Abtisam Mohamed MP: written questions
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Immigration: StandardsHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken for the consideration of Administrative Reviews of immigration casework.
Answer: The allocation of resources across competing demands within the immigration system requires that prioritisation decisions are made, but the Home Office continues to work hard to meet the timescales set out in public guidance for the processing of AR appli...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: StandardsHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for administrative reviews relating to immigration casework.
Answer: The allocation of resources across competing demands within the immigration system requires that prioritisation decisions are made, but the Home Office continues to work hard to meet the timescales set out in public guidance for the processing of AR appli...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of enabling community energy schemes to sell energy to local households and businesses on the transition to Net Zero
Answer: The Department is considering a range of reforms to unlock renewable investment and pass through the benefits of cheaper renewables to consumers. This includes potential changes to support local and community energy. All policies within my department and ...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration ControlsHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Departments plans to implement transitional arrangements for people impacted by the proposals outlined in her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration syste
Answer: The Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues.We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year. Further details will be set out in the normal way in due course, and where neces...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCopyright: Fees and ChargesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of regulating the level of charges levied by online image rights holders in cases of copyright infringement.
Answer: The unauthorised use of copyright material is an infringement. The terms on which permission is granted, including any payments that may be made, is a private commercial matter.The Government would encourage parties involved in potential litigation procee...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime and Policing Bill: Delivery ServicesHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that home delivery drivers are protected from abuse within the Crime and Policing Bill.
Answer: The Government is determined to tackle all forms of hate crime.We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes which target race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and transgender identity, and we back the police in takin...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023Department for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 42191 on University of Sussex: Disciplinary Proceedings and with reference to her oral statement of 15 January 2025 on Higher Education Regulatory Approach, Of
Answer: On Monday 28 April, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education signed commencement regulations for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. These regulations commence the following provisions in the Act from 1 August 2025:Duties ...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The volume of defendants prosecuted and fined for offences under 443 of the Education Act 1996 from 2015 - 2024 (January to September) is provided in the attached table 1.Note that that this is an additional breakdown of statistics published by the Minist...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43236More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has instructed Official Development Assistance programme teams to pause new (a) business cases, (b) contracts, and (c) funding for programmes supporting women, pea
Answer: The transition to spending 0.3 per cent of gross national income on Official Development Assistance (ODA) demands significant shifts in the scale and shape of our ODA spending. To enable us to deliver this change effectively, we are prioritising meeting l...
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: ReviewsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress he has made on the Development Review; and how he plans to use that review to inform the planned reduction in UK aid spending.
Answer: The Development Review considered how to maximise the UK's combined diplomatic and development expertise in its international development work. Reducing the overall size of our Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will necessarily have an impact o...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoyal College of PhysiciansDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Royal College of Physicians on the administrative error in the 2023 Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK part two examinations.
Answer: We recognise that this will be a concerning time for those doctors affected. We have asked the UK Statutory Education Bodies, which is NHS England in the case of England, to work with the Royal College of Physicians and the General Medical Council to ensu...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: BricksMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that critical cavity nesting bird habitats are mandated in new housing developments.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 22080 on 15 January 2025.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the School Attendance Order process in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on local authority staff time.
Answer: The department is legislating through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to make School Attendance Orders a more efficient remedy to ensure that children are in receipt of suitable education. This includes making it an offence for parents to withdr...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Attendance Orders were issued by each local authority in England for each of the last five years.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, if she will publish the statistics on School Attendance Order fin
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34433More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, published on 30 January 2025, for what reason (a) higher and (b)
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren's Wellbeing and Schools BillDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the further impact assessments for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be added to the main bill page.
Answer: The full suite of impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-impact-assessments.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren's Wellbeing and Schools BillDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the New Burdens Assessment will be completed before the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill receives Royal Assent.
Answer: The department has conducted initial new burdens impact assessments, in line with normal practice, for measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Once the new burdens assessments have been finalised, where it is assessed there is a new burden ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when draft guidance on the Children Not In School measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be published for consultation.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether home educating parents will have to update the local authority within 15 days each time there is a change to the arrangements on record.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a duty on local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, and a duty on parents to provide certain information for those registers. Parents must only provide details of their ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Education: Local GovernmentDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of local authority employees working with home educating families that are only employed during school term time; and whether she has made an assessment of th
Answer: The department does not hold information on the number of local authority employees working with home-educating families that are only employed during term time. Local authorities determine their own approaches to staffing.Additional local authority resou...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDeprivation of Liberty SafeguardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard applications are processed within 21 days.
Answer: Processing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS) applications is the responsibility of local authorities. There is considerable variation in how local authorities process and complete their DoLS applications with some areas successfully processing appli...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Companies: ChinaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the same sustainability standards are applied (a) Temu, (b) Shein and (c) other Chinese low-cost suppliers as to suppliers in the UK.
Answer: All businesses operating in the UK, regardless of where they are owned, are required to comply with UK sustainability regulations and standards. This includes the Modern Slavery Act 2015.The government will continue to monitor and assess the effectiveness...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParcels: Import DutiesTreasuryTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30535More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of phasing out the exemption on customs duties that is allowed for parcels under £135.
Answer: The Government recognises that the increasing popularity of overseas retailers and use of the customs duty relief for imports valued below £135 has caused concern for some stakeholders.The purpose of the customs duty relief is to prevent disproportionate ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnited Nations: Older PeopleForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support a UN Convention on the rights of Older Persons.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to equality and opportunity for all, with a particular focus on those most likely to be marginalised and discriminated against, including on the grounds of their age. We are open in principle to the idea of a multilateral in...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
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