Written questions by Cooper.

What assessment she has made of the impact of efforts to engage with secondary school children on the issue of sexism.

Awaiting answer.

Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to aid international conservation efforts supporting turtle populations.

Awaiting answer.

Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the UK's role in international efforts towards turtle conservation.

Awaiting answer.

What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support to de-carbonise heavy industry.

Awaiting answer.

What steps her Department is taking to increase education on the dangers and impact of sexism and misogyny.

Awaiting answer.

?To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that AI creates jobs in the UK.

AI is already creating new, well-paid jobs. And we have launched the Pro-worker AI Adoption Prize to promote UK organisations that adopt AI in ways that provide workers with new capabilities and create new jobs.To ensure workers can access these jobs, we ...

What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of specialist rehabilitation services and supported housing provision for people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and schizoaffective d

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What discussions his Department has had with NICE and pharmaceutical manufacturers regarding the assessment and potential availability in England of xanomeline-trospium chloride (Cobenfy) for the t

Department ministers and officials regularly discuss a range of issues with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), including in relation to the development of guidance on individual products.Xanomeline-trospium chlorid...

What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of healthcare provision for adults with cerebral palsy.

The Government is committed to ensuring that people living with cerebral palsy have access to appropriate support and services throughout their lives, enabling them to fulfil their potential and lead healthy, productive lives.The National Institute for He...

Whether his Department has assessed the adequacy of health outcomes of adults with cerebral palsy following transition from paediatric to adult services.

We recognise that cerebral palsy is not just a childhood condition, and we are committed to ensuring that people living with cerebral palsy have access to appropriate support and services at all stages of their life, so they can fulfil their potential and...

What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing regular health reviews for adults with cerebral palsy.

The Government is committed to ensuring that people living with cerebral palsy have access to appropriate support and services throughout their lives, enabling them to fulfil their potential and lead healthy, productive lives.The National Institute for He...

Whether he plans to develop a national (a) pathway and (b) service specification for adults with cerebral palsy.

The Government is committed to ensuring that people living with cerebral palsy have access to appropriate support and services throughout their lives, enabling them to fulfil their potential and lead healthy, productive lives.The National Institute for He...

What assessment he has made of the industries which can only be decarbonised by switching to hydrogen energy.

We recognise that some industrial sectors are particularly hard to electrify and are therefore expected to require hydrogen to decarbonise, including processes such as chemical production and refining. Electrification is expected to play the primary role ...

What assessment he has made of required pace of hydrogen network rollout to aid industrial decarbonisation in order to (a) meet the UK’s decarbonisation targets and (b) avoid a potential adve

We recognise that hydrogen will play an important but focused role in decarbonising hard‑to‑electrify industrial sectors, particularly within industrial clusters where shared transport and storage infrastructure can be developed efficiently. We have confi...

Whether he has considered the potential merits of publishing the updated UK hydrogen strategy before the end of July 2026.

We understand the importance of providing clarity to businesses across the hydrogen sector. The renewed Hydrogen Strategy will set out Government’s vision and objectives for hydrogen, and how we intend to work with industry to continue to transform ambiti...

Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the levels of Packaging Recovery Notes fraud in the waste export sector.

To tackle fraud in the Packaging Waste Recycling Note market we have introduced new requirements on exporters as part of the accreditation process. The regulators are responsible for ensuring that exporters of UK packaging waste are compliant with the Reg...

Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration she has given to amending the Extended Producer Responsibility base fees to introduce a sub-category for fibre-based composites containing between 5% and 15% non-fib

Under pEPR, a fibre-based composite material is paper or card which has a plastic content, usually in the form of laminated layers which cannot be separated by hand, of more than 5%. This category distinguishes packaging with layers of plastic from paper ...

Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the use of the N9M protocol; and if she will issue guidance on its vulnerabilities to foreign actors accessing any data processed using N9M.

This government remains committed to ensuring that new and existing technologies are safely deployed across the UK. Whilst the government does not routinely carry out assessments of software or products it is working with industry to support them in making independent assessments about the security of software and products. To this end, the National Cyber Security Centre has set up Cyber Resilience Test Facilities (CRTFs) that will deliver assurance for a wide range of internet connected products and services. This will also enable industry and government services to independently audit and assess products and services in a consistent way.The N9M protocol is used within vehicles. Last year, the government laid the Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 that mandated internationally recognised requirements for vehicle cyber security. Vehicle manufacturers, including those that use N9M protocol, must assess and mitigate for cyber-security threats and vulnerabilities, as part of the whole vehicle evaluation for new vehicles required to obtain GB type-approval.

Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a national safety standard for Human Form Recognition AI technology used on (a) mobile plant and (b) heavy machinery to ensure (i) a minimum threshold for accuracy and (ii) the reduction of false-positive alerts.

AI can bring significant benefits to the workplace, workers and the wider economy. However, it is important that AI systems are developed and deployed safely and responsibly. That’s why the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is taking action to build an AI assurance ecosystem that underpins safe, trustworthy and responsible AI systems.This includes establishing the Centre for AI Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory. This will provide targeted support to industry through delivery of the AI Assurance Innovation Fund and create a collaborative environment for conducting research focused on the development of new and innovative AI assurance techniques.

What progress has been made on the implementation of the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023; and what steps she is taking to support rural businesses in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) England in deploying (i) advanced Human Form Recognition systems and (ii) AI-enhanced security systems to combat the theft of (A) high-value agricultural machinery and (B) fuel.

The Government is committed to the implementation of the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which will introduce measures to make it harder for criminals to steal and re‑sell high‑value machinery and equipment. The Home Office has completed a Call for Evidence to inform delivery and is working closely with industry, policing and other partners to develop the necessary secondary legislation, which will be introduced in Parliament as time allows.To support rural businesses the Government is strengthening the policing response to acquisitive crime through improved neighbourhood policing, specialist national capability and legislative tools to support enforcement. This includes continuing to fund the National Rural Crime Unit and National Wildlife Crime Unit, which work with forces to tackle organised machinery and fuel theft.The deployment of specific security technologies is an operational matter for policing and business. Police reforms and wider crime prevention measures are intended to ensure that forces have the capability and flexibility to work with rural communities and businesses to tackle theft, such as agricultural machinery and fuel, that affect rural locations.