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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General Practitioners: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to update the Carr-Hill formula.
Answer: Plans to review the funding formula may be revisited in future, however any changes would need careful planning to ensure they do not threaten stability or cause financial uncertainty for practices.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordStoma Appliances: MenDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve facilities for men with (a) colostomy bags and (b) stomas.
Answer: The Government oversees policy and legislation with respect to the safe management of waste and litter as well as the protection of drains and sewers. The provision of facilities for people with colostomy bags and stomas is however a matter for local auth...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, what ethnicity data Baroness Casey's audit will use to examine the eth
Answer: Further details of the Government’s work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including improved data collection on group-based CSE and the scope of Baroness Casey’s audit, will be provided in due course.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how the new performance management framework for local areas will work
Answer: Further details of the Government’s work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including improved data collection on group-based CSE and the scope of Baroness Casey’s audit, will be provided in due course.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how overhauled ethnicity data from local areas will differ from expand
Answer: Further details of the Government’s work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including improved data collection on group-based CSE and the scope of Baroness Casey’s audit, will be provided in due course.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how she plans to overhaul ethnicity data from local areas.
Answer: Further details of the Government’s work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including improved data collection on group-based CSE and the scope of Baroness Casey’s audit, will be provided in due course.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: ExpenditureMinistry of DefenceTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of GDP is the UK's defence spending excluding Trident.
Answer: The Defence Nuclear Enteprise, which delivers our nuclear deterrent, is a cornerstone of our national security. Excluding the Defence Nuclear Enterprise investment of £9.4 billion in financial year 2023-24, defence spending would have been 1.9% of GDP.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWritten Questions: CostsLeader of the HouseTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23955More
Question: To ask the Leader of the House, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of answering a written parliamentary question.
Answer: The information requested is not held. The cost to the public purse of answering written PQs depends on numerous factors, including the size of parliamentary teams, volumes of parliamentary questions submitted, and the complexity of the question asked (an...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide increased access to high-intensity focused ultrasound laser therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has developed interventional procedures guidance on high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for prostate cancer and focal therapy using HIFU for localised prostate cancer. This type o...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice, Fire and Crime CommissionersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the potential impact of local government reorganisation is on Police and Fire Commissioners who are coterminous with an existing combined authority.
Answer: The English Devolution White Paper set out the Government’s ambitions for devolution and local government reorganisation. Government's aim is for empowered, simplified, resilient and sustainable structures for local government. It will be essential for co...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMayors: Police, Fire and Crime CommissionersHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take steps to give Police and Fire Commissioner roles to combined authority mayors.
Answer: Since their introduction, Police (Fire) and Crime Commissioners (P(F)CCs) have brought greater local accountability to policing and we recognise the important role they play as the elected voice of their local communities.The English Devolution White Pape...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Unmanned Air SystemsMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23951More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the use of drones for smuggling (a) weapons, (b) drugs and (c) other contraband into prisons.
Answer: Drone sightings around prisons in England and Wales are of great concern and pose a major threat to security. Drone sightings around prisons increased by over 770% between 2019 and 2023 under the previous Government. We are working hard to deter, detect a...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nursing positions for the provision of care in corridors have been advertised in NHS hospitals since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHawk AircraftMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the finite fatigue index is of each remaining Hawk T1 aircraft.
Answer: The fatigue index value of each remaining Hawk T1 aircraft is contained in the table below. Across all airframes we have retained more than sufficient overall remaining available fatigue life to ensure all Red Arrow tasking until 2030 as planned. Hawk T1 ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHawk AircraftMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Hawk T1 aircraft are in service with the (a) RAF and (b) Fleet Air Arm.
Answer: There are 26 Hawk T1 aircraft in service. The Fleet Air Arm Hawk T1 went out of service on 31 March 2022.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: HuntingdonDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23533More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the safety valve on SEND provision in Huntingdon.
Answer: Safety Valve agreements were only entered into if the local authority and the department’s expert advisers agreed that the proposals would improve services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), whilst enabli...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to incorporate educational resources from the National Crime Agency into the National Curriculum in order to inform children about the dangers of online child sexual exploita
Answer: As part of statutory relationships and health education in primary schools and relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in secondary schools, pupils are taught about online safety and harms. This includes being taught about what positive, healthy an...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHistory: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to decolonise the national curriculum.
Answer: The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, covering ages 5 to 18, chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE.The terms of reference, which do not mention decolonisation, can be accessed here: https://assets.publishing.serv...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor capacity in state schools in the context of potential pupil transfers from the private to state sector following the introduction of VAT on school fees.
Answer: The government predicts that 35,000 pupils will move into UK state schools in the long-term steady state following the removal of the VAT exemption to school fees. As such, the impact on the state education system as a whole is expected to be small.This i...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to educate children about (a) online safety and (b) the risk of online sexual predators as part of the National Curriculum.
Answer: As part of statutory relationships and health education in primary schools and relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in secondary schools, pupils are taught about online safety and harms. This includes being taught about what positive, healthy an...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRented Housing: PetsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to make renting easier for people with pets.
Answer: The Renters’ Rights Bill will give tenants the right to request a pet, which landlords must consider and cannot unreasonably refuse.
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure landlords are compliant with the need to ensure that new tenancies have an Energy Performance Rating of at least C from 1 April 2025.
Answer: The Government will consult shortly on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector. The consultation will include proposals for rented homes to achieve Energy Performance Certificate C or equivalent by 2030.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBorder Security CommandHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what leadership the Border Security Command provides to (a) Border Force, (b) National Crime Agency, (c) Immigration Enforcement and (d) the police.
Answer: There are a number of different bodies that have a role in securing the UK border, including departments and agencies across Government and law enforcement. The Border Security Command is, for the first time, providing system leadership across those partn...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Education: AssessmentsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students will require individual home invigilation to sit their (a) GCSEs, (b) A-Levels and (c) other exams in 2025.
Answer: Alternative site arrangements for sitting exams, including home invigilation, can be put in place as an access arrangement if, in exceptional circumstances, it is required to enable a candidate to access exams and assessments.As in any year, there is no w...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPeople SmugglingHome OfficeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people smuggling gangs have been disbanded since the establishment of the Border Security Command.
Answer: The Border Security Command (BSC) is working strategically across the Border Security system, including with partners such as the National Crime Agency, police, and intelligence agencies to dismantle criminal smuggling gangs, and disrupt their supply chai...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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