Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
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Clinical TrialsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 905923More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the status of the proposed PATHWAYS clinical trial.
Answer: Better quality evidence is critical if the NHS is to support young people suffering from gender incongruence, so we are supporting a programme of research, recommended by the Cass Review, including the PATHWAYS study. The health and wellbeing of the child...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner EscapesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of staff training and management at HMP Downview, in the context of the security breach involving an unauthorised prisoner departure in October 2025.
Answer: There has been one instance in the last 24 months of a prisoner at HMP/YOI Downview leaving the secure perimeter without formal authorisation. Swift action was taken by other staff to correct the breach.The Prison Group Director has commissioned an invest...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner EscapesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the security breach in October 2025 involving an unauthorised prisoner departure at HMP Downview involved a prisoner housed in the prison’s E Wing.
Answer: The incident referred to did not involve a prisoner on E Wing, and does not affect the management of the unit.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner EscapesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of whether HMP Downview is capable of effectively keeping the female prisoners safe from the biological male prisoners sharing the same facilities and services, in the cont
Answer: The incident referred to did not involve a prisoner on E Wing, and does not affect the management of the unit.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner EscapesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to review systems of prisoner management in place at HMP Downview in the context of the security breach involving an unauthorised prisoner departure in October 2025.
Answer: There has been one instance in the last 24 months of a prisoner at HMP/YOI Downview leaving the secure perimeter without formal authorisation. Swift action was taken by other staff to correct the breach.The Prison Group Director has commissioned an invest...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Prisoner EscapesMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions in the last 24 months have prisoners at HMP Downview left the secure perimeter without formal authorisation.
Answer: There has been one instance in the last 24 months of a prisoner at HMP/YOI Downview leaving the secure perimeter without formal authorisation. Swift action was taken by other staff to correct the breach.The Prison Group Director has commissioned an invest...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure the security of data submitted by third parties in support of visa applications.
Answer: UK Visa and Immigration’s commercial partners provide administrative services on behalf of the UK Government to support in processing visa applications. The UK Government visa decision making systems are entirely separate from commercial partner solutions...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations on surrogacy in the report by the UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women and Girls entitl
Answer: The UN Special Rapporteur’s report is framed within the context of Violence Against Women and Girls and recommends banning surrogacy in all forms.The United Kingdom Government supports surrogacy as an option for family formation, for people unable to carr...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI DownviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62454 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether E Wing at HMP Downview is part of the women's estate.
Answer: As of 1 August 2025, five biologically male prisoners were held at HMP/YOI Downview. All were accommodated on E Wing. Since 4 July 2024, seven prisoners have been placed in the unit. No prisoners have moved from E Wing into the general women's estate unde...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost to the public purse is of housing a prisoner in (a) E Wing of HMP Downview and (b) the general women's estate within HMP Downview.
Answer: As of 1 August 2025, five biologically male prisoners were held at HMP/YOI Downview. All were accommodated on E Wing. Since 4 July 2024, seven prisoners have been placed in the unit. No prisoners have moved from E Wing into the general women's estate unde...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: FinanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether funding of E Wing at HMP Downview comes out of the (a) women's and (b) men's estate budget.
Answer: As of 1 August 2025, five biologically male prisoners were held at HMP/YOI Downview. All were accommodated on E Wing. Since 4 July 2024, seven prisoners have been placed in the unit. No prisoners have moved from E Wing into the general women's estate unde...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2023 at HMP Downview were committed by
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2024 at HMP Downview were committed by
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview as of 1 August 2025.
Answer: As of 1 August 2025, five biologically male prisoners were held at HMP/YOI Downview. All were accommodated on E Wing. Since 4 July 2024, seven prisoners have been placed in the unit. No prisoners have moved from E Wing into the general women's estate unde...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: MenMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males have been placed in E Wing of HMP Downview since 4 July 2024.
Answer: As of 1 August 2025, five biologically male prisoners were held at HMP/YOI Downview. All were accommodated on E Wing. Since 4 July 2024, seven prisoners have been placed in the unit. No prisoners have moved from E Wing into the general women's estate unde...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSuicide: ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing inquests into cases of child death by suicide to sit in private.
Answer: The Government is committed to putting the bereaved at the heart of the inquest process, and we are particularly conscious of the importance of this for those who have suffered the unimaginable distress of losing a child through suicide.However, in line w...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: RecruitmentDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to recruit additional driving examiners through gov.uk.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) advertises for driving examiner (DE) vacancies, as well as other roles across the agency, on the Civil Service jobs website, which is part of GOV.UK. DVSA’s latest DE campaign was advertised on its homepage o...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of £985 per cycle payments to egg donors on the level of incentive to women from the poorest backgrounds to donate eggs because of fi
Answer: The compensation rate for egg donation is set by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), as provided for in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA has advised that the donor compensation levels originally set in 2011 fo...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of allowing young women to be solicited for egg donations by for-profit fertility clinics utilising adverts which do not list k
Answer: No such assessment has been made. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the United Kingdom’s fertility sector regulator, sets out strict requirements in its Licence Conditions and Code of Practice in relation to the recruitment of donor...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of running long term studies in to the impact on women's bodies of egg retrieval.
Answer: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)’s Scientific and Clinical Advances Advisory Committee (SCAAC) recently reviewed the published evidence of health outcomes for those having fertility treatment, including egg donors. The last 10 years...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the reason that over 4,100 women from the poorest backgrounds in the UK have donated their eggs since 2011.
Answer: The Department has not undertaken an assessment, however, academic research in the United Kingdom has consistently found that donating eggs and sperm is driven by altruism.The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published data shows that e...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Seasonal WorkersHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Border Force seasonal workers have gone on to be employed by Border Force since the termination of the seasonal workforce programme.
Answer: As of the 1st of April 2024, there were 449 Seasonal Workforce staff in contract. The Seasonal Workforce (SWF) was a temporary staffing resource used to support operational delivery during periods of peak demand and recruited under exemptions from the nor...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Seasonal WorkersHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vacancies for full time Border Force roles were being advertised at the point at which the Border Force Seasonal Workforce programme was discontinued.
Answer: As of the 1st of April 2024, there were 449 Seasonal Workforce staff in contract. The Seasonal Workforce (SWF) was a temporary staffing resource used to support operational delivery during periods of peak demand and recruited under exemptions from the nor...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Seasonal WorkersHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the Border Force Seasonal Worker programme was for the last financial year of its operation.
Answer: As of the 1st of April 2024, there were 449 Seasonal Workforce staff in contract. The Seasonal Workforce (SWF) was a temporary staffing resource used to support operational delivery during periods of peak demand and recruited under exemptions from the nor...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUK Border Force: Seasonal WorkersHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force workers were employed on Seasonal Workforce Contracts in 2024.
Answer: As of the 1st of April 2024, there were 449 Seasonal Workforce staff in contract. The Seasonal Workforce (SWF) was a temporary staffing resource used to support operational delivery during periods of peak demand and recruited under exemptions from the nor...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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