Nick Timothy MP: written questions 2025
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Lipoedema and LymphoedemaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help improve (a) training and (b) awareness of (i) Lymphoedema and (ii) Lipoedema for (A) GPs and (B) other medical professionals.
Answer: Doctors are responsible for maintaining their clinical knowledge, including on lymphoedema and lipoedema, throughout their careers, and are responsible for identifying learning needs as part of their continuing professional development.All doctors registe...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCity of Sanctuary UKDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2025 to Question 72845 on City of Sanctuary UK, on which dates officials from her Department met with Schools of Sanctuary since July 2024; and what was discussed at each mee
Answer: Three meetings have taken place between officials and Schools of Sanctuary during the 2024/25 academic year. One meeting was to discuss school admissions policy and processes, and two were to hear about the work of the organisation.
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter of 5 September 2025 from the hon. Member for West Suffolk.
Answer: A response was sent to the hon. Member on 6 January 2026.
Answered 20 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letter of 14 August 2025 from the hon. Member for West Suffolk.
Answer: A response was sent to the hon. Member on 16 October 2025.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025WithdrawnUIN 82040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of 8 September 2025 from the hon. Member for West Suffolk.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82039More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of 7 September 2025 from the hon. Member for West Suffolk.
Answer: The letter of 7 September 2025 was transferred to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for response.
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working GroupMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a list of the (a) people and (b) organisations who were invited to contribute towards the final report from the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobi
Answer: The Working Group have now submitted their independent advice to Ministers who will take the time to review and consider the advice carefully before confirming next steps in due course.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working GroupMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the final report from the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition in full and without redactions.
Answer: The Working Group have now submitted their independent advice to Ministers who will take the time to review and consider the advice carefully before confirming next steps in due course.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working GroupMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the final report from the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition.
Answer: The Working Group have now submitted their independent advice to Ministers who will take the time to review and consider the advice carefully before confirming next steps in due course.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working GroupMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has received the final report from the Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition.
Answer: The Working Group have now submitted their independent advice to Ministers who will take the time to review and consider the advice carefully before confirming next steps in due course.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: InquiriesHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82034More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for launching a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
Answer: The Government is driving forward work to establish the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse under the Inquiries Act 2005. It will be overseen by an Independent Commission with statutory powers to compel evidence and testi...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time for asylum claims was broken down by (a) individual route and (b) month since July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of claims awaiting an initial decision, broken down by duration, is published in table Asy_D03 and data on the number of people claiming ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: StaffHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the headcount number of caseworkers for processing asylum claims was broken down by (a) individual route and (b) month since July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office is maintaining sufficient resource in place to clear the Asylum backlog.The number of full time equivalent (FTE) asylum caseworkers employed per month until June 2025 is published in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published migration transparenc...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: StaffHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the headcount number was of caseworkers processing visas by (a) each visa route and (b) month since July 2024.
Answer: The Department is unable to provide previous headcount data for visa processing broken down by route and by month. Caseworkers are routinely reallocated across visa routes to maintain service standards and a flexible deployment model is used by UKVI to ma...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for visas broken down by (a) each visa route and (b) month since July 2024.
Answer: UKVI have been processing applications on all of its routes where a customer service standard is operated within their published customer service standards during the requested time period. On 1 September the Secretary of State for the Home Department ann...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary DecorationsMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a medal for servicemen and women who leave the armed forces before becoming eligible for medals under existing schemes.
Answer: Whilst we are grateful to all those who serve in our Armed Forces, it remains the position that medals are awarded only in recognition of operational Service, acts of gallantry, and long and meritorious Service; they are not awarded for Service alone. The...
Answered 18 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCompany LiquidationsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the practice of voluntary liquidation by companies with (a) liabilities and (b) outstanding contractual obligations that begin operations under another
Answer: My Department has not made these assessments. However, liquidators of an insolvent company are required to report on the conduct of its directors to the Insolvency Service, who will consider investigating potential misconduct and seek to disqualify the di...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordInsolvencyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the use of bankruptcy law by companies to avoid repaying contractual repayments.
Answer: My Department has not made this assessment. Statistics on the volumes of corporate insolvencies are published and can be found at Company insolvency statistics releases - GOV.UK.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRemittancesTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78995More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in remittances by country of destination has been sent from the UK in each year since 2020.
Answer: The Treasury does not collect or report data on the flow of remittances out of the UK and has not under previous governments. The UK imposes taxes based on individual’s residence status. Individuals who are resident in the UK are taxable on their income a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRemittances: TaxationTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78994More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a tax on remittance flows.
Answer: The Treasury does not collect or report data on the flow of remittances out of the UK and has not under previous governments. The UK imposes taxes based on individual’s residence status. Individuals who are resident in the UK are taxable on their income a...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) halal and (b) kosher slaughterhouses have been investigated for violations of (i) food safety and (ii) animal welfare standards in each year since 2020.
Answer: The Food Standards Agency does not have data on the number of halal or kosher slaughterhouses investigated for violations of food safety or animal welfare standards. The Food Standards Agency does not categorise slaughterhouses as either ‘halal’ or ‘koshe...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) halal and (b) kosher slaughterhouses have operated in the UK in each year since 2020, by local authority area.
Answer: The number of slaughterhouses carrying out slaughter using the halal or shechita methods is not routinely recorded, as no specific approval from the Food Standards Agency is required to use these methods. However, the FSA’s most recent slaughter sector su...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of mandating the labelling of (a) halal and (b) kosher products.
Answer: There are no regulations that require the labelling of halal or kosher meat, but the Government expects industry to provide consumers with information on which to make an informed choice about their food. Any information provided on the method of slaughte...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) food safety and (b) animal welfare standards in (i) halal and (ii) kosher slaughterhouses.
Answer: No specific food safety or animal welfare assessments have been made of slaughterhouses using halal or kosher slaughter methods. Animal welfare at time of killing legislation sets out the main requirements to protect the welfare of animals when being slau...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: RefugeesDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has promoted the Schools of Sanctuary initiative with (a) local education authorities (b) maintained schools, and (c) academy trusts and sponsors.
Answer: The department has not promoted the work of Schools of Sanctuary to any local authority or educational setting.
Answered 21 Oct 2025
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