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David Davis
David Davis
CON✓ Current MP
🏛️ Goole and Pocklington
📅 1987–2026
3,982 speeches on Hansard record
⚠️ Votes attended: 61.90%
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.63%
📝 Topics: Christmas Cards, Ministerial Visits, Police
🤝 Member of 4 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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Attorney General
Prosecutions 16 March 2026
To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases and the relevant offences for cases prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division in each year between 2015 and 2025.
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Prosecutions 16 March 2026
To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases and the relevant offences for cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division in each year between 2015 and 2025.
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Attorney General's Office: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Solicitor General, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Proof of Identity 19 January 2026
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Lord Mandelson 7 October 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish correspondence between Lord Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney on the former's appointment as the British Ambassador to the United States.
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Cabinet Office: Public Opinion 6 February 2023
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister or official authorised the Rapid Response Unit to collect of data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of that unit's work.
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Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade : Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Public Opinion 2 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which Minister or official authorised the Counter Disinformation Unit to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of the unit's work.
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Listed Buildings 20 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications to de-list a listed building were (a) made and (b) successful in each year since 2010.
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Department for Education
Department for Education: Proof of Identity 26 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Special Educational Needs: Finance 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reform funding processes for the provision of SEND support.
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Special Educational Needs 6 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on responding to the recommendations of the First Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024-25 on Support for children and young people with special educational needs, HC 353, published on 15 January…
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Special Educational Needs 1 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to implement recommendation two of the First Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024-25 on Support for children and young people with special educational needs, HC 353, published on 15 January 2025.
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Special Educational Needs 1 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure estimates of demand for SEND support in each local authority area are accurate.
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Special Educational Needs: Finance 1 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking through the National Funding Formula to reduce the differences in high needs funding per head between local authority areas.
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Special Educational Needs: Finance 1 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the (a) proxy factors and (b) weightings used in the National Funding Formula for high needs funding accurately reflect the demand for high needs educational provision.
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Special Educational Needs: Finance 1 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide sustainable funding for local authorities for SEND-related spending.
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Children: Gambling 13 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 15 November 2022 to Question 82174 on Gambling: Children, who authorised (a) the disclosure to Trustopia and (b) the contract terms of that disclosure; who was responsible for monitoring the management of that data; and whether…
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Solar Power 10 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the amount of roof space in the UK that would be suitable for installing solar panels.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Proof of Identity 21 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Proof of Identity 23 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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National Security Online Information Team 24 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the National Security Online Information Team's policies on the collection of personal data on people's ability to establish what information the Government holds about them.
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National Security Online Information Team 24 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps to ensure that the National Security Online Information Team's social media monitoring work can be scrutinised by (a) Parliament and (b) the public.
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Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence 21 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2024 to Question 24976 on Artificial Intelligence: Government Departments, what recent estimate he has made of when phase one Departments will publish their first Algorithmic Transparency…
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Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence 21 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the report entitled Securing meaningful transparency of public sector use of AI: Comparative approaches across five jurisdictions, published by the Public Law Project in October 2024, whether he has made an…
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Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence 21 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the report entitled Securing meaningful transparency of public sector use of AI: Comparative approaches across five jurisdictions, published by the Public Law Project in October 2024, whether he has made an…
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Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence 21 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the report entitled Securing meaningful transparency of public sector use of AI: Comparative approaches across five jurisdictions, published by the Public Law Project in October 2024, what assessment he has made…
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Counter Disinformation Unit 14 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy of the work of the Counter Disinformation Unit and (b) impact of that work on freedom of speech.
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Counter Disinformation Unit: Freedom of Expression 21 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether online content flagged for removal by the Counter Disinformation Unit can include lawful expression.
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Counter Disinformation Unit: Freedom of Expression 13 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's counter-disinformation unit on freedom of expression.
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Counter Disinformation Unit 13 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what policy areas the Counter Disinformation Unit focuses on in addition to Covid-19 and Ukraine.
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Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Biofuels 12 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of using (a) E20 and (b) E10 fuel on (i) fuel consumption and (ii) emissions.
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Biofuels 12 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential effectiveness of using E20 fuel.
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Biofuels 12 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an estimate of the number of cars that would be compatible with (a) E15 and (b) E20 fuel.
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High Speed 2 Line 26 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish maps of the (a) properties and (b) land purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2b east of the HS2 project.
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High Speed 2 Line 25 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a list of properties purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2a of the HS2 project.
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High Speed 2 Line 25 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a list of properties purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2b west of the HS2 project.
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High Speed 2 Line 25 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish maps of the (a) properties and (b) land purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2b west of the HS2 project.
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High Speed 2 Line 25 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish maps of the (a) properties and (b) land purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2a of the HS2 project.
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High Speed 2 Line 25 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a list of properties purchased by HS2 Ltd for Phase 2b east of the HS2 project.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Independent Case Examiner: Standards 7 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average time between a Child Maintenance Service complaint being received by the Independent Case Examiner and its allocation to an investigator.
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Independent Case Examiner: Standards 7 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average time between a Child Maintenance Service complaint being received by the Independent Case Examiner and the issuing of a final decision.
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Social Security Benefits: Fraud 23 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of how much monies his Department expects to recover via the powers in Clause 128 of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill for fraud related to (a) the Attendance Allowance, (b) Universal Credit, (c) the…
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Social Security Benefits: Bank Services 22 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Government's proposed welfare bank surveillance powers on the right to privacy.
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Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Trusts: Managers 28 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital trust chief executives are on multi-year contracts.
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NHS Trusts: Managers 28 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS hospital trust chief executives have been appointed after being dismissed from other NHS hospital trusts.
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Department of Health and Social Care: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Dental Services: Contracts 6 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on reform of the NHS dental contract.
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Dental Services: Standards 6 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of setting minimum targets for integrated care boards on the proportion of people seen by NHS dental providers over a 24 month period.
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Dental Services: Rural Areas 6 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure reliable access to NHS dental treatment in (a) East Riding of Yorkshire and (b) rural areas.
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Dental Services: Finance 6 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of funding available for NHS dental treatments.
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Down's Syndrome 8 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 15729 on Down's Syndrome, when the statutory guidance under the Down Syndrome Act 2022 will be published.
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Down's Syndrome 2 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 1398 on Down Syndrome Act 2022, what recent progress his Department has made on producing statutory guidance under the Down Syndrome Act 2022; and whether he plans to publish that guidance…
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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan 22 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage (a) the NHS, (b) Daiichi Sankyo, and (c) AstraZeneca to reach a commercial agreement that makes Enhertu available on the NHS in England.
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Prostate Cancer: Screening 9 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Screening Committee will next review the potential merits of screening for prostate cancer.
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Baby Care Units: Nurses 5 August 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent guidance his Department has issued on safe staffing limits for nurses qualified in intensive neonatal care in a high-risk neonatal unit.
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Baby Care Units: Finance 1 August 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding NHS trusts receive per cot for high-risk neonatal units.
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Baby Care Units: Finance 1 August 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding NHS trusts receive per cot for low-risk neonatal units.
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Infant Mortality 31 July 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the infant mortality rate was in intensive neonatal care units in each year between 2010 and 2023; and if he will hold discussions with his counterpart in the Welsh Government on providing comparative data for Wales.
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Baby Care Units: Finance 29 July 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts receive funding for high-risk neonatal services.
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Baby Care Units: Nurses 29 July 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of nurses are qualified in intensive neonatal care and work in high-risk neonatal units.
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Countess of Chester Hospital: Perinatal Mortality 23 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many newborns died at the Countess of Chester hospital's neonatal unit in (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016, (e) 2017 and (f) 2018, broken down by month.
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Countess of Chester Hospital: Perinatal Mortality 23 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many newborns died at the Countess of Chester hospital's maternity unit in (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016, (e) 2017 and (f) 2018, broken down by month.
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NHS: Databases 17 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data sets will flow into the Federated Data Platform; and what her planned timetable is for each of those data sets to be (a) visible and (b) in use on the Federated Data Platform by participating hospital trusts.
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Ambulance Services: Databases 9 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2024 to Question 23378 on Ambulance Services: Databases, which directive issued under section 254 of the Health and Social Care 2012 Act NHS England is using to process de-identified data for use in the…
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Ambulance Services: Databases 7 May 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her planned timescale is for ambulance service data to be active on the Federated Data Platform for use by participating hospital trusts.
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Ambulance Services: Databases 29 April 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has issued a data privacy notice for ambulance services data to be part of the NHS Federated Data Platform product.
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Health Services 15 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care to the Chair of the Health and Social Care on NHS Federated Data Platform dated 30 August 2023, which 24 NHS trusts are…
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Suicide: Internet 11 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with Cloudflare on removing the website linked to deaths by suicide reported on by the BBC on 24 October 2023.
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NHS: Databases 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care to the Chair of the Health and Social Care on NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) dated 30 August 2023, what the benefits…
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Health Services 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from Lord Markham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, dated 30 August 2023, which are the 36 NHS trusts said in that letter to be participating in…
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NHS: Databases 7 December 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the value for money of the Federated Data Platform contract and (b) the extent to which FDP procurement complies with the guidance entitled Managing public money.
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Suicide: Internet 17 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961, how many times his Department has asked internet service providers to remove websites that encourage suicide in each of the last five years.
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Abiraterone: Prostate Cancer 17 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the level of availability of abiraterone on the NHS on the health of prostate cancer patients.
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Abiraterone: Prostate Cancer 17 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward the planned review of abiraterone as a treatment for prostate cancer on the NHS.
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Abiraterone: Prostate Cancer 17 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the use of abiraterone as a treatment for prostate cancer by the NHS.
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NHS Trusts: Databases 25 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2023 to Question 160180 on NHS Trusts: Databases, for what reason each NHS Trust paused or suspended pilots of Palantir Foundry.
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NHS Trusts: Databases 25 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2023 to Question 160180 on NHS Trusts: Databases, whether any of the Trusts that had (a) paused and (b) suspended pilots of Palantir Foundry have (i) resumed and (ii) restarted their pilots since 23 March…
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NHS Trusts: Databases 23 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money from the public purse has been spent on the faster data flows pilots of Palantir Foundry to date; and if he will provide a breakdown of (a) spending on individual trusts’ implementation costs and (b) payments made to (i)…
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NHS Trusts: Databases 23 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS trusts have paused or suspended pilots of Palantir Foundry.
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NHS Trusts: Databases 16 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish his Department's internal assessments of the performance of the pilots of Palantir Foundry at (a) Chelsea and Westminster, (b) the Royal Free London, (c) Barts Health and (d) Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trusts.
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NHS Trusts: Databases 16 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the use of Foundry, a Palantir product, by NHS England as part of some of its pilots of the collection and dissemination of the Faster Data Flow Acute Data Set, how much money from the public purse has been spent on the…
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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British Embassy Washington 22 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many times Benjamin Wegg-Prosser has visited the UK embassy in Washington since 10 February 2025.
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British Embassy Washington 22 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many times employees of Global Counsel have visited the UK embassy in Washington since 10 February 2025.
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah 22 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing sanctions on individuals associated with the detention of Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt.
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USA: Extradition 18 March 2024
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with their US counterparts on the UK-US Extradition Treaty, in the context (i) the case of Anne Sacoolas and (ii) other prominent cases.
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USA: Extradition 18 March 2024
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department has taken to prevent miscarriages of justice as a result of the UK-US extradition treaty.
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Syria: British Nationals Abroad 18 July 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, If he will make it his policy to provide consular support to British nationals detained in North East Syria.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Opinion 2 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which Minister or official authorised the Government Information Cell to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of its work.
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Human Trafficking: English Channel 11 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he holds any information on how many people traffickers operating in the English Channel the French authorities have (a) arrested and (b) charged in each of the last five years.
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Home Office
Omar al-Bayoumi 16 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of her Department's officials informed US authorities that they would not observe the interrogation of Omar al Bayoumi in 2001.
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Omar al-Bayoumi 16 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contact her department had with counterparts in the US on the release and ongoing surveillance of Omar al Bayoumi in 2001 and 2002.
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Omar al-Bayoumi 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the work of the Metropolitan Police in September 2001 on the possible extradition of Omar al Bayoumi.
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Omar al-Bayoumi 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of her Department's officials informed the Metropolitan Police that the US would not be extraditing Omar al-Bayoumi in 2001.
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Omar al-Bayoumi 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department had with US counterparts on extraditing Omar al Bayoumi in 2001.
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Police: Biometrics 4 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of compensation schemes for people wrongly identified by live facial recognition technology used by the police.
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Police: Biometrics 4 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has set a threshold for an acceptable proportion of misidentifications arising from police use of live facial recognition.
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Home Office: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Police: Biometrics 4 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on their deployment of live facial recognition cameras.
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Police: Biometrics 4 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police forces on including children in live facial recognition camera watchlists.
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Electronic Surveillance 4 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will withdraw outstanding Technical Capability Notices relating to encryption.
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Electronic Surveillance 9 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many technical capability notices issued under s.253 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 have been complied with in each year.
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Electronic Surveillance 9 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many technical capability notices her Department has issued under s.253 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 in each year, not including the notice rejected by Apple.
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Police: Biometrics 11 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who are not wanted for arrest have been placed on police facial recognition watchlists.
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Police: Biometrics 11 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of police forces using facial recognition technology to identify individuals not sought in connection to ongoing criminal investigations.
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Journalism and Legal Profession: Surveillance 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of times UK police forces have authorised targeted surveillance of journalists and lawyers.
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Journalism and Legal Profession: Surveillance 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued to police forces on the use of surveillance powers to carry out surveillance on journalists and lawyers.
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Deportation and Detainees: Disclosure of Information 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 10678 on Deportation and Detainees, if she will issue cross-Departmental guidance on the public disclosure of unpublished data.
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Deportation and Detainees: Disclosure of Information 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 10678 on Deportation and Detainees, what steps she takes to ensure that her Department follows the Office for Statistics Regulation's guidance on data transparency.
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Deportation and Detainees 28 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that her Department publishes the statistics it collects on detention and returns promptly.
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Extradition: USA 24 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the United States to the United Kingdom for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
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Extradition: USA 24 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited to the United States for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
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Right of Search 30 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warrants were (a) applied for, (b) granted and (c) rejected under section 26 of the Theft Act 1968 by each police force in each of the last five calendar years.
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Police National Database 18 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many custody images of people who have not been convicted of a crime are stored in the Police National Database.
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Passports: Databases 18 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has received legal advice on the potential for using the UK passport database for the (a) prevention and (b) detection of crime.
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Police National Database 18 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on the storage by police of custody images of people who have not been convicted of the judgment in RMC and FJ v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Secretary of…
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Passports: Databases 17 October 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to use data in the UK passport database for the (a) prevention and b) detection of crime.
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Extradition: USA 28 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 4 July 2019 to Question 271379 on Extradition: USA, how many people were extradited from the UK to the United States for non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
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Extradition: USA 28 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2020 to Question 8948 on Tigray: Humanitarian Situation, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
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Extradition: USA 22 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been extradited from the (a) UK to the US and (b) US to the UK in each year since 2003.
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Extradition: USA 22 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
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Extradition: USA 22 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the UK to the US for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
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Home Office: Public Opinion 2 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Minister or official authorised the Research, Information and Communication Unit to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of that unit's work.
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Human Trafficking: Syria 11 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department (a) issued and (b) used a standard operating procedure to help prevent the trafficking of vulnerable individuals from Britain to Syria by ISIS between 2013 and 2017.
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Human Trafficking: Syria 11 January 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department made an assessment of the level of risk of trafficking as part of its strategy to counter recruitment by (a) ISIS and (b) other groups in the period between 2013 and 2017.
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Human Trafficking: English Channel 21 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she holds any information on how many people traffickers operating in the English Channel the French authorities have (a) arrested and (b) charged in each of the last five years.
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Asylum: Saffron Walden 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Saffron Walden constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Saffron Walden 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in North East Cambridgeshire constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Saffron Walden 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Fareham constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Saffron Walden 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Braintree constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Saffron Walden 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Suffolk Coastal constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Richmond 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites have been identified in Richmond (Yorks) constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Richmond 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites have been identified in Tonbridge and Malling constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Richmond 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites have been identified in Wyre and Preston North constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Richmond 7 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites have been identified in Stratford-on-Avon constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Monmouth constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Chippenham constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Hertsmere constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Salisbury constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Surrey Heath constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Forest of Dean constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire constituency have been identified for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Daventry constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any sites in South West Surrey constituency have been identified as temporary housing for asylum seekers.
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Asylum: Monmouth 6 December 2022
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any sites in Dumfries and Galloway constituency for the temporary housing of asylum seekers.
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House of Commons Commission
House of Commons: Repairs and Maintenance 17 September 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will make an estimate of the costs of (a) the two-week parliamentary sitting between the end of summer recess and the start of conference recess and (b) suspending maintenance work…
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Ministry of Defence
Terrorism: Northern Ireland 23 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 82701 on Troubles-related civil cases, whether he will provide a list of all 700 cases that remain in the judicial system.
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Terrorism: Northern Ireland 23 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Ministry of Defence's response of 29 May 2024 under FOI2024/06992, if he will provide details of the 82 Northern Ireland Legacy claimants that received compensation payments between 2019/20 and 2023/24.
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Ministry of Defence: Proof of Identity 28 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Disinformation 9 March 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the Government's counter-disinformation strategy.
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Cabinet Office: Public Opinion 14 February 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Minister or official authorised the 77th Brigade to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of its work.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the balance of Recovery Grant funding between urban and rural authorities.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of the transitional funding arrangements in the Fair Funding Review in ensuring the sustainable operation of local authorities.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration was given to providing additional financial support to local authorities that will have large reductions in Government funding.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration his Department gave to increasing the number of years for the transitional arrangements for the Fair Funding Review to be in effect.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on providing additional funding support to local authorities in receipt of the lowest amount of funding for the provision of support for children with…
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Local Government Services: Disadvantaged 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what analysis was carried out of the potential impact of deprivation on the cost of service delivery for local authorities.
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Local Government Services: Disadvantaged 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of continuing the Recovery Grant on local government finances.
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Local Government Services: Disadvantaged 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department considered consulting local authorities or other stakeholders on extending the Recovery Grant.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the final formulae and formula calculations used in the provisional local government finance settlement, published in December 2025.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, If he will publish the datasets used to determine the Relative Needs of local authorities in the Fair Funding Review.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a complete list of definitions for all variables and data used in the Fair Funding Review.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a list of methodological changes made to the Fair Funding Allocation following the Government's consultation.
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Local Government Finance 27 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the methodology used to distribute Recovery Grant funding to local authorities.
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Local Government Finance 26 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what reviews of the accuracy of the calculations used in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement to estimate Council Tax revenues were carried out.
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Local Government Finance: Rural Areas 26 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment was made in the process of developing the Fair Funding Allocation formulae of the adequacy of the evidence supplied by stakeholders and local authorities of the cost impacts of remoteness and rurality.
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Local Government Finance: Rural Areas 26 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide the basis on which his Department determined there was insufficient evidence of rurality and remoteness impacting the cost of service delivery in the provisional local government finance settlement.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Proof of Identity 19 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Ministry of Justice
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on ensuring the adequacy of legal protections for journalists, academics, campaigners and other public-interest actors facing Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation that fall outside the scope of the Economic…
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Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen protections against non-economic crime Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
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Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Solicitors Regulation Authority on their approach to complaints involving alleged Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation activity, including concerns that such complaints are being closed without substantive…
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Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Solicitors Regulation Authority on the operation of it complaints procedure for matters involving alleged Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
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Solicitors Regulation Authority: Disclosure of Information 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the ability of the Solicitors Regulation Authority to access material over which privilege is claimed on the effectiveness of that organisation.
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Solicitors Regulation Authority: Disclosure of Information 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Solicitors Regulation Authority's on that organisation's ability to regulate solicitors where it is unable to access material over which privilege is claimed during investigations.
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Ministry of Justice: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal 10 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has assessed the potential implications for open justice of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s decision to bar the press and public from recent proceedings.
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Employment Tribunals Service 18 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what documents provide the record of proceedings of an employment tribunal hearing for cases heard before the Presidential Practice Direction of November 2023.
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Law Reporting: Artificial Intelligence 2 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution of 22 April 2025, Official Report, column 911, what her Department's requisite level of accuracy is for AI transcriptions of court trials.
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Criminal Proceedings: Audio Recordings 29 July 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason Crown courts can refuse to release audio recordings of criminal hearings.
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Theft 30 November 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time has been between (a) an application for a warrant and (b) a hearing to decide the issuing of that warrant under section 26 of the Theft Act 1968 in each of the last five calendar years.
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Ministry of Justice: Vodafone Group 28 June 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) security and (b) other effects of the merger between Three and Vodafone on (i) his Department's and (ii) his Department's agencies and bodies' contracts with Vodafone.
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Northern Ireland Office
Northern Ireland Office: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Terrorism: Northern Ireland 4 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what information his Department holds on the number of suspected IRA members accused of terrorism offences between 1970 and 1990 that were later acquitted.
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Scotland Office
Scotland Office: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Treasury
Treasury: Proof of Identity 20 January 2026
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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Agriculture: Inheritance Tax 26 November 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to publish risk assessments of proposed changes to (a) Agricultural Property Relief and (b) Business Property Relief.
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Central Bank Digital Currencies 13 November 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a UK central bank digital currency on the right to privacy.
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Broadband: Tax Yields 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the annual VAT revenue generated from companies installing business broadband in employee properties.
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Broadband: Tax Yields 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what revenues his Department received from taxes on businesses that provide their employees with business broadband for their residential properties in the latest period for which data is available.
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Broadband: Taxation 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taxing upgrades to business broadband for non-business properties.
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Broadband: Taxation 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the loss of revenue resulting from ceasing to tax business broadband upgrades for homeowners as a benefit in kind.
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Broadband: Taxation 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the impacts of treating business broadband as a benefit in kind.
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Broadband: Taxation 19 June 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential financial merits of maintaining business broadband as a taxable benefit in kind.
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Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic Situation 9 February 2023
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the confidence intervals are for the (a) Office for Budget Responsibility's and (b) Bank of England's economic forecasts.
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Wales Office
Wales Office: Proof of Identity 19 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, by how much they plan to reduce their Department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
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