Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of police forces using e-scooters or e-bikes to tackle local anti-social behaviour and crime; and what guidance is provided to police forces on procuring tactical e-vehicles.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The deployment of operational tactics and equipment, including the use of e-bikes and e-scooters, is an operational matter for individual chief constables, who are best placed to assess local policing needs and respond to crime and anti-social behaviour in their communities.

The Home Office has not made a specific assessment of the effectiveness of police forces' use of e-bikes or e-scooters to tackle anti-social behaviour and crime. However, some forces have adopted e-bikes and other capabilities such as drones as part of their neighbourhood policing response and tactics to tackle anti-social behaviour to provide officers with greater mobility and access to areas that may be difficult to patrol using conventional police vehicles.

The Government has strengthened police powers to tackle the anti-social use of vehicles. Section 8 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026, removed the requirement for the police to issue a warning before they can seize a vehicle being used anti-socially. The Government also reduced vehicle disposal timeframes to seven days in July 2026, helping to reduce the time offenders can reclaim vehicles and continue to cause nuisance.

Responsibility for the procurement of operational vehicles and equipment rests with individual police forces. The Home Office does not issue specific guidance on the procurement of tactical e-vehicles. Forces are expected to ensure that any procurement activity complies with relevant legislation, national procurement frameworks and local governance arrangements.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Official Development Assistance was spent from the Home Office budget in each of the 2024/25 and 2025/26 fiscal years; and how much of each amount was reported in the 2024 and 2025 calendar ODA statistics.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

For 2024/25 the fiscal year spend was £2266m

For 2025/26 the fiscal year spend was £2203m

For 2024 the calendar year spend was £2390m

For 2025 the calendar year spend was £2064m

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact on bus patronage of the withdrawal by Hertfordshire County Council of the Senior SaverCard; and what assessment she has made of the potential role of local or regional concessionary fare schemes in encouraging bus use among the age group of 60 to State Pension age.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact on bus patronage of Hertfordshire County Council’s withdrawal of the Senior SaverCard. Decisions on discretionary local concessionary fare schemes are matters for local authorities, which are best placed to assess local needs, priorities and impacts.

The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme provides free off-peak bus travel in England to those of State Pension age and those with eligible disabilities. Local authorities may choose to offer discretionary concessions which are more generous than the statutory minimum, including concessions for those aged between 60 and State Pension age. Such schemes can enable authorities to tailor support to their local communities and transport networks, and may encourage bus use. Decisions on whether to introduce or maintain them, and assessments of their effect on bus use, are matters for the relevant authority.

The Government is providing over £3 billion between 2026/27 and 2028/29 to support local leaders and bus operators to maintain and improve bus services and keep fare low, including around £700 million per year through the Local Authority Bus Grant.

Hertfordshire County Council will receive £34.6 million from the Department for Transport under the Local Authority Bus Grant, from 2026/27 until 2028/29 in addition to £12.2 million already received in 2025/26.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed learning about global development issues into the National Curriculum.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The current national curriculum requires pupils to learn about international development in key stage 3 geography, with further detail available to pupils who study GCSE geography. Last year, Professor Becky Francis led an independent review of the national curriculum which made several recommendations. The government is considering these recommendations alongside its ambitions for technical education. Proposals for the new national curriculum will be subject to a public consultation in due course.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve data sharing between GP practices and Integrated Care Boards to support the early identification of risks to patient safety and access to care.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is taking forward digital services to help improve the sharing of patient data, which have the improvement of care and the identification and management of risks as key objectives. The Single Patient Record will bring together a patient’s health information in one, secure, easy-to-access place for use by those delivering care.

The NHS Federated Data Platform connects information across the National Health Service, and can help co-ordinate care, and provide tools to analyse connected data, to identify actions for improvement.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what barriers have been identified to effective data sharing between primary care providers and Integrated Care Boards; and what steps her Department is taking to address them.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is taking forward digital services to help improve the sharing of patient data, which have the improvement of care and the identification and management of risks as key objectives. The Single Patient Record will bring together a patient’s health information in one, secure, easy-to-access place for use by those delivering care.

The NHS Federated Data Platform connects information across the National Health Service, and can help co-ordinate care, and provide tools to analyse connected data, to identify actions for improvement.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has plans to introduce routine screening for Pelvic Radiation Disease symptoms following pelvic radiotherapy.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No specific assessment has been made of routine screening for Pelvic Radiation Disease symptoms or of the potential implications of the disease on people who have received cancer treatment. The Hon. Member can find details of the Government’s strategy to support people with ongoing symptoms who have previously had treatment in Chapter 4 of the National Cancer Plan for England, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cancer-plan-for-england

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the department has made of the potential implications of Pelvic Radiation Disease on people who have received cancer treatment.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No specific assessment has been made of routine screening for Pelvic Radiation Disease symptoms or of the potential implications of the disease on people who have received cancer treatment. The Hon. Member can find details of the Government’s strategy to support people with ongoing symptoms who have previously had treatment in Chapter 4 of the National Cancer Plan for England, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cancer-plan-for-england

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what treatments are available on the NHS for people suffering from Pelvic Radiation Disease.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No specific assessment has been made of routine screening for Pelvic Radiation Disease symptoms or of the potential implications of the disease on people who have received cancer treatment. The Hon. Member can find details of the Government’s strategy to support people with ongoing symptoms who have previously had treatment in Chapter 4 of the National Cancer Plan for England, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cancer-plan-for-england

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has had discussions with Ofgem on the performance of UK Power Networks in restoring supplies and communicating with customers during power outages.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State and I regularly speak to Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) on a range of issues.

Great Britian has a highly resilient energy system, and when incidents do occur, industry have well practiced plans to minimise impacts as quickly as possible.

All DNOs, including UK Power Networks, are required to report on restoration times during outages, including on their websites, where they offer power outage information.

All DNOs are regulated by the independent regulator, Ofgem, which sets annual targets for customer interruptions and customer minutes lost. Each year DNOs must report their performance against these measures to Ofgem. Ofgem then assesses if targets have been met and rewards or penalises DNOs appropriately.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that UK Power Networks provides timely and accessible information to impacted by unplanned power outages.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State and I regularly speak to Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) on a range of issues.

Great Britian has a highly resilient energy system, and when incidents do occur, industry have well practiced plans to minimise impacts as quickly as possible.

All DNOs, including UK Power Networks, are required to report on restoration times during outages, including on their websites, where they offer power outage information.

All DNOs are regulated by the independent regulator, Ofgem, which sets annual targets for customer interruptions and customer minutes lost. Each year DNOs must report their performance against these measures to Ofgem. Ofgem then assesses if targets have been met and rewards or penalises DNOs appropriately.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she plans to review the compensation available to households and businesses impacted by electricity outages.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Ofgem sets the Quality of Service Guaranteed Standards that must be met by each electricity network company. These standards have been set to a level of service that it is reasonable to expect companies to deliver in all cases. Customers are entitled to compensation if distribution companies fail to meet the service standards required.

The current compensation rules were set in April 2023 for the duration of the current price control for electricity Distribution Network Operators (RIIO-ED2, 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2028).

Ofgem are developing the next five-year price control (RIIO-ED3 running 2028-2033) and will review their compensation arrangements as a part of this process.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resilience of the electricity distribution network in Hertfordshire to extreme weather and unplanned outages.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Maintaining the resilience of the energy system is one of Government’s top priorities. We work closely with Ofgem and all Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), such as UKPN, to continually improve and maintain the resilience, preparedness and security of energy infrastructure against risks including severe weather events.

Ofgem regulates DNOs through a price control process. This includes incentives to reduce the frequency and duration of power interruptions, no matter the cause, and to invest in and maintain infrastructure to guarantee minimum standards of service.

Following the Storm Arwen Review, operators have made significant improvements to system resilience during severe weather events.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is considering legislative changes to enable mortgage lenders to offer (a) product switches and (b) term extensions without the consent of all joint borrowers where domestic abuse has been evidenced.

Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government recognises the devastating impact economic abuse can have on victims, including where joint mortgages or property ownership arrangements are used by perpetrators to cause harm.

Economic abuse was considered as a key theme in the Government’s Financial Inclusion Strategy, which was published last year, in recognition of the particular challenges victim-survivors can face in accessing financial products and services. The strategy sets out an ambitious programme of initiatives to improve financial inclusion and resilience for underserved groups across the UK, including interventions to help victim-survivors regain financial independence.

As part of this, we are working with key stakeholders, including industry and the Financial Conduct Authority, to explore how joint mortgages are used as a tool of abuse and how victims and survivors can be better supported. This commitment was also included in the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

More broadly, the Government is working across departments, and with regulators, industry and specialist organisations, to improve the response to economic abuse and support better outcomes for victims. To that end, HM Treasury held a roundtable in June with Ministers across Government, representatives from the financial services sector, the Financial Conduct Authority and Surviving Economic Abuse to discuss the current response to economic abuse.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking with with the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice to prevent perpetrators of domestic abuse from using joint mortgages and property ownership to maintain financial control after separation.

Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government recognises the devastating impact economic abuse can have on victims, including where joint mortgages or property ownership arrangements are used by perpetrators to cause harm.

Economic abuse was considered as a key theme in the Government’s Financial Inclusion Strategy, which was published last year, in recognition of the particular challenges victim-survivors can face in accessing financial products and services. The strategy sets out an ambitious programme of initiatives to improve financial inclusion and resilience for underserved groups across the UK, including interventions to help victim-survivors regain financial independence.

As part of this, we are working with key stakeholders, including industry and the Financial Conduct Authority, to explore how joint mortgages are used as a tool of abuse and how victims and survivors can be better supported. This commitment was also included in the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

More broadly, the Government is working across departments, and with regulators, industry and specialist organisations, to improve the response to economic abuse and support better outcomes for victims. To that end, HM Treasury held a roundtable in June with Ministers across Government, representatives from the financial services sector, the Financial Conduct Authority and Surviving Economic Abuse to discuss the current response to economic abuse.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority and mortgage lenders on preventing joint mortgages from being used as a means of economic abuse.

Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government recognises the devastating impact economic abuse can have on victims, including where joint mortgages or property ownership arrangements are used by perpetrators to cause harm.

Economic abuse was considered as a key theme in the Government’s Financial Inclusion Strategy, which was published last year, in recognition of the particular challenges victim-survivors can face in accessing financial products and services. The strategy sets out an ambitious programme of initiatives to improve financial inclusion and resilience for underserved groups across the UK, including interventions to help victim-survivors regain financial independence.

As part of this, we are working with key stakeholders, including industry and the Financial Conduct Authority, to explore how joint mortgages are used as a tool of abuse and how victims and survivors can be better supported. This commitment was also included in the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

More broadly, the Government is working across departments, and with regulators, industry and specialist organisations, to improve the response to economic abuse and support better outcomes for victims. To that end, HM Treasury held a roundtable in June with Ministers across Government, representatives from the financial services sector, the Financial Conduct Authority and Surviving Economic Abuse to discuss the current response to economic abuse.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the feasibility of publishing non-sensitive inspection summaries for establishments licensed to breed animals for scientific procedures.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government has no plans to introduce the routine publication of audit or inspection summaries for licensed establishments.

The Government is committed to openness and transparency and publishes a range of information about animals in science regulation. This includes: annual statistics, non-technical summaries of all licensed projects, an annual regulator’s report that includes the outcomes of all non-compliance investigations, Guidance on the Operation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act and the Code of Practice for the care and accommodation of animals used in science. Further, the Government publishes its responses to recommendations from the independent Animals in Science Committee on how the animals in science regulatory system can be continuously strengthened. This Government has also committed to the collection and publication of additional statistics on the breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures which will be conducted in 2027.

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