Seamus Logan MP: written questions
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Places of Worship Renewal Fund: ScotlandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 118071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Places of Worship Renewal Fund.
Answer: I refer him to Written Parliamentary Question HL14753.
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPoultry: ScotlandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Poultry Support Grant.
Answer: The Poultry Biosecurity Review uses funds allocated to farmers in England only. As agriculture is devolved, it will be for the Scottish Government to allocate any funding to farmers in Scotland. Overall, the spending review settlement for the Scottish Gov...
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPublic Expenditure: ScotlandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Collaboration Fund.
Answer: The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, Farming Innovation Programme, the new round of Environmental Land Management Capital Grants, the Farming Collaboration Fund, and the Poultry Support Grant will be funded from Defra’s Spending Review 2025 settleme...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordEnvironmental Land Management Schemes: ScotlandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the new round of Environmental Land Management (ELM) Capital Grants.
Answer: The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, Farming Innovation Programme, the new round of Environmental Land Management Capital Grants, the Farming Collaboration Fund, and the Poultry Support Grant will be funded from Defra’s Spending Review 2025 settleme...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: InnovationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Innovation Programme.
Answer: The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, Farming Innovation Programme, the new round of Environmental Land Management Capital Grants, the Farming Collaboration Fund, and the Poultry Support Grant will be funded from Defra’s Spending Review 2025 settleme...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: InnovationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund.
Answer: The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, Farming Innovation Programme, the new round of Environmental Land Management Capital Grants, the Farming Collaboration Fund, and the Poultry Support Grant will be funded from Defra’s Spending Review 2025 settleme...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming Incentive: ScotlandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Answer: No, as agriculture is devolved, it will be for the Scottish Government to allocate any funding to farmers in Scotland. The Sustainable Farming Incentive uses funds allocated to farmers in England only.
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTuring Scheme: EU CountriesDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will assess the potential merits of using the Turing scheme to enhance reciprocal cooperation with other European countries so it is aligned with the Erasmus+ scheme.
Answer: There are no plans to change the scope of the Turing Scheme, including the sectors in which it operates. The Turing Scheme is global by design and has supported placements in over 160 countries. The Turing Scheme already provides inclusion support through...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTuring Scheme: EU CountriesDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to help ensure the Turing scheme funds cooperation, research, tool-building and shared training systems across countries in Europe.
Answer: There are no plans to change the scope of the Turing Scheme, including the sectors in which it operates. The Turing Scheme is global by design and has supported placements in over 160 countries. The Turing Scheme already provides inclusion support through...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTuring SchemeDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered adding funding rules, inclusion support and non-formal learning approaches to the Turing scheme.
Answer: There are no plans to change the scope of the Turing Scheme, including the sectors in which it operates. The Turing Scheme is global by design and has supported placements in over 160 countries. The Turing Scheme already provides inclusion support through...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordTuring SchemeDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has for extending Turing funding to youth work, adult learning, community development and sport in line with the Erasmus+ scheme.
Answer: There are no plans to change the scope of the Turing Scheme, including the sectors in which it operates. The Turing Scheme is global by design and has supported placements in over 160 countries. The Turing Scheme already provides inclusion support through...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordErasmus+ ProgrammeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if her department has received the newly published evidence and impact report on the benefits of Erasmus+ by LEAP Sports Scotland.
Answer: This Government has agreed an important new deal that will open up opportunities for people to study, live and learn in the EU through our reassociation into the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. We have noted the report published on 26 February 2026 by LEAP Sp...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work Programme: Visual ImpairmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reconsideration requests submitted by (a) blind and (b) partially sighted customers have resulted in the original decision being overturned in each of the last three years.
Answer: We do not hold this data in a way that can be extracted. Determining this information would require a manual review of all individual reconsideration cases, which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 20 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114512More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether additional funding and staffing has been allocated to regulators and public bodies to implement the strategy to replace animals in science.
Answer: The Government has announced £75m of funding to accelerate alternatives and innovation, with new capabilities being developed across the UK. This funding will help bring forward advanced testing methods that can save lives and support a faster, science‑le...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Growth Fund: Rural AreasScotland OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112915More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make it his policy to ensure equitable distribution of the Local Growth Fund to rural areas.
Answer: The UK Government is providing targeted funding to the places in Scotland that need it most, while simultaneously delivering the largest Block Grant settlement for the Scottish Government in the whole history of devolution, which they can use to improve g...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Growth Fund: ScotlandScotland OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112914More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to not include the North East Scotland Regional Economic Partnership in the Local Growth Fund.
Answer: The UK Government is providing targeted funding to the places in Scotland that need it most, while simultaneously delivering the largest Block Grant settlement for the Scottish Government in the whole history of devolution, which they can use to improve g...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordLocal Growth Fund: ScotlandScotland OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 112913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the evidential basis is for not including the North East Scotland Regional Economic Partnership in the Local Growth Fund.
Answer: The UK Government is providing targeted funding to the places in Scotland that need it most, while simultaneously delivering the largest Block Grant settlement for the Scottish Government in the whole history of devolution, which they can use to improve g...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on 1950s born women in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency.
Answer: All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. Estimates can be made with ONS 2022 Census Data of how many women born in the 1950s were resident in each constituency in that year.
Answered 5 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish impact assessments, modelling and further detail on the UK-US pharmaceutical trade deal.
Answer: Tens of thousands of National Health Service patients will benefit from this deal, which will secure and expand access to vital drugs, and thereby safeguard our medicines supply chain.Costs will start smaller but will increase over time as the National In...
Answered 20 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106236More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated towards research into the causes of epilepsy.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Knowsley on 6 January 2026 to Question 101055.
Answered 20 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106235More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into new treatments for epilepsy.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Knowsley on 6 January 2026 to Question 101055.
Answered 20 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSudan: Bilateral AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much total spend, and predicted spend in Sudan, originating from the FCDO ODA budget for bilateral aid there was, and will be, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Answer: The £120 million Sudan allocation announced in April 2025 is funded from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.Humanitarian ODA allocations are included in country programme budgets, as set ...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with regards to the Prime Minister's announcement on the 15th April 2025 to spend £120M in emergency aid Sudan, a) which governmental budget this originates from and b) which
Answer: The £120 million Sudan allocation announced in April 2025 is funded from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.Humanitarian ODA allocations are included in country programme budgets, as set ...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearmsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when will the Government launch its public consultation on the controls on (a) shotguns and (b) other firearms.
Answer: The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February this year, included a commitment to having a public consultation on strengthening the licensing controls on shotguns, to bring them more into line with the contr...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to his Statement on the Electricity Market Review on July 10 2025, Official Report, column 1160, if he will publish his Department’s reformed national pricing delivery plan.
Answer: I confirm that the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero will publish a Reformed National Pricing delivery plan early next year. Some elements of Reformed National Pricing are already under way, including building network infrastructure, and we in...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
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