Stephen Gethins MP: written questions
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: CorrespondenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Leader of Dundee City Council can expect to receive a response to his letter dated 14 November 2024.
Answer: Thank you to the Leader of the Council for the invitations in his letter, they will be responded to shortly. I apologise for the delay.
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the adoption of a reformed national pricing mechanism for Electricity Market Arrangements on the four nations of the UK.
Answer: No decision has been reached on whether to transition to zonal pricing or to reform our current national pricing arrangements. For either a potential reformed national or zonal market, we will ensure that any decision is based on a robust assessment of im...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity: PricesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he expects to publish the Review of the Electricity Market Arrangements.
Answer: We aim to conclude the policy development phase of REMA soon. We want to ensure that our final package of reforms continues to underpin the investment needed to reach our 2030 commitment whilst also benefitting consumers through reducing system costs.
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum and Visas: Artificial IntelligenceHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using artificial intelligence to translate documents supporting (a) visa and (b) asylum applications.
Answer: Whilst the Home Office is committed to using technology and innovation to make the asylum system more efficient, the Home Office does not currently use Artificial Intelligence to translate documents submitted as evidence in asylum claims.
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum and Visas: Artificial IntelligenceHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department accepts documents for (a) visa and (b) asylum applications translated by artificial intelligence.
Answer: Whilst the Home Office is committed to using technology and innovation to make the asylum system more efficient, the Home Office does not currently use Artificial Intelligence to translate documents submitted as evidence in asylum claims.
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: GreenlandDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is negotiating a free trade agreement with Greenland.
Answer: This government’s top priority is economic growth. We are working with officials to review these negotiations to date, and their alignment with the Government’s wider international and domestic priorities.We have already concluded trade agreements with th...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Dublin ConventionHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of leaving the Dublin Convention on the numbers of illegal migrants entering the UK.
Answer: The Dublin III Regulation ceased to apply to the UK from January 2021 onwards. Any assessment of the potential impact of that change would have been for the previous government to make at the time in question.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services Compensation SchemeTreasuryTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58224More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the terms of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to reimburse legal costs for victims of fraud.
Answer: The rules governing the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) for consumers of failed authorised firms, including where those consumers have been the victims of fraud, are set by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct ...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGeorgia: Politics and GovernmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) implications for its policies of the Georgian Foreign Agent Registration Act and (b) impact of that legislation o
Answer: I am deeply concerned by the Georgian Foreign Agents Registration Act which came into force on 31 May 2025 and the implications it will have on our ability to support the reforms required for Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations. This legislation represent...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry: VacanciesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU on availability of workforce in the Scottish hospitality sector.
Answer: Government values the contribution that legal migration makes to the UK, not least to important sectors of the Scottish economy such as hospitality.While there has been no specific assessment, there were around 226,000 people working in hospitality in Sco...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU on medicine shortages in the UK.
Answer: The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact on medicine shortages in the UK.Medicine supply chains are complex, global, and highly regulated, and there are a numb...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordConstruction: VacanciesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of the UK leaving the EU on workforce shortages in the construction industry.
Answer: The current migration route for employing individuals into the construction industry is through Skilled Worker Visas.DBT and industry has worked with the Home Office (HO) to provide clearer guidance to construction employers on the Sponsor Licence process...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: Telephone ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waiting times for the Child Maintenance Service phone line.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service are committed to delivering the best possible service to all customers within our growing caseload. We continuously monitor telephony performance and through this fully recognise that call waiting times are at times longer th...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2025 to Question 48500 tabled on British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme, what the Government’s timetable is for considering proposals put forward by British
Answer: I met the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees in April and am due to meet them again shortly. Officials have recently received the analysis we jointly commissioned from the Government Actuary’s Department and will now use that to inform our ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordErasmus+ ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many UK-based apprenticeships were supported through the Erasmus programme in each year between 2008 and 2021.
Answer: The department does not hold or publish the requested data, as this data is owned by the European Commission.
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSerbia: DemonstrationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with European counterparts on the detention of demonstrators in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Answer: We and international partners continue to track ongoing political protests and responses in Serbia, including a number of arrests and detentions of demonstrators in Novi Sad and other cities. The UK continues to stress to Serbia's leaders the importance o...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSerbia: DemonstrationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of the detention of demonstrators in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Answer: We and international partners continue to track ongoing political protests and responses in Serbia, including a number of arrests and detentions of demonstrators in Novi Sad and other cities. The UK continues to stress to Serbia's leaders the importance o...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: ScotlandCabinet OfficeTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52858More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent UK Government civil servants main place of employment is (a) Queen Elizabeth House Edinburgh and (b) elsewhere in Scotland.
Answer: The number of civil servants on a full-time equivalent basis reported as in post as at 31 March 2024 and based in Queen Elizabeth House is 2,760. The number of civil servants based in Scotland on a full-time equivalent basis as at 31 March 2024 is 51,830....
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordScotland Office: Civil ServantsScotland OfficeTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many civil servants in his Department are employed in (a) Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh, (b) Dover House on Whitehall and (c) other locations in London.
Answer: As at 31 March 2025, the Scotland Office had 47 civil servants based at Queen Elizabeth House, Edinburgh and 38 civil servants based at Dover House, Whitehall, London. The Office does not have civil servants based at any other locations.
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51865More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Minister for the Armed Forces plans to reply to correspondence from the hon. Member for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry of 28 January 2025.
Answer: We are committed to ensuring Government responses to correspondence are timely, accurate, and high quality. On this occasion there was an administrative error which has caused a delay, for which I apologise. However, I can assure the hon. Member that I wi...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Trade with EUTreasuryTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48434More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of re-joining the EU single market on the UK economy, in the context of the UK-EU summit on 19 May 2025.
Answer: The OBR has estimated that productivity will be 4% lower in the long run than it would have been had the UK not withdrawn from the EU, and that imports and exports will eventually both be 15 per cent lower than had we stayed in the EU. As of the Spring Bu...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Trade with EUTreasuryTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48433More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of re-joining the EU Customs Union on the UK economy, in the context of the UK-EU summit on 19 May 2025.
Answer: The OBR has estimated that productivity will be 4% lower in the long run than it would have been had the UK not withdrawn from the EU, and that imports and exports will eventually both be 15 per cent lower than had we stayed in the EU. As of the Spring Bu...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade: ScotlandScotland OfficeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to paragraph 2.28 of the Office of Budget Responsibility's publication entitled Economic and fiscal outlook, published in October 2024, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the
Answer: In its latest economic outlook, the OBR expects the level of overall exports to recover in 2025 and return to growth over the period 2026 to 2029. The European Union is an important trade partner for the UK, with total trade in goods and services of £813 ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFiscal PolicyTreasuryTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47251More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.28 of the Office of Budget Responsibility's publication entitled Economic and fiscal outlook, published in October 2024, if she will make an estimate of the macro economic cost of the c
Answer: HM Treasury does not prepare forecasts for the UK economy and public finances, including assessments of potential impacts of policy changes. These are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) which confirmed its assessm...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFiscal PolicyTreasuryTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47250More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.28 of the Office of Budget Responsibility's publication entitled Economic and fiscal outlook, published in October 2024, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of th
Answer: HM Treasury does not prepare forecasts for the UK economy and public finances, including assessments of potential impacts of policy changes. These are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) which confirmed its assessm...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
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