Alex Burghart MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Guided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, under what circumsta
Answer: The contract includes provisions for termination in a range of circumstances. Releasing the detail of those provisions could potentially harm our relations with the Government of Ukraine, noting that the contract was placed on its behalf pursuant to an in...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, whether specific con
Answer: The contract does not include executable options to extend its duration. The scope will be awarded in a phased manner, and the contract does include provisions to extend specific delivery dates in certain circumstances.
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, what relative weight
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him to Question 35735 on 12 March 2025.
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, whether a value-for-
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him to Question 35734 on 10 March 2025.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, whether (a) an open
Answer: Neither a Prior Information Notice nor voluntary ex-ante transparency notice were published, noting that this procurement is excluded from applicable procurement legislation as it is pursuant to an international agreement between the UK and Ukraine.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release on the award of a £1.6 billion contract to Thales in Belfast for the manufacture of lightweight-multirole missiles, published on 2 March 2025, whether the contract
Answer: The Ukraine Government has selected the Lightweight Multi-role Missile because it has demonstrated itself to be a highly effective short-range air defence capability. This procurement was not subject to competition, noting that it is excluded from applica...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39933More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of claims that have been (a) made and (b) paid under the Duty Reimbursement Scheme for goods brought into Northern Ireland since the scheme was established.
Answer: The Duty Reimbursement Scheme (DRS) has been operational since June 2023, allowing businesses who move goods into Northern Ireland to reclaim or remit duty provided that the goods can be shown not to have subsequently entered the EU. DRS claims are proces...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39932More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the average time taken for applicants to the Duty Reimbursement Scheme to be reimbursed for duty paid on goods brought into Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Duty Reimbursement Scheme (DRS) has been operational since June 2023, allowing businesses who move goods into Northern Ireland to reclaim or remit duty provided that the goods can be shown not to have subsequently entered the EU. DRS claims are proces...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people residing in the UK have indefinite leave to remain.
Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics relating to indefinite leave to remain in the Immigration system statistics publication.Data on grants and refusals of settlement can be found in the Settlement data tables. The latest data relates up to the end of 202...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOmar Bombing InquiryNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his oral contribution of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 763, by when he plans to have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Irish government on their co-operation wit
Answer: The Government has the deepest sympathy for all of those affected by the Omagh bomb in August 1998. It was a terrible atrocity committed by the Real IRA at a time when the people of Northern Ireland were looking to a future without violence, causing immea...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what weightings were applied to (a) technical capability, (b) cost, (c) delivery timelines and (d) risk assessment in the award of the contract to Thales Northern Ireland for lightweight-multirole missiles.
Answer: This procurement was not subject to competition, in accordance with applicable procurement legislation, and therefore tender assessment weightings were not applicable.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordThales: Northern IrelandMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department made an assessment of the value-for-money of the award the contract to Thales Northern Ireland for lightweight-multirole missiles prior to the award of that contract on 2 March 2025.
Answer: Value for Money of the contract has been assessed in accordance with normal Departmental practice, including benchmarking, in addition to a bottom-up price assessment. In addition to UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) internal assurance the Ukrainian MOD have a...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Historic £1.6bn deal provides thousands of air defence missiles for Ukraine and boosts UK jobs and growth), published on 2 March 2025, whether (a) an open
Answer: Neither a Prior Information Notice nor voluntary ex-ante transparency notice were published, noting that this procurement is excluded from applicable procurement legislation as it is pursuant to an international agreement between the UK and Ukraine.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEU External Trade: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the imposition of tariffs by the European Union on the United States on levels of trade between the United States and (a) the UK, (b) Great Britai
Answer: As we've said previously, we champion free and open trade and will continue to work with our international partners to establish this.We will continue to monitor any further developments, and we will always do what is in the national interest for our econ...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEU External Trade: USACabinet OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35360More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of trade tariffs imposed on the EU by the United States on businesses in Northern Ireland.
Answer: We have a strong and proud tradition over centuries of free trade here in the United Kingdom, and we will continue to make the case for that. With regard to our specific trading relationship with the United States, after conversations between the Prime Mi...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCriminal Legal Aid Independent ReviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is her policy to implement in full all of the recommendations of the Bellamy Review of Criminal Legal Aid.
Answer: The previous Government commissioned the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review (CLAIR), chaired by Lord Bellamy KC, to provide analysis of the criminal legal aid system and explore the ways in which the Government could ensure its long-term sustainability...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Sexual Abuse Independent Panel InquiryHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in full.
Answer: On 16 January the Home Secretary set out to Parliament the steps the Government is taking to tackle the terrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and abuse.This included a commitment to set out a plan, before Easter, for the action the Government will ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status revoked by the foreign national offender returns command in each of the last five years.
Answer: Data on numbers of revocations of leave to remain are not currently published.The Home Office publishes data on returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on quarterly returns of FNOs by ret...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by the special cases unit in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have had their Indefinite Leave to Remain revoked by her Department's status review unit in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which teams in her Department can revoke a person's Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Answer: Indefinite Leave to Remain can be revoked by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), Special Cases Unit (SCU) and Foreign National Offender Returns Command (FNORC).
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people had their Indefinite Leave to Remain status rescinded in each year for which data is available.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held in an easily accessible from, and could only be collated for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Electronic GovernmentDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20241 on Electronic Government, what his planned timetable is for onboarding HMRC to One Login.
Answer: GDS and HMRC continue to collaborate on delivering the technical requirements necessary to go-live and conducting end-to-end testing within GOV.UK One Login as part of its ongoing internal private beta phase to support users accessing HMRC services. The a...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar dated 5 December 2024.
Answer: I replied to the Honourable Members letter on the 23rd December by email.
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceCabinet OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22052More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar dated 29 November 2024.
Answer: A response will be sent in due course.
Answered 9 Jan 2025
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