Rebecca Long Bailey MP: written questions

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Written questions

Food PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 107389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a list of organisations represented at his Department's conference on food poverty on 14 and 15 January 2026.
Answer: The DWP Food Poverty Conference took place at the Abbey Centre on 15 January 2026.Our aim was to bring together a range of local authorities, other government departments, charities and academics to share and discuss a range of good practice happening on ...
Answered 28 Jan 2026
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Horizon IT System: CompensationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 104479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Horizon Shortfall Scheme payments are 1) exempt from tax and 2) subject to tax, and whether these taxation rules apply to all historical payments already paid out.
Answer: The Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) is designed to put postmasters back into the position they would have been in ‘but for’ Horizon, and no one will pay more tax than at the time of the shortfalls. All fully assessed HSS awards are paid gross and taxable i...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
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Alaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96757More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress her Department has made in ensuring British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd El-Fattah's safe travel to the UK.
Answer: As I stated in the latest session of FCDO Oral Questions on 2 December, the Prime Minister raised this case with President Sisi on 18 November, and the Foreign Secretary has pressed for Mr el-Fattah's return on multiple occasions with the Egyptian Foreign...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
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Railways: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data she holds on the use of Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices by train operating companies.
Answer: Use of Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP) notices is an operational matter for the train operating companies. The Department does not hold data on WIP notices.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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Railways: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support the development of a railway-wide Withdrawal of Implied Permission notice.
Answer: The Department keeps security under constant review, however no change of policy for Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP) is planned at this stage.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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Railways: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the sanction of a Withdrawal of Implied Permission notice by one Train Operating Company is confined to the services of the train operating company applying that sanction.
Answer: Individuals who have been issued with a full Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP) will be banned from accessing the station the WIP was issued from and will be prohibited from using any train of that particular train operating company that passes throug...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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Railways: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train companies contracted to her Department utilise Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices.
Answer: Usage of Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP) notices are an operational matter for the train operating company or Network Rail. The Department does not hold data on which operators utilise WIPs.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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Railways: AccessDepartment for TransportTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance she has given to train companies contracted to her Department on the usage of Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices.
Answer: Usage of Withdrawal of Implied Permission (WIP) notices are an operational matter for the train operating company or Network Rail and the Department does not issue guidance.The Rail Delivery Group are able to provide guidance to operators on WIP notices.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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Universal Credit: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Poverty Strategy will end the two-child limit on Universal Credit.
Answer: Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce will publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes ...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
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Poverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to allow for an adequate level of parliamentary scrutiny of the delivery of the planned child poverty strategy.
Answer: Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce will publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes ...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
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Poverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include targets on reducing child poverty within the planned child poverty strategy.
Answer: The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in the autumn that will deliver measures to tackle the structural and root causes of child poverty. The publication will set out how we intend to monitor and evaluate the ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
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Prostate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81332More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test (PSA test).The committee is curre...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
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Prostate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test (PSA test).The committee is curre...
Answered 24 Oct 2025
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Overseas Companies: PalestineDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with businesses on the steps they are taking to (a) identify and (b) prevent forms of support that help to maintain unlawful occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territori
Answer: The UK Government has a clear position that Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal under international law. The overseas business risk guidance, available on gov.uk, states there are clear risks to UK operators related to economic and financial acti...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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Israel: PalestineForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) identify and (b) prevent forms of support that help to maintain unlawful occupation in the occupied Palestinian territ
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 17 September to Question 73423.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
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Building Regulations: Street NumbersMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating building (a) requirements and (b) regulations to make it mandatory to display a street building number on the outs
Answer: The government has made no assessment of the merits of updating Building Regulations to accommodate street building numbers on the outside of buildings.Local authorities already use their legal powers to manage requirements for street and building numberi...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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Israel: PalestineForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations for UN member states in the UN Human Rights Council Conference Room Paper
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 9 June 2025 to Question 55524.
Answered 24 Oct 2025
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Alaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what further steps she plans to take to encourage the Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Answer: Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison on 23 September 2025, following a Presidential pardon.
Answered 15 Oct 2025
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Alaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international allies on the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Answer: Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison on 23 September 2025, following a Presidential pardon.
Answered 15 Oct 2025
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Alaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she next expects to discuss the case of detained British national Alaa Abd el-Fattah with her Egyptian counterpart.
Answer: Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison on 23 September 2025, following a Presidential pardon.
Answered 15 Oct 2025
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Journalism: Higher EducationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education on students from different social and economic bac
Answer: The Government has had to make tough prioritisation decisions driven by the challenging fiscal context that we inherited. For the Department of Education, this has meant prioritising support for high-cost subjects that are essential to delivery of our ind...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Journalism: Higher EducationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65790More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the decision to end Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education.
Answer: The Government has had to make tough prioritisation decisions driven by the challenging fiscal context that we inherited. For the Department of Education, this has meant prioritising support for high-cost subjects that are essential to delivery of our ind...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
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Journalism: Higher EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65789More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education on their future financial viability.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Salford to the answer of 16 July 2025 to Question 63373.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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