Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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4 Jul 2026–15 Oct 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.
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Diego Garcia: SecurityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what security measures his Department has put in place to prevent incursions by hostile states into the proposed buffer zone around Diego Garcia.
Answer: There will be robust security provisions to protect the base, including full UK control over Diego Garcia, control over the electromagnetic spectrum and unrestricted access to and use of the base by the UK and US; a buffer zone around Diego Garcia in whic...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate IncidentsHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used by Crime Registrars to determine whether hate incidents meet the criminal threshold.
Answer: The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) for recorded crime requires that every force in England and Wales must have a Force Crime Registrar (FCR) who has attended a College of Policing training course and been accredited as professionally competent.The FCR ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate IncidentsHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is available to Crime Registrars on the recording of (a) hate and (b) non-crime hate incidents.
Answer: The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) for recorded crime requires that every force in England and Wales must have a Force Crime Registrar (FCR) who has attended a College of Policing training course and been accredited as professionally competent.The FCR ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: RegistrationHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers Crime Registrars have.
Answer: The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) for recorded crime requires that every force in England and Wales must have a Force Crime Registrar (FCR) who has attended a College of Policing training course and been accredited as professionally competent.The FCR ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33161More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how funding for the fire and rescue service is calculated.
Answer: Government funding for fire and rescue services is provided by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) through the Local Government Finance Settlement in the form of revenue support grant (RSG) and retained business rates.The amo...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33160More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for the Armed Forces in response to the question from the hon. Member for Huntingdon of 24 February 2025, Official Report, column 14, what the full list of
Answer: While the Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP) draws together existing resettlement routes into a single pipeline, the eligibility criteria of the schemes which make up the ARP remain the same. The Ministry of Defence does not hold a list of job roles whic...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordResettlement: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33159More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 28425 on Afghanistan: Resettlement, how many and what proportion of Afghan family members who have applied to come to the UK as a dependent under
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Afghan Resettlement Programme, announced by t...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordResettlement: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33158More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 28425 on Afghanistan: Resettlement, how many and what proportion of Afghans who have applied to the Afghan Resettlement Programme have failed vett
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Afghan Resettlement Programme, announced by t...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: VeteransMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were armed forces veterans on 24 February 2025.
Answer: The most recent available data for the veterans prison population is from the 2024 edition of our annual publication on “Ex-service personnel in the prison population”, which is taken from a snapshot of the prison population on 30 June 2024. Any request f...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average administrative cost was of granting a person British citizenship in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The Home Office publishes the fees charged and the estimated unit cost of processing immigration and nationality applications on Gov.UK. This can be reviewed via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHare CoursingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33155More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle hare coursing in rural areas.
Answer: This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England and Wales only. This Government recognises the importance of tackling rural crimes such as Hare Coursing. The previous Government made changes to address illegal hare cou...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total administration cost is of granting an individual Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Answer: The Home Office publishes the fees charged and the estimated unit cost of processing immigration and nationality applications on Gov.UK. This can be reviewed via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMBR Acres: Animal WelfareHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department last checked conditions at Marshall BioResources in Huntingdon.
Answer: The Animals in Science Regulation Unit conducts both announced and unannounced audits to ensure establishments compliance with the terms of their licences, the Code of Practice and with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). Each establishme...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: AfghanistanMinistry of JusticeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Afghans there are within the prison population.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the prison population as part of its Offender Management Statistics Quarterly. The requested data (based on the prison population as at 31 December 2024; latest available published data) can be found at Tab...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHinchingbrooke HospitalDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) Cambridgeshire Constabulary, (b) the Home Office and (c) National Highways on the creation of a new access road linking Views Common to Hinch
Answer: The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is in ongoing discussions with the Cambridgeshire Constabulary over the acquisition of land for a new access road to the Hinchingbrooke Hospital site. The New Hospital Programme Delivery team is supporting the tr...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSecondary Education: HuntingdonDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by how much each secondary school year group is over-subscribed in Huntingdon constituency in the 2025-26 academic year.
Answer: The department does not hold data for the 2025/26 academic year. The latest available data on school capacity are for 2022/23. Data for 2023/24 will be available at the end of March 2025. The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places sits with lo...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Protective ClothingMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many pairs of Peltor ear defenders have been issued to the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force.
Answer: Since the introduction of the Tactical Hearing Protection System in 2015, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) has issued the Peltor ComTac XP/ XPI to the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as set out below: Quantity IssuedItem Name:ArmyRoyal NavyR...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAntarctica: National SecurityMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33148More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the risk posed by foreign state actors’ covert military activity in Antarctica.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence undertakes regular assessments of the risks posed by foreign state actors and works with allies and partners to ensure the commitments to the Antarctic Treaty, including through the deployment of the Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship, a...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: CommonwealthMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers are in the UK Armed Forces, by nationality.
Answer: The number of non-UK personnel serving in the Trained and Trade Trained Strength of the Regular Armed Forces and the Brigade of Gurkhas as at 1 January 2025 is shown in the table(s) below. Table 1: Number of Non-UK Regulars1 by Nationality2 as at 1 Januar...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmy: FinanceMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the defence budget is allocated across all (a) Regular and (b) Reserve Infantry Battalions.
Answer: Regular and Reserve Infantry Battalions produce a costed programme as part of the Annual Budget Cycle. These programmes are based on their planned and prioritised commitments, as agreed in the Army Command Plan, and budgets are allocated accordingly.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Sexual OffencesMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) male and (b) female service personnel have been charged with offences relating to sexual assault since 2014.
Answer: A total of 393 male and 11 female Service personnel were charged with sexual assault (Section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003) in the period from 2014 to 2024. These figures constitute individuals charged in the Service jurisdiction by the Service Prose...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Sexual OffencesMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reports of sexual assault have been filed by male service personnel in (a) the Royal Navy, (b) the British Army and (c) the Royal Air Force in each year since 2014.
Answer: An annual official statistic on cases of sexual offending handled by the Service Justice System has been published since 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/murder-manslaughter-sexual-offences-and-domestic-abuse-in-the-service-justice-system-2...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Sexual OffencesMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reports of sexual assault have been filed by female service personnel in the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force in each year since 2014.
Answer: An annual official statistic on cases of sexual offending handled by the Service Justice System has been published since 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/murder-manslaughter-sexual-offences-and-domestic-abuse-in-the-service-justice-system-2...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: RiflesMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) SA80 A2 and (b) SA80 A3 rifles are currently held by his Department.
Answer: As at 25 February 2025, there are 125,276 L85 (SA80) A2 Rifles and 40,144 L85 A3 Rifles held across the Ministry of Defence.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Supply: PlanningDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his Department's planned timetable is for the publication of the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan.
Answer: The Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP) will be published by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in 2026.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
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