Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: written questions
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Children: Data ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97308More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 95258 on Children: Abuse, whether her Department has consulted with the organisations listed specifically on the risk of (a) increased amounts of children's
Answer: The department is engaging with the Information Commissioner’s Office on the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Children Not in School registers to ensure that all data protection risks have been identified and mitigated before any processing of da...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Data ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 95257 on Children: Data protection, if she will publish a Data Privacy Impact Assessment on the entire Bill.
Answer: A single Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) cannot be conducted on the entire Bill. DPIAs are intended to evaluate specific data processing activities that may present high risks to individuals’ data protection rights, rather than entire pieces of l...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Data ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 95257 on Children: Data protection, whether her Department has consulted with the ICO on the safety of the increased amount of children's data to be held on
Answer: The department is engaging with the Information Commissioner’s Office on the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Children Not in School registers to ensure that all data protection risks have been identified and mitigated before any processing of da...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHuman Remains: SalesHome OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to stop the sale of human remains on ecommerce sites.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the response given to her on 25 March 2025 from the Department for Business and Trade in response to PQ 38667.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHuman Remains: SalesHome OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with ecommerce sites on the online sale of human remains.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the response given to her on 25 March 2025 from the Department for Business and Trade in response to PQ 38667.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHuman Remains: SalesHome OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of real human remains being advertised for sale on ecommerce sites.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the response given to her on 25 March 2025 from the Department for Business and Trade in response to PQ 38667.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Insurance Credits: StudentsTreasuryTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95347More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of (a) introducing National Insurance credits for periods spent in full-time higher education and (b) allowing individuals to make voluntary National Insuranc
Answer: Qualifying years of National Insurance on an individual’s NI record can be built in several ways; by paying National Insurance contributions (NICs) while working (employed or self-employed); by being credited with NI credits; or by paying voluntary NICs. ...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her department plans to provide Local Authorities with extra funding to support training of social workers and council workers to improve understanding of home education.
Answer: The department ran a public consultation on the proposed duties and measures for Children Not in School in 2019. The consultation was open to all to contribute, including academic experts in educational pedagogy, and the department responded in 2022. We h...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her department consulted academic experts in pedagogy in home education on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Answer: The department ran a public consultation on the proposed duties and measures for Children Not in School in 2019. The consultation was open to all to contribute, including academic experts in educational pedagogy, and the department responded in 2022. We h...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: AbuseDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her department has consulted with a) NSPCC, b) Women's Aid, and c) other charities, on the potential implications of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill on children who have been victims of abuse
Answer: The department has engaged with a number of charities on policies where they have a direct interest, as part of wider consideration of the Bill’s impact on children and families.We have spoken to the NSPCC on multiple occasions about the Bill and have e...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Data ProtectionDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 95257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to carry out a data privacy impact assessment for the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Answer: The department is ensuring that measures outlined in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill align with data protection principles, as set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR) and the Data (Use and Access...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRosyth Dockyard: Repairs and MaintenanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the projected cost of the planned infrastructural improvements at Rosyth Dockyard; whether the improvements will require the removal from the dockyard of radioactively contaminated equipment.
Answer: The preliminary plans for infrastructure upgrades at Rosyth Dockyard have been approved and industry has been engaged to begin processing the scheme design. Once the scheme design is complete, final costs for the project will be negotiated. The work will ...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDevonport Dockyard: Repairs and MaintenanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the projected cost of the infrastructural improvements at HMNB Devonport, Plymouth; when is the expected completion date; and whether the improvements involve the removal of radioactively contaminated equ
Answer: Current capabilities which would be used to defeat cruise missiles, drone swarms and ballistic missiles include existing Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force capabilities. Type 45 destroyers, Ground Based Air Defence, Combat Air platforms and supp...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordClyde Naval Base: Radioactive WasteMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if the new Establishment Management Plan at HMNB Clyde will address and remedy radioactive leaks into the loch.
Answer: The Establishment Management Plan at His Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde does not include actions to monitor and manage any potential discharges of radioactive material into surrounding environments. Its focus is on maintaining safe, secure, and high-qu...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordComprehensive Test Ban TreatyMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94531More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the review made of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) methodology as mentioned has been undertaken last year in the Defence Nuclear Enterprise 2025 annual report.
Answer: The United Kingdom has no plans to publish its Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) methodology. The methodology revalidated our approach to warhead design and certification which is, and will remain, in compliance with the CTBT. We ratified the CTBT in 1...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUSA: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many U.K.-US working groups currently exist pursuant to the 1958 Mutual Defense Agreement on Atomic Energy Matters; what subjects do they cover; and what is the annual cost of servicing these working groups.
Answer: There are 21 current UK-U.S. Joint Working Groups (JOWOGs), an information exchange arrangement with the U.S. under the Mutual Defense Agreement. The costs of participating in those JOWOGs is not held centrally in the format required and that information ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Weapons: ResearchMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the US Los Alamos National nuclear laboratory and Lawrence Livermore national laboratory have played a role in the research, design or development of the British Astraea nuclear warhead.
Answer: We are working with our U.S. counterparts in the U.S. Navy and National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure the UK replacement warhead remains compatible with the Trident missile. The Astraea warhead will be designed, developed, and manufactured in ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Military AlliancesMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the cost of implementation of the Anglo-French TEUTATES treaty since its inception in 2010; and whether French military personnel are based at AWE Aldermaston or AWE Burghfield as part of the treaty
Answer: I am withholding the cost of the Teutates programme as release would prejudice international relations. No French personnel, civilian or military, are based at AWE’s Aldermaston or Burghfield sites as part of the programme.
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear WeaponsMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what bi-lateral working groups have been created between AWE and the French counterparts on the development of the Astraea nuclear warhead.
Answer: None. The Astraea nuclear warhead is sovereign to the United Kingdom.
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Weapons: ProliferationMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his department has commissioned an assessment on the compliance of the British use of Epure with Article One of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Answer: The United Kingdom’s use of the facilities at Epure, constructed under the Teutates programme, is fully compliant with our obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Teutates Treaty (Cm 8289) reaffirms the rights and obligations of ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the cost to date of the Astraea nuclear warhead design and production programme.
Answer: The UK’s replacement warhead, Astraea, remains in the concept phase. I am withholding details on cost for purpose of safeguarding national security.
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNuclear Weapons: DecommissioningMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what quantity of plutonium has been recovered from the dismantling of the Mk4A Trident warheads since the start of the dismantlement programme; what proportion has been re-cycled and re-used in new warheads; wher
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided to the hon, Member for Newton Abbott (Martin Wrigley) on 1 September 2025 to Question 70223.
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDefence Nuclear EnterpriseMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93935More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are any Australian naval personnel sited at any U.K. Defence Nuclear Enterprise establishment as part of the AUKUS collaboration in nuclear-propelled submarines.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence is working closely with Australia and the United States under the AUKUS partnership to deliver conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines for Australia. As part of this collaboration, Australian naval personnel are embedded w...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Nuclear EnterpriseMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the university departments where his Department is currently funding PhD students under the Nuclear Skills Plan working on projects in support of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence is working jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to deliver the Nuclear Skills Plan, a collaboration between defence and civil sectors. Through this plan, an additional 26 PhD students have been funded across...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Nuclear EnterpriseMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the details and values of contracts his Department has placed with a) universities and b) private research organisations in respect of work for the Defence Nuclear Enterprise since 2015.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (specifically the Defence Nuclear Organisation and Submarine Delivery Agency) has placed 25 contracts at a cumulative contract value of £4.456 million with universities and private research organisations for work relating to the De...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
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