Nick Timothy MP: written questions 2025
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Undocumented WorkersHome OfficeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have been granted permission to work in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in each year since 2020.
Answer: Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at dispr...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: National InsuranceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many irregular migrants have been given a National Insurance Number in each year since 2020.
Answer: DWP does not issue National Insurance Numbers to irregular migrants. The department is responsible for the allocation of National Insurance Numbers to adults in the UK, and all applicants are required to provide evidence of their identity and information ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented WorkersHome OfficeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have been given the right to work in each year since 2020.
Answer: Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at dispr...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43509More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of irregular migrants who do not have an up-to-date address registered by her Department.
Answer: Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at dispr...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total (a) value and (b) number of payments made by her Department to Motability in each year since 2010.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions retains financial information for 7 years in compliance with the fifth principle of the Data Protection Act, therefore we are unable to provide historic data back to 2010. We can provide the requested estimated total M...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43507More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) hospitals, and (b) other buildings in England will be (i) sold, (ii) refurbished, and (iii) demolished between 2025 and 2030.
Answer: The Department does not currently hold estimated figures for the number of sales, refurbishments and demolitions of hospitals and other National Health Service buildings in England for 2025 to 2030.Decisions to sell, refurbish or demolish hospitals and ot...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Electric VehiclesHome OfficeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of building new charging infrastructure for police electric vehicles in each year between 2025 and 2030.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this data. Decisions about the allocation of police resources locally, are a matter for Chief Constables and directly elected local policing bodies (including Police and Crime Commissioners, Mayors exercising PCC functions an...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Electric VehiclesHome OfficeTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43505More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of building new charging infrastructure for police electric vehicles in each year between 2020 and 2025.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this data. Decisions about the allocation of police resources locally, are a matter for Chief Constables and directly elected local policing bodies (including Police and Crime Commissioners, Mayors exercising PCC functions an...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with the Health and Safety Executive on its proposed restriction on the acquisition, s
Answer: In Spring 2021, Defra asked the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA) to prepare a restriction dossier for lead ammunition in all habitats. The HSE and the EA have considered the evidence of risk posed by lead in ammunition t...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of restricting the acquisition, storage, and usage of lead shot on elite shooting athletes.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) final Opinion on their restriction proposal for lead in ammunition, informed by information from public consultations as well as independent scientific advice, included consideration of the use of lead shot by athle...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: Rural AreasDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of clay pigeon shooting on (a) business growth and (b) job creation in rural communities.
Answer: Rural areas offer significant potential for growth and are important to our economy, contributing over £315 billion a year to England alone. Defra has not made a formal assessment on contribution of clay pigeon shooting to the rural economy; however, we k...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations his Department has received from shooting organisations on restrictions on the acquisition, storage, and use of lead shot.
Answer: Defra has received representations from a variety of stakeholders, including shooting organisations, setting out a diverse range of views on this issue. The main shooting organisations that have made representations have been: The British Association for ...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGun Sports: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of exempting elite shooting athletes from the Health and Safety Executive’s proposed restriction on the acquisition, sto
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) final Opinion on their restriction proposal for lead in ammunition, informed by information from public consultations as well as independent scientific advice, included consideration of the use of lead shot by athle...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Visits: SuffolkDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many ministerial visits he has made to Suffolk since 4 July 2025; and where those visits took place.
Answer: The Secretary of State and the Ministerial team conduct visits across the UK on a regular basis including in Suffolk. A central list of every visit conducted is not publicly available.
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the projected cost for spend on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England by 2030.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: BuildingsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list (a) the contracts signed by NHS trusts for (a) designing and (b) constructing new NHS buildings that are net zero in operation and (b) the value of each of those contracts.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care has not provided targeted funding for heat decarbonisation measures since 2015, nor does it hold a list of any net zero building contracts entered by individual National Health Service trusts. Since 2019, targeted ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of benefit claimant households had received welfare payments for (a) five, (b) ten, (c) twenty and (d) more than twenty years in each year since 2010 in the latest period fo
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average amount received in benefits by benefit claimant households in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.
Answer: Monthly statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit and Housing Benefit in Great Britain by local authority are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore. Universal Credit statistics, by monthly average award amount, are available from August 201...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits claimant households received (a) Universal Credit, (b) New Style Jobseekers’ Allowance, (c) New Style Employment and Support Allowance, (d) Personal Independence Payment and (e) legacy
Answer: Monthly statistics for the number of households on Universal Credit and Housing Benefit in Great Britain by local authority are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore.Universal Credit statistics are available from August 2015 to November 2024 in the Household...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) Officials in his Department have undertaken with the sporting and cultural events sector to discuss proposals for the Care Quality Commission to increase its reg
Answer: Following the Manchester Arena Inquiry Volume Two report, the Government sought to make the necessary changes in the law to enable the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to regulate event healthcare at sporting venues and gymnasiums, and at temporary sporting ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Care Quality Commission to regulate sporting and cultural events.
Answer: Following the Manchester Arena Inquiry Volume Two report, the Government sought to make the necessary changes in the law to enable the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to regulate event healthcare at sporting venues and gymnasiums, and at temporary sporting ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: SportsgroundsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to consult on the temporary exemption for sporting and cultural events at associated premises to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulati
Answer: From 26 April 2024 to 21 June 2024, a public consultation was run to gather views on the Government’s proposal. An easy read version was then made available from 13 August 2024 to 27 September 2024. The Government’s response to the consultation was publis...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers arrived in the UK without appropriate documents in in each year since 2020.
Answer: The information requested is not available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
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