Gregory Campbell MP: written questions 2025
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Northern Ireland Office: Social MediaNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment has he made of the potential implications for his policies of the conclusions of the report by the Windsor Framework Independent Monitoring Panel, published on 5 December 2025, on Busines
Answer: The Government considered the issues raised in the Independent Monitoring Panel’s report as part of its response to the Independent Review of the Windsor Framework. This includes a commitment to delivering an enhanced ‘one stop shop’ advice service for sm...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordVictims' Payments SchemeMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of veterans living in Northern Ireland who are eligible for but have not yet applied to the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme.
Answer: The Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme was established by the Victims Payments Regulations Act 2020 and is run by the independent Victims Payment Board, administered by on behalf of the Northern Ireland Executive. Further information is availab...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: South KoreaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Executive to ensure that the trade deal between the UK and South Korea impacts all areas of the United Kingdom.
Answer: The FTA between the UK and the Republic of Korea will apply to all parts of the UK, including Northern Ireland. DBT have worked closely with the Devolved Governments throughout the negotiations. Digitised trade provisions and new rules of origin will bene...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of domestic properties Mears Housing currently owns in Northern Ireland which were previously used for housing asylum seekers but are vacant as of 1 December
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this data.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordBanking HubsTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100297More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the viability over the next five years of existing banking hubs.
Answer: Banking is changing, with many customers benefitting from the convenience and flexibility of managing their finances remotely. However, the Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities and is committed to ensuring sufficien...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2025 to WPQ 98745, how many (a) vehicle owners and (b) people on the Register of Number Plate Suppliers have been (i) charged, and (ii) convicted of offences connected with
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) does not hold information about the number of vehicle keepers who have been convicted for number plate offences as enforcement of number plates offences is a matter for the police. The DVLA does not have the ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordIncinerators and RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the change in the tonnage of (a) recycled and (b) incinerated waste between 2019 and 2024.
Answer: The most comprehensive waste treatment data Defra hold for the period from 2019 to 2024 cover the management of local authority collected waste in England for the financial years 2018/19 to 2023/24. The data are available in the Local authority collected...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordConnect Fund: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Connect Fund reaches communities that have previously had lower application rates for grant funding across Northern Ireland.
Answer: The £1m Connect Fund makes awards to strengthen civic ties between Northern Ireland and Great Britain across a range of sectors. I am encouraged by the high level of interest the Fund has received from community and voluntary groups to date. Early next ye...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Older PeopleCabinet OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99700More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged 66 and over are estimated in 2025 to be in (a) full time employment, and (b) part time employment.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 15th of December is attached.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to WPQ 3948 Dated 9/9/2024, which areas in the nations and regions of the UK were events held to ensure that businesses become more aware of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Tra
Answer: Since September 2023 the Department for Business and Trade has attended or coordinated over 70 events (online or in-person) to ensure that UK businesses are aware of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). In per...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordIncome TaxTreasuryTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99483More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of people paying (a) basic rate, (b) higher rate, and (c) additional rate of Income Tax between 2020 and 2025.
Answer: The number of individuals in each of the three main Income Tax rate bands from 2020 to 2025 is published in Table 2.1 of HMRC’s Accredited official statistics. Updated forecasts are published in Table 3.19 of the OBR’s November 2025 Economic and fiscal ou...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Passenger DutyTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99158More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will consider changing air passenger duty on all passengers so that higher duty is levied on those who fly more frequently.
Answer: The distance-band structure of Air Passenger Duty (APD) already ensures that those who fly furthest, in the greatest comfort, pay the most. Similarly, given APD is charged on all UK-departing flights, those who fly most often pay more.
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAviation: Alternative FuelsDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what has been the change in the volume of sustainable aviation fuel production in the UK between 2019 and 2024.
Answer: We do not hold statistics on volumes of SAF produced in the UK. SAF volumes are reported to the Department by fuel suppliers to discharge their obligations under the SAF mandate, and between 2019 and 2024, under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RT...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBoiler Upgrade Scheme: BiofuelsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many biomass boilers granted and installed under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme have had to be replaced due to faults in the installation or in the boiler in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Government does not hold specific data on the number of biomass boilers that have subsequently been replaced under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. Ofgem, the scheme administrators, continue to work closely with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: FinanceTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98756More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how she will notify SMEs that their bank is a designated bank under any scheme set up to ensure customers that are rejected for finance approval can be matched with alternatives who will offer support.
Answer: The Bank Referral Scheme is an initiative dating back to 2014, which requires major lenders (designated banks) to refer SME customers that they reject for finance, with the SMEs’ permission, to finance platforms that can match the SME with alternative fin...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98753More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the total in duty deferment accounts that HMRC received in the calendar year 2024 via customs duties collected as a result of trade between GB and NI affected by the Windsor Framework.
Answer: HMRC does not hold the information in the format requested.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterinary Medicine Working GroupDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Veterinary Medicine Working Group plans to meet in January 2026.
Answer: The Veterinary Medicine Working Group last met on 9 December 2025 and plans to meet next in the early new year when the two schemes that the Government is introducing will be in effect.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBiotechnology: Northern IrelandDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to help support and promote biotechnology in Northern Ireland through the Industrial Strategy.
Answer: Life sciences, which includes biotechnology, is one of the priority sectors under the Government’s Industrial Strategy. This summer the Government published the UK Life Sciences Sector Plan, setting out a bold ambition to make the UK the leading life scie...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98745More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of use of illegal number plates between 2021 and 2025.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) does not hold data on the level of use of illegal number plates. On road enforcement is a matter for the police. The DVLA works with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other government departments to imp...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: VictimsHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 9 December 2025 to Question 96618 and 25 November 2025 to Question 94151, what assessment she has made of the risk of those involved in committing acts of terrorism being in
Answer: On 21 August next year, the nation will come together to pay tribute to victimsand survivors of terrorism.The National Day is dedicated to remembering and recognising victims andsurvivors of terrorism, rather than the perpetrators of such attacks.We will ...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Aviation Authority: Windsor FrameworkDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assesment she has made of the potential impact the Windsor Framework on the operations of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Answer: While the Windsor Framework does contain provisions related to the movement of people, animals and goods, including by air, we assess that the Windsor Framework has no direct impact on the UK-wide regulatory role of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: InvestmentTreasuryTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98356More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority's press release entitled FCA sets out landmark package to boost UK investment culture, published on 8 December 2025, whether she plans to provide additional support
Answer: The Government wants to see more people benefit from the higher returns and long-term financial resilience that investing can provide. That is why the Chancellor has set out a series of bold measures to get Britain investing again, including the reforms t...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHasan Ali al-TarakiHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the case of Hasan Ali al-Taraki.
Answer: The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.
Answered 19 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDiabetesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to WPQ 51812, what assessment he has made of the reliability of BMI testing, in the context of the Global Burden of Disease’s indication that one of the main contributory causes of type 2
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service.NICE has published guidance on the management of overweight and obesity. The guidance r...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGlobal Combat Air ProgrammeMinistry of DefenceTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when regulatory approvals will be given to BAE Systems, Leonardo and Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement to allow a joint venture for the Global Combat Air Programme to begin work.
Answer: All necessary regulatory approvals were in place ahead of the Edgewing incorporation in June.
Answered 11 Dec 2025
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