Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions 2025
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Science: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support schools to provide practical science activities as part of their curriculum.
Answer: The government recognises the vital role of practical science activities in schools in fostering scientific understanding and engagement.The national curriculum already provides opportunities for schools to deliver practical science lessons, including a r...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to establish new statutory action standards for PFAS in drinking water.
Answer: The Drinking Water Inspectorate published a report on 26 February 2025 recommending revisions to some of the parameters listed in the drinking water regulations; this included a new standard for PFAS. Defra and the DWI will work together to consider pote...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPer- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to create a national inventory to (a) capture and (b) report sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Answer: This Government is actively considering its approach to managing the risks posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and progressing work on PFAS measures. To better understand legacy PFAS pollution, the Environment Agency (EA) has undertaken a ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChemicalsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to produce a chemicals strategy.
Answer: The delivery of a Chemicals Strategy was a commitment included in the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) 2023. Defra’s future approach to chemicals management will be set out in the revised EIP.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what volume of UK aid has been successfully delivered to Gaza in the last six months.
Answer: All allocations of our Humanitarian Programme are available publicly on Development Tracker. We have published further information on Core Relief Items through the programmes annual review with the next to be published by November 2025. Quantifying how mu...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: EpilepsyDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of training provided to school staff on assisting children who have epilepsy.
Answer: Governing bodies must ensure that the arrangements they put in place are sufficient to meet their statutory responsibilities and that policies, plans, procedures and systems are properly and effectively implemented. This includes the duty under Section 10...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMileage AllowancesTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84371More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to update the HMRC mileage rate to reflect changes to (a) fuel costs, (b) vehicle asset depreciation and (c) vehicle running costs since 2011.
Answer: The Approved Mileage Allowance Payment rates are used by employers to reimburse an employee's expenses, tax free, for business mileage in their private vehicle. These rates are also used by self-employed drivers to claim tax relief on business mileage (wh...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: RailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her department holds on the potential benefit of the (a) construction and (b) operation of a western rail link to Heathrow Airport on (i) trends in the level of economic growth (ii) the environ
Answer: The economic and societal benefits of a western rail link to Heathrow Airport were previously assessed as part of a business case development process which concluded in 2021. No further work to assess the benefits of a rail link has been undertaken by DfT...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTax Avoidance and Tax EvasionTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84363More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential merits of making (a) directors and (b) owners of (i) dissolved and (ii) all other companies personally liable for the underpayment of taxes arising from the adaptation of tax (
Answer: The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and cracking down on avoidance and evasion. The Government is determined to do more to close in on promoters of marketed tax avoidance and recently consulted on a package of measures to strengthen HMRC’s ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTax AvoidanceTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84362More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to introduce a universal stop notice for tax avoidance schemes.
Answer: The Government recognises the damage caused to the tax system by those that promote tax avoidance schemes. It takes action to prevent that damage, for example by publishing details of schemes and promoters to help customers to steer clear of or otherwise ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Peacekeeping OperationsMinistry of DefenceTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any military officers have been sent to Israel for the purposes of monitoring the ceasefire in Gaza.
Answer: No. A small number of UK planning officers have embedded in the US-led Civil Military Coordination Centre (CMCC), including a 2* deputy commander, to ensure that the UK remains integrated into the US-led planning efforts for Gaza post-conflict stability. ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLGBT Veterans Independent ReviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 38 of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
Answer: Recommendation 36 relates to the expansion of the Veterans’ Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) accreditation scheme to include care homes and hospices. In July 2024, a pilot was launched by the Royal Star and Garter, supported by the VCHA. An evaluation ...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLGBT Veterans Independent ReviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 36 of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
Answer: Recommendation 36 relates to the expansion of the Veterans’ Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) accreditation scheme to include care homes and hospices. In July 2024, a pilot was launched by the Royal Star and Garter, supported by the VCHA. An evaluation ...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEthiopia: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps she has taken with humanitarian organisations to prevent sexual violence in conflict-affected areas in Ethiopia.
Answer: Combatting conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) within Ethiopia continues to be a key focus for the UK and we work with UN partners as well as NGOs and the Red Cross in order to support those affected by these particular human rights violations. Civili...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrime: Crime PreventionHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allow legitimate cyber activity (a) necessary for the (i) detection and (ii) prevention of crime and (b) justified as being in the public interest.
Answer: The Government is conducting an ongoing review of the Computer Misuse Act. As part of the review, we are scoping several proposals to update the act, including how we can better support legitimate cybersecurity researchers so they can operate within a cle...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: AssetsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made a recent estimate of the value of Russian owned assets held in the Overseas Territories.
Answer: The Overseas Territories (OTs) stand with the UK in condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. The OTs have committed to implement UK sanctions in full. The Governments of the Territories take seriously their responsibility for the implementation and enfor...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: IntimidationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of state actors in Pakistan targeting UK residents with (a) political intimidation and (b) interference on those re
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 17 March 2025 to Question 36232.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a single firearms licensing authority for England and Wales.
Answer: The Government has no plans to introduce a single firearms licensing authority. The Firearms Act 1968 places statutory responsibility for firearms licensing on the Chief Officer of Police of each individual force in England, Wales and Scotland. This frame...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Written QuestionsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to answer Question (a) 74612 and (b) 74613, tabled on 3 September 2025.
Answer: The responses to Written Parliamentary Questions 74612 and 74613 were published on 22 October 2025.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: OxygenMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve systems for delivering oxygen to battlefield trauma casualties without making use of pressurised cylinders; and what estimate he has made of when this will be available for fron
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) deploys oxygen concentrators under certain circumstances to deliver oxygen without pressurised cylinders. The Defence Investment Plan will set out any further funding available to support the wider roll out of oxygen concentr...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTreasury: Disciplinary ProceedingsTreasuryTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83873More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: HM Treasury does not hold data on the number of investigations it has conducted. Its disciplinary data collection is limited to the number of formal disciplinary cases that have taken place and number of sanctions issued
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Justice: Disciplinary ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The following table contains the number of Ministry of Justice (inc. HMPPS) employees who had a disciplinary investigation case opened against them between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2025, by financial year:Financial Year Number of Employees who had an inv...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Disciplinary ProceedingsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The data held on how many officials were investigated under the department’s disciplinary processes is not held in the format requested, and is contemporaneous and personally sensitive in nature. For that reason information on disciplinary proceedings is ...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: Disciplinary ProceedingsMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: In this instance, ‘disciplinary process’ has been defined as a misconduct and discpline case and ‘officials’ as Civil Servants. The table below shows the total number of misconduct cases over the last five years. Financial YearNumber of Misconduct cases20...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Disciplinary ProceedingsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83869More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: From HR data, there are currently 911 individual staff showing on the disciplinary report as at 30/09/2025. The disciplinary report is a point in time report of all staff who are or have been undergoing disciplinary action including those cases where an i...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
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