Robbie Moore MP: written questions 2025
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Offences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 25 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 94373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, as part of Recommendation 2 of the Casey Audit, the Cabinet Office has yet issued a formal instruction or preservation notice requiring the retention of records relevant to child sexual explo
Answer: In her Audit, Baroness Casey made clear that local authorities, police forces and other relevant agencies should be required not to destroy any relevant records, and we expect this to be the case. The Home Office has made the requirement clear to departme...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEggs: UkraineDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of extending tariff-free access for Ukrainian eggs on the level of domestic food security.
Answer: Under our Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine, tariffs on all goods are temporarily removed until March 2029, except for poultry and eggs, where the liberalisation is due to end on 31 March 2026. Ukrainian imports of poultry and eggs currently constitute a ...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: Agricultural ProductsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to include mirror clauses in future trade agreements for agricultural products.
Answer: The government will continue to seek fair and balanced trade deals which include new export opportunities to grow the UK’s world class agri-food and drinks sector.We recognise concerns about production methods that are not permitted in the UK. While produ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEggs: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has modelled the cumulative impact on domestic egg production profits margins of permitting egg imports that do not face equivalent (a) animal welfare and (b) fo
Answer: The UK imports a small proportion of its annual supply of eggs, to meet domestic demand. The Government consistently considers the impact of imports on the UK market from all countries. As set out in the UK’s Trade Strategy, the Government will not lower ...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEggs: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of permitting eggs imports from barren battery cage systems on the viability of the domestic egg production chain.
Answer: The UK imports a small proportion of its annual supply of eggs, to meet domestic demand. The Government consistently considers the impact of imports on the UK market from all countries, including on domestic egg production chain. The department will conti...
Answered 4 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress her Department has made on implementing recommendation nine.
Answer: Baroness Casey’s Audit into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse highlighted a decline in child sexual abuse and exploitation within the department’s children in need data, which is published annually. We are undertaking work to better understa...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress her Department has made on implementing recommendation seven.
Answer: The Home Office has been working closely with the Department for Education to understand how the proposed Unique Identifier will operate in order to plan for upgrades to police IT systems.In June we conducted a Preliminary Market Engagement to understand ...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress his Department has made on implementing recommendation three.
Answer: It is horrific that any person was convicted as a child for loitering and soliciting for prostitution. The Government has announced immediate steps to disregard such convictions.Also, my officials are working with the Criminal Cases Review Commission to e...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: Licensing and RegulationDepartment for TransportTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress she has made on implementing recommendation 11.
Answer: The Department for Transport will legislate to address the important issues raised in the report, tackling the inconsistent standards of taxi and private hire vehicle driver licensing. We are considering all options – including out of area working, nation...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: Information SharingDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress she has made on implementing recommendation 5.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces a new duty for statutory safeguarding partners and other bodies to share information for the purposes of safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children, including from child sexual abuse and exploi...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress she has made on implementing recommendation 4.
Answer: The government has committed to make it a requirement for the police to collect ethnicity and nationality data of perpetrators of group-based child sexual exploitation. This data is vital in enabling us to develop the most accurate and robust picture of t...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMinistry of JusticeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, what progress his Department has made on implementing recommendation 1.
Answer: The Government accepted recommendation 1 of the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. We are committed to changing the law and we are aware of the need for urgency. This is a complex area of law and we are carefully considerin...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to reopen the Sustainable Farming Incentive programme for new applications; and whether she will ensure that farmers do not go a full year without access to the progr
Answer: Defra is working closely with farmers and industry stakeholders to design a future Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer that will better target SFI in an orderly way towards our priorities for food, farming and nature. Further information about the r...
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for opening the next application round for (a) Capital Grants, (b) the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, (c) the Farming Innovation Programme's Farmi
Answer: As of 1 August, strong demand for the Government’s £150 million Capital Grant offer means that all available funds for this round have now been allocated. We plan to make further improvements to the offer for future rounds. We expect to open a new round f...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: ReviewsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 75692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to receive the final report of the Farming Profitability Review from Baroness Batters; and what her planned timetable is for publishing (a) the report and (b) the Gove
Answer: As set out in the Terms of Reference, the recommendations of the Farming Profitability Review will inform Defra policy including the Farming Roadmap, Food Strategy and Land-use Framework.
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFarmers: Young PeopleDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support young farmers.
Answer: Encouraging more young people into farming and land-based careers is vital to ensure a skilled workforce is in place and the longer-term viability of the sector. Defra works closely with The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture (TIAH) which is encou...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: GrantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to which organisations his Department has allocated discretionary grants for the 2026-27 financial year.
Answer: We have allocated discretionary grants to a wide range of organisations for 2026/27.
Answered 23 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWater: StandardsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for implementing the proposed reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013.
Answer: The Government announced reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013 on 12 March 2025 following a public consultation. In this, we outlined plans for three core reforms, nine technical amendments, and two wider reforms to the bathing water Regulations. ...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: BradfordHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to increase capacity for housing asylum seekers within the Bradford Council district.
Answer: When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: BradfordHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what capacity her Department has to house asylum seekers within the Bradford Council district.
Answer: When this Government came to office, we inherited a system where hotels had become one of the primary means of providing asylum accommodation – with more than 400 in use in Autumn 2023 at a cost of almost £9 million per day – and where a 70 per cent colla...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPeatlands: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assurance mechanisms his Department has implemented to help ensure the accuracy of AI-derived data that forms part of the new UK peat map.
Answer: The England Peat Map, produced by Natural England as part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme, went through a rigorous science assurance process across Natural England, Defra and external peer reviewers. This science assurance covere...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordOffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of people who abscond abroad before (i) trial and (ii) sentencing in the most recent period for which data is available; and how many and
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not centrally hold information on the numbers of people who abscond abroad before trial and sentencing or absconding abroad by dual/foreign nationals. To obtain the data to answer this question would involve a manual interroga...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSentencing: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) foreign and (b) dual national offenders were (i) tried and (ii) sentenced in absentia in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trials, convictions and sentencing outcomes at criminal courts in England and Wales (latest data to December 2024), available from the Criminal Justice Statistics page. However, it is not possible to provide the n...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSentencing: AttendanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) suspects were tried and (b) convicted people were sentenced in absentia in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trials, convictions and sentencing outcomes at criminal courts in England and Wales (latest data to December 2024), available from the Criminal Justice Statistics page. However, it is not possible to provide the n...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: SubsidiesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the annual administrative cost has been of providing (a) delinked payments and (b) the Basic Payment Scheme since 2020.
Answer: The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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