Will Forster MP: written questions 2026
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Asylum: Human TraffickingHome OfficeTabled 8 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department will be exempting victims of human trafficking from the Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
Answer: The amendments form part of the 5 March policy announcements, which replace the statutory duty to support with a power, and making it a condition of support not to illegally work. The aim of these measures is to reduce misuse of support, not to make peopl...
Answered 16 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordWoking Community Hospital: EnergyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase energy-efficiency and (b) reduce energy bills at Woking Community Hospital.
Answer: The Government has provided substantial support to National Health Service trusts to increase their energy efficiency and to reduce costs. In 2025/26, we worked in partnership with Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero t...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAshford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: EnergyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to support Ashford and St Peter's Hospital Trust to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy bills on their estate.
Answer: The Government has provided substantial support to National Health Service trusts to increase their energy efficiency and to reduce costs. In 2025/26, we worked in partnership with Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero t...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: EnergyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase energy efficiently and reduce energy bills in the hospitals and across the NHS estate.
Answer: The Government has provided substantial support to National Health Service trusts to increase their energy efficiency and to reduce costs. In 2025/26, we worked in partnership with Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero t...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDomestic Abuse: Family ProceedingsMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he intends to widen the protections in PD12J to all domestic abuse cases.
Answer: The Government is committed to reforming the Family Court in order to better support victims and survivors of domestic abuse.Practice Direction 12J (PD12J) applies in private law children’s proceedings where the court is considering where a child should l...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordRailways: Nature ConservationDepartment for TransportTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Network Rail is required to obtain a licence from Natural England before carrying out works that may disturb protected species.
Answer: If Network Rail is carrying out work that may impact protected species, then it will look to carry out the work in such a way as to avoid needing a licence in the first place. If non-licensable activities are not feasible for the work required, then Netwo...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordRailways: Nature ConservationDepartment for TransportTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Network Rail complies with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in relation to the protection of nesting birds.
Answer: Network Rail is expected to carry out activities in a way that minimises harm, and wherever possible improves the natural habitat while maintaining the performance and safety of the railway. In order to comply with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, N...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordRailways: Nature ConservationDepartment for TransportTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what requirements her Department places on Network Rail to undertake ecological surveys prior to vegetation clearance.
Answer: Network Rail is expected to carry out activities in a way that minimises harm, and wherever possible improves the natural habitat while maintaining the performance and safety of the railway. Network Rail undertakes checks for nesting birds, which is parti...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordM25: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many noise important areas of the M25 there are within Surrey; and what the locations are.
Answer: The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for creating noise maps, and associated Noise Important Areas, as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. These road noise maps and the associate...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordM25: NoiseDepartment for TransportTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 5041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many noise important areas of the M25 there are within Woking constituency; and what the locations are.
Answer: The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for creating noise maps, and associated Noise Important Areas, as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. These road noise maps and the associate...
Answered 5 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting families with children from the reduction in the move-on period for refugees in accommodation from 56 days to 28 days.
Answer: The Home Office has not reduced the move on period. In December 2024, the Home Office began piloting an extended 56-day grace period. In September 2025, the pilot was paused for single adults and came to an end for all cohorts on 8 March 2026.From the 9 M...
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3572More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an equality impact assessment was conducted on the decision to reduce the move-on period for refugees in accommodation from 56 days to 28 days.
Answer: The Home Office has not reduced the move on period. In December 2024, the Home Office began piloting an extended 56-day grace period. In September 2025, the pilot was paused for single adults and came to an end for all cohorts on 8 March 2026.From the 9 M...
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2021 to 2025; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initi...
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2015 to 2020; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initi...
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: CostsHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated cost is of reviewing refugee status for every refugee every two and a half years for 20 years.
Answer: We are committed to ensuring our policies are sustainable and do not place unnecessary burdens on the taxpayer, and this policy is no different.We do not want people to remain on Core Protection for the long term, and only those who do remain on Core Prot...
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 20 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total cost to police forces in England and Wales of policing protests and public demonstrations in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answer: The Home Office does not routinely collect information on the costs of police operations. It is a local decision for elected Police and Crime Commissioners and their equivalents, working with their chief officers, to determine how best to allocate resourc...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordParking: Codes of PracticeDepartment for TransportTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether parking guidance to local authorities includes the powers and duties of traffic wardens and parking attendants to lift material used to cover (a) a car parked in a parking bay and (b) a motorcycle parke
Answer: Statutory guidance does not specifically address the lifting of covers placed over motor vehicles as part of Civil Enforcement Officers’ process of establishing evidence of parking contraventions. However, the statutory guidance requires civil enforcement...
Answered 22 May 2026
Original Parliament recordSupported Housing: Domestic AbuseMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of accommodation provided by local authorities for survivors of domestic abuse; and what information his Depa
Answer: Under Part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, every Tier One local authority in England must assess local need for, and commission, support for victims of domestic abuse and their children within safe accommodation. To support delivery of the duty, the Min...
Answered 28 May 2026
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of local authorities' financial resources to deliver the measures in the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 in the next 12 mo
Answer: The government is providing £3.6 billion funding for homelessness services from 2026/27 to 2028/29, including more than £2.2 billion for local authorities to prevent and address homelessness and rough sleeping through the Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and ...
Answered 28 May 2026
Original Parliament recordFamily Courts: AccessMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership's report entitled Child Safeguarding Practice Review: Sara Sharif, published on 13 November 2025, whether his Department plans to review the accessibilit
Answer: What happened to Sara Sharif was a tragedy. Whilst Sara’s father and stepmother are rightly serving life sentences for their appalling crimes, it is clear that our response must not stop there.We recognise the challenges raised by the Local Child Safeguar...
Answered 28 May 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: StaffHome OfficeTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of how many more staff her Department will need to review refugee status for every refugee, every two and a half years, for 20 years.
Answer: Only those who remain on core protection will have their protection needs regularly reviewed, not every refugee. Such reviews will also be efficient and targeted; we will reassess where country conditions or personal circumstances have changed significant...
Answered 27 May 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Housing Revenue AccountsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps is his department taking to ensure Housing Revenue Account funding is adequately ringfenced for social housing purposes by local authorities.
Answer: The Housing Revenue Account (HRA) is a ring-fenced accounting mechanism within the General Fund.The ring-fence ensures that the income from tenants’ rents is only spent on the upkeep and management of local authority tenants’ homes and it protects them fr...
Answered 27 May 2026
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: Information SharingDepartment for EducationTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential merits of the creation of a cross-department ministerial role to ensure data is properly shared across the public sector, in the context of the cases of
Answer: This government prioritises keeping children safe. For too long, poor information sharing has been a contributing factor to serious child safeguarding incidents. We are determined to address this challenge head-on. The tragic cases of Sara Sharif and Maya...
Answered 5 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren: Social ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Ofsted’s reviews of local authority children’s services departments.
Answer: Ofsted has a crucial role to play in upholding standards in children’s social care and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) services through inspection. In 2024 Ofsted conducted the Big Listen, the biggest consultation in Ofsted’s history. Th...
Answered 9 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHome Education: RegistrationDepartment for EducationTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 on the home school register.
Answer: The Children Not in School measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, when implemented, will require local authorities in England and Wales to maintain registers of children who are not in school, including home-educated children.The depar...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
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