Blake Stephenson MP: written questions 2025
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Migrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial requirements there are to be granted a work visa related to religious work.
Answer: The information regarding eligibility to sponsor religious workers or Ministers of Religion 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 dispro...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have dependent visas associated with a holder of a (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visa.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by visa route, including Religious Worker, and applicant type in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of t...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department undertakes to ensure that holders of (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visas are performing religious work.
Answer: The information regarding eligibility to sponsor religious workers or Ministers of Religion 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 dispro...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of UK visa holders on a work visa related to religious work who were granted indefinite leave to remain since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Migration Statistics publish annual figures on the number of grants of indefinite leave to remain (settlement) by category of leave sub-group in table SE_D01 of the Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK publication.The available data re...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how many organisations on the register are eligible to sponsor (a) Religious Worker and
Answer: The information regarding eligibility to sponsor religious workers or Ministers of Religion 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 dispro...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Ministers of ReligionHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have a (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visa.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by visa route, including Religious Worker, and applicant type in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of t...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have indefinite leave to remain and (b) arrived in the UK on a skilled worker visa who work in an eligible profession.
Answer: The Home Office does not produce estimates of the total number of people who currently hold indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK, and of those, who arrived on a Skilled Worker visa and are working in an eligible profession.Migration Statistics do no...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with indefinite leave to remain status are in full time employment.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held.The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics relating to decisions on applications for Indefinite Leave to Remain, and those made through the EU Settlement Scheme, in the Immigration system statistics quar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: SponsorshipHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of employees in the average workforce of organisations listed on the register of licences sponsors (workers) are visa holders.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold any data on this matter. Obtaining the specific information requested would involve a breakdown of the workforce for each individual sponsor, which would require GDPR compliant agreements in place and only be obtained by disp...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: SponsorshipHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to to publish annual workforce totals for each organisation on the register of licensed sponsors (workers).
Answer: At present, there are no plans to publish this data, although we do keep such matters under review.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: SponsorshipHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to publish the number of visas sponsored by each organisation on the register of licensed sponsors (workers) since 2021.
Answer: Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who entered the UK on a social care work visa in each of the past ten years remain (a) in the UK and (b) working in social care.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the number of visas which have expired without (a) renewal, (b) transfer to another visa type and (c) acquiring indefinite leave to remain in each of the past five years
Answer: The Home Office publishes immigration statistics on a quarterly basis in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The relevant data for this request could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproport...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the difference in saving between (a) a clustered ICB and (b) an ICB merger, in the context of ICB re-organisation in the East of England.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) should engage with all other organisations within their integrated care partnership, including with local authorities, to ensure they are involved where there are boundary changes.Clustering ICBs remain separate organisations...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish an impact assessment on the proposed creation of a Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Hertfordshire ICB.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) should engage with all other organisations within their integrated care partnership, including with local authorities, to ensure they are involved where there are boundary changes.Clustering ICBs remain separate organisations...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what engagement he has had with local authorities in Bedfordshire on plans for ICB re-organisation in the East of England.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) should engage with all other organisations within their integrated care partnership, including with local authorities, to ensure they are involved where there are boundary changes.Clustering ICBs remain separate organisations...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordResident Doctors: StrikesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to (a) the NHS and (b) the public purse of the resident doctor strikes in 2025.
Answer: The five-day resident doctor strike in July 2025 had an estimated cost to the National Health Service of approximately £240 million and this was a starting estimate for the planned November strike. The costs were lower than in July 2024 as a result of low...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordResident Doctors: StrikesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the causes of the resident doctor strikes in 2025.
Answer: On 9 April, The British Medical Association resident doctors committee (BMA RDC) entered into dispute in relation to the timing of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration report and subsequently ran a statutory ballot, which closed on 8 Jul...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Millions more appointments as more than 2,000 extra GPs recruited, published on 24 July 2025, what proportion of additional GP appointments
Answer: Eight million more general practitioner (GP) appointments have been delivered this year compared to last.The General Practice Appointments Data (GPAD) does not enable us to attribute delivered appointments to individual GPs. As a result, it is not possibl...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: BedfordshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Millions more appointments as more than 2,000 extra GPs recruited, published on 24 July 2025, how many of those GPs are working in Bedfords
Answer: As of 31 August 2025, 48 newly qualified GPs have been recruited through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme since October 2024 in NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board.
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled £75 million boost for hospices to transform end-of-life care, published on 20 July 2025, whether he has made an assessment of the revenue i
Answer: Hospices do incredible work by supporting people and families when they need it most, and we recognise the incredibly tough pressures they are facing.Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commiss...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCare Workers: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2025 to Question 62005 on Care Workers: Migrant Workers, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on visa status and ongoing emplo
Answer: Home Office immigration statistics show the numbers of Health and Care Worker visas granted under this category for the ‘Caring Personal Services’ occupation group (613), which broadly covers occupations across social care, over time, and for the specific...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many face-to-face GP appointments were there in each of the past three years.
Answer: In the past three years, the number of face-to-face GP appointments were as follows:12 months to August 2023: 100.1 million appointments12 months to August 2024: 101.2 million appointments12 months to August 2025: 99 million appointmentsThese appointments...
Answered 16 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of face-to-face GP appointments in 2025/26.
Answer: This Government has committed to guarantee a face-to-face appointment for all those who want one. The National Health Service is clear that general practices must provide face-to-face appointments, alongside remote consultations, and patients’ input into ...
Answered 10 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 139 of his Department's 10 Year Health Plan, published on 3 July 2025, whether bridging loan capabilities will be permitted in order to allow the provision of new GP surgerie
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to determine how developer contributions from new housing developments can be better used towards local health services and i...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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