Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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General Practitioners: Average EarningsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46099 on General Practitioners: Average Earnings, what year the value of £15.94 per hour for Cambridgeshire relates to.
Answer: The value of £15.94 per hour for Cambridgeshire is from the staff market forces factor used for global sum payments to general practices, based on earnings data for 1999 to 2001.Plans to review the Carr-Hill funding formula may be revisited in future. How...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmy: CadetsMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985 to include Army Cadet Force instructors.
Answer: The Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985 protects the jobs of reservists who are called into service for full-time duty. Army Cadet Force Instructors are volunteers and not employed by the Ministry of Defence. The Cadet Forces are not part of...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: HuntingdonDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46122 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, how much of the Local EV Infrastructure Fund will be allocated to local authorities in Huntingdon constituency.
Answer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, which includes Huntingdon constituency, has been allocated almost £6m capital and resource funding as part of the £381m Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund, to transform the availability of electric vehi...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29th April 2025 to Question 47888 on Fire and Rescue Services: Finance, whether population (a) density and (b) sparsity is taken into account when calcu
Answer: Both population density and sparsity are key components of the current fire funding formula. The Government recognises that the formula is outdated. As such, this formula is currently being reviewed as part of Local Government funding reform and a public ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based Violence: MenHome OfficeTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to question 47394 on Gender Based Violence: Men, what policing framework do police forces use for male victims of (a) domestic abuse, (b) rape and sexual assaul
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 28 April 2025 to UIN 47394.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived illegally via small boat since 5 July 2024 have been granted asylum.
Answer: The Home Office publishes statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals claiming asylum and the outcomes of these asylum claims, by arrival year and quarter, is p...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Policing: RecruitmentHome OfficeTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of the 28 April 2025 to Question 44693 on Neighbourhood Policing, how the figure of an additional 13,000 neighbourhood police officers was calculated.
Answer: As set out in the Labour Party Manifesto, this Government has a clear commitment to recruit 13,000 additional neighbourhood officers.Neighbourhood policing is the bedrock of the British policing model. Every community deserves visible, pro-active and acce...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMortality RatesCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49133More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46096 on Mortality Rates, what the national average death rate was in (a) 1996, (b) 2000 and (c) 2024.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman or lady Parliamentary Question of 29th April is attached.
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release Homes fit for heroes: Raft of new measures to improve military family housing published on 18 April 2025, how the first 1,000 homes for refurbishment were selected
Answer: In our new Consumer Charter we announced seven commitments, one of which is to raise the minimum standard of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) with a new programme of refurbishment works targeted at 1,000 of the worst homes. A combination of factors will...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 36,347 houses re-acquired by his Department in January 2025 house service (a) personnel and (b) families.
Answer: As at 30 April 2025, of the properties re-acquired by the Department in January 2025, 29,622 are let. Of these, 26,470 are let to Service personnel and their families and a further 402 are let to Service personnel as appropriated as Single Living Accommod...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release Homes fit for heroes: Raft of new measures to improve military family housing published on 18 April 2025, what are they main components of the defence housing stra
Answer: The Defence Housing Strategy, planned for publication later this year, will set out a roadmap to deliver a generational renewal of military accommodation, where the main objective is to raise the minimum standard of Armed Forces housing. It will also turb...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release Homes fit for heroes: Raft of new measures to improve military family housing published on 18 April 2025, how many families will each named housing office be respo
Answer: The number of families each named Housing Officer will be responsible for under the new Consumer Charter, will vary depending on the number of Service families based at each location across the Defence estate. Work is currently underway to review Housing ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidMinistry of DefenceTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a list of the weaponary gifted to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 April 2025 to Question 46206.The UK continues to work with our Ukrainian partners to identify the capabilities they need to counter Russian aggression. We will not provide further details of vehicle or eq...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Grid: TempsfordDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of the grid connections between the proposed new town at Tempsford and the Eaton Socon sub-station to facilitate a new town.
Answer: Ofgem regulates the network companies to ensure they are investing to operate, maintain and upgrade electricity infrastructure. For the next transmission and distribution network price controls, Ofgem has identified the need for significant investment in ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Solar PowerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43807 on NHS: Carbon Emissions, how much will be spent each year on solar generation from the £100 million partnership with Great British Energy.
Answer: Capital funding for this programme is available in the 2025/26 financial year, and is for the procurement and installation of solar panels and battery storage only. As announced on 21 March 2025, £100 million has been provisionally allocated to projects c...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Working HoursHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) duration of shifts required to provide continued cover for the same full-time equivalent warranted police officer patrolling role (i) in
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this data.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Education: Domestic VisitsDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46070 on Schools: Domestic Visits, how many private schools she has visited since 5 July 2025.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Huntingdon to the answer of 06 May 2025 to Question 46839.
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Maternity PaymentsHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many one-off maternity payments of £300 have been granted to asylum seekers whose baby was (a) due in 11 weeks or less and (b) under 6 months old.
Answer: The data held centrally by the Home Office on support for asylum seekers does not disaggregate payments according to the age of the children or due to the date of their mothers. However, the Home Office publishes information on overall asylum expenditure ...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Practice Lists: HuntingdonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of patients who are registered with each General Practice in Huntingdon constituency.
Answer: The following table shows the number of patients registered at each general practice in the Huntingdon constituency:Practice codePractice nameTotal registered patientsD81004ALCONBURY SURGERY14,252D81010PRIORY FIELDS SURGERY11,399D81027WELLSIDE SURGERY7,95...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCycling: TrainingMinistry of DefenceTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2025 to Question 45200 on Cycling: Training, what discussions the RAF have held with British Cycling to determine the parameters for the partnership on the BMX freestyle trainin
Answer: Ministry of Defence officials have held discussions with British Cycling and agreed mutually beneficial parameters to enable the continued use of the BMX facilities at RAF Shawbury for at least 12-18 months.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTown TwinningDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing support for Twinning Associations.
Answer: DCMS does not hold responsibility for this policy area and has therefore not conducted any such assessment.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the feasibility of introducing a Guest Beer Agreement scheme in England and Wales.
Answer: Hospitality businesses, including pubs and independent breweries, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth across the UK.The government wishes to see small brewers retain and expand their access to UK pubs, m...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAdvanced Research and Invention Agency: GeoengineeringDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what geoengineering projects the Advanced Research and Invention Agency have (a) underway and (b) planned in financial year 2025-26.
Answer: Details of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s (ARIA) ‘Exploring Climate Cooling’ programme, are available on ARIA’s website: https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/future-proofing-our-climate-and-weather/exploring-climate-coolingARIA is inte...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCharities: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to (a) Respect, (b) Galop, (c) SignHealth and (d) Hourglass in each of the last three financial years; and how much it will provide in 2025-26.
Answer: The table below outlines funding allocated by the Home Office to these organisations for tackling violence against women and girls. The table covers the 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial years. Funding for these organisations in this financial year (...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: HousingMinistry of DefenceTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Homes fit for heroes: Raft of new measures to improve military family housing, published on 18 April 2025, whether the named housing officers for every fa
Answer: Housing Officers are employed by Pinnacle, the Ministry of Defence’s Industry Partner. These posts are filled by civilians, not military personnel and therefore, are not commissioned.
Answered 6 May 2025
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