Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: written questions 2025
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LGBT Financial Recognition SchemeMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans have received compensation through the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
Answer: As of 9 June 2025, 44 Veterans have received a financial recognition through the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme (FRS). We have been prioritising payment to the elderly and those with serious health conditions to ensure they receive support as quickly a...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Order Act 2023Home OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 44272 on Public Order Act 2023, what her planned timetable is for the review process; and what methodology will be used.
Answer: Post legislative scrutiny will be undertaken in accordance with established parliamentary procedure, as set out here: Guide to making legislation - GOV.UK
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of establishing a safeguarding process to protect child refugees who are being mistakenly routed through the adult asylum system.
Answer: It is Home Office policy that an individual claiming to be a child will only be treated as an adult, if two Home Office members of staff independently determine that the individual's physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests they are signif...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) the age of refugee children is accurately assessed at the port of entry and (b) they are not inappropriately placed in adult (i) accommodation an
Answer: It is Home Office policy that an individual claiming to be a child will only be treated as an adult, if two Home Office members of staff independently determine that the individual's physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests they are signif...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration ControlsHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, whether refugees seeking to bring family to the UK will be subject to increased (a)
Answer: The Immigration White paper, published 12 May 2025, set out a wide range of reforms, including to family policy, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of consulting on introducing a pilot humanitarian refugee visa for people fleeing (a) war and (b) persecution.
Answer: The Immigration White paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues including refugee sponsorship and resettlement, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the lessons learned from international examples of the use of limited humanitarian visas to allow people to apply for asy
Answer: The UK has a proud history of providing protection for those who need it through a number of safe and legal routes. However, there is no provision within our Immigration Rules for someone to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum or temporary refug...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using limited humanitarian visas to allow people to apply for asylum from their country of origin.
Answer: The UK has a proud history of providing protection for those who need it through a number of safe and legal routes. However, there is no provision within our Immigration Rules for someone to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum or temporary refug...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits expanding existing safe and legal routes.
Answer: The Immigration White paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues including refugee sponsorship and resettlement, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of people who will be impacted by the changes to the five-year settlement.
Answer: The Government's Immigration White Paper, published on 12 May 2025, announced new measures on a wide range of issues, including indefinite leave to remain.This will include an expansion of the Point-Based System which will increase the standard qualifying...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the student loan system does not entrench socioeconomic disparities for (a) first-generation university students and (b) students from lower-income househ
Answer: This government is committed to supporting the aspiration of every person who meets the requirements and wants to go to university. The student finance system removes upfront financial barriers so that everyone with the ability and desire to enter higher ...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 50912 on Students: Loans, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of persistent student loan debt on levels of social mobility among (a)
Answer: The system is designed to ensure that those who benefit financially from higher education contribute towards the cost of it. This is why repayments are linked to income and not the loan balance, with monthly repayments increasing with borrower income.Stud...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 50912 on Students: Loans, what comparative assessment she has made of the number of borrowers with increasing loan balances in (a) financial year 2024-25 and (b
Answer: The number of borrowers whose loan balance has increased between the start and end of the financial year for the most recent four years is:2024/25: 2,409,2552023/24: 2,317,6672022/23: 1,805,4262021/22: 1,313,137 These figures cover Student Finance England...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 50912 on Students: Loans, whether her Department has considered (a) changes to interest rates, (b) changes to repayment thresholds and (c) other policy changes
Answer: The government is committed to supporting the aspiration of every person who meets the requirements and wants to go to university. The student finance system removes upfront financial barriers so that everyone with the ability and desire to enter higher e...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 50912 on Students: Loans, what steps her Department takes to help ensure that borrowers are adequately informed about (a) how interest accrues on student loans
Answer: When a borrower takes out a student loan, they are provided with the terms and conditions. These clearly set out the repayment thresholds, when a borrower will start repaying, how their repayments will be calculated, how interest is applied, and when the ...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 50912 on Students: Loans, what demographic data her Department holds on borrowers whose loan balances have increased.
Answer: Below is a table of the number of borrowers whose loan balance has increased between the start and end of the financial year 2024/25, broken down by age group and sex. This table covers Student Finance England loan borrowers only, whereas the previous num...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordProcessed Food: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57350More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take through (a) dietary guidelines, (b) public health policy and (c) food strategies to (i) promote and (ii) help improve public access to (A) whole and (B) minimally proces
Answer: The Government is promoting access to healthy food through dietary guidelines which are presented to the public through the Government’s Eatwell Guide. The terms ‘whole’ and ‘minimally processed’ are not used because they are difficult to define and could...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the National Police Chiefs’ Council's guidance entitled Practice Advice on Child Death Investigation, published in February 2025, on
Answer: Guidance to support operational policing in discharging their duties is a matter for the National Police Chiefs’ Council.
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2025 to Question 50209 on British Nationality: Children, what the reason was of the increase in administrative cost for child citizenship applications since 2021-22.
Answer: The published administrative cost of processing immigration and nationality applications reflects the full financial cost of providing the relevant service which includes direct costs, relevant local and central overheads, (e.g. accommodation, HR, Finance...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordArctic: Climate ChangeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking with Arctic nations to (a) monitor and (b) help tackle potential (i) security and (ii) environmental challenges from Arctic warming.
Answer: On his recent visit to Norway and Iceland, the Foreign Secretary saw first-hand how the Arctic has a direct bearing on the security and resilience of the UK. We are working with allies to better monitor and tackle growing threats in the Arctic including b...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change: ArcticDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what research his Department is supporting into the potential impact of Arctic warming on (a) the UK climate system, (b) shifts in the jet stream and (c) weather patterns.
Answer: UK Research and Innovation’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has a range of vessels, aircraft, and autonomous underwater and aerial vehicles which capture data to help better understand the potential climate impact of Arctic warming. There are...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCoastal Areas: Flood ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help mitigate the risks of coastal flooding associated with rising sea levels.
Answer: We are committed to supporting coastal communities and ensuring flood risk management is fit for the challenges we face now and in the future.Delivering on the Government’s Plan for Change, this government is investing a record £2.65 billion over 2024/25 ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordArctic: National SecurityMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help tackle (a) emerging security challenges from melting of Arctic sea ice and (b) related potential threats to critical infrastructure.
Answer: The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) recognises the challenges that climate change poses; in particular, the likelihood that the Arctic will be ice-free each summer by 2040. The UK will continue to work closely with our Allies, including through the UK-led ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordArctic: Climate ChangeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of warming in the Arctic on (a) UK national security interests and (b) geopolitical activity in the region.
Answer: As it warms, the Arctic is becoming increasingly contested, increasing the threats to UK national security. We collaborate closely with likeminded partners to better understand the impact of climate change in the Arctic, and the Foreign Secretary announce...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTanzania: Non-governmental OrganisationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the safety of non-governmental organisations and journalists operating in Tanzania.
Answer: The UK is committed to defending civic space and fundamental freedoms. Our High Commission regularly engages with non-governmental organisations and journalists in Tanzania. The Minister for Africa will continue to raise specific concerns with his ministe...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
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