Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions

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Cabinet Office	36
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade	18
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	1
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	4
Department for Education	8
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	7
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	34
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	1
Department for Transport	27
Department for Work and Pensions	5
Department of Health and Social Care	26
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	12
Home Office	52
Ministry of Defence	689
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	11
Ministry of Justice	91
Northern Ireland Office	2
Treasury	18

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Written questions

Armed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37774More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, under what circumstances an individual would be issued the Peltor ComTac XP/XPI Ear defenders over the Peltor General Service Ear Muffs.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 5 March 2025 to Question 34362 which explained that due to the varying nature of environments and tasks that require a form of ear protection, Service personnel (SP) are issued with ear protection that h...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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Offences against Children: Guinea-Bissau and PortugalHome OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of (a) child sexual exploitation and (b) child-trafficking related to (i) Guinea-Bissau and (ii) Portugal have been recorded since 2010.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold information centrally on instances of child sexual exploitation or child-trafficking offences related to Guinea-Bissau or Portugal.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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Armed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 36209, what the difference in attenuation across the frequency bands is between the (a) Peltor ComTac XP/XPI and (b) General Service Peltor Ear Muff.
Answer: The performance of the ComTac XP/XPI and the General Service Peltor Ear Muff is as follows: ComTac XP/XPIFrequency (Hz)1252505001000200040008000Mean attenuation (dB)11.517.927.830.032.136.240.3Std deviation (dB)2.52.71.82.33.02.03.1Assumed Protection Val...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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Diego Garcia: Military BasesMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35009 on Diego Garcia: Military Bases, what the responsibilities and authorities for the operations of Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia are as agreed with th
Answer: The Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia is a United States defence facility. The responsibilities and authorities for its operations as agreed with the United Kingdom are set out in the 1966 UK-US Exchange of Notes, including the 1976 amendment.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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Human Trafficking: CambridgeshireHome OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36472 on Human Trafficking: Cambridgeshire, if she will publish a breakdown of the nationality of all National Referral Mechanism referrals between
Answer: The Home Office publishes National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and Duty to Notify data on a quarterly basis on gov.uk and the National Crime Agencies website.The Home office have been publishing NRM data since 2019, with the NCA publishing this previously. T...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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Hospitals: ConstructionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of when all wave one hospitals in the New Hospital Programme will be completed.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 February 2025 to Question 29225.
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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British Indian Ocean Territory: FisheriesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help ensure long term access to the Fisheries Conservation and Management Zone of the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Answer: The UK will assist Mauritius in implementing a new Mauritian Marine Protected Area in the Archipelago, which will extend to technical, financial, capacity-building assistance, fostering long-term sustainable management. The parties will work with interna...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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GP Practice ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 35425 on General Practitioners: Finance, how regularly GP practice lists of registered patients are updated.
Answer: General practices are responsible for maintaining their registered patient lists in a current and accurate state, so that it does not contain any duplicated patients, namely patients who have either died or who have moved and/or are registered elsewhere, ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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General Practitioners: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35425 on General Practitioners: Finance, what data was used to calculate the standardised (a) Limited Long-Standing Illness and (b) Mortality Rat
Answer: The weighting in the Carr-Hill formula for Standardised Limited Long-Standing Illness was estimated using the Health Survey for England data for 1998 to 2000. The weighting for the Mortality Ratio for people under 65 years old was estimated from Office fo...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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Dental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35427 on Dental Services, what estimate he has made of when that data will be available.
Answer: Data on the number of additional urgent dental appointments created since 4 July 2024 will be available in due course. We are working with NHS England and the NHS Business Service Authority on the data publication schedule.
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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Marines: FinanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the defence budget is allocated to the Royal Marines, excluding Commando-trained Army sub-units.
Answer: I hope the hon. Member will understand that it is not possible to split out costs that relate solely to the Royal Marines due to the interoperability of units, equipment and mixed use of training facilities.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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F-35 Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to purchase the second tranche of F-35B jets.
Answer: To provide the UK with the most relevant and capable Combat Aircraft force, the Ministry of Defence continually reviews the expected threat and the ability of our forces to counter it. Any further purchases would be set out in the usual way.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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British Indian Ocean Territory: Seas and OceansForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the value of the (a) seabed and (b) other parts of the marine portfolio of the area within 200 nautical miles of the British Indian O
Answer: The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) has some of the most biodiverse waters on the planet with over 220 species of coral, 855 species of fish and 355 species of molluscs. Since its designation as a Marine Protected Area in 2010, the BIOT Administrati...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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Wind PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the (a) average and (b) maximum megawatt capacity was of a wind energy infrastructure project in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2024.
Answer: For the 22 onshore wind projects completed in 2008, the largest capacity was 68 MW and the average capacity was 20 MW. Both of the offshore wind projects completed in 2008 had a capacity of 97 MW. For the 17 onshore wind projects completed in 2024, the la...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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Solar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37760More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the (a) average and (b) maximum megawatt capacity of a solar energy infrastructure project was in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2024.
Answer: No new operational solar photovoltaic installations above 50kW were recorded in 2008. In 2024, new solar installations (excluding those below 50kW) had an average capacity of 15.4MW. The largest was 67MW.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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Solar Power: Electricity GenerationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37759More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35004 on Solar Power: Electricity Generation, when his Department announced its plan to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the
Answer: The Government’s intention to increase the threshold above which solar projects must be determined under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project regime was announced in its response to an 8-week consultation on changes to the National Planning P...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
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Defence: ExpenditureMinistry of DefenceTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the answer of 11 November 2024 to the urgent question on Defence: 2.5% GDP Spending Commitment, Official Report, column 508, what the outcome was of the NATO test he conducted.
Answer: We conducted a NATO Test in the first 100 days of this Government and was completed in October 2024. The Honourable Gentleman will understand that detail is classified, but it offered a clear assessment of how well the UK currently meets NATO’s ask on def...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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Fisheries: South Atlantic OceanDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of levels of sustainability of the fishing industry in the South Atlantic on fish imports.
Answer: The volume of fish caught in the South Atlantic, which are then imported into the UK, is low when compared with the primary sources of UK seafood imports. All seafood imported into the UK has to be accompanied by appropriate documentation, demonstrating t...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
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Armed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the NSN is of the (a) Peltor ComTac XP and (b) Peltor ComTac XPI.
Answer: The current NATO Stock Numbers (NSNs) for the Peltor ComTac XPI are 5965-25-161-5983 for the headset and 5895-99-984-8647 for the headset with boom microphone. The Peltor ComTac XP was superceded by the XPI in 2016, and had the NSN 4240-99-282-2906 for th...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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Infrastructure: LandDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 35839 on Infrastructure: Land, what is the maximum permissible quantity of best and most versatile land allowed for an energy development c
Answer: National Policy Statement EN-1 and EN-3 set out the policy for the consideration of the use of best and most versatile land for energy development, but state that “applicants should, where possible, utilise previously developed land, brownfield land, cont...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
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Infrastructure: LandDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 35839 on Infrastructure: Land, what is the largest quantity of best and most versatile land used for a nationally significant energy develo
Answer: Further detail on individual projects can be found on PINS.https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/planning-inspectorate
Answered 19 Mar 2025
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Warrior VehiclesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the status is of the Army's Warrior AFVs
Answer: As of 1 April 2025, there will be 359 Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicles in service. A decision to extend Warrior’s Out of Service Date to 2027 ensures Warrior will remain supported during transition to a modernised fleet. It remains our intent that Warri...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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Ajax Vehicles: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ajax armoured vehicles the Army will have taken delivery of by 31 December 2025.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 438 dated 22 July 2024. The Armoured Cavalry Programme (Ajax) is projecting the delivery of over 180 operationally deployable platforms by the end of 2025.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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Ajax VehiclesMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Armoured Cavalry Programme will reach initial operating capability.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 438 dated 22 July 2024. The Armoured Cavalry Programme (Ajax) is projecting the delivery of over 180 operationally deployable platforms by the end of 2025.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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F-35 Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the delivery timeline is for the remaining F-35B jets ordered from Lockheed Martin.
Answer: The declaration of Full Operating Capability for the first procurement phase is scheduled to occur no later than 31 December 2025, with graduation as a Government Major Projects Portfolio programme by 31 March 2026. The first procurement phase of 48 aircr...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
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