Lee Anderson MP: written questions
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Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of halving the foreign aid budget.
Answer: On Tuesday 25 February, Prime Minister announced that we will increase defence spending to 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2027; the security of the UK is the first duty of government.Doing so demands the difficult but necessary decision to reduce...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: Cost EffectivenessForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the cost effectiveness of foreign aid.
Answer: We work hard to ensure that our development assistance reaches those who need it most, where and when it is most effective, delivering value for money for the British taxpayer.To support effective programme delivery, the publicly available FCDO Programme ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChinese Embassy: Planning PermissionHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to move the Chinese Embassy to the former Royal Mint building on security.
Answer: As set out in a joint letter by the Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary to the Planning Inspector on 14 January, the Home Office has considered the breadth of national security issues in relation to the planning application.It would not be appropriate to...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Authority Housing FundMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether public funds will be made available to Palestinians granted the right to settle in the UK via the Local Authorities Housing Fund.
Answer: Palestinians are not directly accommodated under the Local Authority Housing Fund. They can, however, seek advice from their local authority if they need support with housing, who will assess what homelessness duties are owed, based on the circumstances o...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: UkraineHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases relating to unsuccessful applications to the Ukraine Family Scheme are (a) awaiting hearing and (b) ongoing in (i) Crown and (ii) magistrates courts.
Answer: There is no right of appeal or administrative review against decisions on Ukraine Family Scheme applications.Immigration appeals are not heard in Crown or Magistrates' Courts
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: PalestiniansHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Palestinians granted permission to stay in the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme will be eligible for indefinite leave to remain.
Answer: No Palestinians have been granted permission to stay in the UK under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32176More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber ruling UI-2024-005295 & Ors, whether foreign nationals of any nationality with a family member residing in the UK have the right to
Answer: No Palestinians have been granted permission to stay in the UK under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of people that may be eligible to settle in the UK whose cases are being assessed by UK courts.
Answer: It is not possible to make any such estimate as we cannot predict the outcome of a legal case.The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber ruling UI-2024-005295 & Ors, whether the appellants will be (a) granted indefinite leave to remain and (b) eligible for citizenship.
Answer: No Palestinians have been granted permission to stay in the UK under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32173More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber ruling UI-2024-005295 & Ors, whether the appellants will be entitled to the same access to public funds as people granted permission
Answer: No Palestinians have been granted permission to stay in the UK under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32172More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing changes to the Agricultural Property Relief threshold.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and fixing the public finances in a fair way. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advantag...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPostural Tachycardia Syndrome: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional funding for research into Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
Answer: The Department funds health and care research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds clinical, public health, and social care research and works in partnership with the National Health Service, universities, loc...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPostural Tachycardia SyndromeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the diagnosis rate of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome.
Answer: Improving health outcomes for people who live with long-term conditions, including postural tachycardia syndrome, is a key part of the Government's mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future. The National Institute for Health and Care E...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: ShortagesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help tackle shortages of Creon.
Answer: The Department monitors and manages medicine supply at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. Information on stock levels within local areas is not held centrally.The Department is continuing to engage with all...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement TherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with the manufacturers of Creon.
Answer: The Department monitors and manages medicine supply at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. Information on stock levels within local areas is not held centrally.The Department is continuing to engage with all...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: AshfieldDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to help increase the number of GP appointments in Ashfield.
Answer: We recognise that patients are finding it difficult to see a general practitioner (GP), and we are committed to fixing the front door to the National Health Service.We are investing an additional £889 million in general practice to reinforce the front doo...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: Government AssistanceHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to fire and rescue services, in the context of levels of increases in central funding.
Answer: Overall, fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.87 billion in 2024/25. Decisions on how their resources are best deployed to meet their core functions are a matter for each fire and rescue authority based on its analysis of risk and local circ...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests of illegal workers have resulted in deportation to their country of origin in the last six months.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’, which can be found here: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (opens in a new tab). This does not include a separate category for indiv...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVetting: HampshireHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average processing time for Disclosure and Barring Service checks conducted through Hampshire Police.
Answer: The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is operationally independent from the Home Office.Accordingly, the Home Office does not hold the information requested on the average processing time for DBS checks conducted through Hampshire Police.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase access to dentists in areas with fewer dentists than the national average.
Answer: We are aware of the challenges faced in accessing a dentist, particularly in more rural and coastal areas. The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,00...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: NottinghamshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the NHS on lower rates of (a) adults and (b) children having seen a dentist in Nottinghamshire in the last two years than the equivalent average rates f
Answer: In the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), in the 24 months to June 2024, 42% of adults were seen by a National Health Service dentist, compared to 40% in England. In the 12 months to June 2024, 60% of children were seen by an ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: NottinghamshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to improve access to dentistry care in Nottinghamshire.
Answer: In the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), in the 24 months to June 2024, 42% of adults were seen by a National Health Service dentist, compared to 40% in England. In the 12 months to June 2024, 60% of children were seen by an ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32012More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025 to Question 29494 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, if she will make it her policy to (a) record and (b) publish annually the number of benefit fraud investi
Answer: The Department is not currently considering changing the data we record or publish about the outcomes of fraud investigations. We are confident that the data we collect and publish in the Annual Reports and Accounts is comprehensive and proportionate – th...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national awareness campaign on prostate cancer.
Answer: NHS England run Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address the barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of sy...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his planned timetable is for publication of the review of the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.
Answer: I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to my hon Friend the Member for Falkirk (Euan Stainbank) on 29 January 2025 to Question UIN 25410.
Answered 27 Feb 2025
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