Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.
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InfrastructureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, how many (a) gigafactories, (b) laboratories and (c) data centres have opted in to bein
Answer: No gigafactories, data centres or laboratories have yet opted into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) consenting process. Regulations which will enable large-scale data centres to ‘opt in’ to the NSIP consenting process are intended...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 70001 on Voting Rights: Cambridgeshire, whether the Impact Assessment to be published alongside forthcoming legislation wil
Answer: An Impact Assessment will be published alongside forthcoming legislation in due course.
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCambridge Growth Company: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74172More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what her planned timetable is for publishing further information on the funding of the
Answer: The Cambridge Growth Company is focused primarily on the Greater Cambridge area. Greater Cambridge is comprised of the city of Cambridge and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire District Council. Following the Spending Review, my Department is now working...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCambridge Growth CompanyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, which areas within Cambridgeshire fall within the scope of the Cambridge Growth Company
Answer: The Cambridge Growth Company is focused primarily on the Greater Cambridge area. Greater Cambridge is comprised of the city of Cambridge and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire District Council. Following the Spending Review, my Department is now working...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCambridge Growth Company: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, how much funding her Department plans to provide to the Cambridge Growth Company.
Answer: The Cambridge Growth Company is focused primarily on the Greater Cambridge area. Greater Cambridge is comprised of the city of Cambridge and the surrounding South Cambridgeshire District Council. Following the Spending Review, my Department is now working...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Sick LeaveMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many days were lost to sickness absence by civil servants in their Department (a) in total and (b) on average per employee between 5 July 2024 and 4 July 2025.
Answer: Sickness absence data for the Civil Service, including departmental breakdowns is published annually, and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sickness-absence. The next update will be for the year ending 31st March 2025.
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: RedundancyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the age profile of local government officers eligible for redundancy following the implementation of local government reform (a) in Cambridgeshire a
Answer: Councils, as employers, are responsible for managing the staffing implications of Local Government Reorganisation. In our invitations to councils, we asked areas to set out in their proposals how they will seek to manage transition costs, which we expect ...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds on the size of the proposed unitary councils in Cambridgeshire.
Answer: As outlined in the recently published ‘Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections’, the government believes that enabling 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in all UK elections will foster early and sustained participation in...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the policy paper entitled Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections, published on 17 July 2025, what estimate her Departmen
Answer: As outlined in the recently published ‘Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections’, the government believes that enabling 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in all UK elections will foster early and sustained participation in...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVoting Rights: Young PeopleMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69510More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for the extension of the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering on the manifesto commitment to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections during this Parliament, strengthening our democracy, empowering young people to participate and building an informed and ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordElectoral RegisterMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of the changes to elector numbers in each constituency following the reduction of the voting age.
Answer: In June 2025, the House of Commons Library published constituency-level estimates of the number of 16 and 17-year-olds across the UK, based on Office for National Statistics data from 2022 for Great Britain and 2023 for Northern Ireland.These figures prov...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
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