Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Entry Clearances: ChinaHome OfficeTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what current restrictions are placed upon tourist visitors from China.
Answer: Chinese nationals travelling to the UK as tourists are able to use the Standard Visitor route to come to the UK for up to six months, though they will need to apply for a Standard Visitor visa prior to travel. This requirement applies to all visa national...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Social ServicesHome OfficeTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, if she will make it her policy to include consideration of the social contribution o
Answer: We will be consulting on the earned settlement scheme later this year and further details on the proposed scheme will be provided at that time.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will seek legal advice on the potential impact of her Department’s proposal to remove the right to return to the UK from existing social care workers who fail to find an alternative sponsor aft
Answer: When a sponsored worker loses their job, they are expected to either secure new sponsorship, switch into a different immigration route or leave the UK. Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care officials are working hard to ensure care wor...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rules requiring social care workers who fail to find alternative sponsorship arrangements to leave the UK on their dependents.
Answer: The White Paper, published on May 12 2025, set out that the Government intend to end access to the Health and Care visa for carers due to worker exploitation in the route. There will be a transition period until 2028, we will permit visa extensions and in...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to remove social care workers who fail to secure alternative sponsorship arrangements within the specified 60-day period.
Answer: The White Paper, published on May 12 2025, set out that the Government intend to end access to the Health and Care visa for carers due to worker exploitation in the route. There will be a transition period until 2028, we will permit visa extensions and in...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a certificate of common sponsorship for future social care workers from overseas.
Answer: The White Paper, published on May 12 2025, set out that the Government intend to end access to the Health and Care visa for carers due to worker exploitation in the route. There will be a transition period until 2028, we will permit visa extensions and in...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Care WorkersHome OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish a consultation on the proposal to remove the right of existing social care workers to return to the UK following the loss of their sponsorship arrangements set out in the
Answer: The White Paper, published on May 12 2025, set out that the Government intend to end access to the Health and Care visa for carers due to worker exploitation in the route. There will be a transition period until 2028, we will permit visa extensions and in...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Powers of EntryHome OfficeTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what are the rights of entry for emergency service personnel when accessing blocks of flats with secure entry systems.
Answer: Police forces in England and Wales have a range of powers of entry, including to protect life and investigate offences. These powers derive both from statute (primarily the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) and common law.Fire and Rescue Services hav...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that survivors of domestic abuse with no recourse to public funds (a) are aware of their entitlements and (b) can access welfare.
Answer: This government understands the specific challenges that migrant victims of domestic abuse hold, particularly for those who have no recourse to public funds. The Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (MVDAC) provides partners here under the family,...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will undertake a review of the necessity of using dogs in regulatory testing across all sectors.
Answer: The Government is committed to supporting the uptake and development of alternative methods to the use of animals in science. The Labour Manifesto includes a commitment to “partner with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the phasin...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing plant protection product testing to remove the need to use dogs for testing.
Answer: GB pesticides regulations contain rules that require sharing of tests and studies involving vertebrate animals between pesticide companies to ensure that such testing is minimised. The assimilated regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 requires that testing on vert...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: DogsHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2023, published on 11 September 2024, and to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, for what r
Answer: The 2023 Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain, provides details of the uses of the animals. The purposes of use of the 205 ‘other dogs’ in experimental procedures are in Table 3.2. The purposes, and numbers of dogs u...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue ServicesHome OfficeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to ask the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, what discussions she has had with fire and rescue services on the (a) adequacy of the Settlement Funding Assessment for 2024-25 and (b) potential impact
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 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: SponsorshipHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29157More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for the Modern Slavery Act 2015 of the employer sponsorship model.
Answer: A key objective of the sponsorship system is to ensure that migrant workers are protected against modern slavery and other labour abuses. All sponsors are required to comply with wider UK law, including the Modern Slavery Act, and the Home Office can, an...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to implement sector sponsorship for immigrant social care workers.
Answer: The Government keeps all aspects of the immigration system under review, subject to our objective to reduce levels of net migration, but we have no plans to change the current rules in this area.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of charging different licensing fees for people using firearms for (a) work and (b) recreation.
Answer: The issuing of firearms certificates is a matter for individual Chief Constables who are in turn held to account by Police and Crime Commissioners. The performance of forces is also being actively monitored by the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead fo...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms licence renewals took more than three months in the last financial year.
Answer: The issuing of firearms certificates is a matter for individual Chief Constables who are in turn held to account by Police and Crime Commissioners. The performance of forces is also being actively monitored by the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead fo...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22860More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit's Annual Report for 2023, published on 17 December 2024, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) letters of reprimand and (b) other
Answer: The Home Office takes non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 very seriously .The Regulator applies proportionate sanctions in cases of non-compliance in accordance with its published compliance policy, which aims to reduce the ri...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal ExperimentsHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22859More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 24 of the Animals in Science Regulation Unit’s annual report for 2023, published on 17 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to improve the ability of the inspectio
Answer: The Regulator’s annual report details the range of ways in which it detects non-compliance and seeks to drive greater compliance.Through a current regulatory reform programme, the Regulator is presently recruiting to have more Inspectors for compliance re...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: BoatsHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to redistribute sea worthy boats used in migrant crossings to youth groups such as Sea Scouts.
Answer: The material and equipment rescued by Border Force from small boat crossings is usually totally unsuitable for any use, and there are therefore no plans to redistribute it as suggested.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: AirportsHome OfficeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18334More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of e-passports that do not work at UK airports; and what steps she is taking to help resolve that issue.
Answer: It has never been Government practice, for reasons of law enforcement, to comment on operational issues relating to border security and immigration controls. This includes offering commentary on the performance of border systems and of ePassport Gates dat...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department plans to provide to help prevent (a) domestic abuse and (b) sexist and misogynistic attitudes that underpin domestic violence in the next financial year.
Answer: This Government has committed to halving violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse, in a decade.Addressing the attitudes and root causes of domestic abuse is fundamental to our approach. It is essential we have a comprehensive approach to...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: Digital TechnologyHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had recent discussions with representatives of migrant organisations on the development of a digital solution for the e-visa scheme.
Answer: The Home Office has implemented a comprehensive engagement strategy to smooth the transition to eVisas and to maximise awareness raising across various sectors. This includes collaboration with key stakeholders including migrant organisations. The Home Of...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: Digital TechnologyHome OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the e-Visa scheme on (a) older people, (b) those with learning difficulties, (c) non-English speakers and (d) those with limited access to techn
Answer: The Home Office has implemented a comprehensive engagement strategy to smooth the transition to eVisas and to maximise awareness raising across various sectors. This includes collaboration with key stakeholders including migrant organisations. The Home Of...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FloodsHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce a national capability for flood rescue (a) led by Fire and Rescue Authorities and (b) underpinned by a statutory duty.
Answer: Defra is the lead government department for flooding in England, they hold the Flood Rescue National Asset Register, a list of teams or assets that voluntarily join the register and maintain availability for national deployment in England.This is coordina...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
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