Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made on bringing the rail network into public ownership.

Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

I’m very pleased to tell my Hon Friend that the Government has made significant progress.

This year, London Northwestern Railway, which serves my Honourable friend’s constituents, West Midlands Railway and the largest operator, GTR, have come back into public ownership. Chiltern services will follow in September and, in December, GWR. Over half of all train operators are now publicly owned.

Passengers are already feeling the benefits. On average, DFTO trains perform better on punctuality and cancellations.

And overall, the reliability of our railway is improving, with cancellation rates falling in the last year.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the UK's role in international efforts towards turtle conservation.

Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Through international agreements and fora, including the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the UK supports coordinated action to protect marine turtles throughout their range.

The UK’s Biodiversity Challenge Funds also support international turtle conservation by funding projects that protect turtle populations and habitats while supporting local communities. Examples include projects to strengthen turtle conservation capacity in Indonesia, plastic waste management on Diego Garcia and work to reduce illegal capture and killing of threatened turtles in Bangladesh. These projects help build local conservation expertise, improve species protection and support sustainable management of marine ecosystems.

Additionally, programmes such as the FCDO’s Blue Belt Programme, supports vital turtle conservation efforts in the UK Overseas Territories, including specific research projects on Ascension Island, home to one of the largest green turtle colonies on earth.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to aid international conservation efforts supporting turtle populations.

Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Through international agreements and fora, including the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the UK supports coordinated action to protect marine turtles throughout their range.

The UK’s Biodiversity Challenge Funds also support international turtle conservation by funding projects that protect turtle populations and habitats while supporting local communities. Examples include projects to strengthen turtle conservation capacity in Indonesia, plastic waste management on Diego Garcia and work to reduce illegal capture and killing of threatened turtles in Bangladesh. These projects help build local conservation expertise, improve species protection and support sustainable management of marine ecosystems.

Additionally, programmes such as the FCDO’s Blue Belt Programme, supports vital turtle conservation efforts in the UK Overseas Territories, including specific research projects on Ascension Island, home to one of the largest green turtle colonies on earth.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support to de-carbonise heavy industry.

Answered by Chris McDonald - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Government is providing a range of support to decarbonise heavy industry while keeping competitiveness.

In May, government announced a new £470m funding package for chemicals and ceramics to back decarbonisation and resilience in these sectors.

Government also offers a range of support to enable hydrogen use in industrial sectors, including business models for production and transport and storage; and in September 2025, government also signed a contract with Padeswood, the UK’ first carbon capture-enabled cement plant.

The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund also made around £500m available to support UK industry to decarbonise.

Government continues to keep its approach under review.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of efforts to engage with secondary school children on the issue of sexism.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The reformed relationships, sex and health education curriculum champions healthy attitudes and relationships, equipping children with the tools needed to tackle harmful influences. This includes a focus on building healthy relationships skills from the start of primary school and an emphasis on opening conversations with young people about positive conceptions of masculinity and femininity, including how to identify and learn from positive male role models.

Pupils should understand the importance of challenging harmful beliefs and attitudes and the links between sexism and misogyny and violence against women and girls.

As part of the Freedom from Violence and Abuse strategy, the department is delivering a £16 million investment, including £5 million from the Home Office, through the Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme. We will test, learn, and evaluate on interventions in secondary schools on topics including misogyny and sexism.

New teaching resources for key stages 2 to 5 are being developed to support teachers to tackle misogyny and handle conversations on difficult topics. These resources will be available for the new school year.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase education on the dangers and impact of sexism and misogyny.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The reformed relationships, sex and health education curriculum champions healthy attitudes and relationships, equipping children with the tools needed to tackle harmful influences. This includes a focus on building healthy relationships skills from the start of primary school and an emphasis on opening conversations with young people about positive conceptions of masculinity and femininity, including how to identify and learn from positive male role models.

Pupils should understand the importance of challenging harmful beliefs and attitudes and the links between sexism and misogyny and violence against women and girls.

As part of the Freedom from Violence and Abuse strategy, the department is delivering a £16 million investment, including £5 million from the Home Office, through the Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme. We will test, learn, and evaluate on interventions in secondary schools on topics including misogyny and sexism.

New teaching resources for key stages 2 to 5 are being developed to support teachers to tackle misogyny and handle conversations on difficult topics. These resources will be available for the new school year.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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 disorder.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill

The Department recognises the importance of timely access to high-quality specialist mental health rehabilitation services and appropriate supported housing for people with complex psychosis, including those with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

We have committed to developing a Modern Service Framework for Severe Mental Illness, which will define an aspirational, long-term outcome goal for high quality and equitable care for people with severe mental illness designed to galvanise the whole system. This overarching goal will be underpinned by a set of specific quality commitments that support progress.

Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning National Health Services that meet the needs of their local populations, working with NHS providers, local authorities, housing partners, and the voluntary sector to support people to live well in the community wherever possible.

NHS England’s guidance for adult mental health rehabilitation inpatient services states that rehabilitation services should be planned as part of a whole pathway and should meet identified local population need. It also makes clear that people who require inpatient rehabilitation care should be able to access that care locally, when needed, in a way that is flexible and responsive to their needs. The guidance also emphasises that services should promote independence, quality of life and social inclusion, and support people to return to live in the community.

This guidance further supports integrated care boards and local partners to develop place-based, multidisciplinary community rehabilitation provision, aligned with primary care networks and wider community mental health transformation. This includes supporting people with severe mental illness and complex needs to receive personalised, trauma-informed care as close to home as possible, with access to the right clinical, social, housing, and employment support.

NHS England's guidance for adult mental health rehabilitation inpatient services states that integrated care boards should understand the needs of people using mental health rehabilitation services, including those in hospital, in out of area placements, or awaiting appropriate supported accommodation. This understanding should inform local planning of inpatient rehabilitation capacity, community rehabilitation teams, supported housing pathways, and discharge arrangements.

Through the Government's new £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme, 2026/27 to 2035/36, we will deliver new supply of supported housing across a diverse range of cohorts, including adults with mental ill-health, and housing types. This will support more people to build and sustain their independence and reduce care and incidences of long-term hospital admissions or people remaining in institutional settings.