Wendy Morton MP: written questions
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Police: Labour TurnoverHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to model the level of police officer (a) attrition and (b) recruitment required to (i) maintain and (ii) increase overall frontline police numbers in the next three
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on police officer attrition as part of the Police Workforce Statistics, England and Wales. Attrition varies by force and in the year ending March 2024, 9,080 FTE police officers left the 43 territorial police forces in Engla...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Policing: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the funding from her Department to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers by 2029.
Answer: We have made £200 million available in FY 25/26 to support the first steps towards delivering 13,000 more neighbourhood personnel.This major investment, alongside £66 million for hotspot policing, supports the commitment to make the country’s streets safe...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles were seized in relation to waste crime offences in each of the last three years.
Answer: Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and enforcement actions, including vehicles seized, to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. We are conducting a re...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Disposal: MonitoringDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department plans to launch the digital waste tracking service; and what steps are being taken to ensure industry readiness.
Answer: Defra plans to launch the digital waste tracking service from April 2026. Industry working groups are beginning next month and increased engagement is planned through webinars, information published on GitHub (an online platform where information and soft...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordJoint Unit for Waste Crime: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated by his Department to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime in the 2025-26 financial year; and whether he plans to allocate additional funding to support re
Answer: In 2025/26 the Government is providing £12 million to the Environment Agency (EA) to tackle waste crime. It is for the EA to decide how much of this is directed to the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC), but in the current year it is funding 18 posts, an i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the annual profits generated by organised criminals who engage in waste crime.
Answer: It is estimated that waste crime costs the UK economy around £1 billion per year. However, it is impossible to assess how much of this is “profit” for organised criminals.
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: CrimeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase coordination between (a) the Environment Agency, (b) local authorities and (c) police forces to tackle organised waste crime.
Answer: The Joint Unit for Waste Crime, hosted by the Environment Agency, is a multi-agency taskforce established specifically to share intelligence and operational capability and capacity to tackle serious and organised criminality in the waste sector. When appr...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to allocate funding to enable (a) local police forces and (b) community groups to use (i) ANPR cameras, (ii) roadside CCTV and (iii) drones to (A) investig
Answer: The Government has no plans to allocate funding to enable local police forces and community groups to use ANPR cameras, roadside CCTV and drones to investigate and deter fly-tipping. Fly-tipping is a blight on our communities and countryside with local au...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising fixed-penalty notice levels for fly-tipping above the £1,000 maximum; and whether he has made an assessment of the potent
Answer: The Government no longer publishes a league table of local authority fly-tipping performance. Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and actions to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/sta...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when statutory fly-tipping enforcement guidance for local authorities will be published; and what his planned timeline is for its implementation.
Answer: The Government is seeking powers in the Crime and Policing Bill to provide statutory fly-tipping enforcement guidance. Following Royal Assent, we will carry out a consultation with relevant stakeholders including local authorities. Once the consultation h...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Private PropertyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that landowners are not held financially responsible for clearing fly-tipped waste from their private land.
Answer: We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. Local authorities are responsible for tackling fly-tipping in their areas. We want to see an effective enforcement strategy at the centre of their efforts to tackle the problem, ...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has set targets for improving (a) victim protection, (b) justice outcomes and (c) support services since the publication of Baroness Casey's audit of group-based child sexual ex
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to help tackle rates of group-based child sexual exploitation in (a) Greater Manchester, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) Telford since the publication of Baron
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) closed and (b) previously under-investigated Child Sexual Exploitation cases have been referred for independent review since January 2025; and what percentage have since been reopened or
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional (a) funding, (b) staffing and (c) training support her Department is providing to the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce in 2025-26.
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to the national inquiry into grooming gangs; and what steps she has taken to ensure (a) that there is survivor-led engagement and (b) that statutory powers are used
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight mechanisms she has put in place to help ensure 100% recording of the (a) ethnicity, (b) nationality and (c) number of perpetrators in all group based child exploitation and abuse cases;
Answer: On 16 June the Government accepted all 12 recommendations made to Government in Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in England and Wales. We will announce further details on implementation of these measures i...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordInnovation: Aldridge-BrownhillsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 53867 on Innovation: Aldridge-Brownhills, what the names are of the (a) members and (b) local (i) leaders, (ii) research organisations
Answer: The West Midlands Innovation Board is responsible for developing, coordinating and supporting the delivery of plans for the West Midlands Innovation Accelerator pilot. A full list of the board’s members and observers can be found on the West Midlands Comb...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 53866 on Knives: Crime, if she will list the (a) names of members and (b) organisations they represent of the coalition to tackle knife crime.
Answer: The Coalition brings together a diverse range of stakeholders, including community leaders, campaigners, bereaved families, young people affected by knife crime, and subject matter experts, who contribute to shaping policy in key areas
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Policing: Aldridge-BrownhillsHome OfficeTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 56248 on Neighbourhood Policing: Aldridge-Brownhills, on how many occasions she has met the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner to discuss loc
Answer: The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has met with the Minister for Policing and Crime Prevention to discuss local policing numbers and has also attended meetings chaired by the Minister along with other PCCs to discuss delivery on a broad...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, CP 1336, published on 11 June 2025, whether he considered increasing revenue funding for end of life care as part of the Spending Review.
Answer: As part of the Spending Review, on 11 June, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a record investment in the health and social care system. Across the Spending Review period, from 2026/27 to 2028/29, the National Health Service in ...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordVocational Education: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to provide information on vocational pathways to young people in the same way as information on university pathways.
Answer: The department has legislated to ensure that young people are supported to develop the knowledge and understanding of all pathways at key transition points. Schools have a legal duty to provide at least six opportunities for all pupils, during school year...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle barriers to employers engaging with the (a) apprenticeship and (b) training system.
Answer: Our Industrial Strategy sets out the interventions we will make to help tackle barriers to employer engagement with the skills system. This includes introducing shorter duration and foundation apprenticeships in priority sectors, the introduction of short...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61532More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to improve the (a) HR and (b) strategy support provided by her Department to SMEs to help take on apprentices.
Answer: This government is continuing to cut red tape and simplify the apprenticeships system so that employers, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), can focus on supporting apprentices.The government has already introduced a range of system impro...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: Environment ProtectionDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to provide capital or transition funding to Local Transport Authorities to support fleet conversion.
Answer: The government is reducing the number of different funding streams paid to Local Trasport Authorities. Major city regions will benefit from the £15.6bn Transport for Cities fund while our smaller cities, towns and rural areas will receive £2.3bn from the ...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
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