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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Defence: FinanceTreasuryTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95830More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the additional £32 billion required to meet the pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its 2025 Economic Financial Outlook.
Answer: We are set to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on defence spending in 2027, with an ambition to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence next Parliament when economic and fiscal conditions allow. The Government is also committed to hitting a headline ambition of 5 perce...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployee Ownership: Capital Gains TaxTreasuryTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95822More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has she made of the impact of treating 50% of the gain in disposal to trustees of an Employee Ownership Trust as the disposers' chargeable gain for CGT purposes.
Answer: At Budget 2025, the Chancellor announced that the relief from Capital Gains Tax available on qualifying disposals to Employee Ownership Trusts will be reduced from 100% to 50%. This will retain a strong incentive for employee ownership, whilst ensuring th...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Cost EffectivenessTreasuryTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94920More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Budget 2025: Strong Foundations, Secure Future, page 47, what is the breakdown of the £2.8billion efficiencies and savings target for 2028-29 across each department.
Answer: The £2.8 billion efficiencies and savings represent 0.5% of departmental day-to-day budgets set at Spending Review 2025.Efficiencies and savings achieved within the NHS will be reinvested to improve patient care, and the government will ensure it continue...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88985More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of implementing a pay-per-mile charge for electric vehicles on their drivers.
Answer: The Government keeps the tax system under review, with changes announced at fiscal events and careful consideration given to the impacts of any changes.
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88983More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to question 82442 on Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties, when HMRC will begin the evaluation of the new rates and structures.
Answer: In March 2023, the previous government published its response to the new alcohol duty system consultation which ran from October 2021 to January 2022. Within that response was a commitment to evaluate the impacts of the new rates and structures three year...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88982More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to question 82442 on Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties, where evidence on the impact of the changes so far should be submitted to.
Answer: In March 2023, the previous government published its response to the new alcohol duty system consultation which ran from October 2021 to January 2022. Within that response was a commitment to evaluate the impacts of the new rates and structures three year...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83500More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the ABV limit of 8.5% from Small Producer Relief.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member the answer that I gave to PQ UIN 82442 on 21 October 2025.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 905969More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken with the Minister for the Cabinet Office to help tackle the increase in whole-life costs associated with levels of delivery confidence in the Government's Major Projects Portfolio.
Answer: The government recently created the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) which will have an important role in supporting and monitoring major projects in the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP). NISTA provides expe...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82442More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing the ABV limit of 8.5% from Small Producer Relief on businesses.
Answer: Following public consultation, a new strength-based duty structure for alcohol products was introduced in August 2023. As part of these reforms, Small Producer Relief (SPR) replaced and extended the previous Small Brewers Relief. SPR supports SMEs and new...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Business BankTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79741More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, by when she expects the British Business Bank to (a) introduce tailored mark
Answer: The British Business Bank will be able to deploy the funding it was allocated at Spending Review, and which was outlined in the Defence Industrial Strategy, from the beginning of the next financial year. As a commercially independent organisation the BBB ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Business BankTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79740More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, by when she expects the British Business Bank Industrial Strategy Growth Cap
Answer: The British Business Bank’s Industrial Strategy Growth Capital provides an additional £4 billion across the 8 Industrial Strategy sectors and is expected to be deployed over a four-year period. This funding will be committed through existing investment ve...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79739More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, what legislative proposals she plans to bring forward to enable the expansio
Answer: The government will bring forward primary legislation, when parliamentary time allows, to expand the NWF’s mandate beyond infrastructure, enabling it to invest into a wider range of capital-intensive projects, businesses and assets that support growth. Un...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGrapheneTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79738More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using the National
Answer: The National Wealth Fund invests in capital intensive projects, businesses, and assets by offering financing in the form of debt, equity and guarantees. The Government published the National Wealth Fund’s Statement of Strategic Priorities on 19 March whic...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79590More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the projects are that have been removed from the Government Major Products
Answer: The projects which have been removed from the Government Major Projects Portfolio since the 2023-24 financial year are included in the 2023-24 IPA Annual Report, and the 2024-25 NISTA Annual Report.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79589More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the projects are that have been added to the Government Major Products Port
Answer: The projects which have joined the Government Major Projects Portfolio since the 2023-24 financial year are included in the 2023-24 IPA Annual Report, and the 2024-25 NISTA Annual Report.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ProcurementTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79575More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) projects and (b) programmes have been added to the Government Major Projects Portfolio since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Projects and programmes joining after 5th July 2024 and before end of March 2025 are included in the annual report 24/25. Any projects and programmes joining after March 2025 will be published in Summer 2026 in the annual report 25/26.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence Growth BoardTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79236More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 53 of the Strategic Defence Review, published on 2 June 2025, how many meetings of the Defence Growth Board she has chaired in 2025 to date.
Answer: The Chancellor has chaired one meeting of the Defence Growth Board in 2025 to date. The Defence Industrial Strategy, published on 8 September 2025, details how this government is making Defence an engine for growth, and the Chancellor and Defence Secretar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Manufacturing IndustriesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79234More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 46 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published in June 2025, CP 1338, what progress she has made on reducing the cost of finance for defence companies.
Answer: As set out in the Defence Industrial Strategy, a Defence Finance and Investment Strategy will be published by early next year, explicitly looking at how barriers to investment in defence can be removed while making the sector more attractive for private i...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Security Strategic Investment FundTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79233More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published in June 2025, CP 1338, what progress she has made on scaling up the National Security Strategic Investment Fund.
Answer: The government’s recent Spending Review included the scaling of the National Security Strategic Investment Fund – further funding will therefore be provided from the next financial year. Officials from relevant government departments are currently working...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Manufacturing IndustriesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79232More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published in June 2025, CP 1338, what progress she has made on supporting priority sectors through a new National Wealth Fund investment for defence
Answer: The National Wealth Fund was directed in its Statement of Strategic Priorities to consider the role it can play in supporting the delivery of the wider Industrial Strategy, including in the defence sector. It was also directed to consider investments in d...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79173More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress she has made on reducing regulation for FinTech firms.
Answer: The Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, part of the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, delivers on the Government’s mission to shape a regulatory environment for financial services that is proportionate, predictable and internationally c...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Advisory ServicesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79171More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether local authorities are able to utilise the expertise of the (a) Office for Investment, (b) National Wealth Fund and (c) British Business Bank.
Answer: The UK's public investment bodies, including the Office for Investment, National Wealth Fund, and British Business Bank, are committed to working with each other, local government and the private sector to support regional growth.a) The Office for Investm...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79170More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress she has made on expanding the mandate of the National Wealth Fund to support growth.
Answer: On 19 March the Chancellor published a Statement of Strategic Priorities, directing the National Wealth Fund to support growth and the delivery of the wider Industrial Strategy, including in defense, life sciences, and creative industries. This includes p...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Digital TechnologyTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79169More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress she has made on enabling FinTechs to list on the stock market.
Answer: The Government has delivered an ambitious programme of reforms to make it easier for all firms, including fintechs, to list and raise capital on UK markets. This includes overhauling the Prospectus regime and Listing Rules, providing more flexibility to f...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital MarketsTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79168More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the UK listing regime on the number of listings.
Answer: The Government has delivered an ambitious programme of reforms to make it easier for all firms, including fintechs, to list and raise capital on UK markets. This includes overhauling the Prospectus regime and Listing Rules, providing more flexibility to f...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
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