Lewis Cocking MP: written questions 2025
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Local Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2025 to Question 97317 on Local Government: Reorganisation, whether he expects the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners and the re-org
Answer: The Government is committed to cutting the cost of politics by reducing unnecessary layers of governance and bureaucracy. Both the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners, alongside local government reorganisation is intended to deliver savings for th...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGlioblastoma: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the MHRA on the potential impact of regulatory reform on the time taken to develop glioblastoma treatments.
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department and regulates medicine, medical devices, and blood components for transfusion in the United Kingdom, with responsibility for ensuring medicines meet ap...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGlioblastoma: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with industry on the expansion of manufacturing sites for glioblastoma treatment development.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 22 December 2025 by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, to Question 99356.
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordGlioblastoma: Medical TreatmentsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what funding the Government has allocated to support new or expanded manufacturing facilities for advanced glioblastoma treatments.
Answer: This Government has made funds available to support UK manufacture of medicines and medical technology products, including up to £520 million to the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund and £50 million to the pilot Life Sciences Transformational R&...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on supporting schools with falling pupil numbers.
Answer: Local authorities hold the statutory place planning function, ensuring there are sufficient schools in their area to meet the needs of pupils. It is for local authorities, in collaboration with academy trusts and other local partners, to balance the suppl...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationTreasuryTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97317More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2025, published on 26 November, HC 1492, on what evidential basis she estimated the saving arising from the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners and re-organising local gov
Answer: The Government is committed to cutting the cost of politics. The figures were calculated based on estimated savings from the potential reduction in local councillors through local government reorganisation and from the abolition of Police and Crime Commis...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRoad TrafficDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of traffic congestion on the economy.
Answer: The Department for Transport publishes transport analysis guidance to help assess the economic cost of congestion associated with different policy interventions. It also regularly publishes statistics on speeds, delay and reliability on different types of...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNew TownsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2024 to Question 90424 on New Towns, in which sections of the New Towns Taskforce: Report to government and the Initial government response
Answer: The independent New Towns Taskforce final report and the government’s initial response to it stress the importance of community engagement and working with local partners in delivering the New Towns programme. The government will publish draft proposals a...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his Department's policy is on local authorities who do not wish to engage in local government reorganisation.
Answer: On 5 February 2025, the Government invited two-tier authorities and their neighbouring small unitary councils to develop proposals for unitary local government. All areas have engaged with their invitation although not all councils have submitted proposal...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: BroxbourneDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of palliative care services in Broxbourne constituency.
Answer: The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework for England, due to be published in Spring 2026. I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1087 I gave to the House on 24 November 2025.We ...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2024 to Question 88403 on Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals and with reference to the Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 12 June 2025, publishe
Answer: Since first publishing the Universal Credit statistics by immigration status and nationality group on 15 July 2025, the Department has published regular updates, with the latest, published on 11 November 2025, covering statistics to October 2025. The Depa...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to make it easier for local planning authorities to decline repeat applications for development that has already been refused.
Answer: Under Sections 70A and 70B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, local planning authorities already have powers to decline to determine applications if they have previously refused permission for two or more substantially similar applications on the ...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNew TownsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is his Department's policy that neighbouring local authorities will be consulted before new towns are built.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the independent New Towns Taskforce final report as well as the government’s initial response to it. Both can be found on gov.uk here.
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been provided to schools to support pupils for whom English is an additional language in each of the last three years.
Answer: Schools attract additional funding through the English as an additional language (EAL) factor in the schools national funding formula (NFF), for pupils recorded as having entered state education in England during the last three years, and whose first lang...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Community RelationsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of offering publicly funded (a) services and (b) activities to asylum seekers on local community cohesion.
Answer: The Home Office are responsible for asylum policy and the support provided to asylum seekers while they await the outcome of their asylum claim. The department has not carried out an assessment of the impact of providing publicly funded services and activ...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) illegal waste dumping and (b) fly-tipping on rural communities.
Answer: While no recent assessment has been made, we appreciate the difficulty that illegal waste dumping and fly-tipping poses to rural communities. We work with a wide range of parties through the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group, which involves the Enviro...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released early under automatic release provisions have subsequently been reconvicted.
Answer: This Government inherited prisons days from collapse. We have had no choice but to take decisive action to stop our prisons overflowing and keep the public safe.Whilst this change provided the intended medium-term relief, it was only ever a temporary chan...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data his Department holds on the number of newly built homes purchased by non-UK nationals in each of the last five years.
Answer: My Department does not hold data on new built homes purchased by non-UK nationals.Overseas entities who want to buy, sell, or transfer property or land in the UK, must register with Companies House and declare who their registrable beneficial owners or ma...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits and Taxation: ImmigrationTreasuryTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88404More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department holds data on (a) taxes paid and (b) the cost of public services used by migrants who have arrived in the UK within the last 10 years.
Answer: HMRC does not hold aggregate data on the taxes paid by migrants who have arrived in the UK within the last 10 years. HMRC does hold data on the nationality reported by individuals at the point of National Insurance number registration, for adult National ...
Answered 18 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on benefit payments to foreign nationals in the 2024-2025 financial year.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMigration: Economic SituationTreasuryTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88402More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the projected fiscal impact of net migration on public spending over the next five years.
Answer: The OBR is the government’s official economic and fiscal forecaster. Box 4.5 of the OBR’s published Economic and Fiscal Outlook in March 2024 sets out estimated impacts of migration on the fiscal forecast. The OBR will produce updated economic and fiscal ...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: AsylumDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of providing healthcare to (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees in the last financial year.
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not hold the information requested.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented WorkersHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold an estimate of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so. Details of Immigration Enforcement activity to tackle illegal employment in the UK can be found in the Home Office’s published transparency da...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: OffendersHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences involved individuals with pending asylum applications in the last 12 months.
Answer: The requested data on offences involving asylum-seekers is not currently published by the Home Office.As explained in this note published in April, systems for collecting and compiling data related to foreign national offenders in the immigration system a...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ConvictionsHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 88398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish more detailed statistics on criminal convictions among people with pending asylum claims.
Answer: The requested data on offences involving asylum-seekers is not currently published by the Home Office.As explained in this note published in April, systems for collecting and compiling data related to foreign national offenders in the immigration system a...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
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