Shaun Davies MP: written questions
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Written questions
Parental LeaveDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average length of (a) Statutory Paternity Leave, (b) Shared Parental Leave and (c) Statutory Maternity Leave claimed by each claimant has been in each of the past five years.
Answer: Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that the total value of payments made to individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (the latest year for which fu...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParental Leave: CostsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) Statutory Paternity Leave, (b) Shared Parental Leave and (c) Statutory Maternity Leave in each region in each of the last five years.
Answer: Information provided by employers to HMRC shows that the total value of payments made to individuals in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (the latest year for which fu...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildminding: StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many registered childminders there are by gender in each region.
Answer: Ofsted publish official statistics twice a year and management information twice a year on providers and inspections. Data for childminders on Ofsted registers can be broken down to a regional level. The latest data show that as at 31 December 2024 there ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: TeachersDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching staff in registered nurseries there are by gender in each region.
Answer: The department collects information on the overall size of the workforce through its regular Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers, which can be accessed at the following address: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachersDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching staff there are in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools by gender in each region.
Answer: Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers and teaching assistants broken down by school phase, gender and region, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication available at: https://explore-education...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordOrganised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of providing local councils with the power to close premises where serious and organised crime has been detected by (a) landlords and (b) those renting
Answer: Local authorities may already use the closure power under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, to close premises quickly which are being used, or are likely to be used, to commit nuisance or disorder. Courts may in turn grant a Closure ...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMagistratesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the length of the longest serving Magistrate in each Justice area.
Answer: In the majority of the 75 Local Justice Areas across England and Wales, the current longest-serving magistrate for each has been in post for over thirty years, with many of these serving in excess of 40 years. In Shropshire, the longest service is 38 year...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHonours: MagistratesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Magistrates have been awarded a Royal Honour due to their service as a Magistrate in each year for which data is available.
Answer: Over the last five years, the Ministry of Justice has recorded that there have been 56 magistrates awarded UK national honours. Records are not kept for longer than five years. Many more than this have been nominated across all Departments, but not all ar...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMagistratesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Magistrates have served as Magistrates for (a) 10 years or more, (b) 20 years or more and (c) over 25 years.
Answer: Magistrates are a central pillar of our justice system. Their resilience and commitment have been and continue to be vital in ensuring continued access to justice. Of all currently serving magistrates, 3406 have served for 10 years or more, 1273 have serv...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMagistratesMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to recognise the long service of Magistrates.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice recognises the outstanding service of magistrates through several initiatives. Magistrates can be nominated for UK National Honours by anyone who has noticed their exceptional conduct. Additionally, there is a scheme to recognise e...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Written QuestionsDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to answer Question 36463, tabled on 7 March 2025.
Answer: A response to Question 36463 was published on 11 April 2025 and can be found here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-07/36463.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpikingHome OfficeTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help (a) identify and (b) promote new ways for (i) bars and (ii)venues to prevent spiking.
Answer: Spiking is an appalling crime that undermines the people's right to feel safe when they are simply enjoying a night out.The Government is currently delivering a range of measures to tackle this vile practice, specifically targeted at raising awareness, id...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpikingHome OfficeTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the tools available to (a) bars and (b) venues to (i) help prevent and (ii) spiking incidents.
Answer: Spiking is an appalling crime that undermines the people's right to feel safe when they are simply enjoying a night out.The Government is currently delivering a range of measures to tackle this vile practice, specifically targeted at raising awareness, id...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpikingHome OfficeTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle spiking.
Answer: Spiking is an appalling crime that undermines the people's right to feel safe when they are simply enjoying a night out.The Government is currently delivering a range of measures to tackle this vile practice, specifically targeted at raising awareness, id...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdministration of Justice: Information SharingMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a timetable for a data sharing agreement between the (a) Crown Prosecution Service, (b) courts, (c) police and (d) other criminal justice agencies; and if she will make an estimate of the cost
Answer: There are several data sharing agreements that exist between Criminal Justice System (CJS) agencies for specific purposes, and we are working with CJS agencies to further improve how data is shared. For example, we have run a pilot to link data between pr...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to make a decision on the extension of transitional protections for free school meal entitlements beyond 31 March 2025.
Answer: The continued provision of school food has an important role to play in breaking the unfair link between background and opportunity, which is why the department is considering the government’s school food offer as part of our work on child poverty.As part...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWest Mercia Police: GrantsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding was requested by West Mercia Police for the special grant for financial year 2025-26; and how much of the special grant was allocated to West Mercia Police for the same financial year.
Answer: The Home Office agreed to provide West Mercia Police with Special Grant funding of up to £1.8m in 2024-25, for Operation Lincoln. The final amount provided will not be known until after the end of the financial year.The Home Office has not yet received a ...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people waiting for their asylum application to be processed are living in hotels in (a) England and (b) Telford constituency for each year that data is available.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum seekers on support by local authority, including accommodation in hotels, is published in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many extra appointments have been made available each (a) month and (b) week at the Shrewsbury and Telford hospital since July 2024.
Answer: The data is not held in the format requested. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is missing from Secondary User Services data from July 2024 onwards because of its Electronic Patient Record digital upgrade, for which data submissions are not operat...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWest Mercia Police: GrantsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money has been allocated to West Mercia Police in special grant funding for financial year 2024-25.
Answer: The Home Office agreed to provide West Mercia Police with Special Grant funding of up to £1.8m in 2024-25, for Operation Lincoln. The final amount provided will not be known until after the end of the financial year.The Home Office has not yet received a ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRapid Transit Systems: Economic SituationDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32014More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the economic contribution of light railways.
Answer: Responsibility for light rail is devolved in England, where each local authority owns and is responsible for the operations and financial sustainability of its system.The economic contribution of each scheme can vary significantly based on numerous factor...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRapid Transit SystemsDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support light railway projects.
Answer: Responsibility for light rail is devolved in England, where each local authority owns and is responsible for the operations and financial sustainability of its system. Future local transport funding is subject to the outcome of the upcoming Spending Revie...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: InfrastructureDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve rail infrastructure using dormant rail lines.
Answer: The Government believes that local transport authorities are best placed to advocate for projects which will most benefit their local areas. The ultimate aim is to encourage strong business cases, which effectively identify the optimal transport solution,...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of initiatives to bring dormant rail lines into use.
Answer: The Government believes that local transport authorities are best placed to advocate for projects which will most benefit their local areas. The ultimate aim is to encourage strong business cases, which effectively identify the optimal transport solution,...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: ShropshireDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a direct train services from Shropshire (via Telford) to London on economic growth; and what her planned timetable is for announcing a decision on the app
Answer: The Department for Transport provided a response to the Office of Rail and road regarding the live Open Access application from Wrexham, Shropshire & Midlands Railway to operate services between Wrexham General and London Euston on 4 February 2025. Th...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
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