Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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Child Sexual Abuse Material: Artificial IntelligenceHome OfficeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources her Department has allocated to law enforcement agencies to help tackle the level of Child Sexual Exploitation cases due to AI.
Answer: UK law is clear that AI generated child sexual abuse images are illegal material. We invest in capabilities across law enforcement to identify and disrupt child sexual abuse, which includes offences involving AI generated child sexual abuse material.This ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPornography: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for the (a) creation, (b) distribution and (c) ownership of entirely AI-generated indecent images of children in 2024.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences, including offences involving the possession, creation and distribution of indecent images of children. Data up to and including June 2024 is available in the Outcomes by ...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of deportations between 4 July and 31 December were (a) enforced and (b) voluntary.
Answer: The Home Office routinely publishes data on returns in the “Immigration Systems Statistics” quarterly release. Data on quarterly returns of individuals since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the “returns detailed datasets”.The next full quarterl...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIntimate Image Abuse: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) children and (b) adults were prosecuted for the creation of indecent images of (i) children and (ii) adults using denudifying apps in 2024.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences, including offences involving the possession, creation and distribution of indecent images of children. Data up to and including June 2024 is available in the Outcomes by ...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBorder Security Command: StaffHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) operational and (b) support staff Border Security Command employs as of 1 January 2025.
Answer: The Border Security Command (BSC) provides cross-system strategic leadership across partners in the border security system to tackle the facilitators of organised immigration crime (OIC) and wider border security threats.The BSC is being appropriately res...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBorder Security Command: StaffHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff the Border Security Command will have; and at what grade.
Answer: The Border Security Command (BSC) provides cross-system strategic leadership across partners in the border security system to tackle the facilitators of organised immigration crime (OIC) and wider border security threats.The BSC is being appropriately res...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many voluntary deportations took place between 4 July and 31 December 2024.
Answer: The Home Office routinely publishes data on returns in the “Immigration Systems Statistics” quarterly release. Data on quarterly returns of individuals since July 2024 can be found in table Ret_D01 of the “returns detailed datasets”.The next full quarterl...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22139More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether farm equipment was included when assessing the number of farms impacted by changes to inheritance tax.
Answer: Yes. Any farm equipment eligible for Business Property Relief was included in the analysis used to assess this impacts of this policy. Information on APR and BPR reforms can be found in the policy briefing paper published at https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNissan: SunderlandDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with Nissan on safeguarding jobs in Sunderland, in the context of the potential merger of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi.
Answer: While we cannot comment on the commercial affairs of private companies, I can say that the Department of Business and Trade is in contact with both Nissan and Honda and we will work with the companies to support the future of the UK’s world-leading automo...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRugby: Dementia and Motor Neurone DiseaseDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help reduce (a) motor neurone disease, b) Alzheimer's and c) chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired professional rugby union players.
Answer: The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount. National Governing Bodies are responsible for the regulation of their sports, and for ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants from ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: RefugeesMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) dependents and (b) extended family members have been requested to join Afghans residing in Service Families Accommodation.
Answer: Under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), the Ministry of Defence does not categorise under the terms dependents and extended family members. The Ministry of Defence currently accommodates all those within the scope of the ARAP scheme in t...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to prevent the use of denudifying apps by children in the creation of pornographic deepfake images.
Answer: Where an adult or a child uses generative AI to make sexual images of a child, that content is child sexual exploitation and abuse material, and is illegal.We are also bringing forward provisions to ban the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes images o...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIntimate Image Abuse: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Government is taking to prevent the use of denudifying apps used to create pornographic deepfake images.
Answer: The Government made a manifesto commitment to ban the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images, as part of the government’s commitment to halve the prevalence of violence against women and girls (VAWG) within the decade.We are bringing forward provis...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the use of artificial intelligence in the creation of images for online child sexual exploitation.
Answer: The Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. This includes working to safeguard children, provide support to victims and survivors, and pursuing offend...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSickness Benefits: School LeavingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming out of work benefit for sickness reasons have done so immediately following leaving full-time education.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChelsea Football Club: SalesTreasuryTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21521More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much interest has accrued on the £2.5bn seized following the sale of Chelsea Football Club.
Answer: The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), part of HM Treasury, is the authority for the implementation of financial sanctions in the UK. An asset freeze does not involve a change in ownership of the frozen funds or economic resources, nor a...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUnpaid Work: DiscriminationWomen and EqualitiesTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20911More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to ensure that employers offering internship programmes do not discriminate against applicants based on (a) sex, (b) ethnicity and (c) sexual orientation.
Answer: Part 5 of the Equality Act 2010 provides protection against direct and indirect discrimination in employment and makes it unlawful for an employer or a recruitment agency to discriminate against an employee or someone applying for employment because of a ...
Answered 6 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordYouth Investment FundDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans there are for a third phase of the Youth Investment Fund to be launched in 2025.
Answer: More than £85 million will be allocated in recognition of the urgent need for more youth facilities. This will include £26 million of new funding for youth clubs to buy new equipment and undertake much needed renovations via the Better Youth Spaces progra...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to tackle knife crime amongst (a) young people and (b) young people in the black community.
Answer: Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s mission to take back our streets. We are taking a range of steps to realise this ambition.We have banned Zombie style knives and zombie style machetes.We have set up a Knife-Enable...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: CommunicationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has written to NHS Trusts on the use of sex-specific language in NHS guidance.
Answer: The Department has not written to the National Health Service trusts on the use of sex-specific language in NHS guidance. The Government understands the need for health information to be as clear as possible and to use language that appropriately reflects...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEthnic GroupsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) his and (b) NHS policy is on the use of (i) BAME and (ii) BME (A) in public policy on health and (B) generally.
Answer: The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities recommended in March 2021 that the Government stop using the term BAME, which stands for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic. Since then, where possible, the Department has referred to ethnic minority groups ind...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordIVF: DiscriminationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that there is no discrimination in NHS IVF treatment.
Answer: Funding decisions for health services in England are made by integrated care boards and are based on the clinical needs of their local population. Organisations are expected to commission fertility services in line with National Institute for Health and C...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on implementing the Disability Action Plan.
Answer: The Disability Action Plan and the National Disability Strategy were both initiatives of the previous administration. The National Disability Strategy was delayed as it was originally declared unlawful, due to a challenge as to whether an information gath...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19873More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help disabled people into work.
Answer: Backed by £240m investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched on 26 November will drive forward approaches to tackling economic inactivity and work toward the long-term ambition of an 80% employment rate. Appropriate work is generally good for ...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: AntisemitismDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle antisemitism at universities.
Answer: This government is clear that every student, regardless of their background or religion, should be able to pursue their studies at university without fear of harassment or discrimination. As autonomous institutions, universities have robust processes in p...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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