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1800910

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Kashmir: Armed Conflict
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Welsh Government on the potential impact of the situation in Kashmir on (a) policing and (b) community relations in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion Preseli
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The Home Office has been sharing up to date information with Welsh partners on emerging risks and issues in relation to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in India-administered Kashmir and will continue to work with those partners to monitor any local reactions and tensions.</p><p>Whilst community cohesion is a devolved area, officials from the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government also continue to support the Devolved Governments in best practice for monitoring and alleviating any community tensions.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 13/05/2025 16:06:41 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1800915

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	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	Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust and (b) Shrewsbury and Telford ICB on (i) patient safety, (ii) waiting times, (iii) value for money and (iv) regulatory compliance and improvement since July 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Shaun Davies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has had no discussions with the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust or the Shrewsbury and Telford Integrated Care Board about these issues since July 2024.</p><p>The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is in segment four of the NHS Oversight Framework. This means that the trust is in receipt of national mandated support via NHS England’s Recovery Support Programme. The National Recovery Support team is working closely with the trust and region to support the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and to ensure the delivery of improvements.</p><p>We are working closely with NHS England to monitor the situation.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 13/05/2025 10:53:47 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	5041

1800916

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of the State Pension live outside the UK have less than (a) 35, (b) 20, (c) 10 and (d) 5 years of National Insurance contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Shaun Davies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The information on the years of National Insurance contributions for State Pension recipients living outside the UK is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes the volumes of State Pension recipients living outside the UK on StatXplore <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Log in</a>. The latest figure, for the quarter ending August 2024, is around 1.1 million State Pension recipients living outside the UK. This is 8.5% of the overall State Pension caseload.</p> answering member constituency Swansea West answering member printed Torsten Bell question first answered 13/05/2025 15:47:40 answering member 5069
	tabling member	5041

1800917

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money is held in dormant bank accounts, broken down by (a) bank and (b) region.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Shaun Davies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>HMT does not hold information on the level of dormant assets across UK bank accounts as this would be client information held by the banks themselves.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Government does have information on the level of funds pertaining to the UK’s official Dormant Assets Scheme. The Dormant Assets scheme – legislated for in 2008, and updated in 2022 – creates a voluntary mechanism for taking dormant funds transferred from the financial sector to spend on charitable causes. The scheme was designed as a public/private partnership. The transferred funds come largely from the UK’s banking and building society sectors and are administered by a body called Reclaim Fund Limited (RFL).</p><p> </p><p>Total transfers into the scheme since inception, from across the financial services sector, was £1.98bn as of March 2024. Of this total, £241m was transferred to the scheme in the financial year 2023/2024 alone, of which £219m came from the banking and building societies sectors, demonstrating the large amount of Dormant Assets held by these institutions.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently 36 banks and building societies participating in the Dormant Assets Scheme, including many large banks.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 13/05/2025 07:48:30 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
	tabling member	5041

1800924

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is taking steps to revise the open banking framework.
	tabling member constituency	Rushcliffe
	tabling member printed	James Naish
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The UK has been a world leader in Open Banking since 2018. Open Banking providers offer innovative services using customer data, and can help with improving financial inclusion, such as by allowing customers to gain better oversight of their finances, or by improving access to credit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to maintaining the UK’s leadership in this area. This is why the government set out in the National Payments Vision, published in November, that Open Banking must transition to a sustainable long-term regulatory framework. The government is committed to delivering this framework and intends to use incoming smart data powers in the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently progressing through Parliament, to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to ensure that individuals have access to the appropriate financial products and services they need. This is why I have committed to publish a Financial Inclusion Strategy later this year, which will examine the barriers consumers face and solutions to address them.</p><p> </p><p>On the 90-day Open Banking consumer consent period - this is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is independent from Government. The FCA will respond to the Honourable Member by letter, and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds grouped question UIN 50952 50953 question first answered 13/05/2025 15:51:43 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
	tabling member	5047

1800925

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of extending the 90-day open banking consumer consent period on the economy.
	tabling member constituency	Rushcliffe
	tabling member printed	James Naish
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The UK has been a world leader in Open Banking since 2018. Open Banking providers offer innovative services using customer data, and can help with improving financial inclusion, such as by allowing customers to gain better oversight of their finances, or by improving access to credit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to maintaining the UK’s leadership in this area. This is why the government set out in the National Payments Vision, published in November, that Open Banking must transition to a sustainable long-term regulatory framework. The government is committed to delivering this framework and intends to use incoming smart data powers in the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently progressing through Parliament, to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to ensure that individuals have access to the appropriate financial products and services they need. This is why I have committed to publish a Financial Inclusion Strategy later this year, which will examine the barriers consumers face and solutions to address them.</p><p> </p><p>On the 90-day Open Banking consumer consent period - this is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is independent from Government. The FCA will respond to the Honourable Member by letter, and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds grouped question UIN 50951 50953 question first answered 13/05/2025 15:51:43 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
	tabling member	5047

1800926

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the use of open banking on levels of financial inclusion.
	tabling member constituency	Rushcliffe
	tabling member printed	James Naish
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The UK has been a world leader in Open Banking since 2018. Open Banking providers offer innovative services using customer data, and can help with improving financial inclusion, such as by allowing customers to gain better oversight of their finances, or by improving access to credit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to maintaining the UK’s leadership in this area. This is why the government set out in the National Payments Vision, published in November, that Open Banking must transition to a sustainable long-term regulatory framework. The government is committed to delivering this framework and intends to use incoming smart data powers in the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently progressing through Parliament, to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is working to ensure that individuals have access to the appropriate financial products and services they need. This is why I have committed to publish a Financial Inclusion Strategy later this year, which will examine the barriers consumers face and solutions to address them.</p><p> </p><p>On the 90-day Open Banking consumer consent period - this is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is independent from Government. The FCA will respond to the Honourable Member by letter, and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds grouped question UIN 50951 50952 question first answered 13/05/2025 15:51:43 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
	tabling member	5047

1800936

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank of England
	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 potential saving to the Exchequer of moving to a two-tier system for reserve renumeration.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>The Chancellor regularly meets with the Governor of the Bank of England to discuss matters relating to economy and the Bank’s progress towards meeting its price stability targets.</p><p> </p><p>The government continues to support the Bank’s independence to carry out its statutory responsibilities for monetary policy and financial stability, and there are no plans to change the way reserves are remunerated at the Bank of England. The government is providing the stability required for the MPC to bring interest rates down, by managing the public finances responsibly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds grouped question UIN 50462 question first answered 13/05/2025 15:48:01 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1800947

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of levels of support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis.
	tabling member constituency	Fareham and Waterlooville
	tabling member printed	Suella Braverman
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>Occupational health as advisory support has a broad remit. It plays an important role in supporting employers to maintain and promote employee health and wellbeing through assessments of fitness for work, advice about reasonable adjustments, work ability or return to work plans, and signposting to treatment for specific conditions such as myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).</p><p>Access to Work is a demand-led, personalised discretionary grant that supports the recruitment and retention of disabled people in sustainable paid employment. The tailored nature of the scheme allows customers to receive the appropriate grant and support based on their specific health and disability-related needs, including ME/CFS. Access to Work grants do not replace an employer’s duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments.</p><p>The goal is to open up opportunities to good work and to support a healthier, more productive and inclusive nation, by helping more disabled people and people with health conditions like ME/CFS to get appropriate work, get on in that work, and to return to work as quickly as possible if they leave it. This supports the Government’s priority of tackling economic inactivity, as set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper.</p><p>NHS England recently completed a ME/CFS stocktake, aimed at providing a nationwide overview of service delivery in commissioning and contracting, assessing access, activity, and outcomes. The findings confirmed the widely recognised challenges of significant variation in care delivery across England and a lack of comprehensive activity data.</p><p>We aim to publish our ME/CFS final delivery plan by the end of June 2025. The plan will focus on boosting research, improving attitudes and education, and bettering the lives of people with this debilitating disease. The responses to the interim delivery plan consultation, along with continued close engagement with other parts of the Government, the National Health Service, and external stakeholders, will inform the development of the final ME/CFS delivery plan.</p> answering member constituency West Lancashire answering member printed Ashley Dalton grouped question UIN 50878 question first answered 13/05/2025 12:50:57 answering member 4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton
	tabling member	4475 label Biography information for Suella Braverman

1800948

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2025
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis who are employed.
	tabling member constituency	Fareham and Waterlooville
	tabling member printed	Suella Braverman
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	50878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2025 answer text <p>Occupational health as advisory support has a broad remit. It plays an important role in supporting employers to maintain and promote employee health and wellbeing through assessments of fitness for work, advice about reasonable adjustments, work ability or return to work plans, and signposting to treatment for specific conditions such as myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).</p><p>Access to Work is a demand-led, personalised discretionary grant that supports the recruitment and retention of disabled people in sustainable paid employment. The tailored nature of the scheme allows customers to receive the appropriate grant and support based on their specific health and disability-related needs, including ME/CFS. Access to Work grants do not replace an employer’s duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments.</p><p>The goal is to open up opportunities to good work and to support a healthier, more productive and inclusive nation, by helping more disabled people and people with health conditions like ME/CFS to get appropriate work, get on in that work, and to return to work as quickly as possible if they leave it. This supports the Government’s priority of tackling economic inactivity, as set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper.</p><p>NHS England recently completed a ME/CFS stocktake, aimed at providing a nationwide overview of service delivery in commissioning and contracting, assessing access, activity, and outcomes. The findings confirmed the widely recognised challenges of significant variation in care delivery across England and a lack of comprehensive activity data.</p><p>We aim to publish our ME/CFS final delivery plan by the end of June 2025. The plan will focus on boosting research, improving attitudes and education, and bettering the lives of people with this debilitating disease. The responses to the interim delivery plan consultation, along with continued close engagement with other parts of the Government, the National Health Service, and external stakeholders, will inform the development of the final ME/CFS delivery plan.</p> answering member constituency West Lancashire answering member printed Ashley Dalton grouped question UIN 50877 question first answered 13/05/2025 12:50:57 answering member 4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton
	tabling member	4475 label Biography information for Suella Braverman