Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
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Greenland: Foreign Influence Registration SchemeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will ensure that her Department has contingency plans in place to respond to any invasion or hostile act against Greenland by a foreign power.
Answer: It has been the long-standing policy of the United Kingdom under successive governments never to speculate on hypothetical operational responses to hypothetical scenarios.I refer the Hon Member to the statement made to the House by the Foreign Secretary o...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordChildbirth: AnaestheticsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 102834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a sufficient supply of epidural kits across the NHS.
Answer: There are no supply issues regarding epidural insertion kits, but there are supply issues impacting some of the usual medicines used to provide pain relief via epidural infusion. However, a range of licensed and unlicensed bags, including unlicensed impor...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordInsurance: Merchant ShippingTreasuryTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101796More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has any plans to restrict UK insurance companies providing cover to vessels which ship Russian oil.
Answer: The UK already restricts UK firms from insuring Russian oil. The UK implements the G7+ Oil Price Cap (OPC) which prohibits G7+ companies from shipping, insuring or otherwise servicing Russian oil sold above a set price to put downward pressure on Russian ...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSexual Offences: VeteransMinistry of DefenceTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101795More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that military veterans can report sexual abuse to their local police force in the first instance, regardless of where the alleged abuse occurred in the UK.
Answer: A military veteran may report an alleged sexual offence to either their local police force in the UK or the Defence Serious Crime Command. Where it is an offence that may be dealt with in either the civilian criminal or Service Justice Systems, decisions ...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPer- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101794More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 99506 on Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), whether the upcoming PFAS Plan will commit to the Health & Safety
Answer: The Government’s approach to PFAS includes consideration of appropriate regulatory interventions as well as other actions, and more details will be provided in the PFAS Plan when it is published. We recognise that PFAS is used in a wide range of contexts,...
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordShipping: SurveillanceDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department's policy is for vessels identified within UK territorial waters as sailing under a false flag.
Answer: The United Kingdom recognises the importance of all vessels complying with international maritime law and we are concerned by the rise of ships without nationality. We are determined to continue to uphold international maritime law and to challenge abusiv...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordWexham Park Hospital: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101030More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for Wexham Park Hospital since July 2024.
Answer: Wexham Park Hospital is managed by the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (NFT), which received funding from several national capital programmes in 2024/25, including £1.1 million as part of our Critical Infrastructure Risk funding to address backlog mai...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpeed Limits: FinesDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to National Highways press release entitled Fix being rolled out after variable speed camera anomaly, published on 15 December, whether she has any plans to (a) contact insurance companies of or
Answer: Data has been provided to the police forces to enable them to start contacting those drivers who were impacted by this anomaly and allow the process of redress to begin. While we expect the number of drivers impacted by this issue to be very small, all th...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpeed Limits: FinesDepartment for TransportTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to National Highways press release on 15 December entitled Fix being rolled out after variable speed camera anomaly, whether money has been set aside to compensate affected drivers for a) any los
Answer: Data has been provided to the police forces to enable them to start contacting those drivers who were impacted by this anomaly and allow the process of redress to begin. While we expect the number of drivers impacted by this issue to be very small, all th...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: National SecurityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: The Government identifies and assesses risks to the nation through the internal, classified National Security Risk Assessment, and the external National Risk Register, the most recent version of which was published in August As set out in the UK Governmen...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: National SecurityDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero does not have a designated post of Chief Risk Officer. Instead, the role is assigned to the SCS who manage the departmental risk team and, therefore, are responsible for the development and implementation of...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: National SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100391More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: As part of its risk management activities, MHCLG monitors a range of national emergency and security risks, based broadly on those risks set out in the National Risk Register (NRR). Each risk in the NRR has a designated risk owner, working within the Lead...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: National SecurityDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100390More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: At DCMS, the Chief Operating Officer is the Chief Risk Owner for National Security Risks.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: National SecurityMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: Secretaries of State and Accounting Officers are ultimately responsible for all risks a Department owns. Each risk in the National Risk Register (NRR) has a designated Risk Owner, working within the Lead Government Department which is responsible for desi...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: National SecurityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: Each risk in the National Risk Register has a designated Risk Owner, working within the lead Government department which is responsible for designated risk areas.The Department’s roles and accountabilities in relation to overall risk, and responsibility f...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: National SecurityDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: Each risk in the National Risk Register assigned to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a designated Risk Owner, working within the Department which is responsible for designated risk areas. The Secretary of State and the Permanent Secretary a...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: National SecurityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: The Department does not have a formally designated Chief Risk Officer for national security risks. As with other Lead Government Departments, each Defra-owned risk in the National Risk Register (NRR) has a designated Risk Owner who is responsible for that...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDirectorsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is the largest number of companies registered to a single individual acting in the role as an officer of those companies.
Answer: With the information currently available, the largest number of active officer appointments linked to a single individual is 1008. This information is available publicly through Companies House data products.That individual may have more appointments if t...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: National SecurityTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100384More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is the Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.
Answer: HM Treasury is the Lead Government Department for Disruption to Financial Services, and the Principal Accounting Officer is primarily accountable to government for discharging that role. The PAO is also responsible for HMT’s contribution to the management...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSelf-employed: Self-assessmentTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100383More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is taking steps to support self-employed people who require support to file their tax returns due to economic or health difficulties; and whether she has made a recent assessment of the potent
Answer: The government has reformed penalties and at Budget 2025 confirmed the introduction of a new penalty regime for late filing of SA returns and late payment of income tax that will now apply to all SA customers from April 2027. This reform of late filing pe...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce constraint payments to renewable energy producers.
Answer: The majority of the costs of constraints are driven by turning on expensive gas plants to replace curtailed generation. The current extent of grid constraints reflects years of underinvestment, with new network infrastructure development having lagged the...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWind Power: ExpenditureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information he holds on annual expenditure over the last five years on payments to wind farm operators to curtail electricity generation.
Answer: The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero does not directly hold information on payments to wind farm operators to curtail electricity generation. NESO publishes annually a report on balancing costs. The 2025 Balancing cost report provides informa...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy SupplyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of domestic solar panels, energy efficiency and home battery storage on civil preparedness and national energy secu
Answer: Civil preparedness and national energy security are central to the Government’s resilience agenda. As we transition to Net Zero, we are working with Cabinet colleagues and industry to ensure that technologies such as domestic solar panels, home battery st...
Answered 24 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPer- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99506More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of grouping Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in regulation.
Answer: PFAS represent a group of thousands of chemicals, with hundreds used commercially across many sectors of industry and society. The structural diversity of PFAS poses a challenge to grouping. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) published an “Analysis o...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordJagtar Singh JohalForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent consular support has been provided to Jagtar Singh Johal.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 8 December in response to Question 97066.
Answered 16 Dec 2025
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