Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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Boeing P-8Ministry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79677More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Air Force Poseidon P-8 aircraft have not been airworthy for more than 12 months.
Answer: There have been 2 occasions when a Poseidon MRA1 has not flown for more than 12 months due to maintenance: · ZP804 - 06/03/2024 to 04/09/2025· ZP807 - 12/07/2023 to 13/09/2024 This was mitigated through routine fleet management and maintenance planning fr...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: InfrastructureMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 136 of his Department's document entitled Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what progress his Department has made in appointing a board member with responsibility for
Answer: Each Front-Line Command contains a director level post who represents infrastructure both on their board, and within the central Ministry of Defence senior infrastructure board. As part of defence reform, the infrastructure operating model and senior boar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: InfrastructureMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 136 of his Department's document entitled Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what progress he has made in ensuring that infrastructure requirements are fully integrate
Answer: The Defence Investment Plan (DIP) will cohere current capabilities and future Strategic Defence Review deliverables, this includes the infrastructure which supports or enables the capability. Those capabilities and deliverables will be prioritised against...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary Bases: Renewable EnergyMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 135 of his Department's document entitled Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what progress he has made in increasing renewable energy production on overseas bases.
Answer: The priority for Defence is to maintain resilience to enable our warfighting capability both in the UK and Overseas. Assessments into energy resilience of our overseas bases have been undertaken and where it has been identified that renewables, fuel diver...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMilitary Bases: Carbon Capture and StorageMinistry of DefenceTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 135 of his Department's document entitled Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what progress he has made in building energy infrastructure for carbon sequestration on th
Answer: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 recommends building energy infrastructure on the Defence estate and/or using it for carbon sequestration. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is actively exploring carbon sequestration opportunities as part of its efforts to me...
Answered 19 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: GazaHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's news story entitled, Update on Gaza medical evacuation scheme, published on 22 August 2025, what immigration status will the Gazan (a) children and (b) immediate fam
Answer: The children medically evacuated to the UK, alongside their immediate family members, will be granted leave to stay for up to two years with the ability to access public funds, including treatment and wraparound support in the UK.Those who wish to remain ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's news story entitled, Update on Gaza medical evacuation scheme, published on 22 August 2025, what estimate he has made with Cabinet colleagues on the number of Gaz
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the Written Statement HCWS899 made to the House on 1 September 2025 by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.The safety, privacy, and wellbeing of these severely ill and vulnerable patients and th...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made in delivering the Law Enforcement Data Service programme.
Answer: The Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) is progressively replacing the legacy Police National Computer (PNC). The LEDS Property product is now the sole system for processing stolen and found items across UK police forces. Currently, 52 police forces, incl...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice National DatabaseHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024/25, published on 11 August 2025, for what reasons the senior responsible officer delivery confidence
Answer: The Police National Database is a live intelligence-sharing service. It provides a national view of 6.3 billion searchable records, 19.9m images and information from 198 systems/databases. It is used by 49 UK police forces and 56 Law enforcement agencies,...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made in signing a new contract to (a) run, (b) maintenance and (c) support the Law Enforcement Cloud Platform.
Answer: The Law Enforcement Cloud Platform (LECP) is moving away from using an outside service provider and will start managing its own support through the in-house Shared Application Service (SAS) team.By the end of this financial year key roles will be taken ov...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice National DatabaseHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which (a) law enforcement, (b) military, (c) Sovereign Base Area police and (d) other arms Length Bodies her Department plans to provide access to Police National Database application programming i
Answer: At present there is no direct application programming interface (API) between PND and the organisations mentioned. Data feeds to PND allow a national search of intelligence. The PND gives a national view of 6.3 billion searchable records, 19.9m images and...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Data ProcessingDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79666More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what subset of border movements are affected by the Data Futures Project.
Answer: The Data Futures Programme is led by the Office for Students (OfS) in collaboration with sector partners. The programme is primarily focused on enhancing data collection and reporting within the higher education sector.The programme is not directly manage...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Data ProcessingDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which legacy systems will be (a) decommissioned and (b) replaced following the completion of the Data Futures Project.
Answer: The Data Futures Programme is led by the Office for Students (OfS) in collaboration with sector partners. The programme is primarily focused on enhancing data collection and reporting within the higher education sector.The programme is not directly manage...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Data ProcessingDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken recent steps to expand the Data Futures Project.
Answer: The Data Futures Programme is led by the Office for Students (OfS) in collaboration with sector partners. The programme is primarily focused on enhancing data collection and reporting within the higher education sector.The programme is not directly manage...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what biometric data is stored by her Department as part of the Immigration and Asylum Biometric System.
Answer: Biometrics, in the form of fingerprints and facial images, underpin the UK Immigration system to support identity assurance and suitability checks on foreign nationals who are subject to immigration control. This data is stored on the Immigration and Asyl...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what DNA information is (a) recorded and (b) stored as part of the Home Office Biometrics programme.
Answer: The Forensic Information Databases Service (FINDS) Unit manages the National DNA Database (NDNAD) and other national DNA databases on behalf of policing. The Home Office Biometrics Programme provides maintenance and development support of the IT system wh...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: ICTHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Immigration Platform Technologies programme on the efficiency of her Department.
Answer: The Immigration Platform Technologies Programme delivered three integrated technology services that improved efficiency through driving automation and reducing manual processes, facilitating improved data transparency, and supporting more consistent decis...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: ICTHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the Immigration Platform Technologies programme became fully operational.
Answer: The Immigration Platform Technologies Programme delivered three integrated technology services that improved efficiency through driving automation and reducing manual processes, facilitating improved data transparency, and supporting more consistent decis...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFraudHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on delivering the Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting and Analysis Service.
Answer: We are working with City of London Police to replace Action Fraud with a new andimproved national police reporting service for fraud and cyber crime. The new servicewill use the latest technology to improve reporting and support services for victims,provi...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, for what reason it was decided to re
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the different operating models
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79656More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the three pilot projects are th
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, which (a) large sites have been desc
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which sites are in scope as accommodation pilots for the Asylum Accommodation Programme.
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what assessment she has made of the
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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