Alex Burghart MP: written questions 2026
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PeersCabinet OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120355More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2026 to Question 116167 on Peers, whether a sitting peer removed from the Roll of the Peerage is eligible to be receive a Writ of Summons from the Lord Chancellor to Parliament.
Answer: The Roll of the Peerage is an officially compiled and maintained list, intended to contain the names of all living peers. If a title has been removed from the Roll of the Peerage, it can no longer be used in official documents. Removal would not affect an...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordWelfare StateCabinet OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120354More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to extend Universal Basic Services across government.
Answer: Universal Basic Services is not a government policy and is not being explored by the Cabinet Office.
Answered 21 Apr 2026
Original Parliament record10 Downing Street: LibrariesCabinet OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 120353More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Prime Minister to reinstate the conventions on the Prime Minister's Library and the policy of acquisitions from current and former members of the Cabinet.
Answer: The Government is taking the necessary steps to allow Cabinet Ministers to make donations to the Library.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPropriety and Constitution Group: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119986More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 94697, whether the temporary promotion to the Director General position was made via full and open competition.
Answer: As set out in the Recruitment Principles, temporary promotions are an exception to the requirement for fair and open competition.
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119985More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the consultation entitled Making public services work for you with your digital identity, of 10 March 2026, CP1498, whether there are circumstances in which private companies would have access
Answer: The new digital ID system will help to personalise and join up public services. The UK has a strong set of data protection laws that will apply to this system, and robust enforcement of those laws. We won't be watering them down for this system and there ...
Answered 15 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Workplace PensionsCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119984More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been for the recruitment and deployment of reconciliation teams from other Departments to assist Capita in managing the backlog of pension queries; and whether this cost wil
Answer: The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government. The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their p...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119983More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many documents due to be disclosed in the Government’s response to the Humble Address will not be disclosed until after the legal proceedings being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.
Answer: As per the statement from the Metropolitan Police on 4th February 2026, they are asking us to refrain from publishing any relevant documents that could prejudice their investigation. We do not comment on ongoing police investigations. The Government stand...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAgricultural Products: UK Trade with EUDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) sale and (b) marketing of meat-branded products that do not contain meat will be permitted under the proposed sanitary and phytosanitary deal with the EU; and whether o
Answer: part of the UK-EU SPS Agreement currently being negotiated, the Government is making a sovereign choice in the national interest to align in some areas where it makes sense to do so, as set out in the Government’s recently published announcement on legisl...
Answered 14 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119981More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 17 of the Civil Service Recruitment Framework, updated 2022, whether the appointment of a Senior Civil Servant SCS3 (a) on temporary promotion and (b) without open and fair competitio
Answer: Appointments of existing civil servants on temporary promotion are internal moves and permissible within fair and open recruitment. Paragraph 17 of the Civil Service Recruitment Framework relates to permanent redeployment moves.
Answered 31 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119980More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the consultation paper on Digital ID, published on 10 March 2026, CP1498, which company will be administering the People’s Panel for Digital ID; and what cost the cost will be.
Answer: We need to make sure digital ID works for everyone, and that’s why we’re establishing a People’s Panel on digital ID, which brings together a diverse group of people - selected to be broadly representative of the population of the UK - to consider differe...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119979More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Intelligence and Security Committee has authority to publish unredacted information from the Government response to the Humble Address if it disagrees with the Government’s proposed redactions.
Answer: I refer you to the Oral Statement on the 23rd February and the Government's statement and release of information on 11th March, providing an update on the response to the Humble Address. The Government is working to ensure that Parliament’s instruction is...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119978More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine proposed (a) national security and (b) international relation redactions in the context of the Government’s response to the humble Address laid before the H
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Government's statement and release of information on 11th March, providing an update on the response to the Humble Address. The Government is working to ensure that Parliament’s instruction is met with the urgency and transpa...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119977More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the Cabinet Office consultation paper on Digital ID, 10 March 2026, CP1498, whether the People’s Panel for Digital ID participants will be paid; what is the minimum page to participate on the panel; a
Answer: Participants will be recruited through a process called sortition. This is a random postcode lottery. It is a way of selecting individuals to take part in deliberative processes, where everyone is given an equal chance to be invited. No individual can buy...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordSenior Civil Servants: RecruitmentCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119976More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2025, to Question 22450, on Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants, what is the maximum amount of time that a Senior Civil Servant can remain in post on a temporary promotion.
Answer: Normally covering a role at a higher grade should not exceed 6 months and be reviewed every 3 months, exceptions would be in line with “lifecycle events” for example maternity leave cover.
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119975More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2026, to Question 111183, on Prime Minister: Correspondence, and the associated reply of 13 February 2026, what is the timetable for the Government responding to the formal
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordBank Notes: DesignTreasuryTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119974More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has had discussions with the Bank of England on the potential impact of the removal of historic British figures from the new series of banknotes on British national identity.
Answer: The Bank of England is entirely responsible for the design, production, issue and distribution of banknotes. HM Treasury has not discussed the change of design with the Bank of England.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119973More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister was advised of the letter sent by Lord Glasman to Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden on the appointment of Lord Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Government's statement and release of information on 11th March, providing an update on the response to the Humble Address. The Government is working to ensure that Parliament’s instruction is met with the urgency and transpa...
Answered 27 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Written QuestionsCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Mar 2026WithdrawnUIN 119972More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he will answer Question 77117 tabled on 15 September 2025 on Lord Mandelson and Jeffery Epstein.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordIan HorobinCabinet OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119406More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 March 2026, to Question 115872, on Peerages, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the removal of Sir Ian Horobin from the peerage in 1962.
Answer: Sir Ian Horobin’s life peerage was announced on 29th March 1962 and he subsequently withdrew his acceptance voluntarily before Letters Patent were sealed and dated. His peerage was therefore never created nor subsequently removed. There is no established ...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordJeffrey EpsteinHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of whether Jeffery Epstein was (a) passing information to the Russian Government and (b) was otherwise compromised by Russian hostile actors.
Answer: It would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on matters of intelligence or national security. It is the longstanding policy of government not to comment on such issues.
Answered 31 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLife PeersCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115872More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling announced life peerages to be withdrawn before Letters Patent.
Answer: There is no established precedent for withdrawing a peerage nomination after it has been announced.
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPolitical Parties: FinanceSpeaker's Committee on the Electoral CommissionTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115558More
Question: To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Electoral Commission has provided (a) guidance and (b) advice on whether Members’ Associations have to declare political
Answer: The Electoral Commission’s guidance for regulated donees sets out the requirements on members associations regarding the declaration of political donations.Members associations are required to report all permissible donations received for their use or ben...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Questions 261-263 of the oral evidence session of the Foreign Affairs Committee entitled Oral evidence: Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Of
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the Government's response to the Urgent Question tabled on 12 February, the Written Ministerial Statement in the name of the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister that same day, and Oral Statement on the 23 February which set ou...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Public AppointmentsCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115556More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the current Cabinet Secretary was appointed from a Reserve List in Merit Order.
Answer: The Cabinet Manual sets out that the Cabinet Secretary is appointed directly by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister receives advice from the First Civil Service Commissioner, but is the final decision maker. As set out in the Gov.UK announcement of the...
Answered 27 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Adviser on Ministerial StandardsCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115555More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Pursuant to his oral contribution of 23 February 2026 on Labour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office Review, Official Report, Column 29, whether a Minister can be investigated by the Independent Adviser w
Answer: The Ministerial Code applies to serving Ministers. If a Minister is removed from office, there would be no avenue for the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards to investigate.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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