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1794155

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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	Housing: Worcestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) local authorities on the proposed acceleration of (a) Worcestershire Parkway and (b) other housing sites.
tabling member constituency	Droitwich and Evesham
tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
uin	45630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The New Homes Accelerator works with Homes England and relevant local partners to unblock and accelerate the delivery of large-scale housing developments that have for various reasons become delayed, or which are not progressing as quickly as they could be.</p><p>The Accelerator has already announced 10 sites with capacity to deliver over 35,000 homes that will benefit from government support, including Worcestershire Parkway.</p><p>In October last year, I met with you to discuss supporting infrastructure at Worcestershire Parkway.</p><p>MHCLG officials and Homes England continue to engage with the relevant local authorities for each of the announced New Homes Accelerator sites, including Worcestershire Parkway.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 24/04/2025 14:02:13 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

1794218

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Infrastructure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he has taken to work with the Northern Ireland Assembly to improve the built infrastructure of Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	45509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Responsibility for infrastructure policy is devolved to Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure. The UK Government is working closely with the devolved governments to ensure that the UK’s nations and regions have the infrastructure they need to boost economic growth and serve their communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive received £18.2 billion from the UK Government for 2025-26 - the largest financial settlement in real terms in the history of devolution. Whilst it is for the Executive to decide how it utilises this funding, I welcome the Executive’s commitment to producing a long term strategic infrastructure plan and I look forward to its publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Leeds South answering member printed Hilary Benn question first answered 24/04/2025 15:06:40 answering member 413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1794278

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	Audiology
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 he is taking to support the move toward patient self-referral for community audiology services as a default pathway in (a) Harrow East constituency and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	45592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The current community audiology service in Harrow East requires a referral from a healthcare professional to access the service. The North West London Integrated Care Board is examining how this service could be developed, in the light of recent guidance around increasing self-referral to services such as audiology, in a manner that meets the needs of the population and which fits sustainably within the funding available for this service.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 24/04/2025 16:11:54 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1794289

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	Diabetes: Eyesight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the eligibility criteria for NHS-funded eye tests on people living with diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	45455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Everyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes is eligible for a free National Health Service eye test, as there is a higher prevalence of some eye conditions amongst people with diabetes. In addition, due to the risk of diabetic retinopathy, all people with diabetes, aged 12 years old and over, are offered Diabetic Eye Screening free of charge. It is offered every one or two years, depending on the level of risk. Those with sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy are offered more frequent surveillance.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 24/04/2025 16:13:57 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1794304

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of migrants to the UK gaining access to (a) welfare payments and (b) other services as a result of obtaining indefinite leave to remain for each financial year from 2024-25 onward.
tabling member constituency	Central Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Mel Stride
uin	45568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) produces forecasts of the UK’s economic and fiscal position.</p><p>Box 4.5 of the OBR’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in March 2024 sets out estimated impacts of migration on the fiscal forecast. As the minimum residency required to move to indefinite leave to remain is currently at least 5 years, this falls outside the forecast period. As the OBR says in the March 2024 EFO: ”However, our forecasts will capture the cost of any immigrants from previous cohorts who now claim welfare through Indefinite leave to remain grants because their claims will be included in the outturn data that provides the starting point for our forecast”.</p> answering member constituency Bristol North West answering member printed Darren Jones question first answered 24/04/2025 14:42:11 answering member 4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones
tabling member	3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride

1794306

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 37538 on Army: Recruitment, if he will provide numbers by category for each year listed.
tabling member constituency	Widnes and Halewood
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	45459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>It is taking time to interrogate the data and therefore it has not been possible to provide the answer in the time available. I will write to the hon. Member as soon as practical and will place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth Sutton and Devonport answering member printed Luke Pollard question first answered 24/04/2025 13:45:46 answering member 4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1794321

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	Animal Experiments: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Table 7.3 : Experimental procedures by species of animal: regulatory use by origin of legislative requirement, Great Britain 2014 to 2023 of her Department’s Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2023, published on 11 September 2024, which UK legislative requirements were intended to be satisfied by the 12 procedures carried out on beagles.
tabling member constituency	Newport West and Islwyn
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	45836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Science, Innovation &amp; Technology (DSIT) with the Home Office and Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs involvement<em> is </em>leading on a strategy to accelerate the development, validation and uptake of alternatives to animal testing which is scheduled for publication later this year.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Pharmaceutical legislation requires that, before a medicine can be approved for testing in humans, it is tested in a rodent and non-rodent species under international guidelines. This may include dogs as an appropriate model. The majority of Beagles bred for use in science (85%) are for the purposes of regulatory testing under legislation on pharmaceutical products for human use. The number of Beagles bred is largely determined by the forecast needs of the pharmaceutical industry that require testing of medicines.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office regulator ensures compliance of all work licensed with the rigorous requirements of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act. The number of animals used in scientific research and testing, including Beagles, is published annually at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-regulation-unit#statistics</a>.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office assures that, in every research proposal, animals are replaced with non-animal alternatives wherever possible, the number of animals are reduced to the minimum necessary to achieve the result sought, and that, for those animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as possible to minimise their suffering.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">With reference to the Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Great Britain 2023, Table 7.3, the 12 procedures carried out on beagles were to satisfy legislative requirements on the testing of medicinal products for human use.</ins></p> answering member constituency Barnsley North answering member printed Dan Jarvis question first answered 24/04/2025 14:55:06 question first ministerially corrected 24/04/2025 15:16:05 answering member 4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis previous answer version 57712 answering member constituency Barnsley North answering member printed Dan Jarvis answering member 4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1794326

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of equalising VAT rates for (a) home and (b) public electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	45736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The supply of energy for domestic use attracts the reduced rate of VAT. (five per cent). Whilst this relief was not designed for charging EVs at home, it applies for all uses of domestic energy. Public EV charging is subject to the standard rate of VAT (20 per cent). This matches the VAT treatment of petrol and diesel, as well as all non-domestic electricity.</p><p> </p><p>VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. Exceptions to the standard rate have always been limited and balanced against affordability considerations.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 24/04/2025 16:09:45 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1794377

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	RAF Lakenheath: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether US-owned nuclear weapons are permitted to be stationed at RAF Lakenheath.
tabling member constituency	Angus and Perthshire Glens
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	45840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>It remains longstanding UK and NATO policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at any given location.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth Sutton and Devonport answering member printed Luke Pollard question first answered 24/04/2025 13:46:08 answering member 4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1794420

registered interest
date	17/04/2025
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Stamp Duty Land Tax: First Time Buyers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a higher stamp duty threshold for first-time buyers in inner London boroughs.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	45737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a national tax in England and Northern Ireland charged using the same percentage rates in all areas. This ensures stable and predictable revenue for the Exchequer while maintaining fairness for taxpayers. The current structure of SDLT ensures that those buying the most expensive properties contribute the most. Introducing higher SDLT thresholds for first-time buyers in inner London boroughs could increase complexity and create distortive effects around borders, impacting property markets.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, SDLT continues to be an important source of Government revenue, raising around £12 billion each year to help pay for the essential services the Government provides. Any reforms to SDLT would have to carefully consider impacts on the Exchequer alongside administrative costs and simplicity for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 24/04/2025 16:27:16 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan