What he has asked ministers in writing.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent staffing level is of each directorate and unit within the Homeland Security Group.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish her Department's forecasts of the impact of the UK CBAM on (a) fertiliser import volumes, (b) fertiliser prices and (c) fertiliser use by UK farmers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will assess the health and safety risks of construction sites where workers do not share a common working language, particularly in relation to the communication of safety-critical ins

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many asylum seekers have received publicly funded training under the Adult Skills Fund and its predecessor schemes since asylum seekers first became eligible for such support.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review health and safety guidance relating to the English language competence of workers on construction sites.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse of training for asylum seekers funded under the Adult Skills Fund and its predecessor schemes has been since asylum seekers first became eligible for such support.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil society organisations that had previously received funding through the Prevent programme were subsequently (a) refused further Prevent funding, (b) excluded from bidding for Prevent fun

Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test appointments were identified by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency as having been obtained through automated booking systems, bulk purchasing, or other practices intended for resale i

Guide Dogs

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to issue further guidance to retailers and security contractors clarifying that employees' personal, cultural, or religious beliefs regarding dogs do not justify denying access to

Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is issued to Victim Liaison Officers regarding interactions between victims’ families and journalists, broadcasters, social media platforms and public relations advisers.

Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether organisations classified as by and for service providers are required to accept referrals from persons who do not share the protected characteristics of the group for whom the service is primarily desi

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers in her Department received management information between 1 March and 31 August 2026 on Freedom of Information responses awaiting clearance from the Communications Directorate and sp

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures her Department has to ensure that when a proposed Freedom of Information response is resubmitted for internal clearance its original request receipt date, previous clearance referral d

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department requires an audit trail where consultation with (i) the Communications Directorate and (ii) special advisers results in a change to the information proposed for disclosure under

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the subject matter of a Freedom of Information request concerning (a) immigration, (b) visas and (c) asylum is a criterion for referral to (i) the Communications Directorate and (ii) special a

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what time limits apply to consideration of proposed Freedom of Information responses by (a) the Communications Directorate and (b) special advisers; and what escalation procedure applies where clearan

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many proposed Freedom of Information responses were awaiting clearance from (a) the Communications Directorate and (b) special advisers on 31 August 2026, and how many in each category had been aw

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department applies different central clearance requirements to proposed Freedom of Information responses that (a) disclose information and (b) disclose no information.

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department’s current operational guidance setting out the criteria for referring proposed Freedom of Information responses to (a) the Communications Dire

Home Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department’s procedures permit special advisers to require that a proposed response to a Freedom of Information request is not issued pending their agreement, and which ministerial or offi

Asylum: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers transported by coach from UK ports to reception or processing centres are accompanied by Home Office, Border Force, police, security, or welfare staff; and what guidance governs

Asylum: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what risk assessment procedures are required before coach transport is used to transport asylum seekers from ports of arrival to reception or processing centres.

Asylum: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of coach journeys used to transport asylum seekers from UK ports to reception or processing centres were booked (a) less than 24 hours, (b) between 24 and 72 hours, (c) between three a

NHS Low Income Scheme: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether HC2 certificate holders are required to notify the NHS Business Services Authority of a change in immigration status.

NHS Low Income Scheme: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals with refugee status were in receipt of a valid HC2 certificate on the latest date for which data is available.

NHS Low Income Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS was of treatment provided to individuals recorded as asylum seekers who held a valid HC2 certificate in each year since 2020.

NHS Low Income Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what nationality data is held for individuals recorded as asylum seekers in receipt of a valid HC2 certificate.

NHS Low Income Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals recorded as asylum seekers were in receipt of a valid HC2 certificate on the latest date for which data is available.

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service decisions have been revised, overturned, or amended following mandatory reconsideration or appeal since 1 January 2020; and what proportion of those cases resulted in

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to undertake a review of the refugee status, humanitarian protection status and subsequent settlement grants of Bangladeshi nationals whose protection claims were based on a risk of

Immigration: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes are in place to identify non-UK nationals who are married overseas but fail to declare their marital status in immigration applications; and how many such cases were identified in the l

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to detect and prevent benefit claims made using fraudulent identities, fictitious households, or other forms of identity deception; and how many such cases were ident

Forced Marriage Protection Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for Forced Marriage Protection Orders were made in each of the last five years; and how many were (a) granted, (b) refused and (c) subsequently breached.

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases were included in the Universal Credit processing backlog on the most recent date for which data is available.

Military Bases: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records his Department holds on incidents of damage to Ministry of Defence sites used for asylum accommodation since 2022; and what the estimated cost of rectifying that damage has been.

Parking: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce a cap on charges and associated debt recovery fees imposed by private parking companies; and what assessment she has made of the impact of such cha

Parking: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms exist to protect motorists from excessive charges imposed by private parking companies; and whether the Government plans to strengthen those protections.

Domestic Abuse: Offences against the Administration of Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of safeguards for male victims of false allegations of domestic abuse in criminal and family court proceedings.

Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, how many investigations into suspected phoenix company activity have been undertaken by the Insolvency Service in each of the last five years; and how many resulted in enforcement

Midazolam: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total NHS expenditure on midazolam was in each year since 2016.

Asylum: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what modes of transport are used to transfer asylum seekers between accommodation sites within the UK; and what expenditure was incurred on (a) air transport, (b) rail transport, (c) coach transport,

Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of whether "by and for" domestic abuse services achieve better outcomes for victims than other domestic abuse services.

Guide Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that disabled people who rely on assistance dogs, including psychiatric assistance dogs, are not subjected to harassment or unlawful exclusion when accessin

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides to local housing authorities on taking account of overseas property ownership and overseas assets when assessing eligibility for social hous

Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what formal arrangements, protocols and guidance exist between the Research Information and Communications Unit, Counter Terrorism Policing, police communications teams and Victim Liaison Officers; an

Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) investigations and (b) cases have involved the deployment of Victim Liaison Officers in each year since 2019.

Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff and other personnel are authorised to act as Victim Liaison Officers across England and Wales.

Health Services: Interpreters

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS-funded interpreter bookings resulted in patient non-attendance in each of the last three years; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce costs arising from patient non-attenda

Flexible Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Flee Fund and Future Fund in supporting survivors of domestic abuse to achieve long-term independence.

Flexible Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the Flee Fund and Future Fund have been (a) received, (b) approved, and (c) rejected in each year since the schemes commenced; and what the sex of applicants and recipients wa

Relationships, Sex and Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what procedures exist for investigating complaints concerning the content of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) taught in schools.

Relationships, Sex and Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role Ofsted plays, if any, in assessing schools' compliance with statutory guidance on relationships, sex and health education (RSHE).

Relationships, Sex and Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools are required to make relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) teaching materials available for parental scrutiny.

Relationships, Sex and Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what oversight and accountability arrangements are in place to regulate the content of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in schools.

Student Loans Company: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms exist to provide an independent review of decisions by the Student Loans Company to recover alleged outstanding loan balances arising from administrative errors by public bodies; and whether she

Public Lavatories: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which groups are eligible to receive free Radar keys for accessible toilets through government-funded or government-supported schemes; and whether the Government plans to extend

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals evacuated under Operation Pitting and granted indefinite leave to remain have voluntarily returned to Afghanistan; and whether such travel negates a continuing need for protection

Public Service Broadcasting: Streaming

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to to the Green Paper entitled Watch this space, published on 23 June 2026, what criteria her Department will use in determining whether legislation is required to secure greater p

Public Service Broadcasting: Streaming

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Watch this space, published on 23 June 2026, whether her Department has undertaken a cost-benefit assessment of proposals relating to the prominence of

Public Service Broadcasting: Streaming

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Watch this space, published on 23 June 2026, which organisations, platforms and stakeholders her Department consulted in developing proposals on the pro

Local Government: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of local authority enforcement action against vehicles parked in contravention of parking restrictions during periods of high attendan

Semaglutide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has independently assessed the clinical benefits and effectiveness of Wegovy.

Semaglutide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on semaglutide prescribed for weight management in each year since it became available on the NHS; and how many patients received such treatment in each of those years.

Educational Visits: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department's guidance permits schools to make participation in school events, trips, and extracurricular activities conditional on achieving a minimum attendance rate.

Serco: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of residential properties purchased by Serco in fulfilment of its asylum accommodation contracts in each year since 2019.

Civil Servants: Trade Unions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria he uses to distinguish permissible trade union political campaigning by civil servants holding union office from prohibited party-political activity under the Civil Service Code.

Asylum: Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria were used in assessing the suitability of the Stoke Heath development for asylum accommodation; what assessment was made of local transport links, access to healthcare, educational provi

Asylum: Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to use housing at the Stoke Heath housing estate to accommodate asylum seekers; and whether she will make a statement.

Floods: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households received council tax relief under the Flood Recovery Framework in each financial year since 2023-24, broken down by local authority area; and what the total v

Business: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications were (a) received, (b) approved and (c) paid for the Business Recovery Grant in each financial year since 2023-24; and what the value of grants paid was in each year.

Property Flood Resilience Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications were (a) received, (b) approved and (c) paid under the Property Flood Resilience Repair Grant Scheme in each financial year since 2023-24; and what the value of g

Bellwin Scheme: Great Yarmouth Borough Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Great Yarmouth Borough Council has made any claims under the Bellwin scheme since the scheme was established.

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of introducing a digital identity system.

Digital ID Advisory Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the terms of reference are for the Digital ID Advisory Group; and what reports, recommendations, or other formal outputs the Group has produced to date.

Digital ID Advisory Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the budget of the Digital ID Advisory Group is for the 2026–27 financial year; and how that budget is allocated.

Digital ID Advisory Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether minutes of meetings of the Digital ID Advisory Group are published.

Digital ID Advisory Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the membership of the Digital ID Advisory Group is; and on what date each member was appointed.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how freedom of movement for asylum seekers will be ensured in practice at MoD Barnham.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether contracts associated with the operation of MoD Barnham include provision for escorting, chaperoning, or supervising asylum seekers whilst off-site; and what the total value of those contractua

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers based at MoD Barnham will be required to report their movements, either routinely or on request.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether contractual requirements have been placed on catering providers at MoD Barnham in relation to minimising food waste; and whether financial penalties or performance targets relating to food was

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether maximum response times have been specified for the assessment and treatment of (a) urgent, (b) serious and (c) emergency medical conditions among asylum seekers resident at MoD Barnham.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of the Home Office Oversight and Assurance Team will be stationed at MoD Barnham; how many full-time equivalent staff this represents; what their anticipated roles and responsibilitie

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding measures are required in contracts for asylum accommodation providers at MoD Barnham to protect female residents from violence, harassment, intimidation, and sexual exploitation.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers accommodated at MoD Barnham will be subject to monitoring of their social media accounts by (a) the Home Office, (b) accommodation providers, (c) security contractors, or (d) an

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether residents at MoD Barnham will be provided with a) English language classes, b) vocational training, c) internet access, d) gym facilities, e) sports facilities, f) entertainment services or or

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate has been made of the total cost of returning MoD Barnham to its previous condition following the conclusion of its use as asylum accommodation; and which department will cover that cost.

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date discussions were commenced regarding the potential use of MoD Barnham as asylum accommodation; how many meetings were held with local authorities, police forces, NHS bodies and elected re

RAF Barnham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate has been made of the total capital cost of preparing and repurposing MoD Barnham for use as asylum accommodation, including costs associated with refurbishment, utilities, security infra

Coastal Erosion: Maps

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping maintained by the Environment Agency reflects the most recent available assessment of coastal erosion risk; and if she will make a sta

Farming Recovery Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications to the Farming Recovery Fund were (a) received, (b) approved and (c) paid; and what the total value is of payments made under the scheme.

James Paget Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's current timetable is for delivering the replacement James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth.

Counter-terrorism: Lie Detectors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of polygraph testing as a tool for assessing and managing the risk posed by terrorist-connected offenders.

Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has for the retention, review and deletion of historic non-crime hate incident records following the replacement of the non-crime hate incident system.

Coastal Erosion: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of residential properties expected to be lost to coastal erosion in the next five years by local authority area.

Coastal Erosion: Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many residential and commercial properties in England have been demolished, abandoned, or lost as a result of coastal erosion in each year since 2010, broken down by region and loc

Asylum: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration is given to the needs of vulnerable individuals when placing asylum seekers in large-scale or military-site accommodation.

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the impact of geographic remoteness on the practical ability of asylum seekers to exercise freedom of movement.

Asylum: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether residents of asylum accommodation on Ministry of Defence sites are subject to any formal curfew or restrictions on hours of entry and exit.

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish any internal documents, including meeting notes and summaries, relating to engagement with faith groups during the development of the death certification and registra

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS clinicians, medical examiners, coroners or registrars raised concerns about the operational impact, workload implications or feasibility of the death certification and registration refo

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department had with faith groups on the development of the death certification and registration reforms introduced in September 2024.

Offences against Children: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has received briefings on Operation Hexagon conducted by Greater Manchester Police since 2019.

Offences against Children: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on Operation Hexagon conducted by Greater Manchester Police.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what internal discussions her Department has had on the publication of data on asylum accommodation sites and occupancy levels; and under what statutory, policy and civil service frameworks decisions

Football: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance her Department or its arm's length bodies, including Sport England, have issued to organisations such as County Football Associations on maintaining neutrality when delivering inclu

Football: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what definition of political and religious neutrality applies to County Football Associations in receipt of public funding, including funding distributed via Sport England or the Football Foundat

Shipping: Identification

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cases of vessels switching off or falsifying their Automatic Identification System (AIS) data have been identified in UK waters in the last 12 months.

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications for overseas workers hid Department received under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups, broken down by nationality, in each year since it has been in operation.

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many overseas dependents are supported under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups broken down by nationality.

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many overseas workers are supported under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups broken down by nationality.

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications to the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups have been (a) received, (b) approved and (c) rejected.

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding has been paid under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups; how many overseas workers have been supported; and how many dependants have been included.

Asylum: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is responsible for recording and reporting the number of asylum seekers at individual accommodation sites; and what systems are used to collect and manage that data.

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) procedures and (b) mechanisms are in place to control entry and exit at the asylum accommodation site in Crowborough; and what guidance is issued to security staff on how to verify and differ

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of individuals accommodated at the asylum site in Crowborough at its opening remain in residence; and what proportion have subsequently left, including through relocation, grant of sta

Memorials: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding has been provided to support war memorials dedicated to specific faith groups in the last ten years, broken down by religion.

Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) recreational, (b) leisure and (c) community activities are provided to asylum seekers housed at Crowborough Training Camp; what funding is allocated for such activities; and which organisatio

Pupils: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to schools on (a) the use of pupils to accompany or guide visitors during open days or events, and (b) ensuring such interactions are supervised where visitors have not bee

Pupils: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to schools that allow members of the public to attend open days or events on school premises on (a) (i) statutory and (ii) non-statutory safeguarding requirements, (b) iden

Anti-social Behaviour

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of policing powers in addressing incidents involving involving large and spontaneously formed groups engaged in anti-social behaviour and crimi

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what key performance indicators are included in contracts with (a) Migrant Help and (b) the Refugee Council for the provision of asylum support services; what targets are set for those indicators; and

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken from submission to decision was for applications for support under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 for (a) applications made on medical grounds and (b)

Asylum: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average call answering times for asylum helplines; and what performance requirements are set for call handling times with contractors.

Asylum: General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight and verification processes are applied to medical evidence provided by general practitioners in support of applications under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; whethe

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people whose asylum claims have been refused have (a) applied for and (b) been granted support under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in the last fiv

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals whose asylum claims have been refused applied for support under section 4(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in each of the last five years.

Pupils: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of asylum seekers are enrolled in state-funded (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and whether such data is available by region and local authority.

NHS: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals subject to deportation and removal proceedings are recorded as being on NHS waiting lists, including for organ transplants and other specialised treatments.

Jobcentres: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) Jobcentres and other public-facing sites (i) reduced opening hours and (ii) closed and (b) appointments were (A) cancelled and (B) moved to remote provision during the week commencing 22 Ju

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to tackle fraud involving disability benefit claimants undertaking undeclared work; and how many such cases have been identified in the last 12 months.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 7707 on Asylum: Housing, what data her Department holds on the time taken between consultation with local authorities and final approval of asylum ac

Asylum: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the average total cost to the public purse per asylum seeker over the duration of their claim, including accommodation, healthcare and support services; and, i

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 7704 on Asylum: Housing, what criteria her Department uses to determine whether the publication of aggregate or proportional data on sites under cons

Undocumented Migrants: Boats

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2026 to Question 9308 on Undocumented Migrants: Boats, which contractors are used by Border Force for the disposal of seized small boats and associated equipment, and

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2026 to Question 7712 on Asylum, whether her Department will publish the evidence, analysis and criteria used to determine that a Unique Application Number for asylum

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2026 to Question 7717 on Asylum: Housing, what quantitative indicators are used to evaluate local health system capacity in the siting of asylum accommodation; and ho

Internal Drainage Boards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the impact of increases in Internal Drainage Board levies on the financial resilience of local authorities; and whether he has considered the effec

Internal Drainage Boards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether the current funding model for Internal Drainage Boards creates unsustainable financial pressures for local authorities; and what plans she has t

Coastal Erosion: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential for relocation support programmes to provide immediate relief to households displaced by coastal erosion; and what factors have prevented

Coastal Erosion and Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether the distinct cost profiles of flood risk management and coastal erosion schemes are adequately reflected in current funding allocations; and whe

Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether the current integration of coastal erosion into broader flood risk management policy constrains the development of targeted solutions; and what

Coastal Erosion: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has plans to review the eligibility criteria for the Coastal Erosion Assistance Grant, including the 15 June 2009 cut-off date, and if she will consider alternat

Coastal Erosion: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evidence was used to determine the eligibility requirement that properties must have been purchased before 15 June 2009 to qualify for the Coastal Erosion Assistance Grant.

Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the robustness of the evaluation framework for Coastal Adaptation Pilot programmes.

Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance the Environment Agency has issued on the evaluation of Coastal Adaptation Pilot programmes, including the metrics used to assess feasibility, value for money and long-ter

Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of risk that reliance on pilot programmes to inform coastal erosion policy may delay the implementation of long-term support, given the potent

Shoreline Management Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timetable she has set for the next round of stakeholder consultations on Shoreline Management Plans; and whether she plans to introduce a regular review and consultation cycle for

Internal Drainage Boards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2025 to Question 43491 on Internal Drainage Boards, what progress has been made with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on de

Coastal Erosion: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency plans to update the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Grant in Aid funding calculator to better account for the specific needs of coastal communi

CAFCASS: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful compensation claims have been made against the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service in each of the last five years; and what the total value of damages awarded was.

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful civil claims for damages have been brought against public bodies in relation to family court proceedings in each of the last five years; and what the total value of compensation paid was.

Pupils: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether guidance is issued to schools on assessing the eligibility of pupils to wear kirpans on school premises.

Undocumented Migrants: Boats

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what operational guidance is in place for Border Force on the handling and disposal of small boats used by migrants arriving in the UK; and whether summary information on that guidance is published.

Emergency Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment she has made of the treatment of (a) Coastguard Rescue Officers and (b) other Category 1 emergency responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

HM Coastguard: Conditions of Employment and Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what statutory powers or legal obligations underpin the current employment and remuneration model for Coastguard Rescue Officers; and whether any changes to that model have been made following recent court judg

Driving Licences: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licences were revoked or refused following medical assessments by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in each of the last five years; and how many such cases there were in each year, broken

Asylum: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department issued any (a) guidance and (b) policy updates on the handling of asylum claims from Sudanese nationals in 2023.

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what monitoring and safeguarding measures apply to individuals granted (a) asylum and (b) leave to remain; and whether her Department has undertaken any review of such measures since 2023.

Asylum: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department made of country conditions in Sudan for the purpose of determining asylum claims in 2023; and what screening, security checks and exclusion criteria were applied before

Asylum: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers in her Department received any (a) submissions and (b) briefings relating to the processing of asylum claims from Sudanese nationals in 2023.

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints or concerns have been raised regarding the accuracy of translation or interpretation services used in asylum and immigration interviews conducted by Border Force in each of the las

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes are in place to (a) monitor, (b) audit, and (c) quality assure the work of translators and interpreters used in asylum and immigration interviews conducted by Border Force.

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight mechanisms are in place to assess the quality and accuracy of translation and interpretation services used in asylum and immigration interviews conducted by Border Force.

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what proportion of asylum and immigration interviews conducted by Border Force via (a) video call and (b) telephone-only are translators or interpreters used.

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum and immigration interviews conducted by Border Force, including asylum screening interviews and immigration enforcement interviews, are carried out (a) via video calling appl

UK Border Force: Remote Working

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff employed by Border Force (a) are contracted to work from home, (b) work from home on a full-time basis, and (c) work from home on a hybrid basis.

UK Border Force: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is in place for Border Force staff conducting asylum and immigration interviews, including asylum screening interviews and immigration enforcement interviews, on the use of (a) Microsoft

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration her Department gives to the capacity of local health providers when determining the viability of asylum accommodation sites.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposed asylum accommodation sites on community tensions.

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the costs and benefits of introducing a unique application number for asylum applicants.

Asylum: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to make the (a) place based visibility tool, (b) discontinuation prediction pool and (c)the data underpinning them publicly available.

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much grant funding has been awarded to each local authority for the housing of asylum seekers, broken down by local authority, in each of the last five financial years.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is from initial engagement with a local authority to final approval of asylum accommodation placements in that authority’s area, broken down by local authority.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish the value for money assessments and Accounting Officer assessments undertaken for existing and proposed large asylum accommodation sites.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many military sites are currently under consideration by her Department for use as asylum accommodation.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential asylum accommodation sites are under consideration by her Department.

Judges: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total annual cost of (a) salaried judges and (b) fee-paid judges in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in each of the last 10 financial years.

Home Office: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants comprise the asylum group and what estimate she has made of their total annual salary cost.

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish any (a) project initiation documents, (b) minutes of meetings and (c) equality impact assessments relating to the development and implementation of Youth Diversion Orders under the

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which cohorts of young people are in scope for Youth Diversion Orders; and what the planned timetable is for the national rollout of the scheme following Royal Assent of the Crime and Policing Act 202

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been issued to Counter Terrorism Policing and Youth Courts on the implementation of Youth Diversion Orders; and whether participation in a Youth Diversion Order is mandatory for an i

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Youth Diversion Orders under Part 15 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 confer powers or impose restrictions comparable to those under Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures for perso

Youth Diversion Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the youngest age is at which a Youth Diversion Order (YDO) can be imposed on a child; and whether she has considered applying YDOs to children of 10.

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training and the Police Race Action Plan lead to equal treatment of individuals or groups in terms of ethnicity or race in o

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library copies of any equality impact assessments held by her Department in relation to the Police Race Action Plan and the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training Package.

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total cost to police forces in England and Wales of delivering the College of Policing Anti-Racism Training and related race-equity programmes since 2022; and how thi

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Police Anti-Racism Commitment, published in March 2025, and the Police Race Action Plan include provisions for police forces to treat individuals or communities differently on the basis of

Police: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) the College of Policing’s Anti-Racism Training Package, published in March 2026, is mandatory and (b) police forces are required to deliver that training to officers and staff.

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consistency of police responses in incidents where allegations of racism were recorded contemporaneously as a factor in officers’ operational decision-making; and w

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review police incidents over the past 10 years where allegations of racism were cited as a factor in the identification, treatment, and handling of suspects and victims.

Crime: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on police incidents over the past 10 years in which allegations of racism were recorded as a factor in the identification, treatment or handling of suspects and victims;

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of whether officers attending the incident in which Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed complied with national first-aid, triage and casualty-care guidance for police at

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has reviewed whether attending officers complied with national first-aid and casualty-care protocols in the incident in which Henry Nowak died.

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance and training are provided to police officers on recognising and responding appropriately when a person reports having been stabbed or otherwise seriously injured.

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has reviewed national police training and guidance on avoiding the misidentification of victims as suspects in serious-violence incidents, in light of the death of Henry Nowak.

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will commit to making public all police communications, decision records, reporting logs and related documentation in connection with the death of Henry Nowak, including those generated on

Crimes of Violence: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that families of victims in cases such as the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak receive full disclosure of (a) body-worn video, (b) radio traffic and (c) decision logs r

Crimes of Violence: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance exists on the weight officers should give to allegations of racist language when determining who to treat as a suspect or victim at a serious-violence scene, and whether she has reviewed

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Independent Office for Police Conduct has been asked to investigate (a) the arrest decision, (b) the use of handcuffs, (c) the medical response and (d) the suspect-identification process i

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that all body-worn video, radio communications, emergency-call recordings and officer decision logs relating to the death of Henry Nowak are preserved and made avail

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the justification recorded by officers for handcuffing Henry Nowak while seriously injured, and whether this was compliant with national use-of-force guidance.

Henry Nowak

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has discussed with the Chief Constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary the handling of the incident in which Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record inspection, enforcement activity and associated costs by slaughter method, includi

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record Official Veterinarian and Official Auxiliary supervision time associated with stun

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record data on the volume of meat produced from animals slaughtered with stunning and wit

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms are currently used by his Department to ensure that private family law policy and guidance are evidence-based, representative of the wider population, and compliant with the Public Sector Equality

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will require courts, in private family law proceedings involving allegations of domestic abuse or child protection concerns, to collect and make available anonymised and aggregated data disaggre

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the absence of routinely collected, disaggregated data on ethnicity, religion, and immigration or settlement status in private family law cases i

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department monitors how safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents prior to arrival in the UK are handled by local police forces.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure consistency in how police forces handle safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information-sharing arrangements are in place between UK and French authorities regarding safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents prior to their arr

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms exist for national authorities to refer safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers to the relevant authorities in France where appropriate.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to Border Force and police officers on responding to safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguarding procedures are in place for asylum seekers who disclose experiences of harm as the result of crimes said to have occurred prior to arrival in the UK.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered designating the handling of pre-arrival safeguarding disclosures from asylum seekers as a national responsibility.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional funding is provided to police forces that receive safeguarding disclosures from asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents prior to arrival.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has assessed the potential impact of responding to safeguarding disclosures made by newly arrived asylum seekers that relate to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK on poli

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 127202, whether his Department has evaluated whether conclusions drawn from the evidence base underpinning the Cafcass harm review have been proportionate

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 127202, whether his Department plans to undertake an assessment of the adequacy of the evidential base underpinning the report entitled Assessing Risk of

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which agency has lead responsibility for assessing and recording disclosures made by asylum seekers about alleged criminal incidents prior to arrival in the UK.

Asylum: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is in place for police forces on handling disclosures made by newly arrived asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents said to have occurred outside the United Kingdom.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what engagement, if any, her Department had with foreign nationals prior to decisions to refuse their entry to the UK in connection with the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department made of the use of conditional entry, including restrictions on activity or location, as an alternative to refusing entry to foreign nationals intending to attend the “U

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what factors are taken into account when assessing whether an individual’s presence is not conducive to the public good.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish the risk assessments underpinning decisions to refuse entry to foreign nationals intending to attend the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under which powers foreign nationals were refused entry to the UK to attend the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish the risk assessments underpinning decisions to refuse entry to foreign nationals intending to attend the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether consideration was given to allowing entry to foreign nationals attending the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026 subject to conditions and restrictions.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether alternative arrangements were considered for foreign nationals seeking to attend the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026 before decisions were taken to refuse entry.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether foreign nationals refused entry to attend the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on 16 May 2026 were given prior notice of that decision.

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consistency of the application of the “not conducive to the public good” threshold across different immigration decision-making processes.

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses a formal appraisal or assessment framework when determining whether an individual’s presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to officials on the meaning of the term “not conducive to the public good” in decisions to refuse leave to enter or remain in the UK.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish (a) guidance and (b) criteria for future decisions on the entry of foreign nationals attending political demonstrations.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department sought legal advice on decisions to refuse entry to foreign nationals intending to attend the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether records are held of discussions between Ministers and officials regarding the decisions to refuse entry to foreign nationals in connection with the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026; and

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what routes of (a) appeal and (b) review were available to foreign nationals refused entry in connection with the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of refusing entry to foreign nationals attending the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026 on freedom of expression.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of decisions on refusing entry to foreign nationals attending political rallies.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether refusals of entry relating to the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026 were made on an individual basis.

Immigration Controls: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria were used to determine whether foreign nationals should be denied entry to the UK in connection with the Unite the Kingdom rally on 16 May 2026.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what scientific and evidential base the Department relies upon when assessing and comparing animal welfare outcomes between non-stun slaughter and carbon-dioxide gas stunning, including the types o

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Service Level Agreement’s treatment of all slaughter methods as a single categ

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Service Level Agreement’s treatment of all slaughter methods as a single categ

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, whether he plans to review the Service Level Agreement between the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Welsh Governme

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absence of routinely collected data disaggregated by slaughter method on the a

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record and publish animal welfare non-compliances disaggregated by slaughter method, incl

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record inspection, enforcement activity and associated costs by slaughter method, includi

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record Official Veterinarian and Official Auxiliary supervision time associated with stun

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record data on the volume of meat produced from animals slaughtered with stunning and wit

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms are currently used by the Department to ensure that private family law policy and guidance are evidence-based, representative of the wider population, and compliant with the Public Sector Equality

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will require courts, in private family law proceedings involving allegations of domestic abuse or child protection concerns, to collect and make available anonymised and aggregated data disaggre

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the absence of routinely collected, disaggregated data on ethnicity, religion, and immigration or settlement status in private family law cases i

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 127202, whether his Department has evaluated whether conclusions drawn from the evidence base underpinning the Cafcass harm review have been proportionately and

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 127202, whether his Department plans to undertake an assessment of the adequacy of the evidential base underpinning the report entitled Assessing Risk of Harm t

Unemployment: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that boys and young men receive targeted support to improve education, employment and training outcomes.

Unemployment: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of disparities in rates of males and females not being in education, employment or training on boys and young men.

Unemployment: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for (a) Education and (b) Business and Trade to reduce the number of young men not in education, employment or training.

Unemployment: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to publish gender-disaggregated monitoring data on the potential impact of the 200,000-job employment and apprenticeship programme announced on 16 March 2026 on the number o

Unemployment: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether employment and apprenticeship reforms announced on 16 March 2026 include measures to reduce the number of young men not in education, employment or training.

Jobcentres: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to Jobcentre Plus work coaches and other frontline staff; and whether his Department has conducted any audits or assessments in the last five

Probation: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to probation officers and probation services staff; and whether his Department or HM Prison and Probation Service has conducted any audits or assessmen

Prison Officers: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to prison officers in England and Wales; and whether his Department or HM Prison and Probation Service has conducted any audits or assessments in the l

Care Workers: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to frontline adult social care workers in England; and whether his Department, or any relevant regulator, has conducted audits or assess

Bus Services: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to bus drivers and other frontline bus staff; and whether her Department or relevant regulators have conducted any audits or assessments in the last

Railways: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to frontline rail staff responsible for passenger information and safety-critical communications; and whether her Department or the Office of Rail an

Taxis: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department issues to local licensing authorities on minimum English language proficiency requirements for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers; and whether her Department has collected or rev

Driving Instruction and Driving Tests: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to (a) approved driving instructors and (b) driving examiners; and whether her Department or the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has conducted an

Police: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers in England and Wales; and whether her Department, or any relevant inspecto

Home Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to (a) Border Force officers and (b) immigration enforcement staff; and whether her Department has conducted any audits or assessments in t

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve transparency on the characteristics of claimants and clinicians involved in clinical negligence claims, in light of the National Audit Office’s report publish

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Resolution holds data on the nationality or training background of clinicians involved in high-value clinical negligence claims.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any analysis has been undertaken comparing the volume, severity, or cost of clinical negligence claims involving UK-trained and internationally trained clinicians.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Resolution records whether the clinician primarily responsible for the care giving rise to a clinical negligence claim was UK-trained or internationally trained.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Resolution records the nationality or immigration status of clinicians against whom clinical negligence claims are brought.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value of damages and legal costs paid by NHS Resolution in relation to clinical negligence claims involving non-UK citizen claimants was in each year since 2015–16.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many clinical negligence claims notified to NHS Resolution in each of the last ten years involved claimants who were not UK citizens at the time of treatment.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Resolution records the nationality or citizenship status of claimants in clinical negligence claims.

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Resolution records whether claimants had a pre-existing disability at the time of the incident giving rise to a clinical negligence claim, and whether any data is held on long-term disa

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in how many cases since 1 January 2015 where a member of the Armed Forces was removed from training or had their service terminated following comments expressed during training or instructional activity, the acti

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in cases since 1 January 2015 where service personnel have been removed from training or had their service terminated following the expression of opinions during training or instructional activity, what guidance

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the UK Armed Forces, including recruits and officer cadets, have since 1 January 2015 been subject to administrative action including suspension, removal from training, or termination of servi

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what written guidance exists under JSP 767 to assist commanding officers and training establishments in distinguishing between lawful expression of opinion and unacceptable behaviour during training and education

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what welfare or legal support is available to personnel while investigations or reviews are ongoing following administrative action taken in connection with the expression of views or opinions.

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether decisions to take administrative action under JSP 767 in relation to views expressed during training are required to be reviewed by a senior officer not directly involved in the original decision, and if

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are taken to ensure that personnel subject to administrative action under JSP 767 are informed of their right to seek review or submit a Service Complaint.

Armed Forces: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether guidance on the application of JSP 767 relating to the expression of views is issued uniformly across the Armed Forces or separately by each Service.

Armed Forces: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what formal routes of appeal or review are available to recruits, officer cadets, and serving personnel who are subject to administrative action under JSP 767 following views expressed during training or educatio

Armed Forces: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what written guidance or briefing material is provided to recruits and officer cadets on acceptable expression of views during training and assessment activities.

Personal Independence Payment: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claims were made by residents of Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last three years; and how many of those claims were successful.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the value for money to the taxpayer of her Department conducting repeated site assessments for asylum accommodation on sites that do not proceed in (a) England a

Asylum: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure has been incurred by her Department on assessments of asylum accommodation sites in Great Yarmouth that did not proceed.

Asylum: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is currently considering providing accommodation for asylum seekers in Great Yarmouth borough.

Universal Credit: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Great Yarmouth constituency receive Universal Credit with a health-related requirement or award.

Universal Credit: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit claimants in Great Yarmouth constituency are in employment.

Social Security Benefits: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hardship payments were made to benefit claimants in the Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last three years.

Universal Credit: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of Universal Credit in Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last five years.

Dental Services: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children in Great Yarmouth constituency were able to access an NHS dentist in the last 12 months.

Dental Services: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the average waiting time for an adult NHS dental appointment in Great Yarmouth constituency.

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of NHS dental practices are accepting new adult NHS patients in (a) Great Yarmouth constituency, (b) Norfolk and (c) England.

General Practitioners: Coastal Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the challenges in (a) recruiting and (b) retaining GPs in coastal towns.

General Practitioners: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent GPs were practising in the Great Yarmouth constituency in each of the last five years, and how many patients these GPs were responsible for in each of those years.

General Practitioners: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a routine GP appointment in Great Yarmouth constituency, and how this compares with the England average.

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many borrowers made their first recorded repayment against a Student Loans Company loan balance, by nationality of borrower, in each academic year from 2020/21 to 2024/25.

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 123974, how many first-time recipients of Student Loans Company loans there were, by nationality of borrower, in each academic year from 2020/21 to 2024/25, d

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 123974, what the total value of Student Loans Company loan payments was to borrowers of each nationality, in each academic year from 2020/21 to 2024/25.

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 123974, how many Student Loans Company loan receipts there were, by nationality of borrower and level of qualification, in each academic year from 2020/21 to

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2026 to Question 123974, what the average annual value of Student Loans Company loan receipts was for each nationality of borrower, in each academic year from 2020/21 to 2024/

Housing: Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of adequacy of cross-government preparedness to address the social and housing impacts of coastal erosion.

Coastal Erosion: Hemsby

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of coastal erosion at Hemsby on property insurance and mortgage availability.

Coastal Erosion: Hemsby

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department is engaging with insurers and mortgage lenders regarding coastal erosion risks in places such as Hemsby.

Coastal Erosion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support is available to residents whose homes are lost to coastal erosion where long-term defence is not viable.

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will publish any cost-benefit analyses prepared in relation to managed realignment options under Shoreline Management Plan 6 for the Winterton-on-Sea to Scratby coastline w

Coastal Erosion: Cost Benefit Analysis

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether there are plans to review the policy approach for Policy Unit 6.14 under Shoreline Management Plan 6, including the Winterton-on-Sea to Scratby coastline.

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what cost-benefit analyses or appraisal work were undertaken in support of the policy approach for Policy Unit 6.14 under Shoreline Management Plan 6, and to what extent the views of l

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the evidence base, appraisal assumptions, and analytical workings used to inform decisions on Policy Unit 6.14 under Shoreline Management Plan 6 will be made publicly available

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local stakeholders were involved or consulted in the development of Shoreline Management Plan 6, Policy Unit 6.14, including the Winterton-on-Sea to Scratby coastline, and what f

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether cost-benefit analyses for managed realignment on the Winterton-on-Sea to Scratby coastline within Policy Unit 6.14 include consideration of social, health, and community impact

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what factors are routinely considered in cost-benefit analyses undertaken in support of managed realignment options under Shoreline Management Plan 6, including whether impacts on resi

Coastal Erosion: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what cost-benefit assessments have been undertaken to support decisions on managed realignment for the Winterton-on-Sea to Scratby section of Shoreline Management Plan 6.

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to publish a list of all external organisations, including women’s, men’s, and specialist advocacy groups, that received funding, consultancy fees, or formal engagement contracts during the development of revised

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts, grants, or commissioned research projects were issued by his Department or by Cafcass in connection with the revision of domestic-abuse practice frameworks since 2016; what the value of each contr

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which men’s or fathers’ organisations Cafcass has consulted in the development of its domestic-abuse guidance, safeguarding practice, and private-law policy frameworks; and what assessment he has made of the adeq

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which external organisations Cafcass engages with in the development of its domestic-abuse guidance and practice frameworks; and whether this includes any women’s advocacy groups or specialist women’s services.

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of private-law children cases in the last five years involved Cafcass recommending a temporary pause or restriction on a father’s contact with his child following an allegation of domestic abuse b

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to publish annual data comparing repayment outcomes under the Alternative Student Finance model and the standard student loan system; and if she will make an estimate of the cost of

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contingency plans her Department has to ensure repayments for standard student loans and the Alternative Student Finance model remain equivalent if repayment outcomes diverge.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the potential cost to the public purse of (a) maintaining, (b) reviewing and (c) administering the Alternative Student Finance model, including advisory services, system

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department or the Student Loans Company have entered into (a) contracts, (b) memoranda of understanding and (c) advisory agreements with Islamic finance advisory organisations regarding the Alternat

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to maintain ongoing engagement with Islamic finance advisory bodies to review the continued sharia compliance of the Alternative Student Finance model.

Offensive Weapons: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider bringing forward legislation jointly with the Secretary of State for Justice to help tackle cases in which parents or carers knowingly conceal from law-enforcement authorities a c

Offensive Weapons: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Government's processes for responding to sustained parental or carer non-cooperation with safeguarding or law-enforcement authorities in cases invol

Offensive Weapons: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of laws to address cases in which parents or carers intentionally conceal, obscure, or fail to disclose a child’s procurement or possession of knives or ot

Youth Justice: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review current guidance and training to ensure that equality considerations do not inhibit proportionate and effective statutory action in safeguarding and youth justice contexts.

Youth Justice: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of law and statutory guidance to ensure that safeguarding, youth justice and mental health agencies can share relevant risk information without parental co

Youth Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) make an assessment of the adequacy of the statutory framework for agencies to investigate and respond where parents and carers actively hinder, obstruct and decline to engage with safe

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the immigration status, including eligibility for indefinite leave to remain, of non-UK nationals granted leave on asylum, refugee, humanitarian protection, discretionary leave, res

Mental Health Services: Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of talking-therapy-based interventions for young people previously charged with violent offences involving (a) weapons and (b) bladed ar

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are plans to increase or prioritise the deportation of foreign national offenders convicted of sexual offences in the Great Yarmouth area, and whether any targeted immigration enforcemen

Victim Support Schemes: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of victim support services for women in Great Yarmouth, including access to crisis accommodation, counselling, and legal advice, and whether any additional funding has

Gender Based Violence: Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources have been allocated to Norfolk Constabulary specifically for the prevention of violence against women and girls in the Great Yarmouth area over the last five years.

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Great Yarmouth has been identified for any place-based or targeted intervention relating to the removal of foreign national sexual offenders, and what criteria are used to determine whether ad

Gender Based Violence: Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rate is for foreign national offenders convicted of sexual or violent offences against women in Great Yarmouth, compared with UK nationals convicted of comparable offences.

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enforcement operations or compliance visits targeting foreign national offenders at risk of reoffending were carried out in the Great Yarmouth area in each of the last five years, and what ou

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations of foreign national offenders convicted of offences against women in Great Yarmouth in the last five years were delayed or prevented due to legal barriers, including outstanding

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time was between conviction and removal from the UK for foreign national offenders convicted of sexual or violent offences against women in Great Yarmouth in each of the las

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders convicted of sexual or violent offences against women in the Great Yarmouth area in each of the last five years were subject to deportation action, and how many hav

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of recorded sexual offences and violent offences against women in the Great Yarmouth local authority area in each of the last five years involved suspects who were foreign nationals, b

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Answer of 5 January 2026 to Question 101253, in which categories of private-law children cases Cafcass or the family courts apply a domestic-abuse-first assessment as the initial step in their safegua

Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department will publish the full list of case types, behavioural indicators, or presenting circumstances in which Cafcass or the family courts are instructed to prioritise domestic-abuse consideration

Women's Aid: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department will publish details of any contracts, consultancy arrangements, training programmes, or formal partnerships between Women’s Aid and (a) Cafcass and (b) the family courts.

Women's Aid: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts, grants, or commissioned training programmes have been awarded to Women’s Aid by his Department, Cafcass, or the family courts in the last five years; and whether Women’s Aid undertakes work within

Women's Aid: Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Cafcass or the family courts hold any contracts, service agreements, or training arrangements with Women’s Aid; and whether Women’s Aid currently undertakes any funded or formal work with the family justi

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will commit to publishing annual data comparing repayment outcomes under the Alternative Student Finance model and the standard student loan system; and what the estimated cost of produci

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contingency plans her Department has in place should repayment outcomes under the Alternative Student Finance model diverge from those under the standard student loan system; and whether any such contingen

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the future cost to the public purse of maintaining, reviewing, and administering the Alternative Student Finance model, including advisory services, system maintenance,

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts, memoranda of understanding, or advisory agreements her Department or the Student Loans Company have entered into with Islamic finance advisory organisations in relation to the Alternative Studen

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department intends to maintain ongoing engagement with Islamic finance advisory bodies to review the continued Sharia compliance of the Alternative Student Finance model; what form that engagement w

Prevent Independent Review: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of whether the stakeholder engagement undertaken during the previous Administration’s Independent Review of Prevent attached equal weight to views expressed by (a)

Prevent Independent Review: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) relevance and (b) accuracy of stakeholder feedback from faith groups gathered during the previous Administration’s Independent Review of Prevent.

Prevent Independent Review: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a summary of the feedback provided by faith groups during the previous administration’s Independent Review of Prevent.

Prevent Independent Review: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) faith groups, (b) religious organisations and (c) non-religious belief organisations were consulted in the previous Administration’s Independent Review of Prevent.

Prevent Independent Review: Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department uses stakeholder feedback from faith groups gathered during the previous Administration’s Independent Review of Prevent in developing current Prevent policy and guidance.

Offences against Children: Public Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will issue guidance to local authorities and other public bodies on the retention of historic records that may be relevant to investigations into group-based child sexual exploitation.

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what systems her department has put in place to ensure that local authorities, police forces and other agencies cannot delete or destroy records that may be relevant to the independent inquiry into gr

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risk that relevant records may have been destroyed before formal retention notices were issued; and what steps she has taken to ensure no loss of material occurs.

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether all relevant public bodies have taken the necessary steps to preserve records that may be required by the independent inquiry into grooming gangs.

Axel Rudakubana

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa categories were held by the parents of Axel Rudakubana during their residence in the United Kingdom; and what character-assessment checks were applied when issuing their visas.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Ministers have authorised expenditure on the development of the Alternative Student Finance model since 2013; and on what dates those approvals were given.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a cost–benefit analysis was undertaken before proceeding with the development of the Alternative Student Finance model.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the projected and actual costs are for the Student Loans Company to design, build, test, and implement systems required to administer the Alternative Student Finance model.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the expenditure has been on external consultants, advisory bodies and specialist Islamic finance expertise for the Alternative Student Finance model.

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse has been on the development of the Alternative Student Finance model, including all programme costs, consultancy fees, legal drafting and stakeholder engagement.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the (a) inspection and enforcement time required for non-stun slaughter and (b) volume of non-stun meat produced in the UK.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of (a) recorded animal welfare non-compliances and (b) the potential impact on the Food Standards Agency's inspection costs associated with (i) stunned and

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the exemption from stunning for religious slaughter on the Food Standards Agency's inspection and enforcement costs.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours of Official Veterinarian and Meat Hygiene Inspector time were spent supervising non-stun slaughter in each of the last five years; and what the cost of that time was.

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative estimate of the costs to the Food Standards Agency of supervising (a) non-stun slaughter and (b) stunned slaughter; and what proportion of those costs are recovered fr

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the extent to which the concentration of Graduate Route visa holders in low-wage or low-skilled employment overlaps with sectors that have high levels of you

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered introducing minimum academic achievement requirements, alongside minimum attendance or engagement criteria, as part of the eligibility conditions for the Graduate

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the feasibility of using verified attendance or engagement data as part of eligibility criteria for the (a) Graduate Route and (b) other post-study work rout

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered introducing minimum attendance or engagement requirements as part of the eligibility criteria for the Graduate Route in light of the Migration Advisory Committee’

Visas: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the Migration Advisory Committee’s May 2024 recommendation that the Government improve data quality and transparency around the use of international recruitm

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has undertaken a review of the data variables used for analytical purposes across the Student, Graduate and Skilled Worker visa routes, as recommended by the Migration Advisory

Visas: Graduates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has considered the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendation in its May 2024 rapid review of the Graduate Route that universities be required to publish annual data on their

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, how many households placed in the insanitary, unsatisfactory or overcrowded Reasonable Preference category on social housing registers were (a) U

Social Rented Housing: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of differences between local authorities in the qualification criteria used to determine access to social housing registers.

Housing: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households who left their last settled home due to domestic abuse held an immigration status conferring eligibility for social

Housing: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households who left their last settled home due to domestic abuse were (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals.

Social Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing evictions involved households who had lived in the UK for (a) under 1 year, (b) 1–3 years, (c) 3–5 years, (d) 5

Social Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing evictions involved households with (a) no recourse to public funds, (b) pre-settled status without a qualifying

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of student loan recipients by nationality in each of the last five years.

Asylum: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people that entered the UK under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme have applied for asylum.

Medical Treatments: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the total cost to the public purse of the Gaza medical evacuation scheme for children.

Social Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing evictions involved households whose lead tenant was (a) a UK national, (b) an EU national, or (c) a non-EU nati

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing tenants had lived in the UK for (a) under 1 year, (b) 1–3 years, (c) 3–5 years, (d) 5–10 years, and (e) more th

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of social housing applications were refused in each local authority area in each of the past five years, and what proportion of those refusals related to immigrat

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households refused a homelessness duty were (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals, and what proportion w

Social Rented Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing applications from households newly eligible through (a) refugee status, (b) humanitarian protection, or (c) set

Social Rented Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of social housing applications refused by local authorities related to households with (a) no recourse to public funds, (b) pre-s

Council Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households eligible for social housing were able to access a social home, and what proportion remained on waiting lists.

Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households in temporary accommodation were (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals.

Council Housing: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households added to social housing waiting lists had newly acquired eligibility through (a) refugee status, (b) humanitarian p

Council Housing: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households on local authority housing waiting lists were (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals.

Council Housing: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households on local authority housing waiting lists in each of the past five years were (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals, and what proportion

Social Rented Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of households in (a) new social housing lettings and (b) receipt of Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit he

Social Rented Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households in (a) social housing lettings and (b) receipt of Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit in each of the past five years held (i) refugee s

Social Rented Housing: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, what proportion of new social housing lettings made to (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals received Housing Benefit or th

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, how many new social housing lettings were made to (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals.

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new social housing lettings in the most recent year were made to (a) UK nationals, (b) EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals.

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Department has considered collecting, or asking local authorities to collect, nationality data for all members of households allocated social housing, rather than onl

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each of the past five years, how many people were housed through new social housing lettings, broken down by (a) UK national lead tenants, (b) EU national lead tenants, and (

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people were housed through new social housing lettings in the most recent year for which data is available, broken down by (a) UK national lead tenants, (b) EU national

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for human trafficking or sexual exploitation offences in the most recent complete quarter for which data is available, and what the nationality of those individuals

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people convicted of human trafficking or sexual exploitation offences in each of the last three calendar years were foreign nationals at the time of conviction.

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Prosecutions

To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions for human trafficking or sexual exploitation offences in each of the last three calendar years involved two or more defendants charged as part of the same case.

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether ethnicity data is collected centrally for individuals convicted of human trafficking or sexual exploitation offences.

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested for offences relating to human trafficking or sexual exploitation in each of the last three calendar years, broken down by immigration status at the time of arrest.

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of offences relating to human trafficking or sexual exploitation in each of the last three calendar years; and what the nationality of those people was at the time of conviction.

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were referred into the National Referral Mechanism broken down by age, sex, and primary exploitation type for the latest quarter for which data is available.

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences related to human trafficking or sexual exploitation following National Referral Mechanism referrals in each of the last three calendar y

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police investigations were initiated following National Referral Mechanism referrals relating to sexual exploitation in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set out the ten local authority areas that recorded the highest number of National Referral Mechanism referrals relating to sexual exploitation in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under 18 were referred to the National Referral Mechanism for sexual exploitation in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to the National Referral Mechanism primarily to sexual exploitation, broken down by sex and age group in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to the National Referral Mechanism had their claimed age disputed by a local authority or her Department in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to the National Referral Mechanism stated they were under 18 at the point of referral in each of the last three calendar years.

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to the National Referral Mechanism in each of the last three calendar years were foreign nationals; and what the ten most common nationalities were.

Slavery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been identified as potential victims of human trafficking and modern slavery under the National Referral Mechanism in each of the last three calendar years, broken down by age and

Human Trafficking: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of destination country for girls trafficked from the UK overseas for sexual exploitation.

Missing Persons: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many girls are currently listed as missing, broken down by local authority.

Ministry of Justice: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Ministry of Defence: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Home Office: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Treasury: Hotels

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department of Health and Social Care: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Work and Pensions: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Transport: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Education: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Department for Business and Trade: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Cabinet Office: Hotels

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Attorney General's Office: Hotels

To ask the Solicitor General, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.

Offences against Children: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish all information it holds on child sexual exploitation committed by illegal migrants.

GP Practice Lists: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2026 to Question 107846 on GP Practice lists, how many and what proportion of patients registered on 1 January 2026 were foreign nationals.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, if she will publish the minutes of the Benchmark Review.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, if she will publish the minutes of all Monthly Operational Review meetings.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract “Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services”, procurement reference CCTM22A01, if she will publish the minutes of the Quarterly Commercial Review meetings.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, how many Quarterly Commercial Review Meetings have taken place.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, if he will publish all performance reports.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Department will publish a consolidated annual report setting out total asylum contract expenditure, performance outcomes, and value-for-money assessments.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the role of Ministers is in approving or reviewing the award of high-value asylum contracts.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Key Performance Indicators are commonly applied across asylum contracts.

Home Office: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks are undertaken by her Department on bidders’ prior performance on other public sector contracts, including any history of underperformance or contract failure, during the bidding process f

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum-related expenditure is delivered through outsourced contracts rather than in-house provision.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value of all active asylum-related contracts currently held by her Department is, broken down by supplier and contract type.

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract Support Payment Card, procurement reference 429018/148318, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of commercial confidentiality under that contract on pr

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, why parts of the documentation relating to the contract are marked official sensitive; and what criteria are us

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, how many staff delivering services are subject to Security Clearance (SC); and what the average cost of clearan

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, how many replacement cards were received; and what was the total cost to the public purse of the replacement.

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, what controls exist to prevent (a) unnecessary and (b) duplicate payments being issued.

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, what the administrative cost is for each card, excluding the value of payments loaded onto cards.

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, With reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, whether alternative delivery models were considered prior to awarding the contract, including in-house provisio

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to contract “Support Payment Card”, procurement reference 429018/1483183, which officials and Ministers approved the final award decision, and on what dates.

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what was the total number of contracts between the Department and Corporate Tr

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what expenditure has been incurred on the booking of transport services for th

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the cost is of providing adequate transport links to enable service users

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the annual cost is of the requirement that transport requests will be tak

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the annual cost is of delivering a programme of organised recreational ac

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract entitled Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services with procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the annual cost is of the requirement that service users are

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the cost is of providing assistance to service users to make contact with

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the annual cost is of the house-keeping laundry service with a maximum 48

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the cost per service user is of the requirement that cabins are cleaned o

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the annual cost is of the cleaning programme delivered to the standards s

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what cost is incurred by the requirement that where a service user arrives lat

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what the per-person daily cost is of providing a varied daily menu, taking int

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what due diligence was undertaken on Corporate Travel Management (North) Limit

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, what procurement route was used to award the contract; and whether it was subj

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract, Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services, procurement reference CCTM22A01, on what date Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited was notified that it

Home Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will publish an annual summary of due diligence outcomes and contract performance for its highest-value suppliers.

Syria: Islamic State

To ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many people who married members of the so-called Islamic State have been repatriated to the UK from Syria.

Home Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether bidders for contracts above £50 million are required to disclose executive pay, profit margins and anticipated rates of return.

Home Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of her Department's major contracts are delivered via subcontractors; and what controls exist to ensure accountability for subcontracted delivery.

Home Office: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what due diligence processes her Department undertakes before awarding contracts valued above £10 million.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who signs off asylum related contracts in her Department.

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value, annual spend to date and forecast annual spend are for the contract entitled (a) Independent Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children (UASCs) Support Service held with the British Refugee

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value, annual spend to date and forecast annual spend are for the contract entitled Provision of Security Services at Home Office Contingency Accommodation held with Mitie Limited with contra

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value, annual spend to date and forecast annual spend are for the contract entitled Support Payment Card held with Prepaid Financial Services Limited with contract start date 27 February 2021

Asylum: Housing and Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what services are provided under the contract entitled CCTM22A01 Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services Contract held with Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited with contract st

Asylum: Housing and Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value, annual spend to date and forecast annual spend are for the contract entitled CCTM22A01 Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services Contract held with Corporate Travel Manag

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints have been received relating to accommodation standards under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract series since 1 March 2019; and what proportion were upheld by su

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalty deductions, service credits and contractual remedies have been applied to suppliers under the Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract series since 1 March 2019 by supplier an

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what performance metrics and contractual KPIs are used across Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract regions; and what the latest performance results are for each supplier by region.

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of spending under the contract entitled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility has been paid to subcontractors; which subcontractors have received payments; and what services th

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the 24-hour service provision under the contract titled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility is; and what assessment was made of the value for money of providing a 24-hour se

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Key Performance Indicators and service standards are contained within the contract titled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility, including any KPIs relating to call handling times, resolu

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procurement route was used for the contract titled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility; and whether it was awarded via open tender.

Migrant Help: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) Ministers and (b) Senior Civil Servants approved the award of the contract titled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility to Migrant Help and CCTM22A01 Provision of Bridging Accommodat

Migrant Help: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the breakdown of costs by financial year is for the contract with Migrant Help entitled AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Eligibility since 1 March 2019.

Migrant Help: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) contractual value, (b) annual spend to date and (c) forecast annual spend are for her Department's contract with Migrant Help between 2019 and 2029.

GP Practice Lists: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of asylum seekers registered with a GP have a date of birth recorded as 1 January.

Pupils: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of asylum seekers in the education system have a date of birth recorded as 1 January.

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum seeker dates of birth are recorded as 1 January.

General Practitioners: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many asylum seekers are registered with a GP by (a) day and (b) month of birth.

Pupils: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many asylum seekers there are in the education system by (a) day and (b) month of birth.

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers there are by (a) day and (b) month of birth.

Marriage: Relatives

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of marriages between cousins that have taken place in the UK in each of the last ten years.

GP Practice Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are currently registered with a GP.

Population: Food

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Department will make an estimate of the current UK population based on food consumption data.

Population: Water

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Department will make an estimate of the current UK population based on water usage data.

Population: Waste Disposal

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Department will make an estimate of the current UK population based on waste disposal.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took in 2025 to help support scrutiny by (a) the Public Accounts Committee and (b) other hon. Members of the (i) costs and (ii) service content of asylum accommodation contra

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish in full the service specifications, unit prices, and key performance indicators attached to asylum accommodation contracts that operated in 2025.

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of her Department's asylum accommodation contract terms and schedules relating to services and unit costs were redacted; and on what grounds those redactions were made.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on cleaning, maintenance and repair services at hotel and contingency accommodation sites by supplier and cost per (a) room and (b) site in 2025.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on security provision at hotels and other accommodation sites housing migrants who arrived in the UK illegally by contractor, region, and cost per site in 2025.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) legal advice and (b) other support services for migrants who arrived in the UK illegally who are in accommodation by contract in 2025.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on translation and interpretation services provided to migrants who arrived in the UK illegally who are in hotels and other accommodation by provider and language in 2025

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) food provision, by dietary requirement and (b) catering by (i) supplier and (ii) cost per person per day for migrants who arrived in the UK illegally who are house

Undocumented Migrants: Cleaning Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) laundry services, including contracted laundries, (b) on-site services and (c) reimbursements by (i) supplier and (ii) accommodation site type in 2025.

Undocumented Migrants: Leisure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) recreational activities, (b) leisure provision and (c) community engagement activities for migrants who arrived in the UK illegally by (i) provider and (ii) type o

Asylum: Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost per trip was for taxi journeys commissioned under asylum accommodation contracts in 2025 by purpose of journey.

Undocumented Migrants: Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the spend was on taxis and private transport services provided to illegal migrants in 2025 by region and supplier.

Undocumented Migrants: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the spend was on private healthcare services provided to illegal migrants housed in hotels and other accommodation in 2025.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what services were contracted and delivered on-site within hotels housing illegal migrants in 2025, including medical services, transport, catering, security, and welfare support.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels and other accommodation sites were used for illegal migrant accommodation in 2025; and what the average occupancy was across those sites.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the per-person, per-night cost was for hotel accommodation used for illegal migrants in 2025 by region and supplier.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of services provided (a) within and (b) alongside hotel accommodation in 2025 by provider and contract.

Undocumented Migrants: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of providing accommodation in hotels and other contingency accommodation to illegal migrants in 2025.

Ministry of Justice: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual sa

Ministry of Defence: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Home Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Treasury: Equality

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annua

Department of Health and Social Care: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Work and Pensions: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Transport: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary co

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary c

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Education: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Department for Business and Trade: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Cabinet Office: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Attorney General's Office: Equality

To ask the Solicitor General, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Afghanistan Response Route to date.

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the total number of people to enter the UK through the Afghanistan Response Route to date.

Attorney General's Office: Research

To ask the Solicitor General, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Wales Office: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Scotland Office: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Northern Ireland Office: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Ministry of Justice: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Ministry of Defence: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Home Office: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Treasury: Research

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department of Health and Social Care: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Work and Pensions: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Transport: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Education: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Department for Business and Trade: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Cabinet Office: Research

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.