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Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 97 of the Government's document entitled Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty, updated on 23 December 2025, when the new guidance to aid local authorities in their understanding of their statutory duties and interaction…
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department about the potential impact of the extension of the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain on the success of the Child Poverty Strategy.
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Department for Business and Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of mechanisms to safeguard against a residential address being fraudulently used to register a company without the knowledge of the resident of the address.
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Department for Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Question 103540 answered on 13 January, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on potential impact of the extension of the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain on the Child Poverty Strategy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her letter to the Chair of the Education Select Committee dated 22 October 2025, when she will begin (a) to seek views through listening sessions in every region of the country and (b) fortnightly Ministerial meetings with key parent…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out the (a) resources and (b) training her Department will make available to support teachers to implement July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education, whether primary schools are required to teach about same-sex families.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason her department’s July 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education notes that schools should not teach as fact that all people have a gender identity; and how schools should follow this guidance whilst teaching about…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take legislative steps to require independent schools to (a) identify SEND pupils and (b) provide support to those pupils in line with the (i) SEND Code of Practice and (ii) Children and Families Act 2014.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the the crude oil and diesel spill from the Piper Bravo Platform on 6 January 2026 on the marine environment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what definition his Department uses for new exploration in the context of a Transitional Energy Certificate; and whether that definition includes seismic activity.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the North Sea Future Plan published on 26 November 2025, if he will clarify his Department's definition of a (a) managed, (b) prosperous and (c) orderly transition; and how these terms will be applied when deciding…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether Transitional Energy Certificates will be required to supply environmental statements that (a) include Scope 3 emissions and (b) consider potential environmental impacts in line with what is required from other production.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department's proposed policy on tiebacks in oil and gas drilling allows for the exploitation of new fields via tiebacks to existing infrastructure in fields that have already been licenced.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the (a) funding required to fully decarbonise the public sector and (b) adaptation costs from not fully decarbonising that sector.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason he plans to end grant funding for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme after 2028; and if he will provide funding to support the decarbonisation of the public sector beyond 2028.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of ending the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme after 2028 on (a) commitments to reach 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and (b) public sector (i) emissions…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the UK’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution emissions reduction target, what his emissions reduction target is against a 2019 emissions baseline.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the UK’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement, what his emissions reduction target is in each year between 2025 and 2035.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost to the public purse was of legal services used by the Government in relation to potential Rosebank oil and gas field development since 4 July 2024; and whether further legal costs have been accounted for in his…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it is his policy to stop issuing development consents for all new oil and gas fields.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the oil and gas sector contributes to meeting global climate targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 21077 on Ithaca Energy: Occupied Territories, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of reports that the Rosebank oil field’s minority…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to publish a consultation on licences to explore new oil and gas fields.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of opening new oil and gas fields in the North Sea on the Paris Agreement goal to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with the Foreign Secretary about the potential implications for his Department’s policies of reports the Rosebank oil field’s minority owner is owned by a firm operating in the Occupied…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to retain the Acoustic Fish Deterrent aspect of the Development Consent Order to the Hinkley Point C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2013.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 7946 on Sizewell C Power Station: Compensation, what (a) output in MWh his Department has assumed for Hinkley Point C and (b) discounting rate has been applied for sharing…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero in the debate on COP29: UK Priorities on Tuesday 10 September 2024, Official Report, Col 232WH, what the membership is of…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the first bullet point on page 23 of EDF Energy Holdings Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements 31 December 2023, what estimate he has made of the amount of compensation that will be paid from Sizewell C to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce the upfront cost of heat pumps for households.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will expand the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant to cover the costs of connecting to a low-carbon heat network.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to WPQ 107238 what the timeline is for her review of the Greening Government commitments.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the Greening Government Commitments for the period 2025 to 2030; and for what reasons this has not already been published.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of AI technologies on the environment as part of her Department's work on the Greening Government Commitments for the period 2025 to 2030.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the delay in publishing the Greening Government Commitments for the period 2025-2030 on (a) the timetable for achieving Net Zero within the civil service and (b) the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to align with changes to the EU Honey Directive on labelling published on 14 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7788 on Air Pollution, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the (a) legal threshold for future levels of…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7788 on Air Pollution, what guidance his Department provides on safe limits of NOx.
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Department for Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to (a) review and (b) update the Harbour, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to provide support to public sector workers to access electric vehicles.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of (a) the availability of global supply of the feedstocks used for sustainable aviation fuel and (b) the amounts of that feedstock the Government has identified as being needed for decarbonisation of (i) road transport and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate (a) her Department and (b) HS2 Limited have made of the cost of construction of HS2 in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of combining City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements CRSTS 1 and 2.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the availability of (a) suitably skilled contractors and (b) materials to allow local authorities to meet the 31 March 2027 deadline for investing City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for publishing finalised City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements 2.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2024 to Question 17936 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, if she will publish her assessment of the differences in the cost per kWh of public and home electric vehicle charging.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer on 2 December 2024 to Question 15939 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, whether she is taking steps to analyse pricing data to compare the cost of using (a) public and (b) home electric vehicle charging points.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 5 March 2024 to Question 17184 and pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2024 to Question 2507 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, whether she plans to respond to the Local Government Association's report entitled The Path to…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of clarifying rules on pavement parking in the proposed English Devolution Bill.
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Department for Work and Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children whose families are subject to No Recourse to Public Funds restrictions are living in poverty.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to address the 18% of people who are dying annually in poverty in Bristol Central, as identified in Marie Curie's Dying in Poverty 2025 report.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are expected to be supported by the introduction of new earned income disregards for Housing Benefit claimants in supported housing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the timeline for the introduction of new earned income disregards for Housing Benefit claimants in supported housing.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58821 on Access to Work Programme: Self-employed, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the changes to Access to Work on claimants who are (a) self-employed and (b)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on housing for people who use some of the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on (a) private renters and (b) levels of…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the value of the Bereavement Support payment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to uprate Bereavement Support Payments annually in line with inflation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16304 on Pension Credit: South Derbyshire, how many pensioner households in receipt of Housing Benefit and identified as potentially entitled to but not claiming Pension Credit her Department…
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Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to The New Decent Homes Standard: policy statement, updated 28 January 2025, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the potential impact of the 2035…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support families who have experienced baby loss in Bristol Central constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60392 on Ophthalmic Services, if he will have discussions with the (a) Welsh and (b) Scottish governments on the requirement for pre-visit notifications for domiciliary eye care services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirement for a pre-visit notification on access to eye care for (a) people experiencing homelessness and (b) care home residents.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will remove the requirement for a pre-visit notification for eye care.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with his (a) Welsh and (b) Scottish counterpart on the removal of the requirement for a pre-visit notification for eye care.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Bristol Central constituency on 9 June 2025.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2025 to Question 50992 on NHS: Contracts, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of staff working in the National Health Service for non-NHS providers; and…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 46236 on NHS: Contracts, what assessment he has made of the number of staff working in the NHS for non-NHS providers (a) nationally and (b) in the Bristol Central constituency area.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy for contracts awarded to non-NHS providers to require those providers to provide pay and conditions on NHS Agenda for Change terms for staff that deliver such services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his plans to provide mental health professionals in schools include access to children and young people’s counsellors trained to Level 4 Diploma of Higher Education in counselling with clinical experience of working with…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Secondary Care of 19 November 2024, Official Report, column 146, whether she has sought commitments from the suppliers of medicines; and what the remaining issues are.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2024 to Question 8297 on Prisons: Food and Prescription Drugs, what steps he is taking to monitor the adequacy of (a) suicide prevention provision, (b) palliative care, (c) medical emergency care and (d)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 92 on Gender Dysphoria: Children, what his planned timetable is for (a) the study team to finalise their application for funding and (b) this application to be assessed by an independent…
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) respond to the humanitarian situation in Somalia and (b) help mitigate (i) regional and (ii) humanitarian impacts.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £120m funding increase for Sudan is going to (a) local and (b) national organisations; and what steps he is taking to ensure that the funding strengthens the longer-term…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to oppose any (a) forcible displacement and (b) ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will summon the United States Ambassador to discuss President Trump's proposals on Gaza.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will have discussions with the Scottish Government's (a) Energy and Climate change directorate and (b) External Affairs directorate on whether any Scotland based companies are undertaking (i) recruitment, (ii)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to sanction UK based insurance firms providing insurance to tankers engaged in shipping Russian Liquified Natural Gas.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to sanction the shipping of Russian Liquified Natural Gas by UK-based businesses to (a) the EU and (b) other third countries.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Development in response to the question from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire, during the Urgent Question on Sudan of 3 September 2024, Official…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' Humanitarian Situation Update No. 221 on the Gaza Strip, if he will have discussions with his Israeli counterpart on the proportion…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 1338 on British Nationals Abroad: Detainees, what response he has received to his request for consular access to Alaa Abd El-Fattah; and if he will take further steps…
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Home Office
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will re-open the family reunion scheme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of 30 month reviews of refugee status on asylum seekers with protected characteristics; and what mechanisms she will put in place to assess threats to those asylum seekers with protected…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of 30 month reviews of refugee status.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of 30 month reviews of refugee status on the Home Office asylum claims backlog.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her 5th March policy announcements on the asylum system on levels of homelessness in the UK.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls Action Plan, published on 18 December 2025, if she will set out the timeline for the review of the law on prostitution;…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposals in the Earned Settlement consultation on staffing levels in the adult social care sector; and whether social care roles will be included within the public service…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the funding over the next three years in the Freedom From Violence and Abuse Strategy is a) new funding and b) a continuation of existing funds.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for reviewing the legal framework for domestic abuse.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources she plans to provide to ensure the police can meet the expectation set out in the Freedom From Violence and Abuse Strategy for police forces to follow the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Policy paper Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper, published on 12 May 2025, whether she consulted civil society organisations providing services to (a) migrants…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether plans to extend the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain will be applied to (a) UK Ancestry Visa holders and (b) other visa holders with the right to vote in general elections.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for deferred biometric enrolment from student visa applicants in Gaza have been (a) received, (b) refused and (c) accepted since 7 October 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were dispersed in the asylum system while in the late stages of pregnancy in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024; and how many of those dispersals were at the request of (i) the pregnant woman and (ii) her treating clinician.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the Migration Advisory Committee entitled Family visa financial requirements review, published on 10 June 2025, if she will expedite her response to the recommendations relating to children; and what discussions…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to develop new country information for Syria; and when she plans to begin processing (a) asylum claims and (b) settlement cases.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an impact assessment of the updates to her Department's guidance entitled Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 10 February 2025.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 902576 on Employment: Asylum, what the gender balance of dependents of asylum seekers is; what assessment she has made of the impact of the rules that do not allow those dependants to work…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cases taken by the National Age Assessment Board were assessed as (a) under 18 years of age and (b) 18 years or older.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals have been accepted by the National Age Assessment Board; and what proportion of these referrals were from (a) local authorities and (b) her Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption has had meetings with representatives of (a) Leonardo, (b) Glencore, (c) Enwell Energy, (d) BP and (e) Centrica since being appointed to that role.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish details of meetings (a) held by the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption since he was appointed to that role and (b) that he plans to hold in the next 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 3626 on Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, when she plans to publish the report on the operation of public order measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will launch a public consultation when undertaking post-legislative scrutiny of the (a) Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and (b) Public Order Act 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) create a Lebanese family scheme visa to enable immediate family members of British nationals to come to the UK and (b) waive (i) family visa income thresholds, (ii) English Language requirements and (iii)…
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House of Commons Commission
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that (a) transgender and (b) non-binary people visiting Parliament are treated (i) inclusively and (ii) with respect.
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Leader of the House
To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the oral contribution of Leader of the House of Commons on 10 October 2024, Official Report, column 475, for what reason a response from a Minister was not provided before 21 October; and whether a response will be provided before any future…
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Ministry of Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with his Swiss counterpart on the assessment conducted by the (a) Swiss army and (b) Swiss Armed Forces of Palantir, including that company's safeguards for handling sensitive data.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made to develop the Violence Against Women and Girls Taskforce.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to monitor the impact of the data breach relating to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy on the human rights of those listed in the leaked data including (a) those of Afghan nationality, (b) their families and (c) British…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2025 to Question 59473 on Israel: Military Aid, how many IDF personnel are (a) currently enrolled in (b) have been enrolled on UK run combat courses in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56822 on Israel: Military Aid, if he will make it his policy to stop this training.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with representatives of the Five Eyes on the potential implications for that community of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to appoint Tulsi Gabbard as US Director of National Intelligence.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 5 November 2025 to question 86342, if he will set out a timeline for delivery of the £500 million.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to The New Decent Homes Standard: policy statement, updated 28 January 2025, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential impact of the 2035 implementation date…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with supported housing providers on the potential (a) administrative, (b) financial and (c) homelessness impacts of the implementation of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 47931 on Tenants' Rights, what steps she plans to take to raise awareness among renters in rent-to-rent schemes of their new rights following passage of the Renters' Rights…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Renters' Rights Bill on renters in rent to rent schemes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for (a) introducing a registration scheme for short-term lets, (b) removing the furnished holiday let rules to ensure all income from property will be treated the same for tax purposes and (c)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 2.62 of the Office for Budget Responsibility Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published on 26 March 2025, CP 1289, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the estimated increase in…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she will issue guidance to planning authorities on the cumulative impact of carbon emissions from infrastructure projects on the Government’s carbon reduction targets.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take legislative steps to reinstate Council Tax Benefit.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the ability of local authorities to (a) take enforcement action against private sector landlords leaving private tenants with dangerous disrepair and (b) bring related…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to respond to the consultation entitled Changes to various permitted development rights which closed on on 9 April 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will remove the requirement for air source heat pumps to be situated at least one metre from the property boundary.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals on renters’ rights.
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Ministry of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department received any representations on the replacement of Justice Chamberlain as the judge presiding over the judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 44154 on Family Proceedings, when she plans to publish her Department's review of the presumption of parental involvement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that prisoners are (a) being routinely provided with meals that meet the recommended daily allowance calorie intake and (b) receiving prescribed medication on time.
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Treasury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2025 to Question 87556 on Academies: Electric Vehicles, if the findings of the cross-government review on public sector salary sacrifice schemes will be made publicly available.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Adura joint venture, whether HMRC has investigated potential breaches of loss-buying prohibitions under the Corporation Tax Act 2010.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct and publish a comparative assessment of the (a) fiscal returns from the Energy Profits Levy and (b) value of tax reliefs and investment and capital allowances granted to oil and gas producers since 2022.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2025 to Question 76417 on Carbon Emissions, whether the Financial Policy Committee (a) is (i) monitoring and (ii) assessing evidence on the likelihood of planetary boundaries being breached and (b) has used its stress…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to (a) monitor and (b) assess the risk posed by climate emissions to UK (i) financial stability and (ii) pension funds.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that leasehold owners who were unable to sell their properties in the 2020-21 financial year due to cladding remediation works can qualify for the temporarily reduced Stamp Duty Land Tax rates that were in place during that…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 28901 on Taxation: International Cooperation, what recent discussions she has had with international counterparts on a UN framework convention on global taxation.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of new UK oil and gas extraction on (a) GDP and (b) tax receipts in each of the next five years.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has budgeted for any (a) investment tax credit and (b) ringfenced expenditure supplement to be paid to (i) Equinor and (ii) Ithaca in connection to Rosebank oil field development after February 2025.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) Equinor and (b) Ithaca have received (i) investment tax credit and (ii) ringfence expenditure supplement in connection to Rosebank oil field development in the period leading up to January 2025.
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Women and Equalities
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 86020 on Business: Codes of Practice, what assessment she has made of whether her expectation was met that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (a) engaged (i) widely and (ii) broadly and (b)…
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on the adequacy of the scope of its engagement on the Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's Code of Practice on consultations, if she will hold discussions with the Chair of the EHRC of the potential merits of extending the EHRC's six-week consultation to 12 weeks.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2025 to Question 52519 on Public Places: Non-binary People and Transgender People, if she will issue guidance on steps organisations should take (a) whilst the Government is considering the implications of the Supreme…
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she is taking steps to ensure that the views and experiences of older women are reflected in (a) decision-making processes and (b) policy development across departments.
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To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of restrictions on the right to work on women seeking asylum.
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