Louie French MP: written questions
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Written questions
Betting: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96831More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October to Question 77717 on Betting: Excise Duties, if she will list relevant engagements with ministers.
Answer: The Chancellor discusses a variety of issues with Ministers from other government departments throughout the year.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordProceeds of CrimeHome OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will have discussions with the police to establish a National Police Trust funded from money seized from the proceeds of crime.
Answer: The Government is committed to depriving criminals of their illicit gains and reinvesting recovered proceeds to tackle crime and protect communities.Funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) are distributed via the Asset Recovery Incenti...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHorse Racing: CostsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2025 to Question 78837 on Rural Areas: Economic Situation, what assessment she has made of the difference between the increase in costs for horseracing due to
Answer: We continue to engage with racing and betting stakeholders to understand the impact of recent changes made by His Majesty’s Treasury. The horserace betting levy is based on the profits of bookmakers, which fluctuate according to the results of races. The ...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDemonstrations: Greater LondonHome OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 84932 on Business and Tourism: Greater London, if she will make an assessment of the potential economic impact of organised protests on tourism an
Answer: The Home Office does not plan to make a formal assessment of the potential economic impact of organised protests on tourism or businesses in London. Responsibility for tourism policy rests primarily with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, while ...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: Driving LicencesDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November, to Question 87899 on Delivery Services: Driving Licences, if she will (a) publish the letter referred to from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transpor
Answer: a) I have placed copies of the letter referred to in my answer to Question 87899 in the Library of the House. b) The Department has no plans to assess the potential impact of people engaged in delivery work without valid documentation on road safety. This...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLeisure: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96826More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was generated in 2023/2024 from business rates on hereditaments that are being used for the provision of (a) sport, leisure and facilities to visiting members of the public and (b) casinos, gambling
Answer: The Government does not hold data on the amount of business rates revenue raised by different types of hereditaments.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the causes of the increase in Universal Credit claimants who are not required to work; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of Universal Credit claimants who a
Answer: The vast majority of the increase in the UC Health caseload is because the decision was taken by the last government to move sick and disabled people from Employment and Support Allowance onto Universal Credit at scale - a transition we inherited, along w...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Football Regulator: CostsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide a breakdown of the costs incurred by her Department, from 4 July 2024 to date, in the establishment of the Independent Football Regulator.
Answer: Details on DCMS’s public spending can be found in DCMS’s Annual Report and Accounts, available on GOV.UK. Spending on the passage of the Football Governance Act and the establishment of the Independent Football Regulator is a subset of the reported spend ...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisitor LevyTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96440More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 27 November to question 92601 on Tourism: Taxation, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Visitor Levies in other jurisdictions on the hospitality sector.
Answer: The Scottish and Welsh Governments have published their own impact assessments to accompany legislation for the introduction of their visitor levies.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisitor Levy: Greater LondonTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96439More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to hypothecate revenue raised from a Visitor Levy in London to support the visitor economy in London.
Answer: The Government has announced powers for Mayors to introduce a visitor levy on short-term overnight accommodation in their region, to drive economic growth including through support for the local visitor economy, if they so choose. We have published a cons...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisitor Levy: Greater LondonTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96438More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to split revenue raised from a Visitor Levy in London between the Mayor of London and London boroughs.
Answer: The Government has announced powers for Mayors to introduce a visitor levy on short-term overnight accommodation in their region, to drive economic growth including through support for the local visitor economy, if they so choose. We have published a cons...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96437More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact miles driven abroad will have on the calculation of the amount of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty payable per vehicle.
Answer: As announced at Budget 2025, the Government is introducing Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) from April 2028, a new mileage charge for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, recognising that EVs (electric vehicles) contribute to congestion and wear and tear ...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDavid KoganDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 24 November to question 92054 on Independent Football Regulator: Political Parties, if she will publish the data on the additional political donations made by David Koga
Answer: All political donations required to be declared by the Governance Code on Public Appointments are publicly disclosed on the Electoral Commission donation register. The additional donations, beneath the thresholds required by the Governance Code, disclosed...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLotteriesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the Problem Gambling Severity Index score for players of (a) The National Lottery, (b) Society Lotteries, and (c) instant win scratch cards.
Answer: The Government is committed to tackling gambling-related harm. DCMS regularly reviews the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) from the Gambling Commission’s Gambling Survey of Great Britain and uses it as one of a range of sources of evidence. In 2024,...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLotteriesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Minister's statement to the House on 26 June 2025, what assessment she has made of the merits of comparing identical time frames.
Answer: We are confident in the findings set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 June 2025 on society lotteries and prize draws. They are supported by a wide range of data and analysis, including official Industry Statistics published by the Gambling C...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: AntisemitismDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to combat antisemitism (a) in secondary schools, (b) in colleges, and (c) on university campuses.
Answer: We must tackle antisemitism in every form to root this hatred out of our society. Education is critical to this. The department has committed £7 million to fund projects and programmes to improve confidence and resilience in tackling antisemitism in schoo...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to cease the purchasing of non-essential items, including vapes, for illegal migrants.
Answer: The Home Office does not purchase vapes for people held in immigration detention, and no public money is spent on the purchase of these or any other goods sold at immigration removal centres.Following a comprehensive review of asylum support, we have take...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTickets: Price CapsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, (a) if there will be exemptions made to her ticket price cap policy and (b) what criteria is used to judge this.
Answer: As set out in our response to the consultation on the resale of live events tickets, published last month, the Government believes that a good case can be made for narrow exemptions to the price cap in the case of resale for charitable purposes and the re...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish a timeline for allocating expenditure of the £400 million capital funding for grassroots sporting facilities.
Answer: The Government's announcement that at least £400 million will be invested into grassroots sport over the next four years will ensure that we promote health, wellbeing and community cohesion and deliver high-quality facilities in the areas that need them m...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLeisure Centres and Swimming Pools: ObesityDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the use of (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres alongside weight-loss drugs.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The improvements to individual wellbeing is valued at £96.7 billion a year, and the ...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: ExerciseDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding the inclusion of physical activity and exercise-based solutions within programmes aimed at reducing ill he
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The improvements to individual wellbeing is valued at £96.7 billion a year, and the ...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLeisure Centres and Swimming Pools: EqualityDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres are used to help reduce (i) health and (ii) socioeconomic inequalities.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities. The benefits to individual wellbeing through sport and physical activity are valued ...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: LeisureTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96311More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business or employment tax rises on (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres.
Answer: The Government recognises the important contribution that sport and physical activity make to health and wellbeing in the UK.At the Budget, the VOA announced updated property values from the 2026 revaluation. This revaluation is the first since Covid, whi...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of recent illegal working arrests, how many have been removed from the United Kingdom.
Answer: Details of Immigration Enforcement activity to tackle illegal employment in the UK can be found in the Home Office’s published transparency data: Illegal working and enforcement activity to the end of September 2025 - GOV.UKReturns data can also be found ...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of foreign nationals claiming welfare benefits.
Answer: On 20 November the Home Secretary launched a consultation on proposals for a fairer pathway to settlement, the point at which foreign nationals generally gain access to public funds. These plans include doubling the standard qualifying period for settleme...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
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