Lee Anderson MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Immigration Controls: BoatsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats have been found carrying (a) drugs and (b) weapons upon arrival in the UK in the last year.
Answer: All migrants arriving by small boats are subject to physical searches upon arrival, and clothing is removed and replaced as part of initial reception processing.Some small weapons – for example, knives – have occasionally been seized as a result of those ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: BoatsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what search procedures are conducted on migrants immediately upon arrival from a small boat.
Answer: All migrants arriving by small boats are subject to physical searches upon arrival, and clothing is removed and replaced as part of initial reception processing.Some small weapons – for example, knives – have occasionally been seized as a result of those ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: SmugglingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risk of Class A drug smuggling across the English Channel in migrant small boats.
Answer: All migrants arriving by small boats are subject to physical searches upon arrival, and clothing is removed and replaced as part of initial reception processing.Some small weapons – for example, knives – have occasionally been seized as a result of those ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordInternational Court of JusticeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his policy is on responding to non-binding rulings of the United Nations International Court of Justice where they relate to the UK.
Answer: While not legally binding, rulings such as the International Court of Justice's advisory opinions carry significant weight and are likely to be highly influential on any subsequent court or tribunal considering the same issues, so the UK will take them in...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to improve access to new treatments for patients with secondary breast cancer.
Answer: The Department is committed to ensuring that the National Health Service diagnoses cancer earlier and treats it faster so that more patients, including those with breast cancer, survive.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes re...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make provision for the early diagnosis of blood cancers in the National Cancer Plan.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve out...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of the adequacy of targets based on the staging of solid tumours for the early diagnosis of blood cancers in patients.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of GP visits before diagnosis for patients with blood cancer.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. However, because of the state of the NHS this Government inherited, we recognise that patients with cancers with non-specific sympt...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of blood cancer patients diagnosed through A&E.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the early (a) detection and (b) diagnosis of blood cancer.
Answer: The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Foreign NationalsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish data on the number of foreign nationals residing in the UK and living in social housing.
Answer: Housing is a devolved matter, with each of the four nations of the UK developing their own policies and data collections to monitor the impact of them. The English Housing Survey published by my Department, which can be found on gov.uk here, shows that th...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of foreign nationals receiving Universal Credit arrived in the UK in the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information for all claimants over the last five years.
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people will become eligible for indefinite leave to remain in the next five years.
Answer: Eligibility for indefinite leave to remain is assessed upon application, by individual caseworkers, and as such, there are no fixed estimates of the number of individuals who will become eligible at any point.
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure coordination between her Department and the Department for Work and Pensions when monitoring foreign nationals' eligibility for Universal Credit.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) applies strict compliance and benefit eligibility checks to all claimants regardless of their nationality. In addition to verifying a claimant’s identity, DWP always checks a person’s immigration status before pa...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with benefit eligibility rules by foreign nationals.
Answer: The Department applies strict compliance and benefit eligibility checks to all claimants regardless of their nationality. In addition to verifying a claimant’s identity, DWP checks that claimants are habitually resident here before they can receive public...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the estimated cost of (a) fraud and (b) error in Universal Credit claims was in each of the last five years.
Answer: Estimates of the overpayment cost of fraud and error in the benefit system for the past five financial years can be found at: Fraud and error in the benefit system - GOV.UK
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: AsylumDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the financial sustainability of the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Universal Credit.
Answer: People who are in the UK with no immigration status who are applying for asylum are not permitted access to public funds and therefore cannot claim Universal Credit.
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the (a) structure or (b) allocation of the welfare budget.
Answer: This Government is committed to a social security system which raises employment and living standards by supporting and incentivising people into work and to work more, reduces poverty by supporting people at times of higher cost and dependency, and promo...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increasing number of people receiving Universal Credit to the British taxpayer.
Answer: This Government is committed to a social security system which raises employment and living standards by supporting and incentivising people into work and to work more, reduces poverty by supporting people at times of higher cost and dependency, and promo...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Universal Credit expenditure on the sustainability of the overall welfare budget.
Answer: This Government is committed to a social security system which raises employment and living standards by supporting and incentivising people into work and to work more, reduces poverty by supporting people at times of higher cost and dependency, and promo...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71034More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) make work pay and (b) stop long term dependency on Universal Credit.
Answer: Through our Make Work Pay reforms – and the increases we made in April to the National Living and Minimum Wages – we are working to put more money into the pockets of working people and ensure that work remains a reliable route to financial security. Our ...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability AssessmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71033More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Work Capability Assessment.
Answer: As we outlined in our Pathways to Work Green Paper, we are scrapping the controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to end the dysfunctional process which drives people into dependency, delivering on the Government’s commitment to reform or replace it...
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71032More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the number of foreign nationals in receipt of each benefit across working age welfare spending.
Answer: There are no plans to start consistently collecting nationality data across all working age benefits. This is because DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific nationality does not ...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71031More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of regional differences in economic inactivity rates by (a) gender, (b) age, (c) ethnicity and (d) religion.
Answer: (a)(b)(c): The information requested is published and available at:https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp Guidance for users can be found at:https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp (d): The most recent data is published and available at: Economic acti...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure immigration status is recorded on digital systems when Universal Credit claims are processed.
Answer: Universal Credit records the immigration status of a claimant.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
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