Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: written questions
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British Nationality: Fees and ChargesHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025, to Question 28684 on British Nationality: Fees and Charges, what reasons were given for rejecting fee waiver applications for child citizenship in the last
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on the processing of child citizenship fee waiver applications on the gov.uk website. The data shows that over half of the applications submitted in the last quarter were concluded within four weeks, and 99.7% of application...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: Fees and ChargesHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February, to Question 28684 on British Nationality: Fees and Charges, for what reason her Department does not hold specific data on the amount of revenue received from chi
Answer: The Department does not hold specific data on the amount of revenue received from child citizenship applications.We are looking to develop more granular management information during the new financial year 2025-26.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Protection: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the environmental impact of running artificial intelligence technologies.
Answer: The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues. The AI (artificial intelligence) Opportunities Action Plan sets out how we will achieve our AI ambitions by laying the foundations for growth, driving adoption an...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Emissions: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the environmental impact of running artificial intelligence technologies and the UK's Net Zero ambitions.
Answer: The Department regularly engages across Government to promote the sustainable development of AI technologies in line with the UK’s Net Zero goals. This includes inter-departmental collaboration through initiatives such as the recently announced AI Energy ...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue has been raised from citizenship applications since the fee waiver was introduced.
Answer: Since fee waivers were introduced in June 2022 the revenue received for all Citizenship applications - virtually all Naturalisation and Registration - is £734.7m. The data provided covers the period July 2022 to January 2025.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what disability rights organisations and campaigners her Department is consulting with on planned reforms the disability welfare system; and whether any user-led organisations have been consulted.
Answer: This government is committed to putting the views and voices of disabled people at the heart of all that we do. We have already started discussing the case for reform, including with representatives from the Disability Charities Consortium and the Disable...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy Performance Certificates: Social Rented HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to protect private renters from potential evictions and rent hikes as unintended consequences of mandating all private rented accommodation meets EPC C by
Answer: Government is consulting on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the domestic private rented sector. The Renters’ Rights Bill will also put in place new regulations to protect tenants. This includes providing stronger protections to ensure th...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure the provision of adequate funding for demand-led local government services in the next spending review.
Answer: We recognise the challenges that local authorities are facing as demand increases for critical services. Funding allocations from future settlements are subject to the outcome of future Spending Reviews.The final Settlement for 2025-26 therefore makes ava...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPerinatal MortalityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29472More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that babies in the third trimester that have been removed from their mother after her death should not be (a) recognised and (b) recorded as stillborn.
Answer: The definition of a stillborn child in England and Wales is contained in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 section 41, and was amended by the Stillbirth (Definition) Act 1992 section 1(1). This act defines a stillbirth as ‘a child which has issu...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: Temporary AccommodationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to lift the 2011 cap on the amount of Local Housing Allowance that can be reclaimed by local authorities to cover the cost of temporary accommodation.
Answer: We continue to keep the subsidy paid to local authorities under review and appreciate that local authorities are subject to many funding pressures. However, any increases to the subsidy paid to local authorities would require a Budget (rather than as part...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: UpratingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to increase Local Housing Allowance rates in line with inflation.
Answer: The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) was introduced in 2008 and determines the maximum housing support for tenants in the private rented sector. Claimants in similar circumstances living in the same area are entitled to the same maximum rent allowance regard...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made and assessment of the inclusion of measures of deprivation as part of funding reform for local government.
Answer: Building on the measures in the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement, the Government is committed to introducing an improved and updated approach to funding local authorities from 2026-27.We are inviting views on our principles and objectives for f...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGreater London AuthorityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to give local authorities in London a formal decision-making role in any future Integrated Settlement applied to the Greater London Authority.
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024 the Government committed to exploring how the Integrated Settlement policy could be applied for the Greater London Authority from the 2026-27 financial year onwards, taking into account the capital’s unique devolution arrangements. T...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Greater LondonMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to establish a formal shared decision-making arrangement between the Mayor of London and local authorities.
Answer: The Government remains committed to engaging local authorities, including London Borough Councils, and the wider local government sector on the detail of our reforms set out in the English Devolution White Paper. As part of this process, it will be import...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: Fees and ChargesHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned an impact assessment on proposals to increase fees associated with adult citizenship applications.
Answer: An Impact Assessment has been published alongside the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/9/pdfs/ukia_20250009_en.pdf) which sets out an estimate of the proposed fee changes, were they to inc...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28683More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to increase the fees associated with applications for child citizenship.
Answer: An Impact Assessment has been published alongside the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/9/pdfs/ukia_20250009_en.pdf) which sets out an estimate of the proposed fee changes, were they to inc...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what revenue has the Exchequer received from child citizenship applications since the fee waiver was introduced.
Answer: An Impact Assessment has been published alongside the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/9/pdfs/ukia_20250009_en.pdf) which sets out an estimate of the proposed fee changes, were they to inc...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Nationality: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fee waiver requests for child citizenship applications have been (a) submitted, (b) accepted and (c) rejected in the last 12 months.
Answer: An Impact Assessment has been published alongside the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/9/pdfs/ukia_20250009_en.pdf) which sets out an estimate of the proposed fee changes, were they to inc...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture, Practices and Ethics of the Press InquiryDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to enact the recommendations of the Leveson Report on press regulation.
Answer: The Government has clearly laid out its priorities in the manifesto and in the King’s speech, and the second part of Leveson is not among them.
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordService Charges: RegulationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a new regulator for service charges.
Answer: As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement of 21 November 2024 (HCWS244), the government will consult on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act’s service charge and litigation costs provisions this year, bringing these measures into force as quickly as...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Rents and Service ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of (a) freezing rents and (b) capping service charges for housing association social tenants.
Answer: Individual circumstances will vary, not least depending on whether tenants receive Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit to help pay their rent, and whether they are affected by the total benefit cap or the removal of the spare room s...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: RentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she is taking steps to ensure housing associations who raise rents for social housing tenants above inflation are using the increased revenue to invest in building new ho
Answer: Housing associations use income from social housing rents to deliver services to their tenants, manage and maintain their homes to the required standards, and invest in new homes.Government does not place requirements on housing associations to use rental...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: RentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of (a) changes in the number of housing association social tenants in rent arrears and (b) increased rents.
Answer: Individual circumstances will vary, not least depending on whether tenants receive Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit to help pay their rent, and whether they are affected by the total benefit cap or the removal of the spare room s...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: RentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support housing association social tenants in rent arrears.
Answer: The government is clear that social landlords should seek to sustain tenancies and should only evict as a last resort.Landlords will, when managing their social housing schemes, provide advice and assistance to those struggling financially, including sign...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordService ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to prevent overcharging of service charges by (a) councils, (b) housing associations, (c) private landlords and (d) intermediary managing agents.
Answer: As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement of 21 November 2024 (HCWS244), the government will consult on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act’s service charge and litigation costs provisions this year, bringing these measures into force as quickly as...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
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