Neil O'Brien MP: written questions
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General Practitioners: Integrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) general practices and (b) GP premises there were in each integrated care board area in each month since June 2024.
Answer: NHS England has provided a table showing the number of general practices (GPs) by integrated care board (ICB) and the number of branch surgeries by ICB. It also shows the number of GPs that opened and closed since June 2024 and the number of branch surger...
Answered 6 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: InternetDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the report on the adult social care relative needs formula on the Adult Social Care Policy Research Unit Website.
Answer: The report on the adult social care relative needs formula was published on the Adult Social Care Policy Research Unit’s website in June 2025.The Department funds independent research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute of Health and...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChurch of England: SlaveryChurch CommissionersTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69330More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2025 to Question 63010 on Church of England: Slavery, whether the £5 million to be spent on project Spire in the triennium spending plans 2026-28
Answer: £5 million is not a forecast figure the Church Commissioners recognises in relation to the Spire programme in the triennium spending plans for 2026-28. The Church Commissioners’ triennium spending plan process involves forecasting high-level commitments o...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68832More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants who have (a) no qualifications, (b) Level 2 qualifications, (c) Level 3 qualifications, (d) Level 4 qualifica
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 17th July is attached.
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the assumptions used to generate the figure of a 5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan re-settlement schemes.
Answer: Yes, the lifetime cost quoted of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes family members coming to the UK. Projected costs are based on per person costs used for planning purposes, and estimated numbers of future arrivals. The estimate is based on costs i...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Temporary AccommodationMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 19002 on Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation, how many Afghans are being accommodated on the defence estate.
Answer: As of 18 July 2025, there are currently 972 eligible Afghans in transitional accommodation on the Defence Estate under the Afghan Resettlement Programme (ARP). Use of the Defence Estate will be gradually reduced over the coming months, with a view to ceas...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAfghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68793More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement of 15 July 2025 on Afghanistan, Official Report, column 149-152, whether the £5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes further family members
Answer: Yes, the lifetime cost quoted of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes family members coming to the UK. Projected costs are based on per person costs used for planning purposes, and estimated numbers of future arrivals. The estimate is based on costs i...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming Universal Credit who were (a) in employment and (b) not in employment and whose immigration status was (i) Common Travel Area - UK, Ireland, Right of Abode, (ii) EU Settlem
Answer: The Department recently published new Universal Credit - Immigration Status and Nationality statistics. Further breakdowns of these statistics are not currently available.
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMedicine: Higher EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical school places he expects there to be in each year up to 2031.
Answer: The total maximum fundable limit for medical school places in England set by the Office for Students is 8,230 places for the 2025/26 academic year. The limit is confirmed on an annual basis.We will publish a new 10 Year Workforce Plan later this year to d...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Experience: Secondary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of secondary schools provide two weeks of work experience.
Answer: The department has asked the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) to collect national baseline data on the delivery of two weeks’ worth of work experience for every secondary pupil, across schools in England. CEC plan to publish this data by the end of 20...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFamily Hubs: ExpenditureDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67447More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much she plans to spend on the Best Start for Life programme in the (a) 2026-27, (b) 2027-28 and (c) 2028-29 financial years.
Answer: The department has allocated close to £1.5 billion over the next three financial years on improving family services and early years education. This funding includes both programme and capital funding, and is separate from the additional funding being prov...
Answered 1 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the real terms cost to the public purse is of Free School Meals in 2025-26; and what she expects this to be in future years.
Answer: The department published information on pupil free school meal eligibility in the annual Schools, Pupils and Characteristics publication, which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-the...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School Meals: EligibilityDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils she expects to be eligible for Free School Meals (a) this year and (b) in future years.
Answer: The department published information on pupil free school meal eligibility in the annual Schools, Pupils and Characteristics publication, which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-the...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChurch of England: SlaveryChurch CommissionersTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65336More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2025 to Question 63010 on Church of England: Slavery, how much has been spent on this project so far.
Answer: From 2019 to the end of the financial year 31 December 2024 inclusive, the Church Commissioners' expenditure in connection with Project Spire was approximately £1 million. This is related to commissioning research and developing our formal responseThe Chu...
Answered 30 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: LeicestershireMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost of the new prison at Gartree in Leicestershire.
Answer: The value of the main works for the new prison next to HMP Gartree is planned to be published later this year.
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIndustry: InvestmentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has allocated for the (a) advertising and (b) promotion of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, published 23 June 2025 in the (i) 2025-26 and (ii) 2026-27 financial years;
Answer: Marketing including paid advertising is necessary to reach a target audience of senior business decision makers, raising awareness of the UK’s new modern industrial strategy and the opportunities it presents for business growth. The Department of Business...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChurch of England: SlaveryChurch CommissionersTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63010More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the source of the £100 million fund for healing, repair and justice as part of Project Spire is.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston to the written answer to his question published on 21st March 2025 (UIN 29047). Subject to Charity Commission authorisation the Church Commissioners intends to settle income from its general fund o...
Answered 6 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChurch of England: SlaveryChurch CommissionersTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63009More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, for what reason the Church Commissioners have spent £5 million on Project Spire prior to approval from the Charity Commission.
Answer: The Church Commissioners has not spent that sum in connection with its response to historic links to African chattel enslavement (known by the project name Spire). Expenditure on this work to date has been limited to proportionate research into the Church...
Answered 6 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordRAF Brize NortonMinistry of DefenceTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is CCTV coverage of the perimeter of RAF Brize Norton.
Answer: RAF Brize Norton has CCTV in operation that enables remote coverage of base areas which is part of the multilayered approach to security on site.The Defence Secretary has ordered that a full security review be conducted at pace, not only at Brize Norton, ...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: VATTreasuryTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61782More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what projects her Department plans to spend the revenue raised from VAT on independent school fees in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years; and how much she plans to allocate to each project.
Answer: The Government has taken a number of decisions on tax to stabilise the public finances and support public services. Ending tax breaks for private schools will raise £1.8bn a year. To raise school standards for every child, and break down the barriers to o...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Work ExperienceDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to reinstate two weeks of compulsory work experience in schools.
Answer: Earlier this year, we updated the careers statutory guidance reflecting the revised Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance and included the new definition of meaningful workplace experiences to raise the quality of work experience.In this guidance we ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPlagiarismDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of plagiarism in the education sector; and what steps her Department is taking to tackle plagiarism.
Answer: Cheating of any kind is unacceptable. It threatens to undermine the reputation of our world-class education sector and devalues the hard work of those who succeed on their own merit.Ofqual require Awarding Organisations to have robust policies and procedu...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Ethnic GroupsMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in prison for offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of weapons, (h) pu
Answer: The requested information is shown in the attached table.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEducation: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding she plans to provide to (a) the National Careers Service, (b) the Education and Training Foundation, (c) WorldSkills UK and (d) the Careers and Enterprise Company in the 2025-26 academic or fin
Answer: As part of our Plan for Change, the government is investing in skills in order to drive economic growth and break down barriers to opportunity. The overall programme resource budget for apprenticeships, further education and higher education in the 2025/2...
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAntidepressants: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children were prescribed antidepressants in each year since 2007.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) holds data going back to April 2015, but not prior to this date. The following table shows the total number of patients aged 17 years old and under that were prescribed antidepressants for the financial years 2...
Answered 16 May 2025
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