Lee Anderson MP: written questions
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Asylum: Private Rented HousingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the list of geographical areas in which her Department will encourage private landlords to house asylum seekers..
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave him on 23 June to Question 60155.
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWater: AshfieldDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on water quality in (a) lakes and (b) rivers in Ashfield constituency.
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) holds historical and current water quality data for the rivers and lakes (water bodies) in the Ashfield Constituency. The EA monitors different aspects of water quality data to classify the overall health of these water bodies....
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordApprentices: AshfieldDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure adequate provision of apprenticeships in Ashfield constituency.
Answer: This government is transforming the apprenticeships offer into a new growth and skills offer, which will provide greater flexibility to employers and learners across the country, including in Ashfield, and support the industrial strategy.From August, the ...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrime: Public SectorDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the level of preparedness in the event of a coordinated cyber-attack on public service infrastructure.
Answer: Government is working tirelessly to improve the cyber resilience of the public sector, which includes some of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). Cyber risks are kept under review, through the internal, classified National Security Risk Asses...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrime: Public SectorDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential risk of a coordinated cyber-attack on public service infrastructure.
Answer: Government is working tirelessly to improve the cyber resilience of the public sector, which includes some of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). Cyber risks are kept under review, through the internal, classified National Security Risk Asses...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: WomenDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure the safety of women and girls on public transport.
Answer: The Department is committed to ensuring everyone, including women and girls, is safe on the transport network. As part of our aim to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) by half over the next decade, we have an ambitious, evidence-based programm...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the bus fare cap to £2.
Answer: The Government has made no assessment of reducing the bus fare cap to £2. The Government is committed to ensuring bus travel remains affordable, and stepped in to prevent a cliff-edge return to commercial fares by investing over £150 million to introduce ...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademic FreedomDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57348 on Universities: Freedom of Expression, what steps she plans to take in response to breaches of those regulations.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) published regulatory advice on 19 June 2025, providing guidance to the higher education (HE) sector on how they should fulfil their free speech duties under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (the Act) and exam...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademic Freedom: EnforcementDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57348 on Universities: Freedom of Expression, what steps she has taken to ensure enforcement of those regulations.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) published regulatory advice on 19 June 2025, providing guidance to the higher education (HE) sector on how they should fulfil their free speech duties under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (the Act) and exam...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Care HomesDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory prison sentences for people operating unregulated care homes for children.
Answer: This government is clear that all providers of children’s social care accommodation such as children’s homes should register with Ofsted as per the Care Standards Act (CSA) 2000.Ofsted has existing powers to prosecute persons carrying on a children’s home...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHorizon IT System: CompensationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure all wrongly (a) accused and (b) convicted sub-post masters are offered compensation.
Answer: As of 2 June 2025, £1.039 billion has been paid to over 7,300 claimants across the Horizon schemes. This represents a more than fourfold increase since July 2024, with more than 4,500 victims receiving compensation for the first time.We continue to seek t...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHorizon IT System: CompensationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure fair and timely compensation payments for wrongly (a) accused and (b) convicted sub-postmasters.
Answer: As of 2 June 2025, £1.039 billion has been paid to over 7,300 claimants across the Horizon schemes. This represents a more than fourfold increase since July 2024, with more than 4,500 victims receiving compensation for the first time.We continue to seek t...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAnti-social Behaviour: Multiple OccupationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to strengthen (a) regulatory and (b) enforcement measures on anti-social behaviour in Houses of Multiple Occupancy.
Answer: All Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs) where five or more people from two or more households share facilities, such as a kitchen and/or a bathroom, are subject to mandatory HMO licensing.Following consultation, local authorities can also introduce additi...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Occupation: LicensingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce legislation to mandate a national licensing scheme for all Houses of Multiple Occupancy.
Answer: All Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMOs) where five or more people from two or more households share facilities, such as a kitchen and/or a bathroom, are subject to mandatory HMO licensing.Following consultation, local authorities can also introduce additi...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: DyslexiaDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to children with dyslexia.
Answer: I refer the hon. member for Ashfield to the answer of 1 August 2025 to Question 61402.
Answered 1 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordGCSE: DyslexiaDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with dyslexia achieved a grade five or above in (a) English and (b) Maths GCSE in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. The department holds information on pupils’ special educational needs by 12 types of primary need. Dyslexia is usually included in the wider category of primary need ‘specific learning difficulty’.
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAssessments: DyslexiaDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve exam results for children with dyslexia.
Answer: I refer the hon. member for Ashfield to the answer of 1 August 2025 to Question 61402.
Answered 1 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Estates: Unadopted RoadsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average time is for roads in newbuild housing estates to be adopted after their construction.
Answer: My Department does not hold data on the number of housing estates that have unadopted roads or the average time for roads in newbuild housing estates to be adopted after construction. Any decision on whether or not to adopt roads is a matter for the local...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Estates: Unadopted RoadsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of housing estates built since 2010 that still have unadopted roads in (a) Ashfield, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midland
Answer: My Department does not hold data on the number of housing estates that have unadopted roads or the average time for roads in newbuild housing estates to be adopted after construction. Any decision on whether or not to adopt roads is a matter for the local...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 26 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of notifying residents when asylum seekers are housed in their vicinity.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 23 June to Question 59362.
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversities: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Chinese funding on universities.
Answer: As autonomous bodies independent of government, it is for universities to decide on effective business models and to how to manage their finances. The sector is free to attract foreign investment, including from Qatar and China, which can and does make a ...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMedicine: Higher EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to make more medical school places available for students born in the UK.
Answer: We will publish a new workforce plan later this year to deliver a transformed health service, and to ensure we have the right staff in the right place, so the National Health Service can be there for everyone. International staff, including doctors, remai...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ImmigrationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62663More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of immigration on the availability of (a) social housing and (b) private rental housing stock over the next Parliam
Answer: The government is determined to address the dire inheritance left by its predecessor and restore order to the asylum and immigration systems, delivering lower net migration. The factors affecting supply and demand in the private rented sector are complex ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime CommissionersHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62658More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of the Police and Crime Commissioner roles.
Answer: As the directly elected representative for policing in their area, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have an important local role acting as the voice of the public and victims in policing, holding Chief Constables to account and leading local partners...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime CommissionersHome OfficeTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62657More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the roles of Police and Crime Commissioner.
Answer: As the directly elected representative for policing in their area, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have an important local role acting as the voice of the public and victims in policing, holding Chief Constables to account and leading local partners...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
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