answer: We have repeatedly condemned Taliban restrictions on women and girls' rights, including through UN Security Council and Human Rights Council resolutions. As the Foreign Secretary said on 24 August, the exclusion of women from all aspects of public life i...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: RohingyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Bangladeshi counterpart on (a) education, (b) registration and (c) other assistance for Rohingya refugees arriving in that country.
Answer: The UK regularly discusses the Rohingya refugee response with the Interim Government of Bangladesh. This includes the importance of providing education and skills training to those in the camps, and ensuring new Rohingya arrivals are registered and can ac...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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