Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2025
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Health Services: MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of individuals accessing NHS services who do not have lawful residency status in the UK; and whether such data is used to inform other estimates
Answer: The Department does not hold or collect the information requested.
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: StatisticsHome OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58109More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Office for National Statistics on developing a reliable estimate of the irregular migrant population using available (a) administrative and (b) survey
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 30 January to Question 25047.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the merits of commissioning an independent study to produce an updated estimate of the number of illegal migrants in the UK.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 30 January to Question 25047.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: StatisticsHome OfficeTabled 6 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she calculates the number of people without legal immigration status.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 30 January to Question 25047.
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Removal Centres: CostsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of each immigration detention bed.
Answer: The Home Office currently operates seven Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland) and three residential Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHFs) (one in Northern Ireland and two in England). Additionally, the...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to require data sharing between NHS Digital and her Department to help identify illegal migrants.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave him on 6 May to Question 47960.
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of initiating a (a) cross-Departmental and (b) UK-wide commission into the number of illegal migrants living in the UK.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 30 January to Question 25047.
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Disclosure of InformationHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a public reporting scheme that offers financial rewards for verified reports of illegal migrants.
Answer: The Home Office already operates an Immigration Enforcement hotline and provides several other routes for members of the public to report information regarding immigration related crime and/or abuse. Over the past three years we have seen an increase in i...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of deporting one million illegal migrants under existing rules for deportations.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave him on 6 May in response to Question 47960.
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the potential merits of taxing remittances to countries that refuse to accept their returned nationals.
Answer: All policy relating to taxation is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase the annual budget for immigration enforcement in line with projected growth in removals activity.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented her Spending Review 2025 to Parliament on Wednesday 11 June 2025.
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Removal CentresHome OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration detention beds are available; and what steps she is taking to increase capacity.
Answer: The Home Office currently operates seven Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) throughout the UK, (six in England and one in Scotland) and three residential Short-Term Holding Facilities (STHFs) (one in Northern Ireland and two in England). Additionally, the...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: VATTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56016More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of VAT (a) registration and (b) compliance on small businesses.
Answer: At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: VATTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56015More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review the VAT registration threshold.
Answer: At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: VATTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56014More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the current VAT registration threshold on (small business (a) growth and (b) turnover management.
Answer: At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOff-payroll WorkingTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56012More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to enable contractors to determine their own IR35 status.
Answer: The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, were introduced in 2000. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions as those w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOff-payroll WorkingTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56011More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her her Department has made of the potential impact of off-payroll working (IR35) rules on (a) small business productivity, (b) contract availability and (c) self-employment rates.
Answer: The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, were introduced in 2000. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions as those w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOff-payroll WorkingTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56010More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) contractors and (b) freelancers have been subject to off-payroll working (IR35) rules in each of the last three tax years; and what estimate she has made of the revenue raised.
Answer: The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, were introduced in 2000. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions as those w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOff-payroll WorkingTreasuryTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 56009More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of off-payroll working (IR35) rules on the self-employed sector since December 2023.
Answer: The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, were introduced in 2000. They are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions as those w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDiego Garcia: Military BasesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55588More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total cost to the public purse was of the production of his Department's Diego Garcia Military Base explainer video.
Answer: This video was produced in-house by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office communications team. There was therefore no additional cost to making the video.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: Territorial WatersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53330More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of total UK fish stocks by (a) tonnage and (b) species will remain subject to EU access under the agreement to extend EU access to British territorial waters to June 20
Answer: Annex 38 of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement sets out which quota and non-quota stocks are subject to access arrangements. The new access arrangements announced on 19 May will give the UK and EU access to the same fish stocks. UK and EU shares of...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: Territorial WatersDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the potential financial impact of the extension of EU access to fish in British territorial waters to June 2038 on the fishing sector in each region.
Answer: The new UK-EU fisheries agreement announced on 19 May will continue the current access arrangements in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, under which the UK grants access to around 1,600 EU registered vessels to fish in UK waters, of which 154 vessels h...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: EU CountriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53328More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK-EU Summit: Explainer, updated on 19 May 2025, what proportion of UK fish stocks will be subject to shared access with the EU under the ne
Answer: Annex 38 of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement sets out which quota and non-quota stocks are subject to access arrangements. The new access arrangements announced on 19 May will give the UK and EU access to the same fish stocks. UK and EU shares of...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: Government AssistanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK-EU Summit: Explainer, updated on 19 May 2025, whether he plans to provide financial support to fishers impacted by the new 12-year access
Answer: Alongside a new twelve-year fisheries access agreement with the EU, we have announced a comprehensive twelve-year Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund. Fishing and coastal communities will benefit from the £360 million investment to drive growth and boost the ...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFisheries: ExportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK-EU Summit: Explainer, updated on 19 May 2025, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact on (a) UK fish exports an
Answer: Over 70% of all UK seafood by value is exported to the EU. Removing the need for Export Health Certificates and border checks saves time and money – especially for fresh and live seafood that needs to reach markets quickly. This agreement has secured prac...
Answered 23 May 2025
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