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1794441

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
	hansard heading	Candidates: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2025, to Question 22035, on Candidates: Expenditure, if he will publish a copy of the spending return for the hon. Member for Hamilton and Clyde Valley at the 2024 General Election.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2025 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission does not have the legal power to publish full candidate spending returns.</p><p>Returning Officers must make the full returns available for public scrutiny on request for a period of two years beginning with the date when the return is received.</p><p>Headline figures from candidate spending returns, including the constituency of Hamilton and Clyde Valley, were published on the <a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/financial-reporting/campaign-spending-candidates/2024-uk-parliamentary-general-election-candidate-spending" target="_blank">Commission’s website</a> on 18 March. The Commission publishes these so that voters and candidates can see how much was spent and ensure spending limits have been observed.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Sir Jeremy Wright question first answered 23/04/2025 08:44:16 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1794477

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports: Sex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) passports and (b) other documents issued by her Department can be used to prove someone's sex.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Dr Caroline Johnson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>A birth certificate issued by the General Register Office records sex at birth. A British passport issued by HM Passport Office includes a M or F sex marker, denoting the sex of the holder.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 24/04/2025 13:35:12 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	4592 label Biography information for Dr Caroline Johnson

1794543

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that developers provide structural remediation works to ensure that buildings are safe for residents.
	tabling member constituency	Clapham and Brixton Hill
	tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Building owners are responsible for managing building safety and performance issues in their building, including any structural issues. Under the Building Safety Act 2022, Principal Accountable Persons for higher risk buildings (buildings with 7 or more storeys, or which are 18m or more in height with 2+ residential units) are responsible for assessing, reviewing, and taking all reasonable steps to prevent structural risks identified in their building from materialising to keep residents safe.</p><p>The Building Safety Act 2022 also protects qualifying leaseholders from unreasonable costs of remediating historical safety defects, including structural defects, and makes it possible for building owners to apply to recover some or all of the cost of remediation from the third parties who were responsible for relevant defects.</p><p>In addition, developers who signed the developer remediation contract have committed to undertake or pay for an estimated £3.9 billion worth of remedial works to address life-critical fire safety defects arising from the design and construction of buildings 11 metres and over in height that they developed, or refurbished in England in the 30 years ending on 4 April 2022. We publish quarterly updates on the progress that developers are making. Any developer who fails to comply with their obligations faces significant consequences.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 24/04/2025 14:03:00 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1794544

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of obligating developers to conduct (a) Type 2 surveys of internal compartmentation of common parts of medium-to-high rise multi-occupancy buildings and (b) in instances where those surveys reveal defects, additional Type 4 surveys within flats.
	tabling member constituency	Clapham and Brixton Hill
	tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Developers who signed the Developer Remediation Contract are obligated to remediate or pay to remediate external and internal life-critical fire safety defects due to the original design and construction in relevant building. In doing so, those developers must obtain fire safety assessments demonstrating that they have complied with their contractual obligations. Those assessments may include Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls (which must comply with PAS 9980) and other fire safety assessments (which must comply with relevant industry standards). The type of assessments needed will depend on the circumstances of the building. MHCLG regularly audits assessments obtained by developers to make sure that they comply with the contractual requirements. If an assessment is non-compliant, the developer is required to address this at its own expense.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham North and Kimberley answering member printed Alex Norris question first answered 24/04/2025 14:04:12 answering member 4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1794547

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) recruitment of nurses and (b) availability of jobs for newly qualified nurses.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Decisions about the employment of newly qualified nurses are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deliver safe and effective care.</p><p>We will publish a refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan to ensure the NHS has the right people, in the right places, with the right skills to deliver the care patients need.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 24/04/2025 08:20:26 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1794575

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Nicaragua: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Nicaraguan counterpart on the detention of (a) Carmen María Sáenz Martinez and (b) Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>We share widespread international concern about the relentless suppression of human rights in Nicaragua. We continue to urge the Nicaraguan authorities to re-establish democratic freedoms in our engagements with the Nicaraguan Embassy and in Managua, as well as through our public statements in international fora. Most recently, on 28 February at the 58<em>th</em> session of the UN Human Rights Council, we raised our grave human rights concerns, including relating to freedom of religion and belief, and arbitrary detentions. Nicaragua's declaration on 27 February that it is leaving the UN Human Rights Council does not change the need to hold the authorities accountable for the suppression of human rights in Nicaragua.</p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Friern Barnet answering member printed Catherine West question first answered 24/04/2025 12:14:44 answering member 4523 label Biography information for Catherine West
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1794581

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Organised Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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 the property.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Shaun Davies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>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 Order where a person has engaged in criminal behaviour on the premises. This existing power is designed specifically to protect victims and communities by enabling swift action where premises are creating harm.</p><p>Alongside these powers, the Government is introducing a new criminal offence of ‘cuckooing’, being brought forward in the Crime and Policing Bill. This offence will criminalise the control over another person’s home for criminal purposes, particularly where vulnerable individuals are targeted and exploited. It will enable stronger action against criminals who prey on others in this way and help ensure victims are protected from this crime. The Government will publish guidance to support implementation of the new offence, including on how law enforcement partners can work with local authorities as part of a multi-agency response to tackle cuckooing.</p><p>These tools and legislative measures demonstrate the Government’s commitment to empowering local authorities and law enforcement agencies to take robust action against serious and organised criminal activity.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 24/04/2025 15:09:21 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	5041

1794588

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Givinostat: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase availability of Givinostat for children.
	tabling member constituency	Hitchin
	tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The Department understands the impact that Duchenne muscular dystrophy has on those living with it and their families, and the urgent need for new treatment options. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the NHS independently based on an assessment of their costs and benefits. The NHS in England is legally required to fund medicines recommended by the NICE, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance. The NICE is currently evaluating givinostat for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its independent Appraisal Committee will meet to consider the evidence in July 2025.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 24/04/2025 08:21:32 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1794592

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the support available for UK-based downstream steel companies that are seeking to decarbonise their industrial processes.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich
	tabling member printed	Sarah Coombes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	46036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>We are developing a suite of policies to enable industry, including UK-based downstream steel companies, to deliver savings through fuel switching from fossil fuels to low carbon alternatives. As we do so, we are closely engaging with industry, both with sector trade associations as well as with manufacturers directly, to identify and understand the challenges, barriers and costs of their decarbonisation pathways. For example, we published a summary of responses to our Call for evidence on Enabling Industrial Electrification in September 2024 (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcalls-for-evidence%2Fenabling-industrial-electrification-a-call-for-evidence&amp;data=05%7C02%7CParliamentary.PQ%40energysecurity.gov.uk%7C5917d92cb26c4af0576208dd831d8dcd%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638810885214986634%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=U7QEliK5egUfNmnmAD7sz8%2FEC%2BcH6h0prXy3yxb3G1g%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/enabling-industrial-electrification-a-call-for-evidence</a>).</p><p> </p><p>To give longer-term confidence for industry to decarbonise, a renewed Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy will set the strategic direction for our approach to working with industry towards a competitive and low carbon industrial base in the UK, ensuring growth opportunities are captured in tandem with emissions reductions.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, we are determined to work towards a bright future for steel through our steel strategy. The Government stands by our manifesto commitment to invest up to £2.5bn in steel through the National Wealth Fund and other routes.</p> answering member constituency Peckham answering member printed Miatta Fahnbulleh question first answered 24/04/2025 13:53:11 answering member 5099
	tabling member	5088

1794624

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make caste-based discrimination illegal.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>No one should suffer prejudice or discrimination on any grounds, including any perception of their caste.</p><p> </p><p>The judgment of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Tirkey v. Chandhok shows that someone claiming caste discrimination may rely on existing statutory remedies in the Equality Act 2010 where they can show that their ‘caste’ is related to their ethnic origin, which is itself an aspect of 'race' under the 2010 Act.</p> answering member constituency Feltham and Heston answering member printed Seema Malhotra question first answered 24/04/2025 14:40:06 answering member 4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome