Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Housing: ImmigrationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of new housing demand that is attributable to net migration since 2010.
Answer: The government does not routinely publish assessments of the factors that influence housing demand. Boosting the supply of homes of all tenures must be at the heart of any strategy to meet housing demand which is why the government’s Plan for Change inclu...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Performance Related PayCabinet OfficeTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51189More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants across all departments were awarded performance bonuses in the financial year 2024-2025.
Answer: Departments are responsible for administering any in year and end of year performance bonuses to their staff. The majority of departments are in the process of finalising performance markings for the 2024/25 performance year, which will determine who will...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Disciplinary ProceedingsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51188More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants were subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last three years.
Answer: Individual departments are responsible for their own discipline policies and guidance in place, which include details of formal processes and procedures. These will be aligned to the Civil Service Code and the Civil Service Management Code which set out t...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Performance AppraisalCabinet OfficeTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51021More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of civil servants have received formal performance ratings of underperforming or equivalent in each department in each of the last five years.
Answer: Departments have delegated responsibility for monitoring and reporting on civil servants performance ratings via their internal governance arrangements. Information on how many civil servants in departments have received formal performance ratings of unde...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBlasphemyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will ensure that blasphemy laws are not reintroduced.
Answer: The government has been clear that there is no blasphemy law in England, and we will not introduce one. Everyone has a fundamental right to freedom of speech. All language adopted by government must be accurate and acknowledge British citizens’ unchanging...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHate Crime: ReligionHome OfficeTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51019More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has recorded any instances of police investigating people for speech deemed offensive to religious groups in the last five years.
Answer: On the matter of guidance to the police, I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 16 May to Question 5882-84.On the matter of police investigation, the Home Office collects information on crimes and their outcomes recorded by the police but does not...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProtest: Hate CrimeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has provided guidance to (a) local authorities and (b) community cohesion officers on the application of religious offences to (i) lawful speech, (ii) art,
Answer: We have regular engagement with local authorities on a range of issues including social cohesion and people are expected to express their views concerning religion and beliefs respectfully including exercising the appropriate restraints within the confine...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEducation: Freedom of ExpressionDepartment for EducationTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect academic and student freedom of speech in schools and universities.
Answer: This government is absolutely committed to freedom of speech and academic freedom in schools, universities and beyond. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, confirmed to Parliament on 15 January the government’s plans for future of t...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHate CrimeHome OfficeTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will issue guidance to the police on ensuring that peaceful expressions of (a) opinions that may cause religious offence and (b) other opinions are not treated as hate crimes.
Answer: On the matter of guidance to the police, I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 16 May to Question 5882-84.On the matter of police investigation, the Home Office collects information on crimes and their outcomes recorded by the police but does not...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2025 to Question 49171 on Coastal Erosion: Hemsby, if he will meet the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth to discuss the shoreline management for Hemsby.
Answer: I met the hon. Member on 12 September to discuss coastal erosion in his constituency. I will ensure that the hon. Member has a meeting with relevant officials.
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Insurance Contributions: IndiaTreasuryTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50310More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to UK-India trade deal, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of the exemption for Indian people working in the UK from National Insurance contributions for three year
Answer: The OBR will certify the impact of the trade deal including the Double Contributions Convention in the usual way at a fiscal event, once the deal is finalised and ratified. The agreement to negotiate a Double Contributions Convention was made in the conte...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Systems: IslamMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ban Sharia courts.
Answer: The Government has no plans to regulate or restrict religious processes (such as sharia courts) where all parties consent to those processes. This is consistent with Britain’s long history of freedom of worship and religious tolerance.Sharia Courts are no...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: VictimsCabinet OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50308More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will meet victims of rape gangs at Number 10 Downing Street.
Answer: Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk as part of the government’s transparency agenda. For actions this Government is taking to help victims, I refer the Hon. Member to the oral statement made by Parliamentary...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Armed ForcesMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the long-term cost to the public purse of (a) military logistics, (b) equipment support, (c) personnel risk, (d) reconstruction liabilities and (e) other costs arising from proposals
Answer: This Government is committed to providing at least £3 billion a year in military support to Ukraine. As the Defence Secretary has made clear in the Commons, Ukraine’s security is our security, and we will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it take...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidMinistry of DefenceTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has had discussions with NATO allies on the potential impact of the (a) capture, (b) injury and (c) killing of UK personnel while operating in Ukraine on the potential for (i) escalation an
Answer: The Defence Secretary regularly speaks with his NATO counterparts on practical plans for how our militaries can support security guarantees for Ukraine’s future. The UK is playing a leading role in accelerating work on security arrangements for Ukraine. T...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Peacekeeping OperationsLeader of the HouseTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50305More
Question: To ask the Leader of the House, if she will ensure that a (a) full debate takes place in and (b) divisible motion is agreed by the House of Commons before deploying UK ground forces to Ukraine.
Answer: There is a longstanding convention on war powers which this government respects.I refer the Hon. Member to the words of the Prime Minister on 3rd March 2025 during the statement on Ukraine (available at: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-03-03).T...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of asylum seekers granted leave to remain in the UK since 2010 who have returned to their country of origin for (a) visits, (b) holidays and (c) fam
Answer: The Home Office does not centrally hold the requested data, and could only collate it through manual searching of historic case files, at a disproportionate cost to the taxpayer. However, I can assure the Hon Member that, where someone has protection stat...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has issued guidance to (a) immigration officers and (b) caseworkers on the compatibility of an asylum claimant's (i) views on (A) democracy, (B) free speech and (C) gender equal
Answer: All asylum decision-making guidance, including our policy on extremism (contained within Exclusion (Article 1F) and Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention guidance), is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asylum-decision-making-guidan...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: RadicalismHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that asylum seekers in publicly-funded accommodation do not (a) promote and (b) practise the (i) rejection of British law, (ii) subjugation of women, (
Answer: No one in the UK is allowed to engage in conduct that breaks the law, regardless of the type of accommodation in which they live.
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ReligionHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claimed asylum by religion in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes available data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum claims is published in table Asy_D01 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. The latest...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIslam: WomenHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the prevalence of (a) forced marriage, (b) domestic abuse and (c) educational disadvantage affecting Muslim women; and what steps her Department is taking to help tac
Answer: The Crime Survey for England and Wales for the year ending March 2024 estimates that 5.2% of Muslim women experienced domestic abuse in the last year, compared to a prevalence rate of 6.6% for the adult female population as a whole. In 2023, the Home Offi...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: Deportation and ProsecutionsHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Prevent referrals related to Islamic extremism resulted in (a) prosecutions and (b) removals from the country in the last three years; and what steps her Department is taking to improve the e
Answer: Prevent aims to intervene early to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. The Prevent Duty sits alongside long-established safeguarding duties on professionals to protect people from a range of harms. It helps to ensure that people who a...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 47976 on Prison: Crimes against the Person, if she will provide a further breakdown by nationality.
Answer: The number of individuals involved in incidents of an assault on staff within prisons in England and Wales, by nationality, for 2020 to 2024, can be found in the accompanying table.
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIntelligence Services: CostsHome OfficeTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of monitoring the MI5 watchlist in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The Chancellor confirmed in the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025 that the Single Intelligence Account, which provides funding for MI5, SIS and GCHQ, would increase this year to £4.6 billion. Funding for CT Policing, who work closely with MI5, also increa...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49171More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to protect Hemsby from coastal erosion.
Answer: The shoreline management approach for Hemsby’s coastline is managed realignment, as outlined in the Shoreline Management Plan which has been developed locally. The flood and coastal erosion risk management investment programme includes risk management str...
Answered 7 May 2025
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