Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing VED for vehicles ages 20-39 years old by 50%.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

At Budget 2014 the Government announced that it would introduce a rolling 40-year exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) for classic cars. This means that currently vehicles constructed before 1 January 1986 are exempt from paying VED.

The law does not specifically define a vehicle as historic or classic for registration purposes, and it is widely recognised that there are many factors other than age which influence whether a car is considered classic. The Government at the time therefore set 40 years as being a fair cut-off date to distinguish classic cars from older cars.

There are no current plans to reduce VED for cars aged 20 to 39 years. As with all taxes, VED is kept under review and any changes will be considered by the Chancellor in the context of the public finances.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to HC6 of the National Planning Policy Framework on local pubs.

Answered by Nesil Caliskan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 102463 on 23 March 2026.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to support councils and people to retrofit older housing stock to make it more carbon neutral.

Answered by Martin McCluskey - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Warm Homes Plan will deliver £15 billion to upgrade Britain’s old housing stock with solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation to cut bills for good.

The Government is committed to working in partnership with local government to deliver the Plan through an area-based approach. This includes £5 billion directly allocated to low-income households to be delivered initially through the the Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG) and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF).

The plan also includes an offer for everyone, with the new Warm Homes Fund to provide up to £5 billion in investments and consumer loans for the home upgrade sector, and an expanded Boiler Upgrade Scheme for all eligible households in England and Wales.

The new Warm Homes Agency will play a pivotal role in supporting local partnerships, convening, facilitating and supporting where necessary to build capacity within local government to help deliver the Plan.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to promote international humanitarian law abroad.

Answered by Chris Elmore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 24 June 2025 in response to Question 904788.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with the PCS trade union over the Department for Education office closures in Exeter.

Answered by Olivia Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

The department engages regularly and constructively with its recognised trade unions, including the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) trade union, in line with established frameworks. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is fully briefed, and engagement with PCS and other unions is taken forward constructively on her behalf by departmental officials, including on workforce changes such as office closures.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she are taking to support children with medical conditions in schools.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on maintained schools, Academies and pupil referral units in England to make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. The accompanying statutory guidance makes clear to schools what is expected of them in taking reasonable steps to fulfil their legal obligations and to meet the individual needs of pupils with medical conditions.

The department has consulted on revised statutory guidance on Medical conditions at school: statutory guidance, seeking views from schools, parents, health professionals, and other stakeholders on proposals to strengthen how schools meet their duties, including on allergy safety. Our aim is to ensure that every child can access education safely and confidently, regardless of their health needs. The guidance can be accessed at: https://consult.education.gov.uk/medical-conditions-at-school/medical-conditions-at-school-statutory-guidance/.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act has introduced new allergy safety duties, requiring all schools in England to have clear, regularly updated policies and arrangements for managing allergy safety.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish an impact assessment of the provisions in Part 2 (Sections 24–29) of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill; and what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of those provisions on (a) children and young people with Education, Health and Care Plans and (b) children experiencing mental health difficulties.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The department has published impact assessments considering a broad range of impacts of provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026.

Under the Public Sector Equality Duty, all public authorities, including government departments, must give due regard to equality considerations, including the impact on disabled people.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to support residents who are suffering from alcoholic addiction in Newton Abbot.

Answered by Sharon Hodgson - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Local authorities are responsible for commissioning alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services as part of their public health responsibilities. As a condition of the Public Health Grant, local authorities are responsible for improving the uptake of, and outcomes from, their alcohol and drug treatment services, based on an assessment of local need and a plan which has been developed with local health and criminal justice partners.

From 2026/27, all alcohol and drug treatment and recovery funding will be ringfenced and channelled through the Public Health Grant. All funding is provided at the Devon level, and it is for Devon County Council working with a wider partnership to determine how to meet needs in Newton Abbot. Through the ringfenced funding, Devon will receive £8,375,361 in 2026/27 and indicative totals of £8,724,672 and £9,142,038 for 2027/28 and 2028/29 respectively.

The Department works closely with local authorities, providing guidance tools, data, and expertise to help them assess and plan alcohol and drug prevention and treatment. To support delivery, the Department, with the support of partners from the devolved administrations, has developed and published the first ever United Kingdom clinical guidelines on alcohol treatment. The aim of the guidelines is to promote and support good practice and improve the quality of service provision, resulting in better outcomes for people experiencing harmful drinking and alcohol dependence.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve diagnosis rates for infants and new-borns of type 1 diabetes.

Answered by Sharon Hodgson - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recently updated the clinical guidelines on type 1 diabetes in children and young people which support clinicians in diagnosis. The updated guidelines are available at the following link:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng18

In addition, NHS England will continue to progress support for clinicians in identifying type 1 diabetes and raising awareness of the signs of type 1 diabetes with medical professionals and the public.

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a compensation scheme for a) veterans and b) their descendants who may have been irradiated during nuclear tests.

Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

The Government is deeply grateful to all those who participated in the UK nuclear testing programme. We recognise their service and the huge contribution they have made to the UK’s security. We also remain steadfast to our commitment to working with veterans and listening to their concerns.

Any veteran, including those of the nuclear tests, who believes they have suffered ill-health due to service has the right to apply for no-fault compensation under the War Pension Scheme if they served before 6 April 2005. War pensions are payable in respect of illness or injury as a result of service in the Armed Forces, with the benefit of reasonable doubt always given to the claimant. Decisions are medically certified and follow consideration of available service and medical evidence and carry full rights of appeal to an independent tribunal.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 60619, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expanding high-level access permissions on the NHS principle of data minimisation.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

There has not been an expansion of high-level access permissions. NHS England has not identified any adverse impact on the principle of data minimisation from the management of access permissions within the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP).

The NHS FDP operates under a privacy by design approach, with data minimisation embedded as a core requirement of its Information Governance Framework. Access to data is strictly controlled on a role-based and purpose-based basis, ensuring that users can only access the minimum data necessary to perform an approved function.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to protect marine conservation areas.

Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are protected from the point of designation by the planning and marine licensing regimes which cover activities such as dredging for aggregates and construction of offshore wind farms. Where the evidence shows this is necessary, we also use byelaws to restrict damaging fishing activities and over 60% of our MPAs already have byelaws in place. Last year, the Marine Management Organisation consulted on proposals to manage bottom trawling and other fishing methods in a further 42 MPAs and in April the Department confirmed two new MPA byelaws in our inshore waters.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to, a) reduce the number of children that go missing, and b) find children who have gone missing, in Devon.

Answered by Natalie Fleet - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

This Government remains firmly committed to working across government and with safeguarding partners, including the police and voluntary sector, to ensure a robust response to when people go missing anywhere across the country. This includes ensuring that their families receive the best possible protection and support.

I am reassured that the police, working with other safeguarding partners, are driving forward robust action to ensure best practice approaches are taken to prevent missing incidents, provide immediate response when children go missing, and address the underlying harms that lead to these situations.

This includes working in line with the Missing Persons Authorised Professional Practice (APP), issued by the College of Policing, which sets out best practice for all missing person investigations for police forces in England and Wales in order to prevent missing incidents as well as ensure that all safeguarding partners play a role in an investigation. Provisions being implemented from the Children Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, including requiring all local safeguarding partners to establish multi-agency child protection teams, will be another crucial step towards a more joined-up approach to protecting all children from harm, including those who go missing across the UK. The new National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection will also improve the response to missing children by developing best practices and delivering training to officers across a range of vulnerabilities.

This work is aimed at driving improvements in the response to people going missing across all areas of the country, including Devon.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support victims of coercive control.

Answered by Natalie Fleet - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) is a particularly insidious form of domestic abuse and I recognise the long-term emotional and psychological distress it can cause victims. We know that more can be done to improve the response to and support for victims of CCB and the steps we are taking are outlined below.

Statutory guidance on CCB has been issued to the police and other agencies. As part of the recently published Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy the government has committed to updating the guidance by the end of 2026. This will reflect the latest policy and practice, as well as new and emerging issues, to improve how agencies respond to CCB victims.

In April 2025, the National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection (NCVPP) launched to provide national leadership on VAWG within policing. Backed by £13.9 million funding this year, the Centre will improve the response to violence against women and girls, driving a change in policing attitudes to ensure that officers respond effectively to VAWG crimes, including CCB, and offer victims better support and consistent protection.

As of 3rd February 2025, offenders convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour, and sentenced to 12 months or longer, are now automatically managed under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). Recognising the significant harm this kind of offending can cause by putting controlling or coercive behaviour on par with other forms of domestic abuse, giving greater protection to victims of CCB.

Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs) were launched in selected police forces and courts in November 2024, and for the first time, victims of all forms of domestic abuse including coercive and controlling behaviour and economic abuse are being protected through DAPOs. In the VAWG strategy, the government has committed to rollout DAPOs nationally across England and Wales.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps they are taking to improve access to disability equipment.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health needs of their local population, and responsibility for providing equipment to disabled people typically falls to local authorities and the National Health Service.

Local authorities in England have a statutory duty to arrange for the provision of community equipment for disabled people in their area. Responsibility for managing the market for these services, including commissioning and oversight of delivery, rests with local authorities.

The NHS Medium-Term Planning Framework sets targets in 2026/27, for ICBs and community health service providers to increase community health service capacity to meet growth in demand and to actively manage long waits for community health services reducing the proportion of waits over 18 weeks and developing a plan to eliminate all 52-week waits. Whilst targets are not service line specific, this should impact positively on community health services providing disability equipment such as wheelchairs.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 88027, whether the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Federated Data Platform has been updated to reflect broader access roles for non-NHS users.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for the NHS Federated Data Platform, including those relating to the National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT), have been developed and maintained to reflect the platform’s design, operation and access controls, including the role-based and purpose-based access arrangements required to support delivery.

DPIAs account for the limited and controlled use of administrative access by authorised personnel acting under the instruction of the Data Controller, including where supplier support is required to configure, operate and maintain the platform. There has not been a broadening of access roles for non-National Health Service users, this reflects established operational requirements.

DPIAs are reviewed and updated on a regular basis, and where there are material changes to processing or risks, they are revised and republished as appropriate. The NDIT DPIA is currently undergoing a review and will be published in due course.

All access arrangements remain subject to strict contractual requirements, technical and organisational controls, and ongoing audit and oversight, in accordance with United Kingdom data protection law and NHS England’s information governance standards.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affair, what steps she has taken to align the United Kingdom as a part 1 listed status with the EU in relation to pet travel into the EU.

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

The previous Government applied to the European Commission in February 2020 for the United Kingdom (UK) and Crown Dependencies to be listed as a ‘Part 1’ third country for the purposes of the EU pet travel scheme. However, the EU formally ‘listed’ the UK as a ‘Part 2’ third country, meaning pet owners can no longer use pet passports issued in Great Britain (GB) for travel to the EU and instead need a single use Animal Health Certificate (AHC) which allows entry into the EU and re-entry into GB. Pet passports which were issued by a vet in GB before 1 January 2021 can also be used to enter Great Britain, but they will not be accepted to enter the EU, therefore an AHC is still required.

As announced at the UK-EU Leaders' Summit on 19 May 2025 by the current Government, the UK and EU have agreed to work towards a common Sanitary and Phytosanitary Area, which will mean taking pets on holiday into the EU will be easier and cheaper. Instead of getting an Animal Health Certificate each time they travel, pet owners will be able to get a multiuse pet passport valid for travel to the EU. Until an agreement with the EU is reached, owners will still need an AHC for their dog, cat or ferret(s) if they are travelling from GB (England, Wales and Scotland) to an EU country.

Discussions on the SPS agreement are progressing and the Government has committed, with the EU, to conclude negotiations before the next UK-EU Summit. Whilst these negotiations are ongoing, Defra is unable to provide detailed updates on the talks.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 88027, to introduce safeguards to govern access to identifiable patient data by non-NHS personnel within the Federated Data Platform.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Safeguards are already in place governing access to identifiable patient data and non-National Health Service personnel within the NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP).

The NHS has strict policies in place for managing access to patient data and carries out regular audits to ensure compliance, including monitoring the work of engineers helping to set up the central data collection platform (NDIT) that will track NHS performance and help improve care for patients. Anyone requiring administrative access to NDIT must have government security clearance and be approved by a member of NHS England staff at director level or above.

All staff are trained and fully aware of their responsibilities when accessing and using data to only use the minimum required for their purpose.

External suppliers are processors on contracts with relevant security and data protection clauses contained within the agreements. Internal security and data protection processes are in place within NHS England, contracts of employment and other organisational policies provide further safeguards against data misuse.

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