Steve Barclay MP: written questions 2025
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: WolverhamptonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on how many days she has worked from her Department's office in Wolverhampton since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Deputy Prime Minister and ministerial team work from a number of locations and offices across the country. The Deputy Prime Minister does not regularly work from the Wolverhampton office or Darlington Campus.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Health ServicesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 30616 on Asylum: Health Services, if she will make it her policy to collect information on the amount spent by local authoritie
Answer: As set out in my answer to Question 30616, the department does not hold this information to the level requested. At this time, line 49 in the local authority expenditure and financing statistics accounts for services or interventions for asylum seekers, i...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33002 on Asylum: Finance, if she will make an estimate of the number of top-up payments made to Asylum Support Enablement Cards in each week since 4
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer he received on 3 March 2025 to UIN 33002.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33427More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 30619 on Deportation, how many appeals against deportation orders have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in the last month for which figure
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records, which could only be done for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 30620 on Immigration: Appeals, how many appeals against administrative removal decisions have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in the last
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records, which could only be done for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyMinistry of DefenceTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2025 to Question 30623 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty, what the estimated full time equivalent is of those officials.
Answer: Work on the British Indian Ocean Territory - including policy development, legal advice and operational work - is spread across a wide range of officials in teams across the Ministry of Defence. It is therefore difficult to provide a full-time equivalent ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: ConcreteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 27517 on Hospitals: Concrete, whether he plans to publish the comprehensive report into the seven reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete schem
Answer: As stated in Question 27517, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned a comprehensive report into the seven reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) schemes being delivered through the New Hospital Program...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Food SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 1488 on Agriculture: Food Supply, what preparations his Department has made for the 2025 Farm to Fork Summit.
Answer: The department is planning to engage closely with key stakeholders from across the food system over the coming months. We will confirm the details of possible future events in due course.
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many top-up payments have been made to Asylum Support Enablement Cards in each week since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Home Office has a legal obligation to meet the essential living needs of asylum seekers or dependents who appear to be destitute or are likely to become destitute within a prescribed period, while their asylum claim is being considered.Details of what...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFarmers: Advisory ServicesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers have received funding through the Farming Resilience Fund since it was established.
Answer: The Farming Resilience Fund provides free business support to farmers and land managers in England to help them through agricultural transition. It was set up to available from October 2022 and will run until March 2025. Across all three phases of the Fa...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33000More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of recent developments in Russia's war in Ukraine on food security in the UK.
Answer: British reliance on food supplies from Ukraine is currently low. Defra actively monitors risks to UK food security on an ongoing basis. The UK Food Security Report, which was published in December, examines past, current, and future trends relevant to foo...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Civil SocietyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times his Department has met representatives of (a) Greenpeace, (b) Just Stop Oil and (c) Extinction Rebellion since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Ministers have met with Greenpeace and discussions continue at an official level. There have not been any meetings with Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: RegulationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of aligning the controls on shotguns with that of other firearms on financial costs to farm businesses.
Answer: The consultation on the recommendation made to the Home Office on aligning the controls on shotguns with other firearms, as set out in the Government response to the consultation, “Firearms Licensing: a consultation on recommendations for changes made to ...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environment Agency permits allowing the importation of waste from outside the UK are in effect; and if he will provide a list of sites covered.
Answer: The Environment Agency currently has 208 notifications to import waste, which is recovered at 86 sites. The sites and the number of notifications to each site are listed in the table below: FacilityFacility Postal CodeNumber of notifications (permits)3R T...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSandeels: FisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to reopen Sandeel fisheries in UK waters.
Answer: In March 2024, and following a public consultation, the UK and Scottish Governments closed English waters of the North Sea and all Scottish Waters to sandeel fishing. The closure will shield sandeel as an essential food source for threatened seabird popul...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31457More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total SFI agreement uptake has been per quarter since the beginning of the launch of the 2021 pilot scheme.
Answer: The table below shows the number of Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements accepted and started per quarter since the scheme’s launch in 2021. To note that farmers can have more than one SFI Agreement. The application window was paused across Spring and...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: GrantsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been paid to farmers in Improving Farming Productivity grants since 4 July 2024.
Answer: The Rual Payment Agency has supported the farming and rural sector through payments under a range of grants. Since 04 July 2024, £2,403,543.46 been paid to farmers for Improving Farming Productivity grants.
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSandeels: FisheriesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Feb 2025WithdrawnUIN 30626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to permanently close sandeel fisheries in British waters.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual cases of overseas visitors' debt have been written off by NHS Trusts in respect of maternity care in the last 12 months; and if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of debt has been written off by NHS Trusts as a result of overseas visitors in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: This information is not held in the format requested. The consolidated National Health Service provider accounts for 2023/24 were published by NHS England, and recorded £44 million as written-off from overseas visitors.The information requested regarding ...
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Indian Ocean Territory: SovereigntyMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are working on issues related to the Chagos Islands.
Answer: There are a number of officials from across the Ministry of Defence who contribute to the work in this area in partnership with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. This includes policy, legal, financial and military teams.
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: British Indian Ocean TerritoryForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials in his Department are working on issues related to the Chagos Islands.
Answer: It would be difficult to assess how many officials are working on these issues, given that we do not record and measure the amount of time spent on any one topic where an official covers a range of matters.
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: EqualityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many full time equivalent equality, diversity and inclusion positions are there in her Department including those unfilled.
Answer: We can confirm that the department holds this information, but we are withholding it as we cannot provide details where the numbers are five or fewer as the individuals concerned in this group or in other groups could be identifiable.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals against administrative removal decisions have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records and to do so for the purpose of answering this question would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) appeals and (b) challenges against deportation orders have have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: The requested information is not held in a reportable format. To provide this information would require a manual review of case records and to do so for the purpose of answering this question would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
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