Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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NHS: Solar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the press release entitled Great British Energy to cut bills for hospitals and schools, published on 21 March 2025, over how many financial years the partnership with Great
Answer: The investment announced by Great British Energy and the UK government in March is for schools and hospitals for the 2025/26 financial year. Beyond 2025/26, we expect decisions on funding and investment to be made by Great British Energy as it becomes ful...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Energy FundDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what type of projects the the Great British Energy Community Fund is permitted to be spent on.
Answer: Great British Energy announced that £5 million will be allocated to the Great British Energy Community Fund (GBECF) in 2025/26, a grant funding scheme to support community energy groups to generate their own clean power projects. GBECF can support project...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the guidance entitled Digital ID scheme: explainer, published on 26 September 2025, when she plans to publish the consultation on digital IDs.
Answer: The Government will launch a public consultation on the new digital ID by the end of the year, setting out the proposed approach in more detail and seeking views on this. This will include the proposed approach to estimating and monitoring the costs invol...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordProof of Identity: Digital TechnologyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the guidance entitled Digital ID scheme: explainer, published on 26 September 2025, from which database will the digital ID validate (a) identity, (b) age, (c) residen
Answer: The Government has announced plans for a new national digital identity credential to be available to UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over. This will make it easier for people to securely access the services they are entitled to, where they wan...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordQuantum Technology: FinanceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2025 to Question 75352 on Quantum Technology, where the funding for the adoption of quantum computers is being spent.
Answer: As part of the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy the Government is allocating £670 million to advance our quantum computing mission, which includes 10-year investment for the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), to drive the adoption of quantum computi...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimates: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2025 to Question 74067 on Primates: Imports, how many import licences have been issued for macaques since 5 July 2024; and for what purposes each
Answer: This information is not available in the public domain.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: Public SectorDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 74136 on Catering: Public Sector, how many public sector organisations currently purchase more than half their food from British
Answer: The Government is currently assessing what food the public sector buys and where it comes from. This will enable us to determine the extent to which public sector organisations are buying food from British producers, providing a baseline with which to mea...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTechnical Excellence CollegesDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to p.45 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth (CP 1388), where the five new Defence Technical Excellence Colleges will be located.
Answer: A £182 million defence skills package was announced at the start of September 2025 in the Defence Industrial Strategy, which aims to make defence an engine for national renewal and economic growth, harnessing the skills needed for the future, from submari...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: SwimmingDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including travel to swimming lessons within the scope of the sport premium.
Answer: Schools receive core funding for activities within the curriculum, including delivery and travel for swimming and water safety lessons. After pupils have completed their core curriculum swimming and water safety lessons, it is permissible to use the physi...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Mobile BroadbandDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79743More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects Project Reach to be completed.
Answer: Network Rail’s Reach partners are developing a detailed delivery plan and hope to have made significant improvements to coverage this control period (end of 2029).
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Mobile BroadbandDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79742More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75323 on Railways: Mobile Broadband, how much funding her Department plans to provide for low earth orbit satellite technology.
Answer: The Department was successful in securing funding of £33m capital and £24m resource (or operational expenditure) as part of the Spending Review to fit all mainline trains with Low Earth Orbit satellite technology to upgrade on -train wifi.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Business BankTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79741More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, by when she expects the British Business Bank to (a) introduce tailored mark
Answer: The British Business Bank will be able to deploy the funding it was allocated at Spending Review, and which was outlined in the Defence Industrial Strategy, from the beginning of the next financial year. As a commercially independent organisation the BBB ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Business BankTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79740More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, by when she expects the British Business Bank Industrial Strategy Growth Cap
Answer: The British Business Bank’s Industrial Strategy Growth Capital provides an additional £4 billion across the 8 Industrial Strategy sectors and is expected to be deployed over a four-year period. This funding will be committed through existing investment ve...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79739More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, what legislative proposals she plans to bring forward to enable the expansio
Answer: The government will bring forward primary legislation, when parliamentary time allows, to expand the NWF’s mandate beyond infrastructure, enabling it to invest into a wider range of capital-intensive projects, businesses and assets that support growth. Un...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGrapheneTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79738More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 42 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, CP 1388, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using the National
Answer: The National Wealth Fund invests in capital intensive projects, businesses, and assets by offering financing in the form of debt, equity and guarantees. The Government published the National Wealth Fund’s Statement of Strategic Priorities on 19 March whic...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Security: CybersecurityMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the full scope of the Joint Crypt Key programme.
Answer: The Joint Crypt-Key Programme (JCKP) is Ministry of Defence-sponsored and delivered jointly with the National Cyber Security Centre. The information requested is being withheld as its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, eff...
Answered 19 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAWE Burghfield: ConstructionMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the remaining (a) scope and (b) cost to completion for the MENSA programme.
Answer: The MENSA programme continues to make progress and is nearing the end of its construction and commissioning stage. As set out in the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, the latest cost estimate to deliver th...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordArmy: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, which projects are affected by the challenges to
Answer: These resource challenges are impacting a significant portion of the Army Portfolio. The confidence assessments of the programmes are available in the National infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, accessible here: htt...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Accommodation: ProcurementMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what assessment she made of the reasons for the
Answer: At the time of the report, both the Houseblocks and Refurbishments Programme and Category D Expansion Programme had been impacted by ISG, a supplier of prison building contracts, entering in administration in September 2024. The loss of the building contr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Accommodation: ProcurementMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what assessment she made of the reasons for the
Answer: At the time of the report, both the Houseblocks and Refurbishments Programme and Category D Expansion Programme had been impacted by ISG, a supplier of prison building contracts, entering in administration in September 2024. The loss of the building contr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTrident Submarines: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the ongoing challenges are in meeting the d
Answer: The red delivery confidence rating for the Core Production Capability programme in the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) report reflects the complexity of simultaneously completing the Astute Class cores while transition...
Answered 19 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary Aircraft: Air Traffic ControlMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, if he will make an assessment of the potential i
Answer: Following Ministry of Defence Centre arbitration funding decisions on (a) St Kilda, (b) the Falkland Islands and (c) Gibraltar, Air HQ will clarify the requirements and ensure that any potential impact to those locations, in the context of the Marshall pr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordType 31 Frigates: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, if he will publish the complex integration challenge faced by the Royal Navy’s Type 31 programme.
Answer: The Type 31 (T31) frigate programme will deliver a maritime security capability at a value for money price in a timescale that compares favourably with other international warship procurement programmes. In common with other enterprises, the T31 programme...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made in identifying a vehicle on which to mount the Short-Range Air Defence missile system.
Answer: As announced at the Defence and Security International (DSEI) conference 2025, the British Army has joined the Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) Programme, a multinational initiative with Finland, centred around the Patria 6x6 armoured vehicle. The Pa...
Answered 19 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGuided Weapons: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress he has made in developing an integrated layered air defence system as part of the Land Ground Based Air Defence programme.
Answer: Integrated Air and Missile Defence investments will be prioritised appropriately against the threat as part of the future Integrated Force. Work to deliver the Strategic Defence Review recommendations, including on homeland Integrated Air and Missile Defe...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
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