Gregory Stafford MP: written questions 2025
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Banks: ClosuresTreasuryTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86971More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to ensure continued access to (a) cheque deposits and (b) other essential banking services for customers affected by branch closures.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities, high streets and rural areas and is committed to championing sufficient access, including for older and digitally excluded customers. This is why the Government is working c...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordLloyds Bank: ClosuresTreasuryTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86970More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions the Government has had with Lloyds Bank on (a) the closure of branches in (i) Haslemere, (ii) Petersfield, and (iii) Godalming and (b) the effect of those closures on local communities.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communities, high streets and rural areas and is committed to championing sufficient access, including for older and digitally excluded customers. This is why the Government is working c...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the ongoing Curriculum Review will include a focus on expanding or deepening the teaching of practical financial skills for pupils.
Answer: On 5 November, the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review published its final report which includes recommendations for a refreshed curriculum and assessment system in England. The government responded to this report. The response includes a commitm...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to strengthen the enforcement and delivery of financial education across all types of schools.
Answer: On 5 November, the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review published its final report which includes recommendations for a refreshed curriculum and assessment system in England. The government responded to this report. The response includes a commitm...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSomalia: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent diplomatic steps she has taken with international counterparts to ensure the protection of Christian communities in Somalia.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 6 August to Question 68009.
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDebt CollectionTreasuryTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85656More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the Financial Conduct Authority on improving guidance for debt purchasers on responding to disclosures of consumer vulnerability.
Answer: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is responsible for the regulation of firms carrying out debt purchasing activities in respect to credit or consumer hire agreements. The FCA expects that these firms treat customers fairly, including those in vulnerab...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCredit and Debt CollectionTreasuryTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85655More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of regulatory oversight of debt purchasing companies in ensuring that credit reference data is updated promptly following the completion of an Individual Voluntary Arrang
Answer: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is responsible for the regulation of firms carrying out debt purchasing activities in respect to credit or consumer hire agreements. The FCA expects that these firms treat customers fairly, including those in vulnerab...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken an equality impact assessment for the covid-19 autumn vaccination eligibility criteria for households containing clinically extremely vulnerable people.
Answer: The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).In line with JCVI advice, the autumn 2025 programme is focussed on targete...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of excluding (a) household members and (b) carers from eligibility for covid-19 vaccinations on clinically extremely vulnerable people.
Answer: The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The primary aim of the national COVID-19 vaccination programme remains th...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: National SecurityHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she plans to maintain the integrity of UK borders while fulfilling international obligations towards asylum seekers, in the context of evolving security risks.
Answer: All asylum and human rights claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations so that we do not remove anyone to a country where they would face persecution or serious harm. All asylum claimants ar...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what vetting processes are in place to prevent people with a history of violence or extremism from being granted asylum, in the context of recent developments in the Middle East.
Answer: All asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to establish their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to the delivery of a safe and se...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Middle EastHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that (a) the Border Force and (b) UK national security agencies are aware of the identities of high-risk individuals released in prisoner exchanges in the Middle Eas
Answer: The Home Secretary has not had any engagement with Israeli authorities to discuss these matters. Since October 2023, a specialist team of experts from the FCDO have been providing support to family members in the UK and Israel. Officials have offered supp...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Middle EastHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Israeli authorities on the sharing of (a) intelligence, (b) biometric data and (c) watchlists in relation to people released under prisoner agreements related to
Answer: It is the long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment publicly on discussions related to the UK sharing intelligence with international partners. The Home Office uses various tools to detect and disrupt travel by terrorists, by criminals...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVietnam: Human RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions her Department has had with their Vietnamese counterparts on the use of counter-terrorism laws to target (a) Montagnard Indigenous Peoples and (b) Chr
Answer: The UK Government continues to raise concerns with the Vietnamese authorities about the use of national security legislation to target Montagnard Indigenous Peoples and Christian religious minorities. These issues were most recently raised by the former P...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChina: Human RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82913More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken with international partners to support imprisoned human rights supports in China, in the context of reports of (a) torture and (b)
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 1 September to Question 70115.
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordReligious FreedomMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to support (a) religious freedom and the (b) protection of minority faith groups.
Answer: Freedom of religion or belief is a fundamental human right. Everyone in Britain has the right to feel safe and at ease where they live. The Government is committed to protecting individuals’ right to practise their religion freely and will not tolerate re...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: AhmadiyyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to encourage the formation of an independent investigation into the 10 October 2025 attack on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Rabwah, Pakist
Answer: We are aware of the recent attack at Baitul Mahdi Mosque in Rabwah and continue to monitor the situation with concern. Our High Commission in Islamabad regularly raises the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims with the Government of Pakistan at the highest level...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: AhmadiyyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to raise recent violence against Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Answer: We are aware of the recent attack at Baitul Mahdi Mosque in Rabwah and continue to monitor the situation with concern. Our High Commission in Islamabad regularly raises the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims with the Government of Pakistan at the highest level...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: AhmadiyyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to her Pakistani counterpart on the (a) safety and (b) protection of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, in the context of the recent attack in
Answer: We are aware of the recent attack at Baitul Mahdi Mosque in Rabwah and continue to monitor the situation with concern. Our High Commission in Islamabad regularly raises the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims with the Government of Pakistan at the highest level...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: AhmadiyyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her polices of the armed attack on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Rabwah, Pakistan, on 10 October 2025.
Answer: We are aware of the recent attack at Baitul Mahdi Mosque in Rabwah and continue to monitor the situation with concern. Our High Commission in Islamabad regularly raises the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims with the Government of Pakistan at the highest level...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth and Safety: SunscreensDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will mandate the Health and Safety Executive to audit businesses employing outdoor workers to ensure that high factor sunscreen is provided on site.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recognises the health risks posed by working in the sun in industries such as agriculture and construction. HSE’s guidance is informed by the NHS’s position and is available here: Skin at work: Outdoor workers and sun...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth and Safety: SunscreensDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will mandate the Health and Safety Executive to issue updated guidance on outdoor working and sun exposure to include the use of high factor sunscreen.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) currently provides guidance for outdoor workers and sun exposure on both its main website pages and as a short leaflet entitled Keep your top on - Health risks from working in the sun (INDG147), both of which recommen...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the teaching of sun safety to secondary schools.
Answer: As part of the revised relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance, published on 15 July, schools must now teach facts about safe and unsafe exposure to the sun, and how to reduce the risk of sun damage, including skin cancer. In sec...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that all primary schools must adopt a national sun safe policy.
Answer: Schools are responsible for safeguarding children in their care. We expect all schools to make sensible decisions about sun safety when temperatures are high.The department’s Education Hub website signposts the UK Security Agency’s advice for teachers and...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: SafetyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that all primary schools are keeping children safe from the exposure to the sun during the school day.
Answer: Schools are responsible for safeguarding children in their care. We expect all schools to make sensible decisions about sun safety when temperatures are high.The department’s Education Hub website signposts the UK Security Agency’s advice for teachers and...
Answered 7 Nov 2025
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