Every parliamentary written question tabled by Helen Maguire this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of nationally setting and maintaining service specification and national tariff for GOS.
General Ophthalmic Services are already a nationally mandated services defined in legislation, with nationally defined contractor fees set out in Directions.
How the new safer streets guidance for women and girls will help ensure that women feel safer when cycling as well as walking.
On 25th March, Active Travel England set out its intention to publish guidance during 2026 as part of a programme of work to support authorities to design safer streets for women and girls. The programme is under development this year with the intention t...
Whether her Department is taking steps to help people use cheaper forms of transport such as (a) cycling and (b) walking during continued fuel cost pressures.
This Government recognises that investment in active travel gives people affordable transport choice to cut the cost of living. In December 2025, the Government announced £626 million funding for local authorities from 2026/27 to 2029/30 to deliver walkin...
How the Government’s Better Connected transport strategy will ensure that walking and cycling are fully integrated into the wider transport system.
Better Connected: A Strategy for Integrated Transport recognises the crucial role that walking, wheeling and cycling play in connecting people and places, either as the whole trip or as part of accessing the wider transport network. It commits Active Trav...
Communities and Local Government, when his Department last reviewed the list of statutory consultees; and when the Department next plans to review it.
On 18 November 2025, the government launched a consultation on reforms to the statutory consultee system, which sought views on the scope of what statutory consultees advise on, and removing statutory consultee status from certain bodies. The consultation...
Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the criteria used to determine the eligibility for discretionary business rate relief.
Under section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 local authorities are able to provide discretionary business rates relief to ratepayers within their area, having regard to the interests of their local council tax payers. https://www.legislation....
What steps his Department is taking to support the learning disability workforce.
The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has ...
Whether Capita met their previously announced end of February target to restore service levels for the most urgent backlog cases in the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government.The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension q...
What steps he is taking to support individuals entitled but currently unable to receive their Civil Service Pension due to the backlog.
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government.The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension q...
What recent progress has been made by Capita to address the case backlog of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government.The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension q...
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response framework in the UK.
The Department is currently reviewing the recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024-25. This includes considering the merits of developing both a framework and central register of incidents.
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of developing a central register of civilian harm incidents and allegations.
The Department is currently reviewing the recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024-25. This includes considering the merits of developing both a framework and central register of incidents.
Communities and Local Government, what (a) funding and (b) community recovery schemes are available for areas, such as Epsom, that are recovering from (i) economically and (ii) socially damaging public disorder e
The Government works closely with local authorities and community partners to support areas recovering from public disorder and to strengthen community cohesion. In response to the disorder witnessed in the summer of 2024, MHCLG established the Community ...
What steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for (a) the Home Department and (b) Business and Trade to ensure enforcement, regulation and market controls operate cohesively to tackle the use of illegal
Only e-bikes that comply with the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle Regulations 1983 can be legally used on the roads in the same way as ordinary pedal cycles. These regulations limit the maximum assisted speed of the e-bike to 15.5mph and the maximum pow...
What steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of illegal high-powered electric bikes.
E-bikes can only be legally used on the roads where they comply in full with the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle Regulations 1983. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have market surveillance powers to tackle the supply of e-bikes, including modifie...
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the key recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024/25 report.
The Department is currently reviewing the recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024-25. This includes considering the merits of developing both a framework and central register of incidents.
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making the OdonAssist available across all NHS Trusts.
OdonAssist is not currently available across National Health Service trusts and is only being used in the context of research in the United Kingdom. OdonAssist has not yet been fully evaluated for safety and efficacy compared with other methods of assiste...
What steps her Department is taking to ensure that children and young people with Developmental Language Disorders are included in SEND reforms.
The department recognises the issues raised in Speech and Language UK’s ‘Missing Million’ report, including the importance of improving identification and support for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs, including Devel...
Whether his Department has assessed the potential merits of including dramatherapy in the Neighbourhood Health Model Framework.
The Department has not made such a specific assessment. The Neighbourhood Health Framework sets out the overall approach to delivering more joined up, personalised and preventative care closer to people’s homes, with services designed to meet local popula...
What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations in the Missing Million report published by Speech and Language UK.
The department recognises the issues raised in Speech and Language UK’s ‘Missing Million’ report, including the importance of improving identification and support for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs, including Devel...