Mike Wood MP: written questions
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Visas: Republic of IrelandHome OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the comments of the Republic of Ireland's Barry Andrews MEP, on Irish visas being exploited by hostile actors from Russia.
Answer: Ireland’s immigration policies are a matter for the Irish Government.The UK and Ireland have a close and collaborative working relationship on a range of issues, including migration and border security and where specific trends are identified, we work clo...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPassports: SexHome OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require that the Passport Office records the legal sex not the gender of the passport applicant.
Answer: Current Government policy is that UK passports record the gender of the passport holder, using a ‘male’ and ‘female’ sex marker. In the majority of cases, this is determined by the person’s sex as registered at birth and recorded on their birth certificat...
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordSturgess Inquiry: CostsHome OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 4 September 2025, to Question 70519, on Public Inquiries, what the total public cost to date of the Independent inquiry relating to Dawn Sturgess Inquiry has been.
Answer: The Inquiry was formally established on 17 March 2022.The Inquiry last published its costs on its website in September 2025, indicating that total expenditure up until then was £8.03million. The Inquiry updates its cost on their website periodically and f...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: SurchargesTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12708More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026, to Question 5347, how many staff HMRC plans to recruit for the High Value Council Tax Surcharge work; and whether there is a total target amount for the number of current and n
Answer: The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is developing its resourcing and recruitment plans for the High Value Council Tax Surcharge (HVCTS) work.
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Social MediaTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12707More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 29 May 2026, to Question 2051, on Revenue and Customs: Social Media, how many separate influencers were hired for the £436,700 of aggregate spending.
Answer: Social media hosts large amounts of unofficial tax guidance, which can sometimes be incomplete or misleading and contribute to customer confusion. Using HMRC-approved influencers helps ensure accurate, trustworthy information is presented in these spaces ...
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordRevenue and Customs: Remote WorkingTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12706More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HMRC has made of the number of staff who have not attended the office for more than six months.
Answer: Around 4000 staff have not attended an office for more than six months. The vast majority of whom are on statutory leave, such as maternity leave, have alternative contractual arrangements or who have another reason for non-attendance in the office such a...
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCryptocurrenciesHome OfficeTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the monetary value of crypto-currency (a) seized and (b) non-seized assets currently held by HM Treasury.
Answer: The Government does not currently publish the amount of cryptocurrency restrained or recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.The Home office is reviewing plans to publish new statistics on Crypto assets as part of future annual statistics bulletins...
Answered 2 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordIncome Tax: Tax CollectionTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12704More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list each third party database that HMRC has access to for the purposes of income tax collection.
Answer: HMRC use third-party data to help simplify tax administration. Specifically in relation to calculating tax due, the key sources of third-party data are:o Department for Work and Pensions – pension income and benefit informationo Bank and building societie...
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordEU Institutions: FinanceTreasuryTabled 24 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12703More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Government has contributed to the European Commission and EU institutions in each of the last ten years.
Answer: When the UK was a EU Member State, financial contributions were made directly to the EU budget. These were disclosed in the annual HM Treasury EU Finances Statement (EUFS). Since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, payments under the financial settlement in ...
Answered 3 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordSanctionsTreasuryTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12165More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2026 to Question 2052 on Sanctions, whether the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has granted any licences relating to sanctioned Russian individuals and expenditure on pu
Answer: The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) can only issue licences where specific licensing grounds exist within the relevant sanctions regime and where the conditions of those grounds are satisfied. It is not able to provide a breakdown of t...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament record10 Downing Street: LibrariesTreasuryTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12164More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2026 to Question 3790 on 10 Downing Street: Libraries, whether she has donated a book to the Prime Minister’s library.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer will consider making a donation to the Prime Minister's Library in due course.
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth Mobility Scheme: Australia and New ZealandHome OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2026 to Question 2755 on Youth Mobility Scheme: EU Countries, whether the Australia and New Zealand schemes allow for (a) benefit payment eligibility and (b) families
Answer: The UK’s Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements provide valuable cultural exchange opportunities for young people aged 18-30 (or 18-35 for some nationalities) to experience life in another country for up to two or three years.Eligible foreign citizens, ...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ProcurementCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12162More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2026 to Question 1188 on Government Departments: Procurement, what transparency requirements do Departments have on publishing expenditure for tendered services to individual org
Answer: The government takes transparency and accountability seriously, and publishing data is key to this.Under the Grants Functional Standard, central government departments and their arm's length bodies (ALBs) are required to provide details of their grants sc...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDigital ID Advisory GroupCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12161More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the press release, Business and civil society leaders brought together to help build digital ID system that works for the public, of 10 June 2026, whether the Advisory Group of Experts have mad
Answer: Members of the Digital ID Advisory Group completed declarations of interests prior to the Group’s first meeting. They are not ministerial appointments.
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Written QuestionsCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12160More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2026 to Question 4217 on Cabinet Office: Written Questions, whether any other codes are assigned to Parliamentary Questions other than those relating to (a) Commons or Lords, or
Answer: The Cabinet Office undertakes its management of Written Parliamentary Questions in line with the Guide to Parliamentary Work published on gov.uk.
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: MarketingCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12159More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4163 on Government departments: marketing, whether each of the Cabinet Office’s Arm’s Length Bodies have undertaken any expenditure on branded goods since the Go
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally and therefore cannot be answered without incurring disproportionate costs.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12158More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026 to Question 4176 on Monarchy: information, whether he has considered initiating legal action to obtain official information held by the Crown retained by Lord Mandelson and
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Government’s statement and release of information on 1st June, providing an update on the response to the Humble Address. The documents published in the first and second tranches contain the entirety of the documents the Gove...
Answered 7 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCivil Service: Codes of PracticeCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12157More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to have discussions with trade unions on the refresh of the Civil Service Code; whether his Department plans to share the draft Code with the relevant (a) Commons and (b) Lords Selec
Answer: The Cabinet Secretary has set out her intention to refresh the Civil Service Code to ensure it is up to date, well understood, and adhered to across the Civil Service. The Cabinet Secretary spoke about this work in her oral evidence to the Public Administ...
Answered 13 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12156More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the yearly cost of trade union facility time under the 2026 Facility Time Framework to his Department.
Answer: The Cabinet Office has not formally estimated the yearly cost of facility time under the 2026 Facility Time Framework to the Cabinet Office.
Answered 8 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12155More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to Part of a Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 4 February 2026 relating to the appointment of Lord Mandelson as HM Ambassador to Washington, Volume II Part I, HC2-I, publi
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question 5975.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordWPP: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12154More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 13 January 2026, to Question 102672, on WPP Media: Contracts, whether he has set Key Performance Indicators for the WPP Media contract.
Answer: Key Performance Indicators for the Media and Creative Services framework agreement (RM6364), under which WPP Media is appointed, are detailed within Framework Schedule 4 (Framework Management).The framework documentation is publicly available on the Gover...
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrime Minister: Mobile PhonesCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12153More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2026 to Question 6440 on Prime Minister: Mobile Phones, and with reference to paragraph 24 of the Cabinet Office guidance, Non-corporate communication channels for government bu
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer of 10 June 2026, PQ 6440.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ICTCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12152More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the dependency of government departments and agencies on IT systems provided by (a) Microsoft and (b) Google; and whether the Government is contracted to those suppliers.
Answer: IT procurement is devolved to individual departments, meaning the Government does not hold a single, aggregated dependency assessment. However, to mitigate supply chain risks and avoid single-supplier dependence, we actively work to diversify our technolo...
Answered 7 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordElectronic Messaging: CopyrightCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11156More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the Cabinet Office provides to Departments on the (a) copyright and (b) ownership of electronic messages retained on non-corporate devices relating to official government business after a (i) civil
Answer: Official information, wherever stored, is considered to be held by the Crown, as set out in the Government’s 2023 ‘Guidance on Using Non-Corporate Communication Channels for Government Business’.
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Facilities AgreementsCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11155More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether changes (a) have been made and (b) are being made to the (i) staff resources and (ii) facilities being allocated to facility time in (A) the Cabinet Office and (B) its agencies as a consequence of the up
Answer: No changes have been made to Cabinet Office staff resources or allocated facility time in the Cabinet Office or agencies since the publication of the Civil Service Facility Time Framework and Guidance.
Answered 24 Jun 2026
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