Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions 2025
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Prisoners' Release: Digital TechnologyMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Statement in the House on 11 November 2025, how many personnel from his Department will form the digital rapid response unit.
Answer: We plan to allocate up to 15 members of staff to the digital rapid response unit. We will keep this resource allocation under review.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: CourtsMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Statement in the House on 11 November 2025, how many personnel from his Department will form the urgent warrant query unit.
Answer: The Urgent Warrant Query Unit (UWQU) will be formed out of an existing national service centre which currently answers all calls to the Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales. Its function will be to provide a reliable and accountable route of escalatio...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders are awaiting removal to their home countries under the UK Borders Act 2007.
Answer: The information you have requested is not currently available from published statistics.Work is underway to improve the quality of information held by the department on foreign national offenders (FNOs). If this work progresses as planned, the Home Office...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHinchingbrooke Hospital: Medical RecordsMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 79538 on NHS: Defence Medical Services, when was the process of digitally extracting redacted patient notes from general practice surgeries introduced.
Answer: The British Army introduced the use of the Intelligent General Practice Supporting (iGPR) software for the secure and efficient processing of sensitive medical reports in January 2025 following an initial pilot. The Royal Navy adopted Medi2data to digital...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater AbstractionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of changing water regulation to permit dynamic abstraction from rivers during high river levels which cause flooding.
Answer: Defra recognises the value of flood and high flow water, especially in water stressed catchments. The Environment Agency (EA) has published a Regulatory Position Statement that allows abstractors to pump water outside of normal licence conditions during f...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordInfrastructure: CambridgeshireCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89784More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of critical national infrastructure sites on the v-list are located in Cambridgeshire.
Answer: The UK Government does not publicly communicate the location or identity of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sites.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWater: Sodium HydrochloriteDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ICL being the UK water industry’s sole domestic supplier of sodium hydrochlorite on the security of the water supply.
Answer: Defra works routinely with the water sector to proactively identify and mitigate risks to safeguard the security of water supplies. The Government is preparing to respond to the recommendations of the Independent Water Commission, including on assessing p...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are on the violent harm assessment database by (a) age, (b) nationality and (c) ethnicity.
Answer: The Violence Harm Assessment database is an internal tool used by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to identify and risk assess individuals involved in violence in London.The Home Office are not responsible for the database and the MPS publish summary...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83494 on Drugs: Organised Crime, how much additional funding to help tackle county lines was provided to Cambridgeshire Constabulary in (a) 2023-2
Answer: We are investing more than £43m this financial year (25/26) in the County Lines Programme, to target exploitative drug dealing gangs whilst breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Whilst we have prioritised investment in the five police forc...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83494 on Drugs: Organised Crime, what the name is of the dedicated fund used to provide additional funding to tackle county lines.
Answer: We are investing more than £43m this financial year (25/26) in the County Lines Programme, to target exploitative drug dealing gangs whilst breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Whilst we have prioritised investment in the five police forc...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83494 on Drugs: Organised Crime, how the amount of additional funding to tackle county lines was calculated for each police force.
Answer: We are investing more than £43m this financial year (25/26) in the County Lines Programme, to target exploitative drug dealing gangs whilst breaking the organised crime groups behind this trade.Whilst we have prioritised investment in the five police forc...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what prison construction projects were due to be completed by ISG Construction.
Answer: Construction projects were planned for completion by ISG Construction Limited at the below prisons:HMP BirminghamHMP LiverpoolHMP PrescoedHMP The VerneHMP Kirklevington GrangeHMP Warren HillHMP Guys MarshHMP ErlestokeHMP LeyhillHMP FordHMP Standford HillT...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his prison capacity strategy on the number of Category A prison places that will be created.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 2 June 2025 to Question 57465.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons the planned new houseblocks will be constructed.
Answer: As set out in the 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, we are committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places. This consists of the construction of four new prisons, including HMP Millsike that opened in early 2025, as well as the expansion and re...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP Welland OaksMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when HMP Welland Oaks was first planned to be built.
Answer: Plans to build four new prisons, including HMP Welland Oaks, were announced by the Ministry of Justice in June 2020. As set out in the 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, the four new prisons are part of this Government’s plans to deliver 14,000 additional ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89774More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prisons have been (a) planned and (b) approved since 5 July 2024.
Answer: As set out in the December 2024 10-Year Prison Capacity Strategy, we are committed to delivering an additional 14,000 prison places and aim to do so by 2031; we have already delivered c.2,600 of these since taking office.No new prisons have been (a) plann...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBelgium: Unmanned Air SystemsMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Royal Air Force sub-unit has been deployed to Belgium in a counter-unmanned aerial systems role.
Answer: The RAF Regiment's No2 Counter Uncrewed Air Systems (CUAS) Wing has been deployed to Belgium.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 83507 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, whether that figure refers to the number of people prevented from crossing.
Answer: 9,686 refers to the number of attempts by people prevented from crossing in that time period.
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Combat Air ProgrammeMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the feasibility of including directed energy weapons in the specification for the Global Combat Air Programme.
Answer: The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), has considered a wide range of existing and future weapon capabilities to meet the evolving threat.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUnmanned Marine Systems: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the full scope is of Project Beehive.
Answer: Project BEEHIVE is a joint endeavour between the Royal Navy (RN) and UK Defence Innovation to deliver 20 uncrewed surface vessels to the Surface Flotilla and Commando Force. This initiative will not only deliver a vital Maritime Remote and Autonomous Syst...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October to Question 79450 on Guided Weapons, which project the £1billion investment to enhance our homeland air and missile defence falls under.
Answer: The £1 billion investment in Integrated Air and Missile Defence follows the Strategic Defence Review's recommendation and respond to the threat the UK faces in the Air domain. There is no project name for this investment. Work to deliver the Strategic Def...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: Intelligence ServicesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October to Question 79482 on Defence: Intelligence Services, whether the Defence Counterintelligence Unit was delivered by the November 2025 timeline outlined in the Strategic Defence
Answer: The Defence Counterintelligence Unit (DCIU) was endorsed at the Military Strategic Headquarters Board earlier in November 2025, in line with the timeline outlined in the Strategic Defence Review. This unit will build on the work of existing capabilities i...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWarrior Vehicles: DecommissioningMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October to Question 83151 on Warrior Vehicles, what the disposal timeline is of each Warrior variant.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 9 June to Question 55779, which remains extant and applies to all variants of Warrior vehicles: As at 1 June 2025, there are 359 Warrior vehicles in service. As the Out of Service date for Warrior is 2027, wi...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVenezuela: USAMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with cabinet colleagues on the UK’s position in the event of military action by the United States against Venezuela.
Answer: The Defence Secretary engages with Cabinet colleagues on a range of foreign policy issues. The US is the UK’s principal defence and security partner and the depth of our defence relationship with the US remains an essential pillar of our security.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on delivering the Shadow MK2 upgrade programme.
Answer: I can confirm that the Shadow Mk2 upgrade programme has been cancelled as it is late and has failed to deliver the capability that our Armed Forces need. It is also facing unacceptable cost escalation and delays.This decision will allow us to focus on inv...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
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