Priti Patel MP: written questions 2025
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Chagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will respond to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee's report entitled UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia, HL 14
Answer: I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer to question 75385. The response to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee report will be published shortly.Ahead of ratification, the Government will make a ministerial Statement in both Hou...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: Marine Protected AreasForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75283More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer given 3 September 2025 to Questions 69773 on Chagos Islands: Marine Protected Areas, on what dates implementation talks have taken place since 22 May 2
Answer: As we have consistently said, we are not going to provide a commentary on the negotiations, nor our implementation talks. The final, agreed Treaty has been laid in Parliament.
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDiego Garcia: Military BasesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on what date he agreed to remove the provision to provide the UK with a unilateral right to extend the 99-year lease for the use of Diego Garcia from the draft UK-Mauritius T
Answer: As we have consistently said, we are not going to provide a commentary on the negotiations, nor our implementation talks. The final, agreed Treaty has been laid in Parliament.
Answered 22 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75281More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish all the estimates he received on the financial costs of the UK-Mauritius Treaty from the Government Actuary's Department since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The cost of the Diego Garcia military base agreement in today's money is £101 million while the net present value over 99 years is £3.4 billion. These figures have been verified by the Government Actuary's Department and draw on long-established methodolo...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyAttorney GeneralTabled 4 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75278More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Attorney General has discussed the UK-Mauritius Treaty over the future sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago with Philippe Sands.
Answer: The Attorney General has never engaged in discussion with Philippe Sands on the UK-Mauritius Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago.
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department maintains a risk register of the UK-Mauritius Treaty over the future sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago; and what assessment he has made of the pote
Answer: The agreement between the UK and Mauritius secures the important UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, and is backed by our 5 Eyes partners, including the United States of America. This government secured all necessary safeguards within the treaty, includi...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: Marine Protected AreasForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70431More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Article 5 of the treaty entitled UK/Mauritius: Agreement concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia (CS Mauritius No.1/2025), when he last dis
Answer: Prime Minister Ramgoolam has reaffirmed Mauritius' support for a Chagos Marine Protected Area (MPA), including most recently in his conversation with the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at the Oceans summit in Nice on 9...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBill Discount SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70430More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department's consultation document entitled Scheme design for bill discounts for transmission network infrastructure published on 8 August 2025, on what date will commun
Answer: We propose eligible households will start receiving a discount once main construction has begun and will receive a maximum of £250 per year for up to 10 years. It is our intention that the bill discount scheme will run for a set period of time, with a pos...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordA12: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, If she will publish the details of the construction phase funding for the A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening scheme considered by her Department’s Investment Portfolio and Delivery Committee in 2023/24 and 2024/25
Answer: The Department has no plans to publish papers considered by its Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee, as has been the usual practice of successive administrations.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70428More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Pursuant to her Department’s Annual Account 2024/25, with reference to page 19, (a) what funding she will be providing to each Mayoral Combined Authority in each financial year through to 2029/30, (b) what fund
Answer: On (a) and (b), at Spending Review 2025 ("SR25"), the government announced £15.6bn of funding for Transport for City Region settlements for 9 eligible Mayoral Combined Authorities ("MCAs") from 2027-28 to 2031-32. This funding builds o...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEast Anglia Rail Franchise: NationalisationDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 67867 on East Anglia Rail Franchise: Nationalisation, which stakeholders she has (a) consulted and (b) engaged with in relation to the planned Services Agreeme
Answer: A range of stakeholders were consulted and engaged in the design of the Services Agreement template, including train operating companies, DFT Operator Limited, Network Rail and passenger representatives. A Services Agreement is signed by the Department, D...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, If she has undertaken an assessment of the net present value using the Green Book methodology of (a) the A12 Widening Scheme, (b) each of the infrastructure schemes referenced in her Oral Statement of 8 July 20
Answer: The Department uses a five-dimension business case to inform decisions about transport investments, in line with the HM Treasury Green Book and the Department’s Transport Analysis Guidance. Within that, the Department considers benefits and costs in prese...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordA12: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 66153 on Housing: Construction, if she will publish the analysis of the A12 widening scheme conducted in accordance with the HMT Treasury Green Book and her De
Answer: Detailed information on the analysis of the A12 widening scheme, conducted in accordance with the HMT Treasury Green Book and the Department’s Transport Analysis Guidance, was published on the Planning Inspectorate’s website, available here: https://natio...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordA12: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 66155 on A12: Repairs and Maintenance, how much funding she has allocated for the costs of ending the A12 widening scheme.
Answer: National Highways is moving to end the A12 widening scheme and will publish details on costs incurred in its Annual Report and Accounts in due course. The costs will be funded from resources made available to National Highways in the usual way.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordA12: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 66157 on A12: Repairs and Maintenance, what resources she has made available for small-scale interventions on the A12.
Answer: The necessary resources will be made available for the Department to continue to work with National Highways and relevant partners to explore what small-scale interventions could potentially address issues on the A12.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordA12: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 66154 on A12: Repairs and Maintenance, if she will publish the evidence she assessed when making the decision to cancel the A12 widening scheme.
Answer: There are no plans to publish officials’ advice to Ministers, as has been the usual practice of successive administrations, including the one the Rt Hon Lady served in.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67866 on A12: Repairs and Maintenance, when she plans to announce her Department's spending plans for the 2026-27 financial year.
Answer: The Department’s spending plans will be published in the Main Estimates. For the Strategic Road Network, the Department intends to announce its spending plans for the 2026-27 financial year in the third Road Investment Strategy (RIS3), which is expected t...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: InfrastructureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether (a) value for money assessments of and (b) comparative value for money assessments of alternative projects proposed through the Development Consent Order process will be material plan
Answer: Draft updated National Policy Statements were published for consultation and laid before Parliament earlier this year. There are no proposed changes in regard to value for money assessments. Development proposals enter the planning system at different tim...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: InfrastructureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether (a) value for money assessments and (b) comparative value for money assessments for alternative proposals will be material planning considerations when determining applications covere
Answer: Draft updated National Policy Statements were published for consultation and laid before Parliament earlier this year. There are no proposed changes in regard to value for money assessments. Development proposals enter the planning system at different tim...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: East of EnglandDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the potential contribution of the Norwich to Tilbury Great Grid upgrade to his target for low carbon generation of electricity by 2030; and when he expects this i
Answer: National Grid have now submitted their Development Consent Order application to the Planning Inspectorate for consideration. The Government does not comment on the merits of live planning applications, which, subject to the Planning Inspectorate’s decisio...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordInflationTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69821More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a forecast of the GDP deflator index for each of the next 100 years.
Answer: HM Treasury does not prepare forecasts for the UK economy. These forecasts, including assessments of the impact of policy decisions, are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). To support their five year forecasts for...
Answered 2 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagossians: Freedom of ExpressionForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his Mauritian counterpart on the potential impact of Section 76B of the Mauritian criminal code on Chagossians.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Explanatory Memorandum for Mauritius's Criminal Code (Amendment) Bill 2021 (https://mauritiusassembly.govmu.org/mauritiusassembly/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/bill1621.pdf) .It is clear that legislation applies only to perso...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagossian Trust FundForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Mauritian counterpart on the potential merits of UK representation on the board of the Chagossian Trust Fund for British Chagossian
Answer: We have committed to capitalise a Trust Fund for the benefit of Chagossians, and are engaging with Mauritius on the design and parameters of the Fund, including potential UK representation on its Board. The Government has committed to update the House on ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory and Diego Garcia: FinanceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided to the British Indian Ocean Territory in (a) each of the last five years and (b) the 2025-26 financial year; and how much funding
Answer: The British Indian Ocean Territory Administration publishes an Appropriation Ordinance at the beginning of each financial year. This outlines annual budgets, primarily funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and can be found on ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62582 on Chagos Islands: Sovereignty, what the annual payments were in dollars previously proposed; what the exchange rate w
Answer: As per the answer to Question 62582, transferring the finance package into Sterling had no impact on overall cost but did reduce future foreign exchange rate risks for the UK.
Answered 3 Sept 2025
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