Richard Tice MP: written questions
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Torbay HospitalDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future of Torbay Hospital.
Answer: My rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set out a credible and deliverable plan for the new hospital schemes in the New Hospital Programme (NHP) on 20 January 2025, following the conclusion of the review of the NHP. The Plan...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24330More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to (a) support the private education sector and (b) encourage its expansion (i) domestically and (ii) internationally.
Answer: The department encourages private schools to be high quality and is seeking to further improve regulation of the sector through measures outlined in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Amongst other things, the Bill seeks to ensure that all pupils ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will increase NHS dental funding to improve (a) accessibility, (b) workforce retention and (c) patient outcomes; and what steps he has taken to ensure there is equitable access to dental serv
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments, and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild de...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many paying parents party to a child maintenance agreement are assessed to have an income of less than £12,570 per year; how many paying parents are in receipt of universal credit; and how many payi
Answer: At the end of September 2024, there were 289,000 Paying Parents using the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) with a recorded income of less than £12,570 per year. This is 43% of all Paying Parents for whom we held income information. Information on the numbe...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the costs to the Child Maintenance Service are of the (a) supervision and (b) processing of (i) Direct Pay and (ii) Collect and Pay arrangements.
Answer: The cost of running the Child Maintenance Service is not separated between a) supervision and (b) processing of (i) Direct Pay and (ii) Collect and Pay arrangements, therefore, the information requested is not held.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what private sector companies the Child Maintenance Service has contracted to implement enforcement proceedings; what the value of each contract is; whether funds paid by parents are paid to such compan
Answer: DWP holds a number of contracts to support Child Maintenance Service enforcement proceedings. Qualco UK Ltd – Managed Enforcement Agency Services – contract award forecast value £686,750. Shakespeare Martineau LLP - Orders for Sale Litigation Services – c...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former armed forces personnel have been subject to enforcement proceedings by the Child Maintenance Service since 2021.
Answer: The information requested is not available, as the Child Maintenance Service do not maintain a historical record of employers for each paying parent.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many separated families applied to the Child Maintenance Service for advice on creating a family-based arrangement from 2021 to 2024; and how many parents who approached the Service did not proceed
Answer: The information requested is not available. However, the Get Help Arranging Child Maintenance (GHACM) service opened on 18 November 2021 and provides individuals with information about options available for paying or getting support for a child, this incl...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRegulation: CostsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost of regulatory compliance for businesses in each of the last five years; and if she will make a comparative estimate of the cost of regulatory compliance (
Answer: The Business Impact Target, which was repealed by the previous government through the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act, was the principal mechanism through which government made an estimate of the total annual cost of regulation to business. In...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the annual subsidy is for renewable energy projects; and what the average increase in consumer energy bills was in each of the last five years.
Answer: This data is published by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility and Ofgem. Renewables provide energy security by reducing our exposure to gas price volatility, as well as providing significant savings for those households and businesses directly benefit...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total expenditure was on achieving net zero targets in each year since 2015 by sector; and what the corresponding estimated total reduction in global emissions was in the same period
Answer: The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its analysis of the cost of reaching net zero by 2050 in chapter 3 of the July 2021 edition of its UK Fiscal Risk Report. As the OBR has noted, “the costs of failing to get climate change under control w...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of migrants that have been granted (a) asylum and (b) leave to remain in the last five years are receiving Universal Credit; and what estimate she has made of the projected
Answer: The Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable Official Statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK/ Irish Universal Credit customers. The Department will ensure that this work is done in line with the Code of Practice for S...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: ExpenditureHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of providing public services including (a) healthcare, (b) education and (c) housing of migrants that have arrived via small boat cros
Answer: The Home Office publishes all available information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23064More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of migrants who entered in the UK in the last 5 years are in receipt of state benefits.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information to produce the requested calculation. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish customers. The Department will ensure that ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23063More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle crimes committed by individuals who have entered the country illegally.
Answer: The police deal with all criminals without fear or favour, irrespective of their nationality or immigration status.Foreign nationals who commit serious crimes in our country should also be in no doubt that where practical and lawful, we will pursue their ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure asylum seekers are no longer housed in hotels in Boston and Skegness constituency.
Answer: This government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain, with tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo without any prospect of having their claims processed. At their peak use under the previous government, in the autumn of 2023, more than 4...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of excluding people on Personal Independence Payment from eligibility for the winter fuel payment on their ability to meet energy costs.
Answer: Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the Government has had to make hard choices to bring the public finances back under control. Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be paid to pensioner households with someon...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Carbon EmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23060More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: In the last five years, the Department has not provided ringfenced capital for the National Health Service’s Net Zero targets.Direct investment in the decarbonisation of NHS buildings and operations is primarily supported by external grant funding. For ex...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its analysis of the cost of reaching net zero by 2050 in chapter 3 of the July 2021 edition of its UK Fiscal Risk Report. As the OBR has noted, “the costs of failing to get climate change under control w...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: While the Department for Net Zero and Energy Security leads across Government on net zero, Defra is responsible for reducing emissions from agriculture, land use (including peat), fluorinated gases and waste (including wastewater), whilst simultaneously i...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: The department does not maintain records of expenditure on measures to achieve net zero.The department’s estate is managed and maintained by the Government Property Agency (GPA). The GPA is responsible for investment in energy efficiency measures that rel...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Carbon EmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: High and rising school standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life. Ensuring schools have the high quality and sustainable buildings they need is a key part of t...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Carbon EmissionsMinistry of DefenceTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is fully committed to contributing to the UK achieving its legal commitment to be Net Zero by 2050. Between Financial Year 1209-20 and Financial Year 2023-24, the MOD has reduced its overall emissions from 3,650,000 tCO2e to ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMobile Phones: Boston and SkegnessDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help improve mobile phone signal coverage in rural areas of Boston and Skegness constituency; and what plans he has to ensure that (a) residents and (b) busin
Answer: I have raised my concerns about the reporting of mobile connectivity with Ofcom, but according to Ofcom’s Connected Nations report (published on 5 December 2024) 99% of the Boston and Skegness constituency has 4G geographic coverage from all four mobile o...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Boston and SkegnessHome OfficeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase police funding in Boston and Skegness constituency.
Answer: In December 2024 the Government published the 2025-26 provisional police funding settlement, which proposed funding of up to £19.5 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1 billion when compared to 2024-...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
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