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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Department or topic	Published records
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

Wilson's Disease: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of Government funding for Wilson's disease research in financial year 2023-24; and which public bodies provided that
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). NIHR funds, enables, and delivers high-quality research to improve patient care and public health and supports liver...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
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AAT Deficiency: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of Government funding for Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency research in financial year 2023-24; and which public bodies
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). NIHR funds, enables, and delivers high-quality research to improve patient care and public health and supports liver...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
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Media: Freedom of ExpressionDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to (a) ensure that organisations campaigning against free media are not publicly funded and (b) protect freedom of speech for media outlets.
Answer: All funding decisions are carefully considered, and subject to DCMS spend controls and governance.The Government is committed to protecting media freedom, which is essential to a strong and functioning democracy. The UK has an independent, self-regulatory...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
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Center for Countering Digital Hate and Stop Funding HateDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what meetings (a) he, (b) his special advisers, (c) Departmental officials and (d) Ofcom have had with (i) Centre for Countering Digital Hate and (ii) Stop Funding Hate since 4 July 202
Answer: Ministers, special advisers, and officials have regular meetings with a range of stakeholders, details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the gov.uk website.Ofcom is an independent regulator, and the Department does not record Ofcom’s meet...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
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Center for Countering Digital Hate and Stop Funding HateDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether (a) he, (b) special advisers and (c) officials have held meetings with (i) Centre for Countering Digital Hate and (ii) Stop Funding Hate since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Ministers, special advisers, and officials have regular meetings with a range of stakeholders, details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the gov.uk website.Ofcom is an independent regulator, and the Department does not record Ofcom’s meet...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
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Diego Garcia: Military BasesMinistry of DefenceTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26923More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2025 to Question 25390 on Diego Garcia: Military Bases, which international agreements govern the US (a) presence and (b) operations in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Answer: The UK-US 1966 Exchange of Notes, as amended and supplemented in 1972, 1976, 1987 and 1999, govern the United State's presence and operations in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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Offenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the breakdown by country is of Foreign National Offenders deported between 4 July and 31 December 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on foreign national offenders returned by their nationality and country of return in the Immigration Systems Statistics quarterly release. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending September 2...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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Afghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghans who worked directly for British forces were brought to the UK under (a) Operation Lazurite and (b) its predecessor schemes.
Answer: Operation LAZURITE supports the Afghan Resettlement Programme announced in December. It is not in itself a scheme, rather a delivery component that assists parts of the end-to-end process of Afghan relocation and resettlement into the UK. Over 30,000 elig...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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Armed Forces: Workplace PensionsMinistry of DefenceTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26778More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the defence budget is accounted for by armed forces pensions.
Answer: Armed Forces Pensions represent around 9% of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) budget in financial year 2024-25. This does not include any of the Armed Forces Pensions Schemes' Annually Managed Expenditure, which sits outside the MOD's budget.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
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Undocumented Migrants: RepatriationHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of financial incentives to Controlled Voluntary Returns in Quarter three of 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes all available information on returns expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab).
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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Undocumented Migrants: RepatriationHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of financial incentives to Verified Voluntary Returns in Quarter three of 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes all available information on returns expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab).
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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Undocumented Migrants: RepatriationHome OfficeTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of financial incentives offered to Assisted Voluntary Returns deported in Quarter 3 of 2024 was.
Answer: The Home Office publishes all available information on returns expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab)
Answered 30 Jan 2025
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People SmugglingHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 22404 on People Smuggling, whether her Department has recorded the number of OIC groups that have been broken up by law enforcement agencies since
Answer: Where it is possible to make them public, the Home Office and National Crime Agency regularly publish details of successful operations about OIC gangs, including on numbers of arrests and volumes of seizures, and will continue to do so in the future.
Answered 30 Jan 2025
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Aortic Dissection: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into aortic dissection in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Aortic Aneurysm: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into aortic aneurysm in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Hypertension: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into hypertension in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Atrial Fibrillation: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into atrial fibrillation in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into heart block in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into coronary heart disease in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: BabiesDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into congenital heart disease in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Diseases: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for heart failure research in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Myocarditis: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into Myocarditis in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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Heart Valve Disease: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse was of Government funding of valvular disease research in 2023-24; and which public bodies provided that funding.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds medical research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Between 2019/20 – 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease and stroke research direct...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
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