Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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Warrior Vehicles: DecommissioningMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timeline is for the Warrior disposal plan up to its out of service date in 2027.
Answer: As of 8 December 2025, there are 388 Warrior vehicles in service in the active fleet and those yet to start the disposal process: VariantTotalFV510191FV51159FV51270FV51332FV51436FV5150Total388 The Out of Service date for Warrior is 2027 with all vehicles...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWarrior VehiclesMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of each Warrior variant are still in service; and with which sub-units.
Answer: As of 8 December 2025, there are 388 Warrior vehicles in service in the active fleet and those yet to start the disposal process: VariantTotalFV510191FV51159FV51270FV51332FV51436FV5150Total388 The Out of Service date for Warrior is 2027 with all vehicles...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAjax Vehicles: Health and SafetyMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025 to question 94926 on Ajax Vehicles: Health and Safety, if he will set out the criteria that will allow the pause to be lifted.
Answer: Investigations by the Defence Accident Investigation Branch supported by the Army Safety Investigation Team and General Dynamics are ongoing. Further detail will be available once the investigation has concluded. Any decisions on the pause will be made by...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the total cost to the public purse of the decision to extend the statutory override for the cost of SEND to 2027-28.
Answer: The statutory override is an accounting measure, designed to keep Dedicated Schools Grant deficits separate from local authorities’ wider financial position. The extension of the override to the end of the 2027/28 financial year does not affect local auth...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: RegulationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the submissions from (a) Greece, (b) Slovakia, (c) Romania and (d) Czechia on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill through the
Answer: The Technical Regulatory Information System notification is a standard process which applies under the Windsor Framework. It is not an approval process. The Government’s position remains that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill will apply in Northern Ireland and i...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMilitary Alliances: SpaceMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2025 to Question 93242 on Military Alliances: Space, what is included under the banner of space services.
Answer: The space services to which the UK assures access to include the following: (1) Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, (2) Position, navigation and timing, (3) Satellite communications, (4) Missile warning and tracking and (5) Environmental monito...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary Aircraft: HelicoptersMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97014More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date did Project Matcha (a) start and (b) end.
Answer: The then Secretary of State for Defence granted approval for Project MATCHA in May 2021. The final programme activity occurred through a Closure Board in November 2024.
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSmoking: Northern IrelandAttorney GeneralTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97011More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Attorney General has had recent discussions with his Cabinet colleagues on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill’s legal compatibility with the Windsor Framework in relation to Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Attorney sits on the Parliamentary Business and Legislation Committee. As part of the process of approving a government Bill for introduction, as set out in the published Guide to Making Legislation, a legal issues memorandum is prepared for this Comm...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: ChinaDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the growth in the availability of open source Chinese AI platforms on the UK.
Answer: The Government continues to monitor global developments in AI, including open-source platforms. Open-sourcing AI models decentralises control, enabling more developers to innovate, experiment and deploy systems for diverse purposes.This approach can deliv...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAjax Vehicles: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025 to question 94926 on Ajax Vehicles: Health and Safety, whether vehicles within the Ajax programme will be available for use prior to the a) conclusion and b) implementati
Answer: On 22 November, during a routine training exercise, around 30 soldiers operating in Ajax reported being affected by noise and vibration exposure. As a result, I directed the Army to pause all use of Ajax for training and exercising, while a safety investi...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAjax Vehicles: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025 to question 94926 on Ajax Vehicles: Health and Safety, when the review into the Ajax programme will a) start and b) conclude.
Answer: On 22 November, during a routine training exercise, around 30 soldiers operating in Ajax reported being affected by noise and vibration exposure. As a result, I directed the Army to pause all use of Ajax for training and exercising, while a safety investi...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the full scope of the five point action plan to tackle release inaccuracy announced by him on 11 November 2025.
Answer: Releases in error are never acceptable, and we are bearing down on those errors that do occur. Releases in error have always existed, and are another long-term symptom of the prison system crisis this Government inherited. While the overwhelming majority ...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHM Prison and Probation Service: Migrant WorkersMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff within the HM Prison & Probation Service reliant on visas for employment have been employed since 5 July 2024.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not hold the requested information requested data in an easily accessible format. Right to Work data is collected during the vetting stage but is not retained within the employment record. As a result, extracting this informat...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: MesotheliomaMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025 to question 94541 on Ministry of Defence: Asbestos, what the cost was of the 119 awards for mesothelioma.
Answer: To provide the cost of the 119 War Pension Scheme awards for mesothelioma or any asbestos-related condition made 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 would require a manual review of each case to determine the exact money paid and could be provided only at disp...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected cost is of the abolition of NHS England, including staff redundancy packages, consultancy fees, administration and restructuring costs.
Answer: The abolition of NHS England will involve some upfront costs associated with organisational change. £1 billion is the estimated overall cost of redundancy exits across the Department, NHS England, and the integrated care boards. In the 2025 Autumn Budget,...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Per Capita CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies on funding SEND provision of the mainstream school spending per pupil on page 122 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic F
Answer: The government has set out its position on page 105 of the budget document, confirming that special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pressure will be absorbed within the overall government Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget from the fin...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of funding the cost of SEND provision from RDEL allocations on local authorities.
Answer: The government has set out its position on page 105 of the budget document, confirming that special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pressure will be absorbed within the overall government Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) budget from the fin...
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of mitigating the financial risk of the removal of the statutory override from local authorities regarding the requirement to
Answer: At Autmn Budget 2025, the government clarified that ambitious Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reform plans will be set out early in the new year and that funding for SEND will be managed within the government’s overall departmental spend...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the deadline is for the submission of a development consent application for a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Answer: It will be for scheme promoters to decide when to submit a development consent order application for a third runway scheme.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of new terminals for the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport being built and operated in competition with those run by the airport.
Answer: Information about terminals and other airport infrastructure would be provided as part of a development consent order application.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date she plans to complete the review into airport funding.
Answer: There is no current review into airport funding.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAjax VehiclesMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his comment given to British Forces Broadcasting Service following reporting of medical discharges relating to operating in Ajax vehicles that Medical discharges are not attributed to individual
Answer: As a former member of the Armed Forces the hon. Member will know that the nature of military service exposes Service personnel to a wide range of hazards. For example, noise from weapons systems, Armoured Fighting Vehicles and helicopters over a full care...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96482More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the projected total cost of a third runway at Heathrow, including the consultation process; and who will be responsible for funding the planning and construction.
Answer: The Government has been clear that any expansion at Heathrow must be affordable and firmly in the interests of passengers. The costs of the scheme, should be kept to a minimum and met through private funding, including any associated surface-transport req...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has she made of the potential impact on airline ticket prices from Heathrow Airport of the need to fund the public consultation process for the proposed third runway.
Answer: The Government is committed to delivering a third runway at Heathrow in a cost-effective way. The Civil Aviation Authority have launched a consultation on their working paper of regulatory options in their role as the independent economic regulator for th...
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96480More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, from which local authorities in Cambridgeshire he has received formal submissions for the proposed local government reorganisation.
Answer: My Department has received submissions from all councils in the invitation area of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
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