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Attorney General
To ask the Solicitor General, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contracts and are (b) consultants.
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Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many post office branches have (a) opened and (b) closed in Lincolnshire since 2016.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many days in 2025 did the Pride Flag fly on the main Whitehall building operated by his Department.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many freedom of information requests his Department has responded to in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is his Department policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministers and special advisers in his Department have met the Royal Household to discuss the rebranding of UK Government.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether external consultants were hired as part of the process of rebranding from HM Government to UK Government.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) social media and (b) other media subscriptions his Department has paid for in the last 12 months.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent staff in 10 Downing Street have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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Department for Business and Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to promote the manufacturing sector in (1) Lincolnshire and (2) the East Midlands.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps his Department has taken to help support independent high street businesses in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) start-ups and (b) scale-ups in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help improve access to export support services for SMEs in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many trading standards inspections of high street shops took place in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have (1) closed and (2) opened in Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support heritage assets in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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Department for Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the availability of post-16 provision in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the Connect the Classroom funding will be spent on schools in South Holland and the Deepings constituency
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish an assessment of the economic impact on early years providers of changes to employers national insurance.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that secondary school pupils have access to appropriate school transport arrangements in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make new capital funding available for school buildings in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Technical Excellence Colleges are planned to be in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) households and (a) businesses reliant on heating oil in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support (a) consumers and (b) businesses in South Holland and the Deepings constituency with (1) petrol and (2) diesel costs.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Environment Agency on trends in levels of fly tipping in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle illegal waste sites in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support younger people into agricultural careers in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect seabirds from offshore energy infrastructure.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect hare populations in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff in her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent support the Government has provided for habitat creation initiatives in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many staff in her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much Innovate UK funding has been awarded to organisations based in Lincolnshire in each of the last three financial years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has held discussions with the Home Office on the increased use of Virtual Private Networks by criminals following the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of digital exclusion in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to issue fines against social media companies which host sexualized deepfake content.
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Department for Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the level of take up of cycling proficiency programmes in schools in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff within her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken with local authorities to improve road infrastructure in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many speed cameras on motorways and major A roads in England have been replaced for being faulty in each of the past five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fake license plates were recorded in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department are tasked with tackling the use of fake license plates.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists have been wrongly fined for speeding in each year since 2021.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Department for Work and Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle online content encouraging people to pursue fraudulent benefits claims.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in South Holland and the Deepings constituency are in receipt of Pension Credit.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase (a) skills and (b) employment support for people in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in receipt of sickness benefits.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were unemployed for over 12 months in South Holland and the Deepings constituency in the last 12 months, and what proportion of those people were unemployed for 18 months or more.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to promote apprenticeships in the construction industry.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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Department of Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department and NHS England are taking to ensure that (a) patients with acquired brain injuries (ABI) currently resident at the Kemsley Division of St Andrews Hospital are transferred to settings with the appropriate expertise…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of trends in the number of year on year changes to hospital handover delays in Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to block NHS-backed trials of puberty blockers in gender questioning children.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many masculinising and feminising hormones NHS England have prescribed to people aged (a) 16 and (b) 17 in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under the age of 18 who requested masculinising and feminising hormones were refused in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of specialist Parkinson's nurses working in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regarding trials of puberty blockers.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients released from hospital who need a wheelchair get one as soon as possible.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many days in 2025 did the Pride Flag fly on the main Whitehall building operated by his Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dental appointments have been (a) delivered and (b) cancelled in Lincolnshire in each of the last 3 years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that decisions to section individuals are based on the merits of the case in question and not on ethnicity.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to immunotherapy for brain tumour patients.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help improve access to whole genome sequencing for diagnosis of brain tumours.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase early diagnosis for child brain tumours.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase research and development on child brain tumours.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the impact of recent changes to the dental contract on patients’ access to routine dental care.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with abortion practitioners to discuss what steps they are taking to prevent abortions taking place on the basis of sex.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the trends in the level of consistency of NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments across (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with (1) Chrohn's and (2) Colitis in (a) South Holland and the Deepings and (b) Lincolnshire in each of the last five years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people eligible for winter flu vaccinations received them in 2025.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to regularly monitor and report on dental access for cleft and other priority groups.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure people with cleft receive appropriate dental care.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to pharmacies in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce rates of cardiovascular disease in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it is her Department's policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discissions she has had with the signatories of the Pelindaba Treaty on their future adherence to that Treaty, in the context of (a) the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius and (b)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish official communications from the US State Department sent in March 2025 on the legal premise for transferring the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what guidance her Department provides on the potential impact of Article 298 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on British maritime logistics taking place in (a) the Falkland Islands, (b) Gibraltar…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the transfer of Diego Garcia to Mauritius on the risk of nuclear proliferation across the African continent, in the context of the influences of (a) Iran, (b)…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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Home Office
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risks of remote testing in her Department's English Language Test.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged 17 have applied to join the police in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of serving police officers by nationality for each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that forced marriages do not take place in Sharia councils in the UK.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s report entitled The independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales of February 2018, if she will take steps to conduct an assessment into the number of sharia councils…
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff within her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to revoke pensions from police officers convicted of violent crimes.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle organised acquisitive rural crime.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of occasions the police has (a) investigated and (b) charged abortion practitioners in relation to abortions suspected to have taken place on the basis of sex in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of individuals referred to the Prevent programme in the last three years were found to not be at risk of radicalisation.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers retired due to ill health in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers hired in the last ten years in England underwent standard vetting procedures prior to their hiring.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people deemed to be from under-represented groups are subject to different vetting procedures as part of the hiring process for police officers in England.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of creating a single crossbow licensing authority for England and Wales.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people resident in the UK are recorded on the National DNA Database.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the levels of recruitment and retention in Lincolnshire Police in the past 10 years.
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Ministry of Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his Department's policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2026 to Question 106994 on Veterans: Radiation Exposure, whether research on the effects of radiation on British servicemen held by the Technical Cooperation Programme of the Ministry of Defence is held in (a) this…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government has given security guarantees to the United States on the future of the military base on Chagos Islands since 2 February 2026.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new shared ownership homes were built in Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households were living in temporary accommodation in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in each year since 2020.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households in Lincolnshire were successful in applications from the Disabled Facilities Grant in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of rough sleepers are not British nationals.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff in his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether HM Land Registry has a duty to report if property in the UK is purchased by other nation states.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many properties registered with HM Land Registry are owned by the People's Republic of China.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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Ministry of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the number of (a) Sharia councils and (b) people associated with roles on Sharia councils have been convicted of offences under the Equality Act 2010 in the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of how many unregistered Islamic marriages there have been in the UK in each of the last ten years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his Department's policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error from HMP Morton Hall since July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error from HM Prison Lincoln since July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error from North Sea Camp Prison since July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error from HM Prison Peterborough since July 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Northern Ireland Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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Scotland Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many staff within his Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of civil servants in his Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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Treasury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has paid for followers on social media platforms it uses.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many days in 2025 did the Pride Flag fly on the main Whitehall building operated by her Department.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public sector pensions have been forfeited due to convictions for violent crimes in each of the last 10 years.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her Department's policy that (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers use the disappearing messages function on Whatsapp on Government devices.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data her Department has regarding the amount of unpaid taxes by businesses that is awaiting recovery.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much is owed in uncollected taxes from businesses that liquidated when their owed taxes were attempted to be recovered in 2025.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to remove business rates for early years providers.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent HMRC staff are working on unpaid (a) VAT and (b) corporation tax recovery.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the total cost to the public purse of money owed to HMRC in the form of unpaid (a) VAT and (b) corporation tax accrued since July 2024.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies owing unpaid (a) VAT and (b) corporation tax have been dissolved since July 2024.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the past three years.
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Wales Office
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many staff within her Department are reliant on a visa for employment.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department have been employed for the purpose of making social media content in each of the last three years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) on temporary contract and (b) consultants.
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