To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data his Department holds on the number of UK-based distilleries that have (a) opened and (b) closed in each of the last five years.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to mandate defibrillators to be located in all government managed buildings and infrastructure.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the cost of a defibrillator has prevented the government from mandating their access in all government managed buildings and infrastructure.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact the Welsh Government’s proposed UK Internal Market Act exemption to run its own Deposit Return Scheme would have on (a) existing and (b) future UK trade deals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of granting the Welsh Government’s proposed UK Internal Market Act exemption on the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) businesses and (b) consumers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of excise duty levels on the export competitiveness of UK-produced spirits; and what spirit exports were by (a) value and (b) volume in the last period for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support (a) small and (b) independent distillers wishing to export.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to implement the recommendations of the report by the Low Pay Commission entitled, The National Living Wage Review (2015-2020), published on 18 May 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department’s consultation on the statutory levy on gambling operators, which closed on 14 December 2023, how many responses to the consultation were received in total; and what proportion of those responses were…

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her planned timetable is for publishing the outcome of her Department's consultation on the statutory levy on gambling operators, which closed on 14 December 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of providing interventions in the criminal justice system for offenders harmed by gambling; and whether these costs are being considered in the development of proposals for the…

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the study by Gabriel A. Brooks and Luke Clark entitled, The gamblers of the future? Migration from loot boxes to gambling in a longitudinal study of young…

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the University of Bristol research paper entitled, The prevalence of gambling adverts during the opening weekend of the English Premier League 2023-23, published 2024;…

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with the gambling industry on the potential impact of safer gambling week on (a) the volume of (i) marketing and (ii) direct marketing offers, (b) game speed and (c) gambling harm.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with the gambling industry on the effectiveness of safer gambling week for reducing gambling harm.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of the publication of the gambling white paper on (a) the economy and (b) society.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the nature of the financial relationship between the EFL and SkyBet.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what her planned timetable is for the Gambling Commission to assess the single customer view technology trial; and whether a range of technology solutions for online gambling affordability assessment will be considered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) the Gambling Commission and (b) officials in her Department have met providers of online gambling affordability checks technology for the purposes of understanding the potential merits of alternative approaches to the…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to introduce online gambling affordability assessments as part of the gambling white paper, to be conducted independently of the industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) the Gambling Commission and (b) her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of technology such as open banking to remove the need for customers to hand over financial information for affordability…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the results of the GAMSTOP single customer view trial will be made publicly available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the results of the GAMSTOP single customer view trial will be independently assessed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will introduce an affordability system for gambling, incorporating assessments of average bets and average levels of disposable income, to prevent extreme financial losses and avoidable harm.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential causal relationship between gambling advertising and harm caused by gambling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the extent to which exposure to gambling advertising is a predictor of (a) at risk and (b) problem gambling among secondary school children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of offering sporting bodies sports betting rights, where gambling companies can be charged a fee for the right to use sporting content and to offer bets on sporting…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement that GAMSTOP, an industry-funded organisation, will be operating a single customer view trial, if she will take steps to ensure that the upcoming Gambling White Paper makes provision for…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the White Paper on the gambling review.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many national lottery participants there are each year on average; and how much on average is lost by the highest spending players.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ban the National Lottery from using its brand to promote online instant-win games that may lead to problem gambling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish the response to its 2020 consultation on loot boxes in video games.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will classify loot boxes as a form of gambling in the upcoming review of the Gambling Act 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to (a) assess whether loot boxes are harmful to children and (b) gather further data in this area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the total value of microtransactions from loot boxes in video games in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the value of loot box grey markets where players can trade items between accounts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of whether players can sell items won in video game loot boxes for real-world money.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2021 to Question 88799, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the Gambling Commission investigating a total of eight deaths by suicide where gambling may have been a factor since the…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, (a) how many customer suicides have been reported by gambling operators for the past three years, (b) which operators have reported these and (c) how many of these suicides have been investigated by the Gambling Commission.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will facilitate discussions between the gambling industry and financial services institutions to ensure gambling operators provide data to prevent harm.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the financial services sector to help prevent harmful gambling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end online gambling via payment mechanisms other than direct debit such as Klarna and alternative payment systems.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end football club sponsorship by gambling companies which do not have an operational website and which offer gambling via cryptocurrency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to end front of shirt sponsorship by gambling companies which do not have an operational website and offer gambling via cryptocurrency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has plans to remove gambling licences in the UK from operators that are found to be engaged in black market activity.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of organisations that claim to uphold gambling standards representing companies that are being investigated for black market activities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, (a) what sanctions apply to gambling companies which breach license terms by failing to remove self excluded people from marketing communications and (b) whether those sanctions will be increased as part of the upcoming Gambling…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will include steps to ban free bets and other inducements to gamble in the upcoming gambling White Paper.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Gambling Commission has taken to protect vulnerable gamblers in response to Sky Vegas’ breach of licence terms by failing to remove self-excluded people from marketing communications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Gambling Commission on Sky Vegas or its parent company Flutter offering free spins to recovering addicts during Safer Gambling Week.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish the gambling white paper.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of which areas of gambling reform do not require primary legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory smart levy on the research, education and treatment of gambling addiction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when a Single Customer View system will be introduced for remote gambling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with sports bodies on front-of-shirt gambling advertising.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make a statement on the progress of the gambling review.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made for the implications of his policies of reports of gambling operators taking bets over social media and messaging platforms to avoid gambling regulations and social responsibility schemes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with (a) the Gambling Commission, and (b) gaming operators on the development of Esports Betting.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made on the potential effect of Esports Betting on gambling-related harm.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a Gambling Ombudsman.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had and with whom on the potential merits of establishing a Gambling Ombudsman.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will establish a Gambling Ombudsman.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of a Gambling Ombudsman with statutory footing on incidence of gambling-related death.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with his Northern Irish counterpart on the operation of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) in Northern Ireland following the reduction in the maximum stake on FOBTs in Great Britain to £2 in 2019.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what provisions his Department plans to put in place to protect lottery players from harm as part of the Fourth National Lottery licence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what process his Department plans to put in place to ensure that lottery players are better protected as part of the Fourth National Lottery licence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of strengthening measures to protect lottery players from harm as part of the Fourth National Lottery licence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of strengthening measures against gambling operators holding licenses in the UK in relation to their conduct in foreign jurisdictions in order to help ensure the licensing aim of…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish the responses to the Gambling Act Review Call for Evidence that closed on 31 March 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the number of criminal cases in 2021 where gambling addiction is a relevant factor exceeding 2020 figures, what assessment he has made of the Gambling Commission's performance against the statutory licensing…

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Gambling Commission on GB licensed operators and suppliers profiting from remote gambling consumers in jurisdictions where gambling is a prohibited activity.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the implementation and effectiveness of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator training in state-funded schools since its inclusion in the national curriculum in 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the levels of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator training being taught in (a) privately funded schools and (b) higher and further education settings.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to require schools to have defibrillators on their premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of whether gambling advertising is a predictor of at risk and problem gambling in secondary school children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding the potential merits of incorporating (a) evidence on the maternal and neonatal risks from extreme heat and (b) measures to protect…

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the potential impact of granting the Welsh Government’s proposed UK Internal Market Act exemption to run its own Deposit Return Scheme on food and drink businesses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the value of gin produced in Wales to the economy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Food and Drink Sector Council last met; and when they plan to meet next.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Welsh Government on a potential exclusion from the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 in the context of the inclusion of glass in a deposit return scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with industry representatives on the implementation of a deposit return scheme since November 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the effective operation of food and drink supply chains in the context of labour shortages.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the harms of pornography experienced by victims.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to prevent children being exposed to pornography.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will include the British Standard Institution's health and safety document entitled BS 30416 on Menstruation, Menstrual Health and Menopause in the Workplace, published on 31 May 2023, in her Department's guidance on the Employment Rights…

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the introduction of a Sickness absence recording tool (SART) code for menopause.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the National Telephone Service for Universal Credit has been used by (a) female and (b) prison leavers in each month since that service was introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many reports submitted by members of the public through the Yellow Card scheme resulted in enforcement action by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, in each of the past five years, in relation to the sale of (a)…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many reports were submitted by members of the public through the Yellow Card scheme, in each of the past five years, in relation to the sale of (a) counterfeit medicines, (b) unapproved medicines in the UK, and (c) medicines which are…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of whether the current resourcing level in the Criminal Enforcement Unit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is sufficient to progress enforcement action in all cases where…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve support and services for patients with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department plans to update NHS antenatal and maternity guidance, in the context of emerging evidence that extreme heat exposure can elevate risks to pregnant people and unborn children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to work with UKHSA to issue specific guidance for (a) health professionals and (b) the public, regarding the health risks to pregnant people during periods of extreme heat.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of potential new treatments for glioblastoma.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of different funding mechanisms that could be applied to new obesity treatments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to recognise obesity as a disease.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of delivering weight management services as part of the neighbourhood health model.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations of the Thirty-Seventh Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024-25 on Immigration: Skilled worker visas, HC 819 and pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2025 to Question 39615 on Care…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of health services for women.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were referred to the Fracture Liaison Service with fragility fractures in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those patients were women over the age of 50.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the women over the age of 50 that were referred to the Fracture Liaison Service with fragility fractures were (a) taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prior to their first fragility fracture and (b)…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to provide tailored information about menopause for (a) autistic people and (b) people with learning disabilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to assess the healthcare needs of disabled people with (a) neurodivergence, (b) learning disabilities and (c) other conditions during menopause.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken to ensure that her policies on the menopause take into account the experiences of autistic people.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish a consultation on a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with relevant stakeholders in the beauty and aesthetics sector on developing a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing an aesthetics licensing scheme to provide (a) education, (b) training and (c) progression routes into the sector for (i) medical and (ii) non-medical practitioners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the criteria used by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in granting licences for medicines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of D150 applications that have taken more than 150 days to be assessed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the latest period for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of D150 applications for women's health products that have taken more than 150 days to be assessed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the latest period for which data is…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the causes of the time taken by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to process D150 applications.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency prioritises certain health conditions in assessing the potential merits of granting licences for medicines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing societal awareness of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator use to improve survival rates in response to cardiac arrest in (a) homes,…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving access to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation training and Automated External Defibrillators in more deprived areas of the country where incidences of cardiac…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of medicines that were prescribed by doctors that were not available on local formularies in the last 12 months; and if he will make an assessment of the impact of medicine…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of products approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence did not appear on local formularies within 90 days of its approval in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average administrative time spent by healthcare professionals on updating local formularies to include hormone replacement therapies in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to reduce regional variations in the availability of hormone replacement therapies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have bought an HRT pre-payment certificate since its introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have bought an HRT pre-payment certificate are accessing HRT for the first time.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for the provision of home dialysis to each NHS trust in England in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the funding his Department provided for the provision of home dialysis to NHS trusts in England was passed on to patients in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness amongst clinicians that brain fog can be a symptom of both dementia and menopause.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the number of women referred to Memory Services when experiencing cognitive symptoms of menopause.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide additional support for research into potential links between dementia and the menopause.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women received Hormone Replacement Therapy prescriptions for (a) utrogestan, (b) body-identical oestrogen patches and gels, (c) non-body-identical oestrogen, (d) non-body identical progestogens and (d) the testosterone products (i)…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy that there should be a comprehensive public health framework for gambling policy in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of clinicians' recommendation that there should be a levy board responsible for a statutory gambling levy in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for a public health campaign to update women on the menopause support available to them.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has write to healthcare professionals to remind them of the NICE guidelines for menopause care and the ability to prescribe twelve months supply on one prescription; and what his timetable is for doing that.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress has been made on the implementation of the new annual prepayment certificate for hormone replacement therapy products; for what reason implementation will take a further 12 months; and what steps he plans to take to…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to meet representatives from the pharmaceutical supply companies to discuss availability issues with hormone replacement therapy products; and when those meetings are scheduled to take place.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 29 October 2021, Official Report, column 538, what progress he has made on reducing the costs of repeatable prescriptions for…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 29 October 2021, Official Report, column 538, what progress he has made on reducing the costs of repeatable prescriptions for…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many female patients aged between 40 and 60 received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions were made to women of those ages in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy prescriptions in each of the last three years; and how many prescriptions for that treatment were made in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing access to defibrillators by mandating them to be located in out…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of women who are experiencing the menopause that were receiving a prescription for hormone replacement therapy in (a) each of the last three years and (b) each month of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to submit the Sinopharm vaccine to the MHRA and JCVI for consideration as an alternative to currently available vaccines, for those who are unable to receive their first dose of covid-19 vaccine for medical…

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pregnant women tested positive for covid-19 at HMP Styal in the last two years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people who wish to be vaccinated against covid-19 but are allergic to ingredients in the covid-19 vaccines available in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when Public Health England will publish its report into Gambling Related Harms.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the speech by the Prime Minister to the Conservative Friends of Israel on 16 December 2022, what recent progress his Department has made on assessing the potential merits of supporting the…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the recommendations of the Thirty-Seventh Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024-25 on Immigration: Skilled worker visas, HC 819, and the white paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system,…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the recommendations of the Thirty-Seventh Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024-25 on Immigration: Skilled worker visas, HC 819, what arrangements are in place to safeguard international social care…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the exploitation of people working illegally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many victims of modern slavery were granted temporary leave to remain under section 65 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 for (a) assisting a person in their recovery from any physical or psychological harm arising from the relevant…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of (a) the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and (b) the Illegal Migration Act 2023 on decisions made under the National Referral Mechanism.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) positive reasonable grounds decisions and (b) conclusive grounds decisions which have been made under the National Referral Mechanism between 2020 and 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of negative conclusive grounds decisions under the National Referral Mechanism on vulnerable individuals.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support the Government is providing to help victims of sexual exploitation exit prostitution.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce demand for trafficking for sexual exploitation.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the scale of commercial sexual exploitation across the country.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent organised crime groups from advertising victims of (a) trafficking and (b) other sexual exploitation offences on websites advertising prostitution.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes related to harmful gambling were committed in the last 12 months; what the nature of those crimes was; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of those crimes on (a) the economy and (b) wider society.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the impact of gambling-related (a) fraud and (b) other acquisitive crimes on the finances of the victims of those crimes.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made a recent estimate of the total amount of money that has been returned to victims of gambling-related crimes by (a) the gambling industry, (b) Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings and (c) any other means in the 2023-24 financial…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 60 g) of the Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, published by his Department on 27 March 2023, whether that stakeholder engagement has been completed; which stakeholders were consulted; and if he will publish the…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the national county lines operation reported by the National Police Chiefs Council on 21 October 2021, how many people have been charged with criminal offences in respect of the act of cuckooing; and of those charged, how many…

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential merits of introducing a visa scheme for food and drink workers to support covid-19 economic recovery.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase access to labour to support the UK food and drink distribution sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will meet with representatives of the food and drink sector to discuss how labour shortages in that sector can be tackled through her Department's policies.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help support victims of domestic abuse who are unable to pay their utility bills due to the perpetrator emptying a joint bank account.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to safeguard domestic abuse victims against financial abuse in the event that they have a joint bank account with a perpetrator.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help support victims of domestic abuse who are unable to pay their mortgage due to the perpetrator emptying a joint bank account.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions are in place to help victims of domestic abuse transfer funds from a joint bank account held with a perpetrator to their own personal bank account.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many babies and children under the age of two are (a) in Mother and Baby Units in prisons in England and (b) have been in Mother and Baby Units in prisons in England in the last twelve months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mothers in prison (a) are currently separated from their children under the age of two and (b) have been separated from their babies and children under the age of two in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in the context of children under the age of two who are separated from their mothers in prison, if she will publish (a) a list of types of setting in which those children are looked after and (b) the (i) number and (ii) proportion of children looked after…

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) persons arrested by the police (b) prisoners and (c) offenders on probation who are affected by harmful gambling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) prisoners and (b) offenders on probation affected by harmful gambling are receiving (i) treatment and (ii) other support during their sentence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department plans to spend on (a) assessments, (b) referrals and (c) support for (i) offenders and (ii) victims who are affected by harmful gambling in the 2024-25 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken recent steps to ensure that women who become pregnant while awaiting court or sentencing have their pregnancy considered as a mitigating factor.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce the number of (a) pregnant women and (b) mothers of babies under the age of two who are sent to prison.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the publication of the report on the National Review of Health and Social Care in Women’s Prisons.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the National Review of Health and Social Care in Women’s Prisons will cover women’s sexual and reproductive healthcare in the prison system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) pregnant women and (b) mothers of babies under two years old who have entered the prison system on remand in the last year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence length was for (a) women and (b) men sentenced to prison in each month since January 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set a numerical target for the commitment in the Female Offenders Strategy on reducing the number of women entering prison.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the 500 new prison places for women will be open provision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women’s prison cells will be brought back into use through the £21 million in funding allocated to refurbishing the women’s prison estate, in each of the next five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish its one-year on report on the national concordat on women in contact, or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women known to be pregnant from July 2020 to March 2021, as reported in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2020/21, were under Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) monitoring for risks of self-harm and/or suicide.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women known to be pregnant from July 2020 to March 2021, as reported in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2020/21, were (a) sentenced (b) on remand, at the point at which they were first recorded as being pregnant.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the publication of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s independent investigation into the death of a baby (Baby A) at HMP Bronzefield on 27 September 2019, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ending the use of…

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the value of the UK spirits sector to the economy in (a) employment, (b) exports and (c) tax revenue.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual value is of UK spirits exports; and what proportion of overall exports those exports were in the last five years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of excise duty rates on the competitiveness of (a) UK and (b) European distillers; and what fiscal steps she is taking to help support the domestic distilling industry.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review excise duty rates on (a) spirits, (b) wine and (c) beer.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to help support the growth of independent distilleries in rural areas.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a comparative assessment of taxation rates for (a) land-based and (b) remote gambling operators.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that all banks provide a gambling block to help prevent gambling harm.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will require gambling firms to disclose their bank account details on a central registry to empower banks to extend gambling blocks to bank transfers made to gambling companies.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the financial services sector to help prevent harmful gambling.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the Payment Services Directive to ensure that it helps prevent gambling harm.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether food and drink wholesalers will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount available to the retail, leisure and hospitality industry.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether food and drink wholesalers will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the 50 per cent business rates relief discount will be available per business or per premise.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment she has undertaken with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of granting the Welsh Government’s proposed UK Internal Market Act exemption on the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) businesses and (b) consumers.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the provision of cross-departmental funding for women’s centres.