John Hayes MP: written questions 2025
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Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers is owed to her Department in excess profits since 2021.
Answer: Excess profits of £45.9m have been returned to the Department in relation to the contract’s profit share provisions.The Home Office is supported by a Commercial Department within which is a dedicated Asylum Support Commercial Contract Management Team. Thi...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants in her Department are working on recouping profits from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers.
Answer: Excess profits of £45.9m have been returned to the Department in relation to the contract’s profit share provisions.The Home Office is supported by a Commercial Department within which is a dedicated Asylum Support Commercial Contract Management Team. Thi...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers accommodated in (a) hotels or (b) other residences were in that accommodation for longer than 12 months since 2022.
Answer: The information requested 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 disproportionate cost.The latest published Immigration Statistics detai...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWales Office: InternetWales OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides IT services, including cyber security to my Department. The government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuit...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordScotland Office: InternetScotland OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: Government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuity of essential functions in the event of system or service failure.The Department for Science, Inno...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCrossbows: Import ControlsHome OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to stop the illegal importation of crossbows.
Answer: The Government is actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.The call for evidence...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCrossbows: SalesHome OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of setting up a licensing regime for the sale of crossbows.
Answer: The Government is actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.The call for evidence...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has provided for the provision of English for Speakers of Other Language courses in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Radiation ExposureMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to compensate British servicemen who took part in sampling missions through Soviet mushroom clouds in 1961 and 1962.
Answer: This Government has no current plans to develop a specific compensation scheme for Nuclear Test Veterans or their families, including those who took part in sampling missions through Soviet mushroom clouds in 1961 and 1962. Service personnel and Veterans ...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to prevent irregular migrants who have been removed under the UK-France Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys, published on 5 August 2025, from returning to the UK
Answer: As of 20 October, 42 returns have taken place under the exchange agreement. Anyone who re-enters illegally may face immediate detention and, where appropriate, we will seek to expedite removal. This will not count as a new removal in the reciprocal scheme...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFiresDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the National Fire Chief's Council consultation response to her Department’s policy on (a) wildfires and (b) risks to firefighters.
Answer: The National Fire Chiefs Council’s response to Defra’s consultation on heather and grass burning in England is already in the public domain. This can be found on their website here: 250523-Heather-and-Grass-Burning-in-England-Consultation-Response-FINAL.p...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for palliative care services in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission, including the NHS Lincolnshire ICB, which covers the South Holland and The Deepings constituency. This promotes a more consistent national approa...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Press: LincolnshireDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local media in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: Sustainability of local journalism across the country is an area of particular concern for this Government, including in South Holland and the Deepings and more broadly across Lincolnshire. The Government understands the important work that local news doe...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: TrainingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reducing levels of funding for level 7 apprenticeships on the number of nurses in training.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings to the answer to Question 83834.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-crime Hate IncidentsHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84149More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to direct police forces to instruct them to scrap the recording of all non-crime hate incidents.
Answer: This Government has been clear that the police should focus on tackling real crime and policing the streets, and that a consistent and common-sense approach must be taken with non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs).That is why the Home Secretary has asked the N...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSafe Abortion Action Fund: Las LibresForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83741More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether overseas aid provided to the Safe Abortion Action Fund has been given to Las Libres since 2022.
Answer: The UK provides overseas aid to the Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF), which works to expand access to legal, safe and life-saving abortion services in low- and middle-income countries. SAAF is a pooled fund which supports a number of partners globally, de...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that critical services continue to operate in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: DCMS has established business continuity and IT service continuity arrangements to sustain critical services during severe disruption, including a major internet outage. The business continuity function works closely with key stakeholders to regularly tes...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: InternetDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: Government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuity of essential functions in the event of system or service failure. The Department for Science, Inn...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: InternetDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what measures his Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has established a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) that is designed to ensure the continuity of departmental critical services in the event of a major disruption. Our BCMS aligns with industry be...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: InternetMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what measures his Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: Providing critical services in the event of a major internet outage requires that the department has suitable technology solutions in place, that services are well designed and governed, recovery requirements are assessed and they are aligned with busines...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Transport: InternetDepartment for TransportTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Department has a range of alternative means of communication, including telephony, and manual processes to facilitate business critical work and maintain operational continuity in the event of loss of internet connection over cellular and/or fixed lin...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: ChinaDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK-China Joint Economic and Trade Commission on (a) employment and (b) economic growth in Lincolnshire.
Answer: The Secretary of State for the Department of Business and Trade, Peter Kyle, visited China from 10-11 September to co-chair the first UK-China Joint Economic and Trade Commission since 2018 and the UK-China Industrial Cooperation Dialogue. The visit deliv...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: InternetForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has established business continuity and IT service continuity arrangements to sustain critical services during severe disruption, including a major internet outage. For security reasons, the department does...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: InternetDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83725More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: In preparation for potential major incidents, the department has undertaken Business Impact Assessments across all critical assets. These assessments have informed the development of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), which outline the procedures and conti...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: InternetDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83724More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuity of essential functions in the event of system or service failure. In line with these policies...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
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