Every parliamentary written question tabled by Matt Turmaine this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What steps she is taking to help tackle pay disparities for ethnic minority people.
A person’s race or ethnicity should never be a barrier to opportunity. In March, we published the ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation response and will bring forward legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows. We plan to conduct ...
What progress he has made on establishing the National School of Government and Public Services.
The National School of Government and Public Services is on track to launch this year.We will be moving away from outsourced government training contracts and, as we promised at the last General Election, provide better value for money for the taxpayer.As...
What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the outcome of the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7 on energy security.
Allocation Round 7 secured over 14 GW of new low carbon electricity including over 8 GW of offshore wind. This homegrown generation boosts energy security by reducing exposure to volatile international gas markets, providing long term price certainty for ...
What discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on support for the film industry in Northern Ireland.
This Government knows how important the film industry is, and that is why it is at the heart of our Industrial Strategy.Northern Ireland has world class creative talent - I got to see that up close at the recent Netflix premiere of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. That premiere was held at the Queens Film Theatre, recognised just this month as one of the top one hundred cinemas in the world.
What steps she is taking to help tackle pay disparities for disabled people.
Tackling pay disparities for disabled people is a priority for this government.The King’s Speech announced our intention to legislate to introduce mandatory disability pay gap reporting for large employers and to make the right to equal pay effective for disabled people.Our consultation on disability pay gap reporting closed on 10 June and we are now considering over 650 responses to this.Our Call for Evidence on changes to equality law, launched in April, seeks views on making the right to equal pay effective for disabled people.
What steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of children in temporary accommodation.
We are delivering the biggest increase to social and affordable housing in a generation. We have also invested almost £1 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. And we are developing a cross-government strategy to get us back on track to ending homelessness.
Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help restore the ceasefire in Gaza.
We welcome the news that US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander will be released. We thank Qatar and Egypt for their support in bringing Edan out. We call on all parties to use this opportunity to re-engage with negotiations to ensure a lasting ceasefire is implemented, with the release of all hostages, and for Israel to allow the resumption of aid delivery for Palestinians in Gaza immediately. The Foreign Secretary issued a statement with his French and German opposite numbers last month urging all parties to return to a ceasefire and lift the block on aid.
What steps he is taking to reduce fraud in the public sector.
In January, the government introduced the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill as part of the biggest fraud crackdown in a generation. The measures in the Bill will give us more tools to combat fraud, recover public money and allow the government to investigate fraud. The Public Sector Fraud Authority is also developing artificial intelligence tools to tackle fraud - and is expected to surpass the PSFA’s £250m 2024-25 audited benefits target from these services.
Whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward further regulation of the sale of (a) crossbows and (b) crossbow arrow heads.
We are actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows and broadhead arrows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.It tested ideas for whether there should be some form of licensing regime that would provide further controls on the use, ownership and supply of crossbows as well as whether there should be a prohibition on broadhead arrows. The responses have been reviewed and we will publish the Government’s response to the call for evidence, which will include what action we intend to take alongside a summary of the responses received, shortly.