Neil O'Brien MP: written questions 2026
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Written questions
ImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of indefinite leave to remain were revoked in the last twelve months.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally in an easily accessible form and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordMental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on forensic support services in the most recent year for which data is available; and how many people were dealt with by such services.
Answer: The spend on high, medium and low secure services for 2023/24, the latest year for which data is available, is £1,688,718,895. Information on how many people were dealt with by such services is not held centrally.
Answered 10 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMentally Disordered Offenders: HomicideDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, according to data supplied to the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, how many patients in recent (12 months) contact with mental health services were convicted
Answer: The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health is not able to provide separate figures for 2024.In England, Wales, and Scotland, the estimated number of people who were convicted of a homicide offence and who had been in contac...
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he will publish data on the number of Personal Independence Payment claimants by (a) daily living component points score and (b) mobility component points score, broken down by primary disabling
Answer: The information requested is provided in the attached workbook. Figures for claimants with the most common disabling conditions in receipt of the PIP Daily Living component including those scoring fewer than 12 points on the Daily Living activities are pr...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 47466, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants there are, broken down by (a) disability category and (b) health condition; and of those cl
Answer: The information requested is provided in the attached workbook. Figures for claimants with the most common disabling conditions in receipt of the PIP Daily Living component including those scoring fewer than 12 points on the Daily Living activities are pr...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public ExpenditureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Annual Report 2024-25 and with reference to the Answer of 21 January 2026 to Question 105347 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Gove
Answer: We do not recognise the figure of £1,012,406,000 as an RDEL figure for the Affordable Housing Programme. This figure may relate to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Details of funding provided to Mayoral Combined Authorities are published each year in annual...
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who are not United Kingdom nationals received a student loan for the first time in each of the last five academic years, broken down by (a) nationality group and (b) type of loan.
Answer: The attached table provides the number of non-UK nationals who received a first loan for the 2020/21 to 2024/25 academic years, by loan type and nationality.Eligibility for student finance is not based on nationality, but on immigration status and residen...
Answered 28 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish data on the repayment rate of student loans, by nationality of borrower, in each of the last five years.
Answer: The attached table provides repayment rates for loans due for repayment for the 2020/21 to 2024/25 financial years. The repayment rate was calculated as the percentage of borrowers whose loan has passed its Statutory Repayment Due Date (SRDD, normally the...
Answered 28 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total value of student loans issued was by nationality of recipient in each of the last five years.
Answer: The attached table provides the total value of loans issued, by nationality of recipient, for the 2020/21 to 2024/25 academic years.Eligibility for student finance is not based on nationality, but on immigration status and residency, ensuring that access ...
Answered 28 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 124528 and in the context of the March RPI figure being published, what is the estimated total fiscal cost of the policy of capping the maximum interest
Answer: The government is capping the maximum interest rates on Plan 2 and Plan 3 student loans at 6%, instead of the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 3%, for the 2026/27 academic year. This short term measure will protect students and graduates from the potential ...
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordData CentresDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the expected growth in UK datacentre capacity, measured in MW, from today to 2030.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of indefinite leave to remain were revoked in the last twelve months.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many grants of indefinite leave to remain were revoked in January, February and March of this year.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on agreeing the Future Asylum Contracts Accommodation.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, in each of the last three years how many households owed a prevention or relief duty were a) UK nationals b) EEA nationals c) non-EEA nationals, broken down by the reason for the
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: ConductDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2026Awaiting answerUIN 130067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of Practitioner Performance Advice cases involving (a) behaviour, (b) misconduct and (c) other (i) clinical and (ii) health concerns have involved practitioners who qua
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 124528 and in the context of the March RPI figure being published, what is the estimated total fiscal cost of the policy of capping the maximum interest rates
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: Postal ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of mail deliveries of NHS correspondence to patients.
Answer: The monitoring of National Health Service patient correspondence, including appointment letters, is the responsibility of individual NHS providers. Data is not held centrally on the whether appointment letters are received prior to an appointment taking p...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: Postal ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of hospital appointment letters sent by post do not arrive before the appointment.
Answer: The monitoring of National Health Service patient correspondence, including appointment letters, is the responsibility of individual NHS providers. Data is not held centrally on the whether appointment letters are received prior to an appointment taking p...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordMental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on forensic support services in the most recent year for which data is available; and how many people were dealt with by such services
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129239More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Lord Mandelson was in Downing Street during the Cabinet reshuffle on 5 September 2025.
Answer: Decisions relating to the reshuffle on 5 September were taken by the Prime Minister.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordMental Illness: HomicideDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, according to data supplied to the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, how many patients in recent (12 months) contact with mental health services were convicted
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who are not United Kingdom nationals received a student loan for the first time in each of the last five academic years, broken down by (a) nationality group and (b) type of loan.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: PowersHome OfficeTabled 21 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many, in each of the last 10 years (a) individuals and (b) organisations were empowered under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme.
Answer: The Community Safety Accreditation Scheme enables police chief officers to accredit and designate non-police personnel with limited powers to address low level crime. The Home Office does not hold information on the number of accredited individuals or org...
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish data on the repayment rate of student loans, by nationality of borrower, in each of the last five years.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
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