Questions Tabled

Published – Wednesday 15 July 2026

Questions for Answer on Wednesday 15 July

Questions for Written Answer

1Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions his Department has had with the European Union regarding the 90-days/180-days short-stay rule within the Schengen Area for UK nationals.[Transferred] (18087)

2Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of large scale capital in the UK for late stage start up businesses.[Transferred] (18298)

3Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support libraries operating in listed buildings.[Transferred] (18446)

4Dan Norris (North East Somerset and Hanham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of heritage railways on the economy.[Transferred] (17940)

5Luke Murphy (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that data held across HM Treasury, HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions is used effectively to reduce fuel poverty and improve the targeting of energy affordability support.[Transferred] (18351)

6Gideon Amos (Taunton and Wellington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the wastewater treatment capacity of Alton Sewage Treatment Works to accommodate planned housing growth in Alton, Four Marks, Holybourne and surrounding villages; and whether Thames Water has set a timetable for capacity upgrades at that works.[Transferred] (18358)

7Callum Anderson (Buckingham and Bletchley): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with universities on increasing support for female founders emerging from higher education.[Transferred] (18319)

8Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of AI data centres on the environment.[Transferred] (18084)

9Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the development of AI data centres on local energy and water resources.[Transferred] (18085)

10Mr Andrew Snowden (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of regulations protecting horse riders in Fylde constituency.[Transferred] (18216)

11Dr Luke Evans (Hinckley and Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing an investment package to support apprenticeship brokerage pilots in non-developed mayoral authorities, modelled on the £140 million fund to support mayoral-led apprenticeship brokerage pilots.[Transferred] (18145)

12Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to increase to availability of (a) defibrillators and (b) other first aid equipment (i) across England and (ii) within Romford constituency.[Transferred] (17970)

13Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to limit anti-social behaviour in parks linked to alcohol in (a) England and (b) Romford constituency.[Transferred] (17968)

14David Simmonds (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 7457 on Anti-muslim Hatred/Islamophobia Definition Working Group, for what reason MEND, CAGE, the Muslim Association of Britain and the Muslim Council of Britain are specifically named as groups that the Department does not engage with.[Transferred] (18195)

15Mr Andrew Snowden (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will consider establishing an assessment scheme for the adequacy of toilet provision in public areas at catering to the needs of stoma users.[Transferred] (18219)

16Feryal Clark (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average tribunal waiting time is for the deportation of foreign national child sex offenders whose criminal sentences have fully expired.[Transferred] (18175)

17Feryal Clark (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to fast-track immigration and deportation cases in which offenders have prolonged proceedings through appeals lasting more than three years.[Transferred] (18176)

Questions for Answer on Thursday 16 July

Questions for Written Answer

1Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Solicitor General, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18552)

2Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Solicitor General, how many agency staff were employed by her Department in each of the last five years.(18520)

3Kim Johnson (Liverpool Riverside): To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2026 to Question 16091, Sentencing: Young Offenders, whether the Crown Prosecution Service holds information on the sentences imposed following convictions for defendants in cases included in the Joint Enterprise National Monitoring Scheme 2024-25.(18743)

4Kim Johnson (Liverpool Riverside): To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Crown Prosecution Service will publish the sentencing outcomes of defendants convicted in cases flagged under the Joint Enterprise National Monitoring Scheme 2024-25, broken down by (a) ethnicity, (b) sex and (c) age at sentencing.(18744)

5Melanie Ward (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy): To ask the Solicitor General, what steps the UK is taking to support the International Criminal Court.(18888)

6Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many active cases are currently being considered by the Debarment Review Service.(18860)

7Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average timescale is for consideration of cases presented to the Debarment Service.(18861)

8Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many investigations by the Debarment Service have resulted in an organisation being debarred from tendering for government services.(18862)

9Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Debarment Review Services operational target is for responding to MP's enquiries.(18863)

10Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18536)

11Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18553)

12Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to measure the impact of Civil Service artificial intelligence training on productivity and the quality of public services.(18845)

13Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to involve voluntary, community and faith organisations in local and national emergency preparedness exercises.(18846)

14Bradley Thomas (Bromsgrove): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to simplify the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme for bereaved families and ensure that medical records previously reviewed and compensation payments previously made are take into account.(18839)

15Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2026, to Question 11721, on DFT: Departmental Responsibilities, what requirements departments have to produce internal Strategic Plans and what content should be included within them.(18632)

16Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the Review into the Organisation, Performance and Transformation of the Permanent Civil Service, published on 1 July 2026, whether the Cabinet Secretary will have sole responsibility for appointing members of the external expert advisory panel and whether appointments to the external expert advisory panel will be made through an open public appointments process.(18633)

17Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026, to Question 12159, on Cabinet Office: Marketing, whether the Social Mobility Commission has undertaken any expenditure on branded goods since the Government Chief Commercial Officer letter.(18634)

18Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026, to Question 7481, on Cabinet Office: Lanyards, whether any expenditure has been undertaken on branded lanyards since the publication of his guidance on branded goods in April 2025.(18635)

19Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's report entitled Review into the Organisation, Performance and Transformation of the Permanent Civil Service, published on 1 July 2026, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on (a) the review and (b) its terms of reference.(18636)

20Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's report entitled Review into the Organisation, Performance and Transformation of the Permanent Civil Service, published on 1 July 2026, how will membership of the external expert advisory panel be determined.(18637)

21Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 June 2026, to Question 12159, on Cabinet Office: Marketing, whether the Government Commercial Agency has undertaken any expenditure on branded goods since the Government Chief Commercial Officer letter.(18638)

22Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil service staff in his Department are assigned to work in the Darlington Campus.(18639)

23Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse of participation in (a) Horizon and (b) Copernicus is, in (i) 2025-26 and (ii) 2026-27.(18640)

24Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 24 June 2026, to Question 10076, on Cabinet Office: Public Relations, whether there has been any expenditure on external public relations or external public affairs since July 2024 using existing contracts or frameworks.(18641)

25Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Capita has restored full service delivery of the the Civil Service Pension Scheme as of the end of June 2026; and what steps his Department plans to take next.(18642)

26Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it is policy to publish figures for the cost of each official reception held in 10 Downing Street since July 2024.(18643)

27Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many working days have been lost in the public sector due to strikes according to information held by ONS since July 2024.(18644)

28Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether 2025-26 Departmental annual reports and accounts will include data on trade union facility time spending.(18645)

29Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the policy of the Government Property Agency is on the provision of free tampons in male lavatories.(18646)

30Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14931 on National Highways: Public Relations, what is the definition of lobbying for the purposes of the guidance on not using public funds to lobby.(18647)

31Mike Wood (Kingswinford and South Staffordshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 1 July 2026 to Question HL58 on Government departments: Artificial Intelligence, how many consultations are currently open according to the AI tool.(18648)

32Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether animal welfare concerns relating to the Faroe Islands' grindadráp whale and dolphin hunt will be considered during the 2026 review of the UK–Faroe Islands trade agreement.(18734)

33Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the regulatory consistency of allowing insurers to deduct Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme payments from business interruption claims, whilst prohibiting the deduction of Local Authority Grants.(18630)

34Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the status is of the Certification Officer’s investigation into the Unite trade union and the hotel development.(18825)

35Mr Will Forster (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an impact assessment of Royal Mail’s new delivery model.(18922)

36Mr Will Forster (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Royal Mail’s three workers to four frames delivery model on service quality and staff fatigue.(18923)

37Zöe Franklin (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has had discussions with Electronic Arts on the potential impact of its proposed acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners on the level of jobs and investment in the UK.(18918)

38Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18535)

39Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18554)

40Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that the design of the UK’s electronic invoicing regime minimises costs and administrative burdens for small businesses.(18843)

41Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Department is taking to raise awareness among small businesses of the expanded role and powers of the Small Business Commissioner.(18844)

42Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Department is taking with the Cabinet Office to help innovative scale-up businesses navigate public procurement processes and secure opportunities to supply the public sector.(18859)

43Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government has analysed companies incorporated during the pandemic against recipients of Bounce Back Loans and other Covid support schemes.(18581)

44John Milne (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much public funding has been allocated through the Industrial Strategy to support agri-tech as a frontier industry; and how this compares with the funding allocated to each other frontier industry identified in the Strategy.(18930)

45John Milne (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has designated a team responsible for agri-tech as a frontier industry under the Industrial Strategy.(18931)

46Euan Stainbank (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many Community Interest Companies registered have had Striking Off action suspended due to objections pertaining to Bounce Back Loans being received by the registrar.(18804)

47Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to review the maximum stakes and prizes limits for Category B3 and C gaming machines in adult gaming centres.(18766)

48Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has considered raising the stakes and prizes cap for adult gaming centres.(18767)

49Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with the adult gaming centre sector on raising the stakes and prizes cap; and what assessment she has made of the potential economic impact of such a change.(18768)

50Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of the adult gaming centre sector on enabling cashless payment systems; and whether she plans to bring forward related regulatory changes.(18769)

51Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Gambling Commission on a timetable for a new permanent appointment for its chief executive.(18826)

52Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the answer of 17 April 2026 to Question 123653 on Gambling Commission: Staff, whether Gambling Commission staff are (a) civil and (b) crown servants.(18828)

53Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the National Gallery spend on the citizen's assembly provided by the Sortition Foundation.(18829)

54Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many headcount staff in her Department are (a) members of the Government Communication Network and (b) embedded communicators but are not counted as members of the Government Communication Network.(18830)

55Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether any Non-Legally Binding Instruments have been signed by her Department and its Arms Length Bodies since July 2024 other than those subject to sensitive diplomatic, security and defence interest provisions.(18834)

56Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the National Gallery has planning permission to fly the Progress flag.(18835)

57Mr Will Forster (Woking): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps is she taking to help tackle the gender gap in sports participation for young people in Woking.(18920)

58Zöe Franklin (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts on the level of employment in the video games sector.(18919)

59Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18537)

60Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18555)

61Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in the context of The Children’s Society’s latest report which highlighted the importance of low-cost activity options for parents during the school holidays, what steps her Department is taking to widen the availability of low-cost holiday activities for children through museums, libraries and leisure centres, which are not covered by the temporary VAT relief on family activities.(18752)

62Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions the Department has had with arena and stadium operators on increasing participation in the voluntary levy to support grassroots music venues.(18850)

63Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that freelancers and small creative businesses can access practical guidance on the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence.(18851)

64Dame Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a switch-off of terrestrial television on people's ability to watch television in the UK without a smart device.(18587)

65Rebecca Paul (Reigate): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of the Gambling Commission's proposed affordability checks for bets of more than £1,000 on the horse racing industry.(18904)

66Dan Aldridge (Weston-super-Mare): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review whether the pay of teaching assistants adequately reflects the responsibilities, qualifications and duties of the role, including teaching classes and supporting pupils with complex needs.(18838)

67Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate the Government has made of the number of children who didn’t reach the water safety section of national curriculum swimming lessons.(18718)

68Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that children who didn’t reach the water safety section of national curriculum swimming lessons receive the required teaching on water safety.(18719)

69Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of guaranteeing every child the opportunity to attend an outdoor residential on pupils' wellbeing.(18877)

70Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered introducing an entitlement to an outdoor residential experience for every child during their time at school.(18878)

71Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18541)

72Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18561)

73Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the number of pupils in Castle Point constituency that will have an EHCP in each of the next five years.(18573)

74Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional costs incurred by each school in Castle Point constituency as a result of the increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions in 2026/27.(18574)

75Patrick Hurley (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle online conspiracy belief, misinformation and disinformation in the classroom.(18756)

76Patrick Hurley (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools' 2026 Research Insights, published in March 2026, what steps she is taking to improve access to training for school staff on responding to misinformation and conspiracy theories, in the context of the finding that 35 per cent of school staff have received no such training.(18757)

77Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the impact of persistent disadvantage on academic success, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve the tracking of persistently disadvantaged pupils in the Eastleigh constituency and (b) close the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils in the Eastleigh constituency.(18750)

78Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure councils are held accountable in their duty to provide appropriate and sufficient support to SEND families during the process of attaining an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP); what assessment has she made of the potential incentive for councils to stall the process of EHCP provision, given these plans place long-term statutory and financial obligations upon already stretched councils; and what steps is she taking to increase transparency in the delivery of EHCP provision, to ensure SEND families are kept fully informed throughout the process.(18755)

79James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance she has issued to higher education providers on preventing antisemitic harassment on university campuses.(18949)

80John Milne (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to add young carers to the data which local authorities must provide in relation to 'Participation in education, training and NEET' for 16 and 17 year olds.(18933)

81Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the fall in the number of students studying creative subjects on the level of youth mental health.(18775)

82Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) performing arts and (b) creative subjects on the achievement of soft skills; and what steps her Department is taking to improve (i) resilience, (ii) ambition, and (iii) communication in secondary schools.(18776)

83Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the cost of student visas on the finances of UK universities; and what steps her Department is taking to support higher education institutions facing financial pressures.(18778)

84Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18540)

85Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18557)

86Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the volume of Best and Most Versatile land which will be used to host solar panels resulting from Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects approved in the last five years.(18524)

87Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to engage with the Scottish Government on the inclusion of onshore wind in Scotland in the upcoming Strategic Spatial Energy Plan.(18675)

88Wera Hobhouse (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of analysis from Aurora Energy Research which notes that rebalancing a share of planned Scottish offshore wind towards Scottish onshore wind after 2030 as part of the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan would reduce energy system costs by £5 billion pounds a year.(18676)

89Adam Jogee (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support British cement producers with their energy costs.(18824)

90Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the Climate Security Taskforce's planned timetable is for holding its first meeting; and whether a record of that meeting will be published.(18578)

91Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to end the use of fast-growing broiler chicken breeds in UK poultry production.(18740)

92Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help facilitate the movement of assistance dogs accompanying their owners travelling from the UK to the EU.(18760)

93Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with key stakeholders on negotiating an exemption from Animal Health Certificate requirements for assistance dogs travelling between the UK and the European Union.(18761)

94Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of introducing a digital passport system for assistance dogs; and what consideration has been given to the development of digitalised passports for assistance dogs.(18762)

95Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the enforcement action against the use of European pet passports on assistance dog users.(18763)

96Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her timetable is for the introduction of measures to simplify the movement of assistance dogs between the United Kingdom and the European Union.(18764)

97Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Second Permanent Secretary has been seconded to the Blavatnik School of Government; and whether the Civil Service is funding his salary.(18827)

98Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any Non-Legally Binding Instruments have been signed by her Department and its Arms Length Bodies since July 2024 other than those subject to sensitive diplomatic, security and defence interest provisions.(18831)

99Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of full-time staff on full pay in her Department work compressed hours over a four day week.(18832)

100Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for government’s most important contracts, Data for October to December 2025 for all departments, published on 31 March 2026, what the title and description are of the two social value KPIs only labelled as social value.(18833)

101Mr Lee Dillon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what financial and advisory support will be available to assist pig producers to transition directly to free farrowing systems.(18915)

102Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when further information regarding the Digital Waste Tracking service will be made available to the public.(18939)

103Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Digital Waste Tracking service will help to reduce fly tipping.(18940)

104Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Digital Waste Tracking service will be enforced; and how members of the public can report waste that is not disposed of correctly.(18941)

105Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18539)

106Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18556)

107Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding she will make available for flood defences in each of the next five years for (a) Castle Point constituency and (b) Essex.(18566)

108Kim Johnson (Liverpool Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of mandatory food waste reporting on the cost of living.(18742)

109 NGordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of barriers for grocery retailers seeking to open full-service stores in low-income urban communities with limited access to fresh food; and whether her Department plans to convene retailers and local authorities to help reduce those barriers.[Transferred] (18284)

110Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Department is taking with food retailers and charities to improve the use of real-time data to increase the redistribution of edible surplus food.(18858)

111Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Government’s target to deliver 1.5 million new homes on long-term water demand in England.(18610)

112Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring water companies to demonstrate that sufficient water resources are available before large-scale housing developments proceed.(18611)

113Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on (a) household costs through higher retail prices, (b) food price inflation and (c) business costs for (i) small and medium-sized enterprises and (ii) larger producers; and what recent discussions she has had with representatives of the retail, food manufacturing and packaging sectors on those impacts.(18614)

114Tristan Osborne (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the time taken to introduce bottom-trawling restrictions in Marine Protected Areas on the UK's reputation for international ocean leadership.[R] (18874)

115Tristan Osborne (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of bottom trawling within protected areas for harbour porpoises and seabirds on the Government's ecosystem-based approach to marine management.[R] (18875)

116Tristan Osborne (Chatham and Aylesford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the more than 30,000 hours of apparent bottom trawling activity recorded in 2025 within a Marine Protected Area designated for the conservation of harbour porpoises in the North Sea on the conservation objectives of that site.[R] (18876)

117Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has (a) produced and (b) plans to produce a fifth edition of the global megatrends report that was published in 2024.(18576)

118Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department still produces Emerging Trends reports, which were bi-annual publications highlighting key developments and their implications produced by the Defra Futures Project.(18577)

119Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains the Government's position that biodiversity net gain applies to most development.(18773)

120 NLiz Saville Roberts (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken by her Department to ensure that animal conservation is recognised and promoted as part of a future UK – EU SPS veterinary agreement.[Transferred] (18079)

121Greg Smith (Mid Buckinghamshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of planning applications her Department expects to remain subject to the biodiversity gain condition once the 0.2 hectare, temporary permission and proposed brownfield residential exemptions are in force, in the context of her Department's estimate that the first and third of these alone would exempt between 63 and 78 per cent of eligible applications.(18731)

122Dan Carden (Liverpool Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of adopting the legislative framework championed by Animal Free Research UK known as Herbie's Law.(18685)

123Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps Ofcom is taking to implement the Supreme Court judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers of 16 April 2025.(18836)

124Charlie Dewhirst (Bridlington and The Wolds): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Areas of Research interest gov.uk page published by the Government Office for Science, what plans she has to update her Department's area of research interests, last published in February 2024.(18837)

125Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to support locally led innovation investment in a) Ribble Valley constituency and b) Lancashire.(18879)

126Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young people have access to education, skills, and career opportunities arising from investment in research and innovation in Ribble Valley constituency.(18880)

127Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18543)

128Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18559)

129Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the availability of guidance to parents following the planned social media ban for under 16s; what steps her Department will take to involve parents in the protection of their children online; whether her Department has assessed the risks of AI chatbot functions which are not covered by the planned regulation on sexualised AI chatbots including, harmful advice, over-reliance and emotional dependency and what steps her Department is taking to address the high-risk features of messaging platforms which are not addressed by the up-coming ban including disappearing content, which can perpetuate practises such as intimate-image abuse.(18753)

130Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Department is taking with employers to ensure that qualifications and digital badges earned through the AI Skills Boost programme are recognised in recruitment and workplace progression.(18841)

131Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that small businesses in each area can access practical support to adopt artificial intelligence safely and productively.(18842)

132Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15321 on Innovation and Technology: Obesity, whether the evaluation activity will be independent of Eli Lilly and Company; whether it will include control groups, randomisation or other comparative evaluation methods; and whether the results will be published.(18585)

133Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in preparing the Heathrow Expansion Appraisal Report, what consideration her Department gave to modelling the potential monetised costs of noise pollution from expansion.(18735)

134Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to increase the length of the night period when local communities are not exposed to aircraft noise from Heathrow.(18736)

135Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the Appraisal of Sustainability of the draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement only modelled one set of indicative flight paths that seek to minimise the number of newly impacted people.(18737)

136Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, why the Appraisal of Sustainability of the draft Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement only modelled one set of indicative flight paths that seek to minimise the number of newly impacted people.(18738)

137Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to produce noise assessments to reflect the best and worst case scenarios that may be created by expansion at Heathrow in terms of a) numbers of people exposed to noise b) number of people currently overflown who will experience an increase in noise and c) the number of people who will be newly exposed to aircraft noise pollution.(18739)

138Dr Scott Arthur (Edinburgh South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total cost of the additional testing allowance introduced in June 2025 has been to date; and what assessment she has made of its effect on the number of tests delivered per full-time equivalent examiner.(18873)

139Adam Dance (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed West of England Line timetable changes on stations in Yeovil constituency.(18864)

140Adam Dance (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure passenger travel times from Yeovil constituency are not negatively impacted by any changes to the West of England Line timetable.(18865)

141Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18549)

142Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18551)

143Dr Allison Gardner (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory minimum standards for protective motorcycle clothing, including jackets, trousers, gloves and boots.(18935)

144Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential role of the Motability Scheme in supporting transport accessibility in areas with limited public transport provision.(18516)

145Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of changes in passenger numbers on c2c rail services in each of the next ten years.(18567)

146Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the payments her Department will receive from c2c rail services in each of the next five years.(18568)

147Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what performance targets she has set for c2c rail services since nationalisation.(18569)

148Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a estimate of levels of congestion on the A13/A130 junction at Sadler’s Farm (a) now and (b) in each of the next 20 years.(18570)

149Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help prevent accidents resulting from drug driving.(18525)

150Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Department is taking with the devolved administrations and local authorities to support consistent safety and accessibility standards for electric-vehicle charging stations.(18847)

151James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contingency plans will be in place to manage traffic in the event of closure of the Lower Thames Crossing following its opening.(18942)

152James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to publish an operational incident management strategy for the Lower Thames Crossing before it opens to traffic.(18943)

153James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the resilience of the Lower Thames Crossing in the event of a) vehicle breakdowns or b) collisions within the tunnel.(18944)

154James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with National Highways on whether they will publish diversion routes for major incidents affecting the Lower Thames Crossing before the road opens.(18945)

155James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the surrounding road network to accommodate diverted traffic following an unplanned closure of the Lower Thames Crossing.(18946)

156Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 111, what is the full scope of the enhancement of rail deployment capabilities to move the Army to anywhere in Europe faster and more efficiently.(18797)

157Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passenger services operated by each train operating company were reported as having one or more defective toilets in each month since July 2024.(18770)

158Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 16287 on Parking: Private Sector, how many of the (a) 157 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency statements of control audits and (b) 203 Government Internal Audit Agency evidence-based transactional audits identified non-compliance by private parking companies; and what action was taken in each case.(18771)

159Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 14823 on Railways: Standards, what the average (a) 'Time to 3' performance and (b) cancellations rate for passenger rail services in Great Britain was in April to June of (i) 2025 and (ii) 2026.(18772)

160Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the transfer of passenger services into public ownership on passenger revenue, fare yield and net subsidy.(18774)

161Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) transport funding and (b) infrastructure investment are allocated equitably to cities that are not part of a mayoral combined authority or city region, including Leicester.(18779)

162Rebecca Smith (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the maintenance backlog requirements are for the rolling stock fleet of each train operating company.(18911)

163Alex Sobel (Leeds Central and Headingley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimates her Department has made of the monetised costs of aircraft noise pollution for communities under Heathrow flight paths exposed to noise above 43 decibels, with reference to the recent Aviation Night Noise Effects and Aviation Noise Attitudes Survey noise studies.(18687)

164Alex Sobel (Leeds Central and Headingley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in preparing the Heathrow Expansion Appraisal Report, what consideration her Department gave to modelling the potential monetised costs of noise pollution from expansion.(18688)

165Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce backlogs in the recovery from estate department.(18712)

166Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what target times are set for investigations in the recovery from estate department.(18713)

167Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made regarding turnaround times for investigations in the recovery from estate department.(18714)

168Steve Darling (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made in the completion of the Universal Credit split payment impact assessment; and whether they plan to use split payments as the default mechanism for all joint claims.(18765)

169Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish updated estimates of the fiscal and economic return on investment generated by the Access to Work scheme.(18936)

170Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking on frozen state pensions for British citizens living in Canada.(18532)

171Sorcha Eastwood (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the postcodes eligible for the Motability mileage allowance extension for rural areas.(18820)

172Sorcha Eastwood (Lagan Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider widening the eligibility criteria for the Motability mileage allowance extension.(18821)

173Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18544)

174Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18560)

175Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the role of the Motability Scheme in supporting disabled people to access work, education and training.(18515)

176Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) what the average waiting time is between a Personal Independence Payment appeal being lodged and his Department submitting its response to HM Courts and Tribunals Service, (b) what the average waiting time is between a Personal Independence Payment appeal being lodged and a tribunal hearing date being set, and (c) what steps he is taking, in collaboration with HMCTS, to reduce these delays for people in Eastleigh constituency.(18751)

177Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that small businesses, charities and social enterprises are able to participate in the Youth Jobs Grant.(18840)

178Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Department is taking to help increase access to flexible and modular training for people seeking to move into occupations experiencing skills shortages.(18857)

179John Milne (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of recent findings by UCL, City St George’s and Carers Trust that young adult carers are more than twice as likely as non-carers to be 'Persistently NEET' for two years or more.(18932)

180John Milne (Horsham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of classifying Access to Work expenditure as Annually Managed Expenditure to help ensure the scheme can respond to demand from new and sustained employment of disabled people.(18934)

181Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 12, what progress has he made in partnering jobcentre staff with military personnel to enhance career and training advice for people looking for a career in the Armed Forces.(18791)

182Neil O'Brien (Harborough, Oadby and Wigston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his answers to questions 8173 and 13206, in particular that the Get Britain Working initiative has been allocated £240m in 2025/6, if he will publish a breakdown of expected spending across the GBW initiative for the financial years i) 2026/7, ii) 2027/8 and iii) 2028/9.(18690)

183Manuela Perteghella (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of repeated disability benefit assessments on the mental and physical wellbeing of claimants, including people with autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental conditions; and whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of considering evidence of a long-term health condition or disability submitted through an assessment for a different welfare benefit, including across applications for Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit.(18819)

184Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to raise awareness of (a) Group B Strep and (b) severe infections in newborn babies.(18715)

185Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to improve prevention of (a) Group B Strep and (b) serious infections in newborn babies.(18716)

186Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to tackle (a) sepsis, (b) meningitis and (c) pneumonia in newborn babies.(18717)

187Dr Scott Arthur (Edinburgh South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of orphan medicines regulation required by the Rare Cancers Act 2026 will consider the full pathway from regulatory authorisation to NHS patient access, including evidence generation, health technology assessment and uptake of treatments for rare cancers.(18871)

188Dr Scott Arthur (Edinburgh South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve transparency on uptake, turnaround times and outcomes for genetic and biomarker testing across the NHS.(18872)

189Dan Carden (Liverpool Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress is being made towards establishing Fracture Liaison Services across all NHS trusts by 2030.(18686)

190Bambos Charalambous (Southgate and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the UK National Screening Committee's commissioned work on the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of additional screening for individuals with dense breasts is due to report publicly, and when they expect to make a recommendation on additional screening for women with dense breasts.(18677)

191Bambos Charalambous (Southgate and Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on commissioning a cost-effectiveness evaluation to explore the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of different pathways using breast density in the screening pathway in the UK, as promised by the UK National Screening Committee.(18678)

192Mr Lee Dillon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the volume of preventable deaths in the UK due to respiratory diseases; and what steps he plans to take to address this.(18913)

193Mr Lee Dillon (Newbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a respiratory Modern Service Framework as a mechanism for reducing health inequalities, supporting economic participation and strengthening the UK's life sciences sector.(18914)

194Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the decline in the recruitment of learning disability nurses.(18882)

195Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services; and what steps are being taken to reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by different services.(18883)

196Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an update to the Digital Maternity Record Standard is planned to limit birth outcome to coded values and ensure that a value is included for second trimester miscarriage.(18884)

197Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Single Patient Record could improve the recording of miscarriage across NHS services and what steps he is taking to help reduce the risk of double counting the same miscarriage recorded by different services.(18885)

198Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the recording of miscarriage experienced by women engaged with NHS services.(18886)

199Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans NHS England has to improve the collection of second trimester miscarriage data through the Maternity Services Dataset.(18887)

200Dr Luke Evans (Hinckley and Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming Modern Service Framework for Palliative and End of Life Care will be accompanied by a costed delivery plan.(18732)

201Dr Luke Evans (Hinckley and Bosworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the funding required to achieve the aims set out in the interim update to the Modern Service Framework for Palliative and End of Life.(18733)

202Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18542)

203Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18558)

204Tom Gordon (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a Modern Service Framework for hearing health on innovative models of audiology care, including community-based and digitally enabled services.(18747)

205Tom Gordon (Harrogate and Knaresborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a Modern Service Framework for hearing health on variation in access to (a) audiology and (b) ear wax removal services between Integrated Care Boards.(18748)

206Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether provision for capital investment in (a) new and (b) updated healthcare facilities in Castle Point constituency is being made available over the next five years.(18571)

207Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of FTE GPs at surgeries in Castle Point constituency over each of the next five years.(18572)

208Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the volume of preventable deaths in the UK due to respiratory diseases.(18518)

209Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will act on the recommendations in the Taskforce for Lung Health’s report entitled Breathing Life into the NHS and introduce a respiratory Modern Service Framework.(18519)

210Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the forthcoming Modern Service Framework for Dementia and Frailty will (a) improve the quality and consistency of dementia data and (b) improve data capture on dementia at the local level.(18754)

211Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking with the devolved administrations to increase the number of patients able to participate in commercial clinical trials across the UK.(18848)

212Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to improve interoperability between rare-disease registries and genomic-data systems across the UK.(18849)

213Kevin McKenna (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that ambient voice technology used in the NHS captures structured, coded clinical data at the point of care rather than unstructured free-text notes; what criteria his Department uses to determine which suppliers are eligible for reimbursement under clinical AI scribing programmes; and whether AI scribing tools embedded within wider electronic patient record contracts are required to meet the same governance and registry standards as dedicated ambient voice technology suppliers listed on the NHS England Ambient Voice Technology Supplier Registry.(18905)

214Kevin McKenna (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to establish a national deployment pathway for ambient voice technology, to move beyond repeated local pilots towards system-wide adoption across the NHS.(18906)

215Kevin McKenna (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish data on the performance of local obesity services, including service coverage, waiting times, and patient outcomes split by age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status.(18907)

216Kevin McKenna (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS weight management services support long-term weight maintenance.(18908)

217Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the reduction in the Referral to Treatment waiting list between August 2024 and March 2026 was attributable to (a) increased completed treatments and (b) non-treatment removals, including validation exercises.(18583)

218Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish monthly data showing the number of Referral to Treatment pathways removed from waiting lists by reason for removal.(18584)

219Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15320 on Folic Acid, with reference to the Food Standard Agency's information page entitled Guidance: Folic Acid, updated on 10 July 2026, where the nine pieces of evidence can be found as the links are not working.(18586)

220Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 108, what progress has he made in integrating military medical records with the NHS for the first time.(18793)

221Darren Paffey (Southampton Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of variations between integrated care boards in access to weight-loss injections such as tirzepatide for weight management; whether the funding provided to integrated care boards is sufficient to offer treatment to all patients meeting the current nationally prioritised eligibility criteria; and what steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to that treatment in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and across England.(18898)

222Darren Paffey (Southampton Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students are expected to complete approved paramedic training courses in England in (a) 2026 and (b) 2027; how many Band 5 newly qualified paramedic posts NHS ambulance trusts plan to recruit to in each of those years; and what steps he is taking to ensure that the number of funded posts is aligned with the number of students completing paramedic training.(18899)

223Dr Peter Prinsley (Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve health outcomes for people living with COPD.(18822)

224Dr Peter Prinsley (Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme to improve the earlier diagnosis of chronic respiratory diseases, including COPD.(18823)

225Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the disparity between the level of NHS demand for nurses and the lack of employment opportunities for newly qualified nursing graduates; and what steps his Department is taking to address this.(18780)

226Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) introducing a maximum annual limit on the amount of public funding that may be spent on an individual's adult social care package and (b) implementing a cap on annual local authority expenditure on adult social care.(18783)

227 NJack Rankin (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is issued to NHS mental health providers on assessing terrorist risk when discharging patients convicted of terrorism offences.[Transferred] (18473)

228 NJack Rankin (Windsor): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 on the ability of agencies to complete terrorism risk assessments prior to the discharge of convicted terrorist offenders.[Transferred] (18474)

229Joe Robertson (Isle of Wight East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the speech by Baroness Merron on 3 March 2026 on the proposed retail licensing scheme for tobacco, vaping and nicotine products, Official Report, House of Lords, columns 1169 to 1171, when he plans to consult on that scheme; and what assessment his Department has made of the implications for the enforcement of restrictions on the packaging, appearance and retail display of vaping and nicotine products.(18891)

230Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2026 to Question 9319, if he will ensure that guidance on the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 is published with sufficient time for retailers to understand and prepare for their obligations; and what engagement his Department has had with retailers on this matter.(18534)

231Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England's guidance entitled Preventing unlawful access to patient records, published on the 8th July applies to a) data held in General Practice, b) data accessed from pharmacies participating in Pharmacy First, c) data held in the Federated Data Platform, d) NHS England national staff using the Federated Data Platform, and e) Palantir staff using the Federated Data Platform.(18805)

232Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for a list of models available of use on the NHS AI Platform, and the name of any intermediary entities between the NHS user and the model providers.(18806)

233Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the HL1033, 6 July 2026, how many times the audit trail for access to data on the National Data Integration Tenant has been reviewed or audited since its implementation, and what the outcomes of those audits were.(18807)

234Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional recurrent funding will be provided alongside implementation of the proposed NHS dental contract reforms.(18808)

235Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of NHS dental funding levels on the recruitment and retention of dentists providing NHS care.(18809)

236Dr Beccy Cooper (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the Government of Israel regarding the detention and release of medical personnel in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.(18912)

237Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps have been taken to provide humanitarian aid to Ethiopia.(18682)

238Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps have been taken alongside international partners to ensure the safety of Orthodox Christian communities in Ethiopia.(18683)

239Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18545)

240Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18562)

241Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Department is taking to ensure that UK-funded humanitarian programmes collect age-disaggregated data and include older people in needs assessments and programme design.(18852)

242Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Department is taking to increase knowledge in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and quantum technologies in the diplomatic network.(18853)

243James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's press release entitled UK backs Gaza recovery as Foreign Secretary urges renewed push for peace, published on 13 July 2026, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of the safeguards in place to ensure that the £10 million announced for early recovery efforts will not be diverted to Hamas or affiliated organisations.(18958)

244James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's press release entitled UK backs Gaza recovery as Foreign Secretary urges renewed push for peace, published on 13 July 2026, what conditions have been attached to the release of the £10 million announced for early recovery activity.(18959)

245James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's press release entitled UK backs Gaza recovery as Foreign Secretary urges renewed push for peace, published on 13 July 2026, what estimate has been made of the proportion of the £10 million that will be spent on (a) administration, (b) programme management and (c) direct assistance.(18960)

246James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's press release entitled UK backs Gaza recovery as Foreign Secretary urges renewed push for peace, published on 13 July 2026, what safeguards will be in place to ensure that (a) children, (b) women, (c) disabled people and (d) religious minorities in Gaza receive appropriate levels of support from the £10 million funding.(18961)

247Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that requests from the families of British nationals for the return of retained organs from overseas are progressed as quickly as possible through the relevant legal processes.(18924)

248Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made representations to the Government of Spain on improving cooperation with UK authorities where a second post-mortem is unable to determine the cause of death because organs have been retained overseas.(18925)

249Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in the return of retained organs on bereaved families of British nationals who die overseas.(18926)

250Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Government of Spain on reducing delays in the completion of legal and forensic processes involving deceased British nationals.(18927)

251Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support her Department provides to families seeking the return of organs retained overseas following the death of a British national.(18928)

252Edward Morello (West Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Spanish counterpart on expediting the return of organs retained by Spanish authorities following the death of a British national.(18929)

253Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what was the outcome of the recent discussions on the Chagos Islands deal between the director of the Foreign Office’s overseas territories and polar directorate and the attorney general of Mauritius.(18792)

254Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2026, to question 16169 on Jonathan Powell, if he will specify the exact start date Jonathan Powell commenced in the role as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for negotiations between the UK and Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) / Chagos Archipelago.(18802)

255Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the accessibility and cost of the register of beneficial ownership of (a) the Turks and Caicos Islands, (b) Gibraltar and (c) Montserrat.(18724)

256Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what further improvements to the Turks and Caicos Islands' register of beneficial ownership, referred to in the Written Ministerial Statement of 3 July 2025, have been agreed with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government; and what timetable has been set for their implementation.(18725)

257Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2026 to Question 114788, what discussions officials from her Department have had with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government since that Answer regarding a revised procurement process for the Howard Hamilton International Airport redevelopment.(18726)

258Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost incurred by the Turks and Caicos Islands Government in relation to the cancelled Public-Private Partnership procurement process for the Howard Hamilton International Airport redevelopment.(18727)

259Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2026 to Question 114788, what support her Department has offered to the Turks and Caicos Islands Government to ensure value for money and transparent procurement in any future process for the Howard Hamilton International Airport redevelopment; and whether that offer has been taken up.(18728)

260Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the cancellation of the Public-Private Partnership procurement process for the Howard Hamilton International Airport redevelopment on procurement and planning governance in the Turks and Caicos Islands.(18729)

261Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the beneficial ownership register in the Turks and Caicos Islands, once implemented, on the ability of the Crown Land Unit and Physical Planning Board in identifying the ultimate owners of companies applying for planning permission or Crown land allocations.(18730)

262Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms exist to ensure independent oversight of allegations of serious misconduct or criminality involving HMRC investigators, including compliance with referral requirements and the effectiveness of arrangements for external scrutiny.(18812)

263Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using any of the savings from abolishing Police and Crime Commissioners to help fund Community Safety Partnerships.(18631)

264Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what steps she is taking to replace the use of non-human primates in scientific research with human-specific technologies.(18937)

265Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2025, published in July 2026, what steps she is taking to replace the use of specially protected species in scientific research with human-specific technologies.(18938)

266Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of police officer numbers in England; and what steps she is taking to increase the police workforce.(18531)

267Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18546)

268Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18563)

269Chris Law (Dundee Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risk that Russian religious or cultural institutions operating in the UK may be used to facilitate foreign influence activity.(18649)

270Chris Law (Dundee Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to ensure that organisations in the UK which may be acting at the direction of the Russian state or Russian state-controlled entities, such as the Russian Orthodox Church, are appropriately assessed for compliance with the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme established under the National Security Act 2023.(18650)

271Chris Law (Dundee Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consistency of scrutiny applied under the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme to Russian-linked institutions compared with institutions linked to other foreign states.(18651)

272James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants for student visas are subject to security screening in relation to a) extremist activity and b) support for proscribed organisations.(18947)

273James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether antisemitism on university campuses forms part of her Department’s assessment when developing student visa policy.(18948)

274James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause 20 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, how many deportation cases each year are expected to be prevented on the grounds that removal would have an unduly harsh impact on a qualifying child.(18950)

275James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign criminals have avoided deportation in each of the last ten years on the basis of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.(18951)

276James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, what estimate has been made of the annual amount expected to be recovered through contributions from recipients of asylum support.(18952)

277James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, what criteria will be used to determine the level of contribution required from recipients of asylum support.(18953)

278James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, what estimate has been made of the administrative cost of recovering contributions from recipients of asylum support.(18954)

279James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, whether unpaid asylum support contributions will affect future immigration applications or applications for settlement.(18955)

280James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the reasons why the number of asylum applications to the United Kingdom has increased at a different rate from applications made in EU Member States since 2021.(18956)

281James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment has been made of asylum application growth in the United Kingdom and EU Member States since 2021, and what factors have been identified as contributing to any difference in those trends.(18957)

282Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the prevalence of the sale and misuse of nitrous oxide canisters since the introduction of the ban under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; and if she will publish data on enforcement activity by police force area.(18612)

283Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests, (b) charges, (c) cautions and (d) convictions relating to the unlawful possession, supply or production of nitrous oxide have been recorded since the substance became a Class C drug, broken down by police force area.(18613)

284Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in student visa fees on levels of non-compliance with student visa requirements.(18777)

285Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures she is taking to help protect communities against anti-social behaviour.(18781)

286Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of Plumpot's statistic that anti-social behaviour crime is increasing in Leicester; and what steps her Department is taking to support early intervention and preventative measures to reduce crimes of this nature in a) Leicester East, b) Leicester and c) the country.(18782)

287Shivani Raja (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Skilled Worker visas have been granted since 2024 to applicants sponsored by takeaway and restaurant businesses; and what assessment she has made of the occupations for which those visas were issued, the types of establishments sponsoring them, and the skills shortages they were intended to address.(18784)

288Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Wetherby and Easingwold): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2026 to Question 15306, whether she has submitted a change of use planning application under The Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025.(18579)

289Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the UK/EU-Ukraine Defence Innovation Corridor Parliamentary Roundtable held on 23 June 2026, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) procurement speed, (b) technology transfer between the UK and Ukraine and (c) SMEs.(18813)

290Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan published on 30 June 2026, what milestones have been set for the delivery of counter-drone and electromagnetic warfare capabilities.(18814)

291Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the defence technology export mechanism recently approved by the Government of Ukraine on UK defence companies; and what steps he is taking to support UK companies establish co-production arrangements with Ukrainian manufacturers under the mechanism.(18815)

292Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Kyiv Business Centre will be fully operational; and if he will set how UK SMEs will be able to access its services.(18816)

293Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to Ukrainian defence technology companies seeking to establish production facilities in the UK, including through initiatives including the UK/EU-Ukraine Defence Innovation Corridor.(18817)

294Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to apply the Project Octopus model of manufacturing Ukrainian-designed systems in the UK to other capability areas, including electronic warfare and marine autonomy.(18818)

295Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 41 of his department's Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, what type of vehicles will the £150 million be used to procure in the rapid development and production of uncrewed ground vehicles.(18692)

296Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans that the £200 million of additional investment into counter drone technology will produce a capability that is operationally ready.(18693)

297Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the capability requirement of the £400 million of the Land Lethality Pipeline.(18694)

298Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the expected timelines of the Land Mobility Programme.(18695)

299Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the latest timelines for Challenger 3 completion.(18696)

300Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the timelines of the New Medium Helicopter being built in Yeovil.(18697)

301Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 42 of his department's Defence Investment Plan, published 30 June 2026, whether the £36 billion planned to be invested in the land domain between 2030 and 2035 is in the current budget.(18698)

302Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 42 of his Department's Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, how many Mk6A Chinooks will be retired and how many newer Chinooks will be purchased.(18699)

303Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 43 of his Department's Defence Investment Plan, published 30 June 2026, what are the expected greater distances capability across the battlespace provided as part of Project ASGARD.(18700)

304Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to work with NATO Allies on interoperability.(18701)

305Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what were the findings of ARX Robotics UK testing in Estonia.(18702)

306Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the estimated timeline for all the F-35As to enter service.(18703)

307Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what are the latest project milestones for the Global Combat Air Programme.(18704)

308Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, out of the 31,080 (April 26) RAF personnel how many of them are medically downgraded.(18705)

309Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 45 of his department's Defence Investment Plan, published 30 June 2026, whether the £70 billion for new capabilities in the air domain from 2030 and 2035 is currently planned in the budget.(18706)

310Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 45 of his Department's Defence Investment Plan, published 30 June 2026, what sovereign world-leading propulsion system will the Collaborate Combat Aircraft use.(18707)

311Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the planned timeline for the early retirement of the Shadow R1 ISR aircraft.(18708)

312Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any other nations are expected to join the Global Combat Air Programme.(18709)

313Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what quantum technologies are being used in FCAS and GCAP.(18710)

314Stuart Anderson (South Shropshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the breakdown of skills base of the 4,500 people working on FCAS and GCAP.(18711)

315James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has conducted a review of the resilience of UK defence supply chains against disruption during major conflict.(18652)

316James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether the Defence Investment Plan enables the UK to meet all capability commitments agreed at the NATO Summit.(18653)

317James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has conducted an assessment of the implications for NATO should implementation of the Defence Investment Plan be delayed.(18654)

318James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications of the commitments agreed at the NATO meeting in Ankara for the UK's future defence spending plans.(18655)

319James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution the UK will make towards the $50 billion in new defence procurements announced by NATO Allies in Ankara.(18656)

320James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution the UK intends to make towards the NATO commitment to provide €70 billion in military equipment, assistance and training to Ukraine in 2026.(18657)

321James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his department is taking to ensure UK defence manufacturers benefit from the new NATO commitment to expand collective manufacturing capacity.(18658)

322James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with NATO allies on eliminating defence trade barriers.(18659)

323James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his department is taking to increase the resilience of the UK's defence industrial base in support of NATO's long-term deterrence objectives.(18660)

324James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 108 of his Department's Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, what the expected date of completion is to integrate military medical records with the NHS.(18661)

325James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026, entitled The Armoured Cavalry Programme, UIN HCWS237, what is the estimated date of completion of the Ministerial Review.(18662)

326James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026, entitled The Armoured Cavalry Programme, UIN HCWS237, if he will publish the full report of the Ajax Independent Expert Panel Review.(18663)

327James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026, entitled The Armoured Cavalry Programme, UIN HCWS237, what criteria were used to determine the prioritisation of the 41 recommendations.(18664)

328James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026, entitled The Armoured Cavalry Programme, UIN HCWS237, what the cost to the public purse is of implementing the recommendations of the Ajax Independent Expert Panel Review.(18665)

329Graeme Downie (Dunfermline and Dollar): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of military energy use is electric.(18901)

330Graeme Downie (Dunfermline and Dollar): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much electricity was used by each arm of the military in each of the past 5 years.(18902)

331Graeme Downie (Dunfermline and Dollar): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the level of future use of electricity by each branch of the armed forces.(18903)

332Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce processing times for veterans' claims under the Armed Forces Pension Scheme.(18529)

333Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on reducing the backlog of veterans' pensions affected by the McCloud remedy, including expected timelines for cases to be resolved.(18530)

334Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18538)

335James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the proposed out-of-service date for (a) HMS Tyne (b) HMS Mersey (c) HMS Severn.(18892)

336James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what vessels take on the roles currently filled by (a) HMS Tyne (b) HMS Mersey (c) HMS Severn.(18893)

337James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, per year how many days does an average (a) batch 1 River class (b) batch 2 River class (c) Type 23 frigate (d) Type 45 Destroyer spend at sea.(18894)

338James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, following the retirement of the batch 1 River Class vessels, how does his department intend to conduct at sea training.(18895)

339James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the proposed out-of-service date for (a) HMS Ledbury (b) HMS Cattistock (c) HMS Brocklesby (d) HMS Middleton (e) HMS Hurworth.(18896)

340James MacCleary (Lewes): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was the purchase of the Finnart Oil Terminal.(18897)

341Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps the Department is taking to expand the use of synthetic training environments to enable joint training between the Armed Forces and NATO allies.(18854)

342Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 91, what is the (a) location and (b) construction timeline of each of the six new munitions and energetics factories.(18785)

343Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 93, what is the scope of the investment in new gun ammunition for the Type 31.(18786)

344Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 93, what directed energy weapons are being developed in addition to DragonFire.(18787)

345Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, High Readiness Forces, what projects fall within the scope of investment in personal weapons referred to.(18788)

346Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 104, what is the scope and scale of the investment in upgrading and consolidating Defence Intelligence purpose-built infrastructure at RAF Wyton.(18789)

347Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 83, for what reason did he not proceed with the SKYNET 6 Narrowband Satellite System.(18790)

348Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, chapter 3, paragraph 14, does the £70 million allocation for Veterans between FY26/27 and FY29/30 include provision for waiving visa fees for spouses and children of service personnel who have served for more than four years.(18795)

349Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, chapter 3, paragraph 19, by when does he plan to deliver a national conversation campaign on defence and security.(18796)

350Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, High Readiness Forces, what is the full scope of CAIN.(18798)

351Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 108, by what is the delivery and rollout timeline for the new technology from the Phoenix Partnership.(18799)

352Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 103, in what way he will boost capacity via the implementation of a more integrated intelligence enterprise.(18800)

353Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 83, what investment in ‘space as a service’ options does he intend to make.(18801)

354Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan, published on 30 June 2026, paragraph 109, what is the a) full scope and b) breakdown of the £1.7 billion for Defence Support and Counter-CBRN.(18803)

355Lee Anderson (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will legislate for mandatory licensing of all Houses in Multiple Occupation.(18720)

356Olivia Blake (Sheffield Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend the definition of statutory overcrowding to prevent living and dining rooms being defined as bedrooms.(18745)

357Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if the government will expand access to the Private Sector Rental Database and allow trusted partner status for estate agents to sync and share information.(18628)

358Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered the potential merits of requiring (a) letting agents and (b) landlords to provide a reason to rental housing applicants for applications being unsuccessful to ensure compliance with the (i) Equality Act 2010 and (ii) Renters Rights Act 2025.(18680)

359Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the home buying process in England and Wales to ensure greater protections for buyers.(18526)

360Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to review conveyancing laws in England.(18527)

361Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to bring conveyancing laws in England and Wales in line with Scotland.(18528)

362Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18548)

363Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18565)

364Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current Building Regulations in ensuring that new homes remain safe and habitable during periods of extreme heat.(18607)

365Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether delivering 1.5 million new homes will require changes to overheating standards within Building Regulations.(18608)

366Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to require developers of new housing developments to incorporate passive cooling measures, including external shading, increased tree cover and enhanced natural ventilation, into the design of new homes.(18609)

367Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of planning applications in England that will be determined by (a) elected planning committees and (b) planning officers following the introduction of the National Scheme of Delegation; what assessment he has made of the impact of those changes on local democratic accountability; and whether he plans to publish annual statistics on the proportion of planning applications determined by officers and by elected members.(18615)

368Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the draft National Planning Policy Framework on the amount of development expected to take place on (a) greenfield land and (b) land outside defined settlement boundaries; whether his Department has modelled the effect of Policy S5 on the volume of speculative planning applications for unallocated sites; and if he will publish that assessment.(18616)

369Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the draft National Planning Policy Framework on the capacity of local planning authorities to refuse planning applications that conflict with locally adopted planning policies; whether he expects National Decision-Making Policies to take precedence over locally adopted development management policies in practice; and if he will publish that assessment.(18617)

370Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of whether the revised National Planning Policy Framework will increase the number of planning permissions granted before supporting infrastructure is delivered; what assessment he has made of the likely impact on (a) GP surgeries, (b) school places, (c) highways capacity and (d) water infrastructure; and whether he intends to require infrastructure to be delivered before the occupation of new housing developments.(18618)

371Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local planning authorities which will meet the housing requirements generated by the revised standard method; what estimate he has made of the number of authorities which will meet the Housing Delivery Test or five-year housing land supply requirements; and whether he has assessed the impact this would have on the number of speculative planning applications determined under the presumption in favour of sustainable development.(18619)

372Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes that will be delivered on (a) previously developed land, (b) greenfield land within settlements, (c) greenfield land outside settlements, (d) Green Belt land released through local plans and (e) Grey Belt land.(18620)

373Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued on accountability where planning decisions are delegated to officers; whether planning officers will be required to publish written reasons for delegated decisions in all cases; what right (a) applicants, (b) ward councillors and (c) members of the public will have to request elected member consideration; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of democratic oversight in the new arrangements.(18621)

374Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what circumstances will permit an application that would otherwise be delegated to a planning officer to be referred to a planning committee; what role ward councillors will have in requesting such referrals; and what assessment he has made of the consistency of those arrangements across local planning authorities.(18622)

375Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the reduction in the number of planning applications considered by elected planning committees as a result of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025; and what assessment he has made of the impact of this on the role of elected councillors in determining planning applications.(18623)

376Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) the National Scheme of Delegation on progress towards the Government’s target of delivering 1.5 million homes and (b) a reduction in the number of planning applications determined by elected planning committees on local democratic input into housing development.(18624)

377Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local planning authorities will be required to publish data on (a) the number of applications determined by officers, (b) the number determined by planning committees, (c) applications referred to committee but refused permission to do so and (d) the reasons why applications were not considered by elected members.(18625)

378Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of affordable housing.(18588)

379Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to increase the supply of social housing.(18589)

380Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent comparative assessment his Department has made of average house prices and average household incomes.(18590)

381Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of rough sleepers.(18591)

382Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to tackle homelessness.(18592)

383Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to temporary accommodation for vulnerable households.(18593)

384Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding he has allocated for homelessness prevention programmes in the current financial year.(18594)

385Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to increase the level of funding to local authorities to deliver statutory services.(18595)

386Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure accountability and transparency in local government spending.(18596)

387Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of planning restrictions on the level of housing supply.(18597)

388Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that new developments include adequate infrastructure and community services.(18598)

389Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of brownfield site utilisation in new housing construction.(18599)

390Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of youth services in local communities.(18600)

391David Simmonds (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the answer of 31 October 2025 to Question 84211 on Peatlands: Controlled Burning, (a) what advice has the Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council provided and (b) what assessment has been made by his Department in relation to potential wild fire risks on Dartmoor from changes proposed by Natural England to grazing practices.(18746)

392Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of prisoners serving standard determinate sentences for (a) domestic abuse-related offences, (b) sexual offences and (c) child sexual offences who are eligible for the Government’s early release scheme in accordance with the Sentencing Act 2026.(18602)

393Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk to victims of (a) domestic abuse-related offences, (b) sexual offences and (c) child sexual offences arising from the reduction of automatic release points for standard determinate sentences.(18603)

394Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the safety of release provisions in place for offenders serving custodial sentences for (a) domestic abuse-related offences, (b) sexual offences and (c) child sexual offences who are eligible for early release.(18604)

395Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department provides dedicated guidance on minimum rehabilitation requirements for prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences for (a) domestic abuse-related offences, (b) sexual offences and (c) child sexual offences.(18605)

396Sarah Champion (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a single database to record (a) the number of offenders serving standard determinate sentences, (b) their offence category and (c) their release dates.(18606)

397Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to expand property courts.(18626)

398Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made considerations to the establishment of Nightingale style Courts to deal with the courts backlogs, in property and Tier One tribunals.(18627)

399Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate has been made of the number of Nursing and Midwifery Council cases in the High Court that resulted in the original decision being overturned in the past (a) 12 and (b) 24 months.(18684)

400Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18547)

401Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.(18564)

402Lola McEvoy (Darlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to increase availability of legal aid to people who are victims of violence against women and girls, particularly in relation to people who wish to pursue judicial review.(18749)

403Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Department is taking with the Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service to improve the secure transfer of digital evidence between police, prosecutors and courts and reduce avoidable delays.(18855)

404Connor Naismith (Crewe and Nantwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants have successfully used the defence of automatism in cases arising from road traffic collisions in each of the last five years; and what assessment she has made of the impact of those cases on victims and their families.(18900)

405Nick Timothy (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the events held to celebrate Black History Month and Pride Month in prisons in the past year.(18758)

406Nick Timothy (West Suffolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how working hours were spent by civil servants in the Ministry of Justice undertaking agreed staff network leadership roles or carrying out agreed activity requested by the Department in the past six months, and what is the average agreed allocation in hours per civil servant.(18759)

407Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many agency staff were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.(18523)

408Jim Shannon (Strangford): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to social care services for the elderly.(18601)

409Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many agency staff were employed by his Department in each of the last five years.(18522)

410Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what measures are in place to ensure that forensic testing, intelligence, analytical methodologies and other evidence relied upon by HMRC in enforcement action and criminal proceedings are lawfully obtained and independently validated where appropriate.(18810)

411Luke Akehurst (North Durham): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has undertaken, or plans to undertake, any review of enforcement actions, civil penalties or criminal proceedings that may have been affected by concerns regarding the reliability, authorisation, provenance or evidential status of material relied upon in those cases.(18811)

412Fleur Anderson (Putney): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has assessed (a) the impact of the zero rate of VAT on the installation of energy-saving materials on the uptake of such materials and (b) the potential impact on households and businesses of the scheduled expiry of that zero rate in March 2027.(18741)

413Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the transfer of anti-money laundering supervisory responsibilities from the Law Society of Scotland to the Financial Conduct Authority on the regulatory responsibilities of high-street law firms in Scotland.(18666)

414Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Financial Conduct Authority to safeguard Scottish law firm clients' interests under the proposed transfer of AML supervision from the Law Society of Scotland to the Financial Conduct Authority.(18667)

415Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the resources required by the Financial Conduct Authority to perform anti-money laundering supervisory responsibilities for Scottish law firms.(18668)

416Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ringfencing funding Financial Conduct Authority receives in fees from law firms for supervision of the legal sector.(18669)

417Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Financial Conduct Authority to perform anti-money laundering supervisory responsibilities for Scottish law firms.(18670)

418Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with (a) law firms in Scotland and (b) law sector representative bodies in Scotland regarding the proposed changes to anti-money laundering supervision.(18671)

419Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the dual regulatory system resulting from the proposed transfer of anti-money laundering supervision from the Law Society of Scotland to the Financial Conduct Authority on the level of the regulatory burden on Scottish law firms.(18672)

420Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the proposed changes required to Scottish devolved legislation for the transfer of anti-money laundering supervision from the Law Society of Scotland to the Financial Conduct Authority.(18673)

421Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed transfer of anti-money laundering supervision from the Law Society of Scotland to the Financial Conduct Authority on (a) the conveyancing system, (b) legal professional privilege, (c) the criminal justice system and d) partnership law in Scotland.(18674)

422Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the total monetary value of taxpayer-funded COVID-19 support payments, specifically the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, that were deducted by insurance companies from business interruption insurance payouts.(18629)

423Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government's Access to Banking Services Review is making of the role that the Post Office's network of branches could play in providing access to in-person banking services for people who are digitally excluded or require face-to-face support.(18916)

424Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government would consider establishing a minimum standard for access to in-person banking services, following the Access to Banking Services Review; and what role the Post Office network could play in meeting such a standard.(18917)

425Maya Ellis (Ribble Valley): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in HMRC VAT registration processing on construction businesses; and if she will consider changes to the VAT registration rules to allow businesses to recover input VAT on materials purchased for taxable supplies where HMRC processing delays result in those materials being used before a VAT registration application has been processed.(18881)

426Mr Will Forster (Woking): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the adequacy of levels of funding allocated to support women’s sport in Woking.(18921)

427Richard Fuller (North Bedfordshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many FTE equivalent staff in (a) their Department and (b) each Arm's Length Body it sponsors are dedicated to fulfilment of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED); what the (i) annual employment and (ii) total annual cost incurred is as a result of PSED and compliance with PSED for each of those bodies; what the outputs are from the work of PSED teams and personnel dedicated to PSED; and if they will publish an assessment of their Department's compliance with PSED.(18550)

428Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Autumn 2025 Budget on transport accessibility for disabled people through the Motability Scheme.(18517)

429Rachel Gilmour (Tiverton and Minehead): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the forbearance obligations on mortgage lenders under the Financial Conduct Authority's Mortgages and Home Finance: Conduct of Business sourcebook, in particular the duty to consider appropriate forbearance for borrowers in financial difficulty, apply independently of and continue beyond the six-month support options introduced under the Mortgage Charter; and what assessment the Government has made of the consistency with which those obligations are applied by lenders to borrowers who have exhausted Mortgage Charter support.(18890)

430Rebecca Harris (Castle Point): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the amount of business rates to be paid by businesses in the retail, leisure, and hospitality sector in Castle Point constituency in 2026/27.(18575)

431Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methodology was used to estimate the £10.9 billion of fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes; whether the estimate includes unidentified fraud; and what estimate the Public Sector Fraud Authority has made of the upper range of total losses.(18580)

432Esther McVey (Tatton): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury has produced, commissioned or received an estimate of the total amount lost through fraud and error across Covid-19 support schemes that exceeds the published estimate of £10.9 billion.(18582)

433Ben Obese-Jecty (Huntingdon): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2026 to question 16168 on Investment: Strait of Hormuz, how much has she approved from the HMT reserve to deploy additional capabilities in the Middle East for the Multinational Hormuz Mission.(18794)

434Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many agency staff were employed by her Department in each of the last five years.(18521)

435Afzal Khan (Manchester Rusholme): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of its funding levels on the Equality and Human Rights Commission's effectiveness.(18689)

436Gordon McKee (Glasgow South): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to encourage employers to offer structured returnship programmes for women seeking to re-enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers after a career break.(18856)

Questions for Answer on Tuesday 1 September

Questions for Written Answer

1 NAlison Griffiths (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of children and young people with education, health and care plans for whom the special educational provision specified in section F of their plan was not secured in full for more than (a) four weeks, (b) one school term and (c) two school terms in each of the last three academic years by (i) local authority, (ii) type of provision and (iii) placement type.(18866)

2 NAlison Griffiths (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of occasions on which local authorities failed to implement an order of the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) within the applicable time limit under regulation 44 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) local authority, (b) type of order, (c) length of delay and (d) whether the appeal had been conceded by the local authority.(18867)

3 NAlison Griffiths (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations her Department received in each of the last three years concerning an alleged failure by a local authority to (a) secure provision required under section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014 and (b) comply with a SEND Tribunal order; in how many such cases her Department took action under sections 496 or 497 of the Education Act 1996; and if she will publish that information by local authority.(18868)

4 NAlison Griffiths (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of children and young people with education, health and care plans who did not have an appropriate education placement available at the beginning of the academic year in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) local authority, (b) length of time without a placement, (c) whether interim education was provided, (d) average weekly hours of interim education and (e) whether the child subsequently received education otherwise than at school; and if she will publish that data, including for West Sussex.(18869)

5 NAlison Griffiths (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on maintaining (a) a named accountable case officer, (b) continuity of communication with families and (c) a single written action plan where a child’s education, health and care plan is simultaneously subject to Tribunal proceedings, complaints, placement commissioning and outstanding provision; and whether those requirements will be included in the revised SEND Code of Practice and National Inclusion Standards.(18870)

6 NSojan Joseph (Ashford): To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to improve a) broadband coverage and b) phone signal in rural areas in Kent.(18889)

7 NNeil O'Brien (Harborough, Oadby and Wigston): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 5 of the Government Efficiency Framework, if he will publish the most recent quarterly efficiency report provided by the Office of Rail and Road.(18691)

8 NRebecca Smith (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Class 810 trains were expected to be in passenger service by (a) December 2022, (b) December 2023, (c) December 2024, (d) December 2025 and (e) the latest date for which figures are available.(18909)

9 NRebecca Smith (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the proportion of rolling stock not required for the planned timetable for each train operating company in each month since July 2024.(18910)

10 NMr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will he hold discussions with his counterparts in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales on making the Access NHS App Services available across the UK.(18533)

11 NMr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps have been taken within the NHS to ensure compliance with the Records Management Code of Practice.(18679)

12 NBell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government on the level of fees to search their register of beneficial ownership.(18721)

13 NBell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the provision in the Turks and Caicos Islands' Beneficial Ownership (Amendment) Regulations 2025 which prohibits a person who has obtained information from the register from disclosing it to any other person, subject to a $25,000 penalty.(18722)

14 NBell Ribeiro-Addy (Clapham and Brixton Hill): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government on enabling searches by beneficial owner.(18723)

15 NMr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to ensure compliance with the (a) Equality Act 2010 and (b) Renters' Rights Act 2025 within the rented housing sector.(18681)