Neil O'Brien MP: written questions
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Educational Institutions: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36125More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list all (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory guidance issued to schools and colleges since 4 July 2024, along with the dates on which the guidance was issued.
Answer: The information requested can be found in the attached spreadsheet.
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language and Mathematics: GCSEDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average proportion of students was obtaining the equivalent of (a) Grade 5 or better and (b) Grade 4 or better in GCSE (i) English and (ii) Maths in each Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index dec
Answer: The information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.However, the department publishes the percentage of pupils achieving grades 4/5 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs by Income Deprivation Affecting Children...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36123More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the (a) name and (b) URN of all currently open state schools alongside the (i) URN, (ii) Establishment number and (iii) name of the predecessor institutions for each.
Answer: Information on all open and closed establishments in England is published on the Get Information about Schools (GIAS) service, which can be accessed here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/. Files available to download include information for...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Social MediaTreasuryTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35364More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the comments of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on Newsnight on 29 July 2024, what the evidential basis is for the claim that the Government Communication Service spent hundreds of millions of
Answer: The government has taken decisive action to reduce wasteful spend, In Fixing the Foundations, the Chancellor identified £100m of savings from non-essential spending on government communications across 2024-25 and 2025-26. Cabinet Office provided estimates...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34921More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of people (a) renting privately and (b) in the social rented sector were (i) born in the UK and (ii) not born in the UK in each region of England in
Answer: The Department does not hold the required information.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that (a) applied for asylum, (b) were granted asylum and (c) were granted other forms of leave to stay in each year between 1995 and 2001.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum claims and initial decisions in the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’ as part of the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Pre-2002 data on asylum claims and i...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Medical ExaminationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) successful claim rate and (b) average number of points scored for PIP Assessments were for assessments undertaken (i) in-person, (ii) not in-person and (iii) across all modes in each of the
Answer: The successful claim rate following assessments undertaken (i) in-person, (ii) not in-person and (iii) across all modes is shown below for each of the last ten years. Calendar YearSuccessful claim rate (%)Assessment in-person (i)Assessment not in-person...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast Clubs: Primary EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33062More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the schools chosen to take part in the Breakfast clubs early adopters pilot already have a breakfast club; and how many already have a free breakfast club.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston to the answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 34817.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCervical Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who have changed gender from female to male are still automatically invited to cervical screening.
Answer: The NHS Cervical Screening Programme provides all women and people with a cervix between the ages of 25 and 64 years old with the opportunity to be screened routinely to detect certain types of human papillomavirus infection, which is the cause of 99.7% o...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversity of Greater Manchester: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports of financial irregularities at the University of Greater Manchester.
Answer: This is a matter for the University of Greater Manchester. We understand the Office for Students, the independent regulator for higher education (HE) in England, has also been notified of this case. The university is conducting its own investigation, and ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders were released from prison in each quarter since 2012; and of these how many were released because (a) an immigration judge granted bail, (b)
Answer: The Home Office publishes data relating to numbers of FNOs released into the community by reason of release in the Immigration Enforcement transparency data. Table FNO_02 of the latest Immigration Enforcement data contains data on FNOs released into the c...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many FNO appeals against Deportation were (a) lodged, (b) Allowed and (c) Allowed, Human Rights grounds only in each Financial Year since 2008-09.
Answer: The Home Office does not regularly publish information about FNO appeals against deportation. However, in February 2022 an ad-hoc transparency piece on FNO lodged and allowed appeals, covering the period 2008 to 2021, was released. This provides numbers o...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the predicted cost of children looked after is in 2024-25; and what proportion of this is allocated to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Answer: In 2023/24, local authority gross expenditure on children's and young people's services was £14.8 billion. Over half of that expenditure was on services for children looked after, which is a total of £8.1 billion (54.9%).Expenditure under the last adminis...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren in CareDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government spent on children looked after in 2023-24; and what proportion of this was on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Answer: In 2023/24, local authority gross expenditure on children's and young people's services was £14.8 billion. Over half of that expenditure was on services for children looked after, which is a total of £8.1 billion (54.9%).Expenditure under the last adminis...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Personal RecordsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Single Unique Identifier that the Government are piloting is the NHS number; what the (a) locations, (b) timing and (c) size of the pilot is; and how families have been informed.
Answer: The department is currently exploring the suitability of using the NHS number as a single unique identifier with Wigan local authority. This process will take several months. This first phase of work will explore whether success rates of linking children’...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 28587 on Schools: Standards, how many and what proportion of the schools expected to experience mandatory intervention will be (a) academised and (b) rebro
Answer: The department expects twice as many mandatory interventions in schools, through both structural intervention and targeted regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) interventions. This is expected to total around 370 schools experiencing ma...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmploymentCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31471More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the number of (a) employments and (b) employees was by (i) UK, (ii) EU and (iii) non-EU nationality in each month since July 2014.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman Parliamentary Question of 13th of February is attached.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations through enforced return there have been since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Historic data on returns is available.The most recent data on the number of returns from the UK since 4th July 2024 was published on 10th February, covering the period up to to 31 January 2025.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: Deportation and RepatriationHome OfficeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported through (a) enforced return, (b) voluntary return, (c) after being refused entry at port and subsequently departed and (d) in total in each quarter between Q1 1995 and Q4
Answer: Historic data on returns is available.The most recent data on the number of returns from the UK since 4th July 2024 was published on 10th February, covering the period up to to 31 January 2025.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: SurgeryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals for masculinising chest surgery there were from the NHS Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service in each year for which data is available since 1997.
Answer: Referrals for masculinising chest surgery are made by the specialist clinical teams in the NHS Gender Dysphoria Clinics, not by the NHS Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service (GDNRSS). The non-clinical role of the GDNRSS is to process the refe...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: SurgeryDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many gender (a) reassignment and (b) affirmation operations were carried out by the NHS in each year since 2000 for which data is available.
Answer: The Department does not hold this data centrally, as it is held at an individual National Health Service provider level.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: ApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people started apprenticeships at level (a) 2, (b) 3, (c) 4, (d) 5, (e) 6 and (f) 7 in each public service in each year since 2015.
Answer: Apprenticeship level was not collected by the previous government as part of the public sector data return.The latest data on public sector apprenticeship new starts for the years it was collected can be found in the links below.2023/24 financial year: ht...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who have arrived on small boats since 4 July 2024 have been deported.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on small boat returns in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on quarterly enforced and voluntary returns of people who arrived by small boat, by return date, are published in table Irr_02e of the ‘Irr...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the average length of time taken between the point of application to join (a) the army, (b) the Royal Navy, (c) the RAF and attestation in each year since 1997.
Answer: The new Government inherited a crisis in recruitment. We have made it a priority to address this with a series of work streams designed to increase recruitment and renew the contract between the nation and those who serve to improve retention.Many factors...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on Capita provided medical vetting for forces personnel in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The requested information is provided in the following table, by Financial Year (FY): FY£ million2014-15175.7302015-16127.0582016-17134.4762017-18124.0622018-19115.4352019-20120.9612020-21132.1242021-22121.6572022-23121.0282023-24126.760
Answered 18 Feb 2025
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