Steve Barclay MP: written questions
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Farmers: Advisory ServicesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have received funding through the Farming Resilience Fund since it was established.
Answer: The Farming Resilience Fund provides free business support to farmers and land managers in England to help them through agricultural transition. It was set up to available from October 2022 and will run until March 2025. Across all three phases of the Fa...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of recent developments in Russia's war in Ukraine on food security in the UK.
Answer: British reliance on food supplies from Ukraine is currently low. Defra actively monitors risks to UK food security on an ongoing basis. The UK Food Security Report, which was published in December, examines past, current, and future trends relevant to foo...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Civil SocietyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times his Department has met representatives of (a) Greenpeace, (b) Just Stop Oil and (c) Extinction Rebellion since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Ministers have met with Greenpeace and discussions continue at an official level. There have not been any meetings with Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of aligning the controls on shotguns with that of other firearms on financial costs to farm businesses.
Answer: The consultation on the recommendation made to the Home Office on aligning the controls on shotguns with other firearms, as set out in the Government response to the consultation, “Firearms Licensing: a consultation on recommendations for changes made to ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environment Agency permits allowing the importation of waste from outside the UK are in effect; and if he will provide a list of sites covered.
Answer: The Environment Agency currently has 208 notifications to import waste, which is recovered at 86 sites. The sites and the number of notifications to each site are listed in the table below: FacilityFacility Postal CodeNumber of notifications (permits)3R T...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSandeels: FisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to reopen Sandeel fisheries in UK waters.
Answer: In March 2024, and following a public consultation, the UK and Scottish Governments closed English waters of the North Sea and all Scottish Waters to sandeel fishing. The closure will shield sandeel as an essential food source for threatened seabird popul...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31457More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total SFI agreement uptake has been per quarter since the beginning of the launch of the 2021 pilot scheme.
Answer: The table below shows the number of Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements accepted and started per quarter since the scheme’s launch in 2021. To note that farmers can have more than one SFI Agreement. The application window was paused across Spring and...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: GrantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been paid to farmers in Improving Farming Productivity grants since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Rual Payment Agency has supported the farming and rural sector through payments under a range of grants. Since 04 July 2024, £2,403,543.46 been paid to farmers for Improving Farming Productivity grants.
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSandeels: FisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025WithdrawnUIN 30626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to permanently close sandeel fisheries in British waters.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual cases of overseas visitors' debt have been written off by NHS Trusts in respect of maternity care in the last 12 months; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of debt has been written off by NHS Trusts as a result of overseas visitors in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are working on issues related to the Chagos Islands.
Answer: There are a number of officials from across the Ministry of Defence who contribute to the work in this area in partnership with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. This includes policy, legal, financial and military teams.
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: British Indian Ocean TerritoryForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials in his Department are working on issues related to the Chagos Islands.
Answer: It would be difficult to assess how many officials are working on these issues, given that we do not record and measure the amount of time spent on any one topic where an official covers a range of matters.
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: EqualityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many full time equivalent equality, diversity and inclusion positions are there in her Department including those unfilled.
Answer: We can confirm that the department holds this information, but we are withholding it as we cannot provide details where the numbers are five or fewer as the individuals concerned in this group or in other groups could be identifiable.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals against administrative removal decisions have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records and to do so for the purpose of answering this question would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) appeals and (b) challenges against deportation orders have have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records and to do so for the purpose of answering this question would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: EqualityHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent roles there are in her Department relating to equality, diversity and inclusion; and how many of those roles are unfilled but budgeted for.
Answer: In 2023, the previous government commissioned an audit of spending in this area, which provided a figure of 16.6 FTE Home Office staff working in central Human Resources roles relating to implementation of statutory functions arising from the Public Secto...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30617More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list all civil service roles that have been (a) internally and (b) externally-advertised between 4 July 2024 and 11 February 2025.
Answer: Between 4 July 2024 and 11 February 2025, approximately 8,000 vacancies were advertised through the Civil Service Jobs website. To note, an advertised vacancy may contain a number of posts, hence the variance between the number of vacancies and the number...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the amount that was spent by local authorities on services supporting (a) refugees and (b) people seeking asylum to access healthcare ser
Answer: The department does not hold this information to the level of detail requested. The department releases data on local authority spend through the local authority revenue expenditure and financing statistics, in which line 49 accounts for services or inter...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28491More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for the treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in accordance with the NICE Quality Standard QS204 in each of the last fi
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum DisorderDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in (a) England, (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Peterborough Integrated Care Board.
Answer: The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Management Companies: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to increase the transparency of charges levied on residents of new estates where freehold estate management fees apply.
Answer: I refer the Rt hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: PeterboroughDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish all relevant reports submitted to the Environment Agency in 2024 by the operator of the Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station in compliance with thei
Answer: Relevant reports will be published in due course. The permit (AWCNF428/10348) requires various information and data to be submitted to the Environment Agency as follows: Annual Summary report for Storm Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data – start & s...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSewage: PeterboroughDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the operator of the Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station fitted an early duration monitor on the combined sewage overflow.
Answer: Peterborough Stanground Thistle Drive Pumping Station has an EDM (Event Duration Monitor) on site as this is now a legal requirement for sites that discharge storm sewage. Further information on EDM data across the UK can be found at Storm Overflow Spill ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConcreteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the debate on New Hospitals of 25 May 2023, Official Report, column 477, whether a further assess
Answer: Following the General Election in July 2024, the Government inherited a programme to deliver new hospitals that was unfunded beyond March 2025 and was repeatedly delayed. We now have a plan to deliver the New Hospital Programme which is realistic and affo...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
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