Ayoub Khan MP: written questions
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Asylum: SyriaHome OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department paused the processing of applications made by Syrian asylum seekers on 9 December 2024.
Answer: We keep all country guidance relating to asylum claims under constant review, so we can respond to emerging issues. Following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Home Office has withdrawn the Country Policy Information Notes and Guidance relating t...
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: BusinessDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce energy bills for businesses.
Answer: The Government believes that our mission to deliver clean power by 2030 is the best way to break our dependence on global fossil fuel markets and protect billpayers, including business consumers, permanently. In the short term, the Government wants to pro...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffshore Industry: Renewable EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK offshore oil and gas industry’s investment in renewable energy.
Answer: Making Britain a clean energy superpower is one of the five missions of this Government, and oil and gas companies will have an important role to play in the energy transition. We have begun the biggest ever investment in offshore wind and are moving ahea...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGreat British Energy: Job CreationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help ensure Great British Energy creates jobs in industrial communities.
Answer: Through its investment and development activities, Great British Energy (GBE) will support companies to provide opportunities for high quality, well-paid work, in the projects the company supports, in supply chains and in local communities through the Loc...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to housing and planning regulations on (a) the Regulator of Social Housing and (b) the regulation of the social ho
Answer: The government is committed to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation. We are also taking action to ensure that all social homes are safe, warm, and decent, and that tenants are treated with the respect they...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestinians: Human RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement of 16 January 2025 on the Middle East, Official report columns 511-513, what steps his Department is taking to help protect human rights
Answer: Human Rights are a crucial element underpinning the UK's foreign policy, and civil society organisations play an important role in upholding human rights. Through our aid programmes, we support human rights organisations in Israel and the Occupied Palesti...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: HamasForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement on the (a) presence and (b) activities of the Israeli Defense Forces in (i) Gaza,
Answer: The announcement of a ceasefire agreement is a moment of hope after over a year of agony. We have always been clear that an immediate ceasefire is just the first step towards a lasting solution to this crisis. As the Foreign Secretary said to the House ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that a substantial increase in humanitarian aid flows int
Answer: We have always been clear that a ceasefire is just the first step towards a lasting solution to this crisis. We must build confidence on all sides that helps sustain a ceasefire and move it into a lasting peace. Crucially, we need to see an immediate surg...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: HamasForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) secure a permanent ceasefire agreement and (b) implement t
Answer: We have always been clear that an immediate ceasefire is just the first step towards a lasting solution to this crisis. As the Foreign Secretary said to the House on 16 January, in the first six-week phase we expect both parties to stop fighting, and Isr...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: PalestiniansHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the asylum applications of Palestinian refugees who were formerly residents of Syria and left under the Assad regime.
Answer: The Home Office acted swiftly to temporarily pause decisions on Syrian asylum claims whilst we assess the current situation. This includes Syrian nationals as well as those who have previously been habitually resident in Syria.We keep all country guidance...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: SyriaHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on Syrian immigrants who have been granted leave to remain status.
Answer: Any Syrian nationals who are resident in the UK with valid permission to stay will need to apply for further permission to stay or settle before their current permission to stay expires. For Syrian refugees who apply for settlement protection after five y...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of uprating the state pension for British pensioners residing overseas.
Answer: No assessment has been made. The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK state pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British state pensioners residing overseas.
Answer: UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, based on a person’s National Insurance record. People move abroad for many reasons and may have access to their host country’s benefit system or other sources of income such as an occ...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Musculoskeletal DisordersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the new Get Britain Working Trailblazers will help support people with musculoskeletal conditions to remain in employment.
Answer: We plan to publish the Get Britain Working White Paper shortly that will set out how we are investing £240 million to trial new ways of getting people back into work. The government will test new approaches and collect robust evidence on how to tackle the...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordConnect to Work: ArthritisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Connect to Work scheme will include provisions to support people living with arthritis to remain in employment.
Answer: Connect to Work will be a new, locally led, voluntary Supported Employment programme in England and Wales which in 26/27 will support around 100,000 disabled people, people with health conditions (such as arthritis) and those with complex barriers to empl...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMusculoskeletal Disorders: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding his Department plans to provide for research into musculoskeletal treatments in each of the next five years.
Answer: The Government does not generally ringfence funding for particular areas of research. In line with the Haldane principle, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and other Government funders award grants to the best proposals that are submitted through a proces...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSurgical Hubs: OrthopaedicsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, whether any of the new surgical hubs will focus solely on orthopaedic procedures.
Answer: The Department, in collaboration with NHS England, will outline details of the funding allocation for surgical hubs at the earliest opportunity. This will include the number of hubs to be established, and their specialty focus. Each hub will be developed ...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSurgical Hubs: Injuries and OrthopaedicsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of surgical hubs on waiting times for (a) trauma and (b) orthopaedic treatment.
Answer: No formal assessment has been made on the impact of surgical hubs on waiting times for trauma and orthopaedic treatment.Surgical hubs enable trusts to increase resilience for elective procedures and minimise cancellations during periods of high pressure. ...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMusculoskeletal Disorders: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for the NHS will be spent on (a) physiotherapy and (b) other c
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of improving health for the 20 million people in the United Kingdom who live with musculoskeletal condition. This forms a key part of the Government’s mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future.F...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMusculoskeletal Disorders: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for the NHS will be spent on support for people with (a) arthr
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of improving health for the 20 million people in the United Kingdom who live with a musculoskeletal condition. This forms a key part of the Government’s mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: Financial ServicesCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10578More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's policy is on whether private asset management companies can play a role in the delivery of key public services.
Answer: The Government is determined to rebuild public services so that they deliver high standards and good outcomes for users and value for money for the taxpayer.In the Budget, the Chancellor announced significant additional investment in key public services, ...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordWealth: EqualityTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10576More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce wealth inequality in the UK.
Answer: The Government is committed to making sure everyone pays their fair share of tax, which helps to fund our vital public services. The UK taxes wealth across many different economic activities, helping to ensure that the most well-off in our society make a ...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will ensure that people on the housing waiting list are included in planning consultation.
Answer: The Government are exploring new ways to increase and enhance community engagement in the planning process, including by improving access to planning data through its digitisation drawing on provisions in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023. This w...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to encourage the expansion of SME housebuilders.
Answer: Small and medium sized housebuilders are essential to meeting the government’s housing ambitions and supporting local economies. Our recent consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework included proposals to support the SME ho...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will require councils to identify sites suitable for fewer than 100 dwellings to support SME construction.
Answer: Small and medium sized housebuilders are essential to meeting the government’s housing ambitions and supporting local economies. Our recent consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework included proposals to support the SME ho...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
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