18 Nov 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered
AskedWhether his Department plans to extend Contract for Difference terms in future allocation rounds.
ReplyThe Government reviews the Contracts for Difference scheme before every round to ensure it continues to deliver our objectives. We are currently working with industry to accelerate ways to build upon the successful outcome of the last auction so that we c...
18 Nov 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat steps her Department is taking to support migrant victims of domestic abuse.
ReplyWe keep under constant review the support we provide to migrant victims of domestic abuse, including how we can increase their confidence to report to the police and their ability to access help from specialist agencies. This government continues to suppo...
18 Nov 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhether her Department plans to continue to fund the Support for Migrant Victims Scheme beyond March 2025.
ReplyWe keep under constant review the support we provide to migrant victims of domestic abuse, including how we can increase their confidence to report to the police and their ability to access help from specialist agencies. This government continues to suppo...
6 Nov 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedWhat steps she is taking to support British pensioners residing overseas.
ReplyUK State Pensions are payable worldwide, based on a person’s National Insurance record and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating....
6 Nov 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to uprate the state pension for British pensioners residing overseas.
ReplyThe UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with ...
5 Nov 2024·Treasury·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to provide additional funding to GPs for the cost of the increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions.
ReplyResource spending for the Department of Health and Social Care is set to increase by £22.6 billion in 2025-26 compared to 2023-24 outturn, providing a real-terms growth rate of 4% for the NHS, the largest since before 2010 excluding Covid-19 years. The Go...
4 Nov 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to make wildlife crimes notifiable.
ReplyThis Government recognises the importance of tackling wildlife crime, which is why, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit to help tackle these crimes.There are cu...
4 Nov 2024·Department for Education·Answered
AskedWhether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of VAT on private schools on children with special educational needs in Scotland.
ReplyEducation is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.HM Treasury (HMT) is responsible for UK wide VAT policy. HMT has published its assessment of the impacts of removing the VAT exemption that applied to private schoo...
28 Oct 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered
AskedWhether he plans to regulate non-domestic energy prices.
ReplyThe Government does not currently have plans to introduce an energy price cap for non-domestic energy consumers. The Government believes the only way to protect billpayers permanently, including non-domestic organisations, is to speed up the transition aw...
28 Oct 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered
AskedWhat support his Department is providing to small and medium sized enterprises for energy bills.
ReplyThe Government recognises that some businesses may be struggling to pay their bills. The Government believes that the only way to protect billpayers permanently, including small and medium sized enterprises, is to speed up the transition away from fossil ...
21 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWith reference to the oral statement by the Prime Minister of 7 October 2024 on Anniversary of 7 October Attacks: Middle East, Official Report, column 38, what steps her Department is taking to suppor
ReplyWe are deeply concerned by the continuing tensions and civilian casualties in Lebanon. I know how important it is for Lebanese nationals in the UK to have certainty on their immigration status, particularly in light of the ongoing conflict in their home c...
21 Oct 2024·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·Answered
AskedCommonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the New Lines Institute’s publication entitled Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of Internati
ReplyThe 'Genocide in Tigray' report by the New Lines Institute has drawn attention to the conduct of actors during the conflict of 2020-2022. The report is consistent with UN investigations which concluded that all sides committed major human rights violation...
18 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat steps her Department is taking to prevent organised crime groups advertising victims of (a) trafficking and (b) other sexual exploitation offences on websites advertising prostitution in Edinburg
ReplyThe trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has committed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of our levers to deliver this.The criminal justice system and su...
18 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat estimate she has made of the level of commercial sexual exploitation in Edinburgh North and Leith constituency.
ReplyThe trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has committed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of our levers to deliver this.The criminal justice system and su...
18 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat support her Department is providing to help victims of sexual exploitation in Edinburgh North and Leith constituency exit prostitution.
ReplyThe trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has committed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of our levers to deliver this.The criminal justice system and su...
18 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat steps her Department is taking to reduce demand for trafficking for sexual exploitation in Edinburgh North and Leith constituency.
ReplyThe trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has committed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of our levers to deliver this.The criminal justice system and su...
18 Oct 2024·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·Answered
AskedInnovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle pornography harms.
ReplyUnder the Online Safety Act, all in-scope services that allow pornography must use highly effective age assurance to prevent children accessing it, including user-to-user services and services which publish pornography. Under the Act, platforms must proac...
18 Oct 2024·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·Answered
AskedInnovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to prevent children being exposed to pornography.
ReplyThe Government is committed to keeping children safe online. Our priority is the effective implementation of the Online Safety Act so that children benefit from its wide-reaching protections.The Act requires that all in scope services that allow pornograp...
15 Oct 2024·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·Answered
AskedCommonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement of 2 September 2024 on Middle East Update, Official Report, column 37, whether his Department has undertaken a further review of export l
ReplyExport licence applications continue to be assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. The UK's robust export licensing criteria state that the Government will not issue export licences if there is a clear risk that t...
7 Oct 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered
AskedWhat recent discussions he has had with representatives in the energy sector on the development of an offshore energy passport.
ReplyThe Secretary of State welcomes the delivery of an industry-led Skills Passport. This is an important step to help workers transition from carbon-intensive industries to new clean energy sectors as part of the Government's clean energy mission 2030.