Christopher Chope MP: written questions
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Written questions
Carbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, in 1990, what was the contribution in parts per million of CO2 emissions from the UK into the atmosphere (a) gross of sequestration and (b) net of sequestration; and what was the contribution
Answer: UK net territorial CO2 emissions were 603.3 million tonnes in 1990 and provisionally estimated at 290.4 million tonnes in 2024. Source: DESNZ, provisional 2024 UK net territorial greenhouse gas emissions statistics.CO2 is calculated in terms of net emissi...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the initial asylum decisions resulting in refusal have been the subject of an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal between October 2024 and March 2025; and how many of those (a) were successf
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum appeals lodged, and determined by outcome, are published in tables Asy_D06 and Asy_D07, respectively, of the asylum detailed datasets. The la...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the cost to the public purse of the indemnity to pharmaceutical companies in the context of Covid-19 vaccines.
Answer: The Government cannot comment on the terms on which COVID-19 vaccinations were procured, which are confidential.
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Subject Access RequestsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many data subject access requests were received by the NHS in England in the last year for which figures are available; and how many of those requests were responded to with the requested data
Answer: Information on the number of data subject access requests received by National Health Service organisations, and the time taken to respond, is not collected centrally.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHouse of Commons: EscalatorsHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88187More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reason the escalator from the House of Commons Members' car park does not cut off automatically when not in use.
Answer: The escalator is fitted with controls that allow the speed to vary dependent on demand and, in periods of low demand, runs at a slow speed to be energy efficient.The design of the escalator is such that it does not stop completely – this is a safety featu...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPalace of Westminster: LiftsHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88186More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, for how many days lift number 77 in the Palace of Westminster has been out of order this year; for what reason it remains out of order; and when it is expe
Answer: Lift number 77 (HOP77) has been out of order for a total of 51 days in 2025 over four occasions, the most recent of which was 47 days.HOP 77 was returned to service on 7 November 2025 following the replacement of a printed circuit board which controlled t...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHadush KebatuHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November to Question 86603, whether the £500 facilitation payment given to Hadush Kebatu was paid under the (a) Voluntary Returns Service or (b) Facilitated Return Scheme;
Answer: Mr Kebatu was issued a £500 discretionary payment to avoid the potential disruption of this return. Cancelling the return at the last stage would have triggered substantial costs. If the operation had been halted before departure, the minimum unavoidable ...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Correspondence and Written QuestionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November to Question 86604, how many full time equivalent staff are employed in his office to (a) answer invitations and (b) answer Parliamentary Questions.
Answer: The answering of Ministerial invitations and Parliamentary Questions is shared across Private Offices and the Parliamentary Unit. Full time equivalency on these work streams fluctuates with business needs.
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of Personal Independence Payment are aged (a) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18; how many of those are in full time education; and how many of those are in each constituency in England.
Answer: The information requested on the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) recipients aged 16, 17 and 18 in full-time education is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Information on Personal Independence Payment (PI...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordParkfield School ChristchurchDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to dispose of the redundant site of the former Parkfield School at Hurn; and what estimate she has made of the (a) security and (b) opportunity costs of the premises remaining unused.
Answer: The school building was officially handed back to the department on 29 August 2025. Since that time LocatED have been managing the site on behalf of the department.The department has sought expressions of interest from academy trusts to use the site for a...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst-tier Tribunal: JudgesMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 68347 on Immigration: Appeals, when the recruitment exercise commenced in 2024 for the First Tier Tribunal will be completed; and how many vacant posts at the Im
Answer: The recruitment for salaried judges of the First-tier Tribunal (FtT) closed for applications in November 2024. The recruitment for fee-paid judges of the First-tier Tribunal closed for applications in June 2024. Both exercises included recruitment for jud...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst-tier Tribunal: JudgesMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 87232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status is of the recruitment exercise which closed in November 2024 for Judges of the First-Tier Tribunal; how many applications were received; and how many appointments have been made (a) in total, (b)
Answer: The recruitment for salaried judges of the First-tier Tribunal (FtT) closed for applications in November 2024. The recruitment for fee-paid judges of the First-tier Tribunal closed for applications in June 2024. Both exercises included recruitment for jud...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAll-party Parliamentary Group for Energy StudiesDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86604More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer on 27 October 2025 to Question 84141 on All-party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies, how many invitations he received for speaking events in (a) August, (b) Septem
Answer: As I notified the hon. Member in my Answer on 27 October 2025 to Question 84141, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero receives a high volume of invitations to events and is not able to accommodate all requests.
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportation and Repatriation: PaymentsHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what value of facilitation payments were made to people subject to (i) deportation and (ii) removal in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answer: The information requested regarding the specific value of payments made under the Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) and Facilitated Return Scheme (FRS) are not separately available from published statistics. The Home Office publishes all available informati...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrataion: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86602More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve decision-making by her Department in the context of the number of successful appeals under the Human Rights Act 1998 upheld by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on initial decisions and outcomes on asylum claims, is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claim and initial decisions detailed datasets’. The lat...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86601More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts hear First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) appeals; and how many are fully funded to operate throughout the year.
Answer: The First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FtTIAC) has 83 tribunal hearing rooms across the United Kingdom and has access to shared court rooms in other jurisdictions. Utilisation of this space is dependent on a number of factors including th...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFraud: DorsetHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86600More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will conduct an inquiry into the reasons why Dorset Police discontinued their investigation into the fraudulent activities identified in Operation Ringwood.
Answer: The Home Office is aware of the Operation Ringwood investigation and strongly sympathises with the distressing experience that victims have faced.The Home Secretary is unable to intervene in any operational decisions made by law enforcement regarding repo...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHospital Beds: DorsetDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many beds at University Hospitals Dorset were occupied on (a) 1 April and (b) 1 October 2025 by patients with no criteria to reside.
Answer: Information about how many beds are occupied by patients with no criteria to reside by trust is published by NHS England, and this information is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/discharge-delays...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86176More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) were outstanding on 30 September (a) 2025, (b) 2024 and (c) 2023.
Answer: The number of open cases in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is published in table FIA4 of the Tribunals Statistics quarterly tables and more recently monthly data in table 3 of the HMCTS management information.Figures covering up ...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions of the Home Office with a right of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) have been made in each of the last 12 months; and how many of these have been or are no
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on initial decisions and outcomes on asylum claims, is published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claim and initial decisions detailed datasets’. The lat...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason is the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) at Taylor House Tribunal Hearing Centre on Rosebery Avenue, London, is restricted from using more than 20 of its 27 courts on average during the
Answer: The First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FtTIAC) is currently sitting to maximum levels possible based on available judicial capacity.The FtTIAC has 27 hearing rooms available to list into at the Taylor House Tribunal Hearing Centre. Utilis...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make his policy that witnesses giving evidence at hearings of the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) should do so under oath.
Answer: As an issue of tribunal procedure, giving evidence under oath would be a matter for judicial consideration. Rule 14(3) of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) already provides that the tribunal may require evidence...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRepossession OrdersMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy that requests by district judges to transfer up to the High Court for enforcement should always be allowed (a) where the County Court bailiff delay locally is three months or more an
Answer: The Government has noted the findings of the High Court Enforcement Officer Association’s recent report about the process for transferring possession cases to the High Court for enforcement by High Court Enforcement Officers and is considering its recomme...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRepossession OrdersMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84565More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the High Court Enforcement Officers Association's report entitled Possessions - Transferring Up, published in October 2025.
Answer: The Government has noted the findings of the High Court Enforcement Officer Association’s recent report about the process for transferring possession cases to the High Court for enforcement by High Court Enforcement Officers and is considering its recomme...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84564More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for damage caused by covid-19 vaccines were received between 1 April and 30 September 2025; how many awards were made to claimants in that perio
Answer: My deepest sympathies are with those who have experienced harm following vaccination and to their families.Data from the NHS Business Services Authority, the administrator of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, shows that during the period of 1 April 2025 ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
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