John Hayes MP: written questions
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Dentistry: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The data for how many NHS dentists were employed in each of the last ten years in Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, which includes South Holland and The Deepings constituency, is published annually. The latest 2024/25 data is published by the NHS Busine...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 29 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people attempting to illegally enter the UK by stowing away in (a) lorries and (b) other road vehicles have been apprehended in each of the past ten years.
Answer: Irregular migration data, which includes figures for clandestine detections at UK ports, is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#irregular-migration.The Home Office does not disclose...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEuropean Arrest WarrantsHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85700More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extradition cases have involved requests for European Arrests Warrants issued under part 1 from European countries for requested persons who were not citizens of the requesting state have bee
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this information requested.The National Crime Agency is the competent authority for all extradition requests between the UK and EU Member States and, as such, is the holder of all verified data concerning UK-EU extradition co...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordExtradition: EU CountriesHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many extradition requests the UK has made to EU states in which the requested individual is a third-party migrant and not a citizen of the UK in each of the past five years.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this information requested.The National Crime Agency is the competent authority for all extradition requests between the UK and EU Member States and, as such, is the holder of all verified data concerning UK-EU extradition co...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDriving Instruction: LincolnshireDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of approved driving instructors in Lincolnshire in each of the last five years.
Answer: Information on the number of approved driving instructors by postcode, including for Lincolnshire is available on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/driving-instructor-and-motorcycle-instructor-register-data.
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar Power: FiresMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) training and (b) resources her Department has provided to fire and rescue services to respond to fires at large photovoltaic solar developments.
Answer: It is the responsibility of fire and rescue authorities to ensure firefighters receive the training they need to safely respond to incidents, and to do so in light of their individual areas’ risk profiles and Community Risk Management Plans. We will conti...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: British Refugee CouncilHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85696More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in her Department have met British Refugee Council since July 2024.
Answer: All ministerial meetings are declared through the transparency returns.
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FranceHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of operating the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme.
Answer: In August a £100m funding boost was announced for this financial year to bring forward a number of projects to secure our borders. This includes our landmark pilot with France which the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme is part of. More on this £100 m...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: FoodDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the proportion of food served in state schools in England that is sourced from British (a) farms and (b) other food producers.
Answer: Schools are responsible for their school meals service and how and where they choose to buy their produce. We encourage schools to provide a wide range of foods using fresh, sustainable locally sourced, seasonal ingredients including produce from the scho...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFirst Time Buyers: LincolnshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of first-time house buyers in Lincolnshire in each of the last five years.
Answer: My Department does not collect data on the number of first-time buyers. The Office for National Statistics publishes data on first-time buyer mortgage sales by local authority in the UK. They can be found on its website here. Data covers the period betwee...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCouncil Tax: FraudMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps has he taken to help tackle council tax fraud.
Answer: Council tax is administered by local authorities. It is therefore for them to manage and address any potential cases of fraud in the council tax system. Councils have powers to impose penalties on households which knowingly provide false information as we...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Rural AreasDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent steps she has taken to improve access to full fibre broadband in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural communities.
Answer: According to the independent website Thinkbroadband.com, almost 82% of premises across Lincolnshire can access a gigabit-capable connection, we aim to get that to 99% by 2032. To extend connectivity further, Quickline is delivering a Project Gigabit contr...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of social housing was occupied by people born overseas in each of the last five years.
Answer: Housing is a devolved matter, with each of the four nations of the UK developing their own policies and data collections to monitor the impact of them. The English Housing Survey published by my Department, which can be found on gov.uk here, shows that ho...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85085More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers is owed to her Department in excess profits since 2021.
Answer: Excess profits of £45.9m have been returned to the Department in relation to the contract’s profit share provisions.The Home Office is supported by a Commercial Department within which is a dedicated Asylum Support Commercial Contract Management Team. Thi...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants in her Department are working on recouping profits from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers.
Answer: Excess profits of £45.9m have been returned to the Department in relation to the contract’s profit share provisions.The Home Office is supported by a Commercial Department within which is a dedicated Asylum Support Commercial Contract Management Team. Thi...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers accommodated in (a) hotels or (b) other residences were in that accommodation for longer than 12 months since 2022.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The latest published Immigration Statistics detai...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordWales Office: InternetWales OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides IT services, including cyber security to my Department. The government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuit...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordScotland Office: InternetScotland OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85081More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
Answer: Government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuity of essential functions in the event of system or service failure.The Department for Science, Inno...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCrossbows: Import ControlsHome OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to stop the illegal importation of crossbows.
Answer: The Government is actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.The call for evidence...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCrossbows: SalesHome OfficeTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of setting up a licensing regime for the sale of crossbows.
Answer: The Government is actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.The call for evidence...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has provided for the provision of English for Speakers of Other Language courses in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Radiation ExposureMinistry of DefenceTabled 24 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to compensate British servicemen who took part in sampling missions through Soviet mushroom clouds in 1961 and 1962.
Answer: This Government has no current plans to develop a specific compensation scheme for Nuclear Test Veterans or their families, including those who took part in sampling missions through Soviet mushroom clouds in 1961 and 1962. Service personnel and Veterans ...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to prevent irregular migrants who have been removed under the UK-France Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys, published on 5 August 2025, from returning to the UK
Answer: As of 20 October, 42 returns have taken place under the exchange agreement. Anyone who re-enters illegally may face immediate detention and, where appropriate, we will seek to expedite removal. This will not count as a new removal in the reciprocal scheme...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFiresDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84154More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the National Fire Chief's Council consultation response to her Department’s policy on (a) wildfires and (b) risks to firefighters.
Answer: The National Fire Chiefs Council’s response to Defra’s consultation on heather and grass burning in England is already in the public domain. This can be found on their website here: 250523-Heather-and-Grass-Burning-in-England-Consultation-Response-FINAL.p...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: LincolnshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for palliative care services in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission, including the NHS Lincolnshire ICB, which covers the South Holland and The Deepings constituency. This promotes a more consistent national approa...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
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