Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2025
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Civil Servants: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92666More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants within the Government Communications Service are engaged in identifying, categorising, or responding to social media content critical of government migration policy.
Answer: The Cabinet Office's GCS team has three staff members responsible for media and social media analysis. While their analysis is not specifically focused on migration, the topic may arise as part of wider thematic reporting. We cannot provide information on...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92424More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service collects, stores, or processes data from social media accounts under the RESIST framework.
Answer: The Government Communication Service (GCS) monitors publicly available media posts, under strict controls, to measure communication effectiveness, understand public narratives, and address potential mis/disinformation. GCS does not access private informat...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92423More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service uses automated tools, AI systems, or external contractors to scrape social media data relating to criticism of migration.
Answer: The Government Communication Service (GCS) monitors publicly available media posts, under strict controls, to measure communication effectiveness, understand public narratives, and address potential mis/disinformation. GCS does not access private informat...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92421More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service maintains a database, spreadsheet, internal dashboard, or record of accounts or individuals who post content about migrants, asylum seekers, or community housing pre
Answer: The Government Communication Service (GCS) monitors publicly available media posts, under strict controls, to measure communication effectiveness, understand public narratives, and address potential mis/disinformation. GCS does not access private informat...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Finance and StaffCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92419More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for the total budget and number of staff of the Government Communication Service.
Answer: The Government Communication Service (GCS) conducts an annual data collection, requesting government organisations to submit accurate and timely returns. It should be noted that some organisations may have undergone significant changes since the data was ...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Communication Service: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92418More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been monitored by the Government Communications Service in the previous year.
Answer: The Government Communication Service (GCS) monitors publicly available media posts, under strict controls, to measure communication effectiveness, understand public narratives, and address potential mis/disinformation. GCS does not access private informat...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: PersonationDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking with police forces to detect and prosecute organised fraud rings involved in impersonation during driving tests.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish annual statistics on the number of impersonation and fraud attempts in driving tests.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Proof of IdentityDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new technologies including biometric checks and digital verification to strengthen identity checks at driving test centres.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) collisions and (b) offences that have later been linked to drivers found to have obtained licences fraudulently in the last five years.
Answer: The requested information is not held by the Department.
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential risk posed to road safety by illegitimate licences being issued through fraudulent tests.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: PersonationDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has identified any driving test centres with unusually high rates of suspected impersonation.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Proof of IdentityDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what disciplinary measures are in place for driving examiners who fail to follow ID verification protocols.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cases of impersonation or fraudulent driving tests have been detected in the past five years.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Proof of IdentityDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what training and refresher courses are provided to driving test examiners to spot impersonation attempts.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Proof of IdentityDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how often are driving test examiners audited to ensure they are following ID verification procedures prior to an examination.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: Proof of IdentityDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what checks are required of examiners when verifying photo ID before a driving test begins.
Answer: To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test, to prevent illegitimate licences being issu...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (i) nurses (ii) doctors (iii) midwives entering the NHS were (a) non-UK citizens (b) non-UK graduates in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number and proportion non-United Kingdom citizens entering the National Health Service. NHS England publishes monthly Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England which includes da...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcare: MigrantsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-British people received 15 hours of free childcare in the last financial year.
Answer: The requested information on nationality is not held by the department.Information on children under 5 registered for government funded entitlements in England and on providers and staff delivering them, is published in the ‘Funded early education and chi...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, to provide a breakdown in the total value of student loan repayments received by (i) non-UK nationals and (ii) UK nationals in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The following table gives the Student Loan Company (SLC) payments in millions for the 2020/21 to 2024/25 financial years and covers Fee Loans and Maintenance Loans (full time and part time) for undergraduates only domiciled in England, Wales, Northern Ire...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the total number and proportion of road collisions involving uninsured drivers that were caused by non-UK citizens in each of the last five years.
Answer: My Department does not hold the number and proportion of collisions involving uninsured drivers that were caused by non-UK citizens. Nor do we have information on the number of uninsured drivers that are non-UK citizens. The Road Traffic Act 1988 require...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: InsuranceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of uninsured drivers that are non-UK citizens.
Answer: My Department does not hold the number and proportion of collisions involving uninsured drivers that were caused by non-UK citizens. Nor do we have information on the number of uninsured drivers that are non-UK citizens. The Road Traffic Act 1988 require...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Tests: FraudDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for the total number of people, broken by nationality, on the Department's Person of Interest List concerning individuals involved with taking payment to take driving tests on a third party's behalf.
Answer: The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not capture any information on nationalities at either the theory or practical driving tests. The DVSA has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test. At th...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Social MediaCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91618More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2025 to Question 89231 on Cabinet Office: Social, which channels were (a) contracted and (b) paid by his Department in the last financial year.
Answer: Please see below Cabinet Office spend by social platform from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025: SupplierNet Media SpendMeta£791,705.41LinkedIn£325,259.65Reddit£13,888.89Snapchat£54,812.17TikTok£65,494.21Grand Total£1,251,160.33
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: AssessmentsHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91590More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many IELTS testing centres have been investigated, suspended, or removed from the UKVI-approved list due to suspected malpractice since 2020.
Answer: The Home Office only permits the use of UKVI approved centres that meet the standards under the Secure English Language Testing (SELT) contracts and does not have responsibility or oversight of the IELTs network which is a separate arrangement to SELT con...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
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