Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions 2025
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Shipping: 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
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment has been made of adequacy of the (a) support and (b) guidance available for those who are unable to access their e-visas.
Answer: The Home Office has a robust support model in place that strives to ensure that all people, including the most vulnerable, are properly supported to access their eVisa and use the View and Prove service:We have delivered £4.4m of grant funding across 18 m...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLong CovidDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98474More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of the potential impact of Long Covid on levels of (a) employment and (b) long-term sickness.
Answer: The Government understands the scale of the issue at hand, particularly the impact of long COVID on employment and the economy.We are committed to ensuring that those with long COVID have timely access to a diagnosis and appropriate treatment and services...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS trusts on the provision of (a) anti-racism and (b) unconscious bias training for NHS staff.
Answer: The Department and NHS England have been working together to announce a series of measures to tackle antisemitism and racism across the National Health Service, which includes the introduction of mandatory antisemitism and anti-racism training for all NHS...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment SchemesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with local authorities on the level of (a) employment and (b) training support provided to job seekers.
Answer: The Get Britain Working White Paper, published in November 2024, outlined plans to deliver fundamental reform of our health, employment and skills system to help support people across all areas of England to get into work. Government’s English Devolution ...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: SloughDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken alongside local stakeholders to increase the number of (a) employment and (b) training opportunities in Slough.
Answer: Local agencies and local government are well placed to understand their local labour market, build connections with employers and coordinate services to increase employment and training opportunities. That is why we have asked all areas across England, in...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
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