Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Sexual Offences: NationalityHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 13879 on Sexual Offences: Languages, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing registered sex offender nationality data st
Answer: ViSOR is the information-sharing system that the police, probation and prison services use to manage the risks posed by violent and sexual offenders managed under multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA). The categorisation of those offenders o...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: Domestic VisitsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms he has visited since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Since 5 July the Secretary of State has had frequent engagement with the sector, including; attending the Great Yorkshire Agriculture Show in July 24; visiting a farm and meeting with a group of local farmers in Essex in September 24; meeting with the Pre...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15137More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many farmers her Department consulted on changes to agricultural property relief before the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: The Government takes into account all representations made ahead of the Budget, and meets with stakeholders on a regular basis.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15136More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to item 29 of Table 5.1 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what the evidential basis is for her Department's estimate that changes to inheritance tax will raise £520 million from 2028/29.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the PQ referenced 13620 published on 11th November 2024 at https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-11-11/13620.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: HousingHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing daily numbers of irregular migrants housed in (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation.
Answer: Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: EU NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has paid in benefits to people from the EU without settled status since the end of the transition period.
Answer: The requested information is not readily available. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit claimants. EU citizens present in the UK at the end of th...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: EU NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from the EU without settled status have been paid benefits since the end of the transition period.
Answer: The requested information is not readily available. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit claimants. EU citizens present in the UK at the end of th...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff her Department employs at (a) SEO, (b) Grade 7 and (c) Grade 6.
Answer: We have provided the information requested in the table below. Staffing figures (as of 31st October 2024) are provided as Full Time Equivalence (FTE): GradeFTESEO4099.3G73069.8G61146.0
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of what grade her Department employed in non-customer engaging roles in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The information you have requested is not held centrally and will have to be provided by operational teams. Gathering this data would incur disproportionate costs.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: OverpaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what overpayments of benefits due to Departmental error there were in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The Department publishes estimates of the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system by financial year. These statistics for the last five years are available at: Fraud and error in the benefit system - GOV.UK Below is an extract: OVERALL LEVELS OF M...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: TravelDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staff (a) travel, (b) subsistence and (c) stays in hotels in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not keep this information centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.Information on annual DWP spend can be found here.
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who took an English for Speakers of Other Languages class claimed Universal Credit in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of the provisio
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. English for Speakers of Other Languages and other skills data is held by Department for Education for England only. Devolved administrations will hold data on participants on E...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of NHS patients who have received (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: AsylumHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals with Application Registration Cards were (a) arrested and (b) convicted in the last 12 months.
Answer: Available information on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales is published annually and the latest available data covering the year ending March 2024 can be found here: Stop and search, arrests and mental health detentions, March 2024 - GO...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been prevented through use of the European Convention on Human Rights in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The Home Office does not regularly publish information about the basis of foreign national offender (FNO) appeals. However, in February 2022 an ad hoc study was published on FNO lodged and allowed appeals, covering some of the period covered in this quest...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: AviationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total number of (a) air miles and (b) flights conducted by his Department's staff was in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) was created in February 2023, so no information is held for periods prior to that date. For the information requested, anything prior to January 2024 was all still recorded as BEIS, so it mixes all t...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many repeat deportations there were in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Available statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) are published on a quarterly basis in the Returns Detailed Datasets, and are currently available to the end of June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics quarte...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren in Care: MigrantsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in the care system are from non-UK citizenship families; and what the total cost to the public purse is of their care.
Answer: The information on the nationality of children looked after by local authorities in England is not held centrally by the department. Therefore, we are not able to provide the figures requested.
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordVeterans: HomelessnessMinistry of DefenceTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homeless veterans.
Answer: This is a Government of service that will always stand up for those who serve our country. I am working across Government and with civil society to ensure veterans across the UK have access to the support they need with regard to housing, as well as healt...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: IncentivesCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14732More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the (a) total number and (b) cost to the public purse per Department of Government bonuses in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: Departments have published aggregated annual information on their bonus spend on their own websites since 2011. This data includes information on total bonus spend, the number of civil servants receiving bonuses, and the size of payments.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffences against ChildrenMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals per nationality were convicted of child sex offences in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for sexual offences in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2023. However, it is not possible to identify an offender’s nationality from the centrally collated conv...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffences against Children: SentencingMinistry of JusticeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of convictions for child sex offences did not result in a custodial sentence in in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the sentencing outcomes for offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice St...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Climate Change ConventionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many delegates the Government has sent to attend COP 29; and what the cost to the public purse is of the Government's involvement in COP 29.
Answer: The final list of COP29 delegates should be published by the UNFCCC shortly. The UK delegation includes officials (some already based in Baku) and Ministers as well as businesses, Arm’s Length Bodies, Devolved Administrations, Crown Dependencies and Overs...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical Treatments: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many private provider contracts have been commissioned by the NHS to treat irregular migrants each of the last ten years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those contracts.
Answer: The Home Office and its contractors work closely with the National Health Service, local authorities, and non-governmental organisations to ensure that people can access the health care and support they need. All asylum seeker accommodation providers have...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGovernment: Cost EffectivenessCabinet OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14714More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a department for government efficiency.
Answer: There are currently no plans for a Department for Government Efficiency. The Budget set out plans for an Office for Value for Money which will work alongside other reforms such as the 2% Efficiency target aimed at improving savings, efficiency and product...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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