Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to access (a) music concerts and (b) other live events.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government supports the Arts Councils of each UK nation and Ireland and the British Film Institute in launching All In, a free, UK wide arts access scheme. This scheme will help remove barriers for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people in music venues, festivals, theatres, museums, galleries, libraries and more. It will introduce the UK and Ireland’s first set of industry standards to improve access to arts and culture as well as launch new digital tools to support accessible ticket booking. Work so far has included consultation with potential users, as well as feasibility studies to inform how the scheme can address access barriers faced by disabled audience members.

The Office for Equality and Opportunity has also appointed David Stanley as Disability and Access Ambassador for arts and culture - to drive improvements in the accessibility and quality of services and facilities in the sector for disabled people, helping to ensure businesses are doing all they can to support disabled customers.

We are continuing to support Arts Council England’s (ACE’s) Supporting Grassroots Music Fund (SGMF), which as well as aiming to bolster the grassroots music ecosystem, aims to promote inclusivity within the sector. For example, through support from the SGMF, a music venue in Bristol has become the first grassroots music venue in the country to secure an Attitude is Everything Gold Award, a widely-coveted Industry award, given only to those that show a significant and ongoing commitment to improving accessibility.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of offering (a) enhanced and (b) conditional Agricultural Property Relief on (i) land farmed with certified organic production standards and (ii) farms making the transition to certified organic standards.

Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

There are no plans to change the qualifying conditions for agricultural property relief to distinguish between conventional and organic farming.

The Government is supporting organic farming, along with other environmentally friendly farming techniques, through Environmental Land Management schemes that are paying thousands of farmers for pesticide free farming and natural soil management methods such as the use of companion crops. This support helps ensure farmers can produce the food the country needs while also protecting nature.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who receive the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit contribute an adequate share of child maintenance responsibilities.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The child maintenance calculation is designed to be fair for the paying parent, while ensuring they contribute a significant proportion of their income to support their children.

A banding system ensures that the very lowest earners and those on prescribed benefits pay a flat rate of £7 per week. Those that can afford to make a bigger contribution do so at a rate that reflects what they earn.

For child maintenance calculation purposes, a paying parent who is in receipt of Universal Credit and also has earned income will not be considered as being in receipt of benefit. Their liability to pay child maintenance will therefore be calculated based upon the income they receive.

The department is reviewing the calculation to make sure it is fit for purpose. This has included updating the underlying research and considering how we ensure the calculation reflects current and future societal trends.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15144 on Teachers: Workplace Pension, what the updated planned timetable is for resolving the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value details from Teachers’ Pensions.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The scheme administrator has made significant progress to reduce the backlog of Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) figures that built up whilst the necessary guidance was developed following the Transitional Protection (McCloud) remedy taking effect.

The backlog of 3,062 at the end of October 2024 has been reduced to 472 as of 3 June. The current outstanding figure includes recent applications and as such there will always be a number of outstanding CETVs at any given time.

The scheme administrator is now working through the more complex cases for members who have not retired who have scheme flexibilities to take account of, which must be processed clerically as a result.

Addressing the remainder of the backlog remains a key priority for both the department and the scheme administrator and it is anticipated that these outstanding cases will be completed before October 2025.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic pressure his Department has exerted on the El Salvador government to ensure that the human rights of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca are protected.

Answered by Catherine West - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK continues to urge the authorities in El Salvador to establish an exit strategy from the current State of Exception and ensure respect for human rights, including ensuring that prisoners are treated in line with international human rights standards and afforded the protections to which they have a right under El Salvador's Constitution. The UK reaffirmed this in its statement during El Salvador's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in January this year, calling on El Salvador to ensure the right to fair trial, with the guarantee of legal representation for defendants, and the release of individuals detained without clear evidence.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of statutory regulation for the bailiff industry.

Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Whilst most enforcement agencies have already signed up to the Enforcement Conduct Board’s (ECB) voluntary accreditation scheme, the Government believes that it is necessary to take action so that all enforcement agents, High Court Enforcement Officer and agencies are regulated to the same standards and overseen by the same body. To that end, a public consultation was launched on 9 June to explore how best to achieve this. The package of measures on which we are consulting includes a proposal to place the ECB on a statutory footing and for all enforcement agents to come within its auspices.

Responses to the consultation will inform legislation to be brought forward as soon as parliamentary time allows.

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Anna Dixon made representations.

Found: Anna Dixon is next.

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Q4 Anna Dixon: Good morning.

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Sarah Olney (in the Chair); Mr Luke Charters; Anna Dixon; Peter Fortune

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: on advertising) (NC14):— _NC14(b) Paul Waugh Dame Meg Hillier Sarah Smith Daniel Francis Anna Dixon

Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: on advertising) (NC14):— _NC14(b) Paul Waugh Dame Meg Hillier Sarah Smith Daniel Francis Anna Dixon

Found: on advertising) (NC14):— _NC14(b) Paul Waugh Dame Meg Hillier Sarah Smith Daniel Francis Anna Dixon

Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire APPG
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Found: Liberal Democrats); Harpreet Uppal MP (Labour, Huddersfield); Paul Davies MP (Labour, Colne Valley); Anna Dixon

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: rape and sexual violence – Alison Hume MP, Jayne Kirkham MP, Dan Aldridge MP, Marie Tidball MP, Anna Dixon