Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
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Prisons and Young Offender Institutions: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Independent Monitoring Board's report entitled Annual report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP/YOI Downview, published on 3 September 2025, what steps he is taking to safeguard biol
Answer: Prisoners on E Wing are held separately from other prisoners at HMP & YOI Downview. They may only access the regime of the wider prison if risk assessed as being safe to do so, and under the supervision of prison staff.Transgender prisoners at all pri...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: SurreyDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with (a) Surrey County Council and (b) Surrey Police on child safeguarding following the conviction of Stephen Ireland.
Answer: Child sexual abuse is an abhorrent crime that no child should ever have to endure. We recognise the lifelong impact it can have on victims and survivors and remain committed to strengthening our response to this abuse.The department holds regular meetings...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: GenderDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Policy Exchange report entitled In absentia parentis, published on 24 August 2025, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have up-to-date safeguarding policie
Answer: Local authorities and social care practitioners are required to support children in a way that meets their needs and best interests. This support will look different on an individual case basis. In considering their safeguarding policies and how best to s...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: GenderDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85610More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Policy Exchange report entitled In absentia parentis, published on 24 August 2025, the Cass Review's final report, published in April 2024, and the Supreme Court judgement in the case of F
Answer: Local authorities and social care practitioners are required to support children in a way that meets their needs and best interests. This support will look different on an individual case basis. In considering their safeguarding policies and how best to s...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Sexual OffencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on whether any female prisoners held at HMP Downview have been sexually assaulted by biological male prisoners.
Answer: Prisoners on E Wing are held separately from other prisoners at HMP & YOI Downview. They may only access the regime of the wider prison if risk assessed as being safe to do so, and under the supervision of prison staff.Transgender prisoners at all pri...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHMP/YOI Downview: Sexual OffencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sexual assaults of female prisoners by biological male prisoners have taken place in HMP Downview in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025.
Answer: Prisoners on E Wing are held separately from other prisoners at HMP & YOI Downview. They may only access the regime of the wider prison if risk assessed as being safe to do so, and under the supervision of prison staff.Transgender prisoners at all pri...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2022-2023, published on 30 November 2023, how many of the 225 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male were convicted of a sexual
Answer: Of the 225 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male, 126 had been convicted of a sexual offence: this includes both contact and non-contact sexual offences. Offence data were not available for ten individuals.HMPPS’s allocation policy...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85606More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide additional support for women who face additional prescription costs due to (a) menorrhagia and (b) other menstrual issues caused by (i) miscarriage and (ii)
Answer: There are no plans to review the support available to women facing these issues.A maternity exemption certificate can be applied for as soon as a healthcare professional has confirmed that the patient is pregnant or has given birth, including still-birth,...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordClinical 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
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