Apsana Begum MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Economic CrimeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria will be used to determine suspicious bank account activity that would result in the Department requiring access to the individuals bank account under the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error a
Answer: DWP’s information gathering powers may be used where there is a reasonable suspicion of fraud. In such cases the Department can issue an information notice, where necessary and proportionate, to any information holders who DWP believe hold relevant inform...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that existing leaseholders with (a) unregulated and (b) uncapped ground rents are able to secure buyers for their properties.
Answer: The government remains firmly committed to its manifesto commitment to tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, and we will deliver this in legislation.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with mortgage-lenders on ensuring that existing leaseholders with (a) unregulated and (b) uncapped ground rents are able to secure buyers for thei
Answer: The government remains firmly committed to its manifesto commitment to tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, and we will deliver this in legislation.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Israel Defense ForcesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19048 on Gaza: Israel Defense Forces, whether any products made by Elbit Systems exported before 2 September 2024 were
Answer: Following the suspension of export licences announced on 2 September, there are currently no extant export licences for items that we assess might be for use by the Israel Defense Forces in military operations in the Gaza conflict (except for F-35 compone...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 20272 on Social Security Benefits, whether she plans to conduct a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into (a) deaths and (b) ser
Answer: The department is fully supportive of the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s ‘safeguarding vulnerable claimants’ inquiry, which is examining how the department supports vulnerable benefit claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to chang...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment she has mad
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment her Departm
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment her Departm
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: Shared HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether she has any plans to abolish the Shared Accommodation Rate as part of the Government’s Universal Credit review.
Answer: Individual policies cannot be considered in isolation and there are currently no plans to abolish the Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR), which is the rate of housing support for individuals under 35 living in the private sector. Government will prioritise t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Manage CompaniesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to implement recommendation 58 of the report by the Law Commission entitled Home ownership: exercising the right to manage, published on 21 July 2020.
Answer: The government is committed to enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to the Right to Manage.On 10 February, we laid regulations in Parliament to implement the reforms contained in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 concerning ...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHouseboats: Security of TenureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to increase the security of tenure of houseboat dwellers.
Answer: The government recognises that while the occupants of residential boats have the benefit of protection under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 and wider consumer protection legislation, they do not enjoy the same level of tenure security as those in t...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
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