Gregory Campbell MP: written questions 2025
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Demonstrations: Greater LondonHome OfficeTabled 31 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the policing of non-contentious parades in central London.
Answer: This Government continues to work closely with the Metropolitan Police to ensure parades, protests and assemblies can take place whilst maintaining public safety.Operational matters are for individual forces, and Government ministers do not intervene in h...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Illegal working and enforcement activity to the end of September 2025, published on 28 October 2025, how many of people arrested under suspicion
Answer: We do not routinely publish the information you have requested. We are unable to provide this information, as it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the reduction in the qualifying age for bowel cancer screening on detection rates in the past five years.
Answer: The final roll out of this policy only concluded in April 2025. As such, NHS England has not yet made any formal assessment of the impact of lowering the age for bowel cancer screening down to 50 on detection rates.However, when making the recommendation ...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordContactless PaymentsTreasuryTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86184More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 77468 on Contactless Payments, if she will have discussions with the FCA on extending the closing deadline for responses to the consultation on unlimited conta
Answer: On September 10, the FCA launched a consultation on its proposals to introduce a new risk-based approach to contactless payments, allowing payment service providers greater flexibility to determine their approach to contactless payments where they identif...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 84157 on Immigration Controls: Northern Ireland, what information her Department holds on the outcomes of Operation Gull; and what criteria she us
Answer: To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication. Information about outcomes and criteria to ...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWomen against State Pension InequalityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 84146 on Women against State Pension Inequality, whether he plans to meet with representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaig
Answer: There are no plans to meet with any campaign groups.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDiabetes: EyesightDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure more widespread availability of the drug 2-HDP.
Answer: We are pleased to see promising results from the Queen's University Belfast study into the novel drug known as 2-Hydrazino-4,6-dimethylpyrimidine (2-HDP). This demonstrates the strength of the United Kingdom’s clinical research environment and the importa...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Charging PointsDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85702More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2025 to Question 51813 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, whether her Department has had recent discussions with the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland on the
Answer: In the 2025 Spending Review £400 million of capital funding was allocated to support the rollout of charging infrastructure in the four financial years from 2026/27 to 2029/30. Under prior On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) funding, 127 charg...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPayment MethodsTreasuryTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85107More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she expects to receive the Payments Forward Plan under the National Payments Vision.
Answer: The Terms of Reference for the Payments Vision Delivery Committee set out the Payments Forward Plan will be published by the end of this year. This will set out a sequenced plan of initiatives across the wider UK payments ecosystem.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas Trade: GermanyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67823 on Overseas Trade: Germany, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the lighthouse projects agreed with Germany on ec
Answer: The Kensington Treaty signed between the UK and Germany commits the parties to mutually supporting economic growth, job creation, digital transition and innovation, working with our businesses and mobilising investment to grow our economies. As part of im...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: Older PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged 75 years and over have requested a bowel screening kit by phoning the free bowel cancer screening helpline in the last two years.
Answer: The National Health Service bowel cancer screening programme’s published data for 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2024 shows that 396,325 people self-referred or opted back into the programme within the year. This includes ‘over-age self-referrals’, those aged 7...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad TrafficDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review the National Road Traffic Projection before the end of 2026.
Answer: We continue to update our Transport Analysis Guidance at 6 month intervals for those preparing business cases; this includes regular updates to some of the parameters that affect transport including GDP and fuel prices. We will consider reviewing the NRTP...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPost Office: ContractsDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what differences there are between the (a) contact due to end in March 2027 and (b) the new contract for services provided by the Post Office.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) current contract with Post Office Ltd to provide a limited range of DVLA services ends in March 2027. A procurement for a new contract is being prepared, the requirements for which are still being considere...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Internal Trade: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84910More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2025 to Question 51109 on UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland, how many species are scheduled to have their prohibition lifted by 31 December 2025.
Answer: Defra has submitted technical dossiers to the European Commission seeking derogations for 45 species of plants from the EU's prohibitions on entry for high-risk plants. 35 of these have been successful to date, subject to specific conditions being met. Th...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: TerrorismForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 906050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will hold discussions with the UN on its estimate of the number of rocket attacks into Israel in the 12 months before and since 7 October 2023.
Answer: The UK Government has consistently condemned the rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other terror groups at civilian populations within Israel, both before and after the horrors of October 7 2023. Those attacks reinforce our determination that there will...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Northern IrelandHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) prosecuted, and (b) convicted as a result of Operation Gull in Northern Ireland since 2010.
Answer: To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication. Information about convictions as a result o...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordInnovate UK: Northern IrelandDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assistance the Innovate UK Business Growth Delivery Programme offers to small businesses in Northern Ireland.
Answer: Innovate UK Business Growth supports innovation-driven businesses with high growth potential to reach scale in Northern Ireland - where it has supported 424 businesses to date - and across the UK by connecting a locally based innovation and growth special...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLibya: Freezing of AssetsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it her Department's policy to utilise frozen Libyan assets to compensate victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism.
Answer: Libyan assets were frozen under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 to prevent their misuse, with the aim of preserving them for the future benefit of the Libyan people. Therefore, these frozen assets cannot be used to compensate vic...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWomen against State Pension InequalityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign.
Answer: The previous Minister for Pensions met with representatives from WASPI on 5th September 2024 to hear their experiences directly, the first Minister to do so in eight years.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordParliamentary Estate: HeatingHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83736More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will take steps to ensure that the (a) timeline and (b) criteria for heating being resumed on the parliamentary estate in the autumn is r
Answer: Heating and cooling across the Parliamentary Estate is managed centrally in accordance with the Parliamentary Heating and Cooling Protocol. This outlines timelines and criteria for when heating should be operational. A review of the existing protocol will...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Travel AuthorisationsHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she next plans to publish guidance on the (a) implementation and (b) enforcement of the electronic travel authorisation in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.
Answer: The electronic travel authorisation (ETA) scheme is fully implemented for non-visa national visitors to the UK. There were 13.4 million ETAs granted since the introduction of the scheme up to the end of June 2025.We expect carriers to begin enforcement of...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Screening CommitteeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how often the UK National Screening Committee met in 2024; and in what format it met.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) usually meets three times a year. In 2024 the UK NSC met twice, firstly in March, in an online format, and again in November, in person with online facilities available. The June meeting did not take place as i...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Translation ServicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 70325 on Ministry of Justice: Translation Services, what estimate she has made of the proportion of the spending between 2021 and 2024 that was attributable
Answer: As this personal data is not collected in relation to the translation contract, the requested information cannot be provided.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he is making on finding (a) a cure and (b) improved treatments for people with Huntingtons disease.
Answer: We recognise the significant challenges faced by those living with rare diseases such as Huntington’s disease. Although there is currently no cure for the disease, there are efforts to ensure that innovative treatments and research opportunities reach pat...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: EU CountriesHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with her European counterparts on removing requirements for (a) proof of accommodation, (b) evidence of sufficient funds, (c) proof of medical insurance and (d) proof of a
Answer: The government will continue to engage the European Commission and member states on their plans to implement the Entry/Exit System.Questions asked to passengers as part of the new system are ultimately operational matters for the Commission and member sta...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
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