Lee Anderson MP: written questions
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AsylumHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applicants for (a) asylum or (b) refugee status who have had their application refused have been granted humanitarian leave to remain in the last 2 years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on outcomes of claims, including those granted humanitarian leave, is published in table Asy_D02 of the asylum detailed datasets. Information on how to...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change: FinanceForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which countries were the top 5 recipients of international climate finance from the UK in each of the last 3 years; and how much each of these countries received.
Answer: For detail on live programme information please refer to the UK Government's Development Tracker or for the official source of information on UK Official Development Assistance spend covering previous calendar years, the Statistics on International Develo...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordClimate Change: FinanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what was his Departments total spend on international climate finance in each of the last 3 years.
Answer: DESNZ ICF supports global clean energy deployment, protects the world’s forests and leverages private investment at scale to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s total spend on International Climat...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides on the assessments used to decide whether to return a dangerous dog to its owner after it has been seized.
Answer: Dogs that are prohibited under section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and which do not have a valid certificate of exemption could be seized by the Police. In these cases, there is an interim exemption scheme which allows suspected prohibited dogs to re...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides on the assessments used to decide whether to return a dangerous dog to its owner after it has been seized.
Answer: Dogs that are prohibited under section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and which do not have a valid certificate of exemption could be seized by the Police. In these cases, there is an interim exemption scheme which allows suspected prohibited dogs to re...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Houses: Government AssistanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support pubs.
Answer: The Government recognises the vital role pubs play in supporting local economies and fostering community cohesion, as well as the pressures they face.That is why we established the Licensing Taskforce in April, bringing together representatives from the h...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous DogsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle dog on dog attacks.
Answer: Defra is working with the police, local authorities and animal welfare groups to encourage responsible dog ownership, to ensure dog control issues are addressed before they escalate and to make sure the full force of the law is applied. As part of this wo...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFood SupplyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if the Government will make an assessment
Answer: The Government assesses a whole variety of factors that affect UK food supply using readily available data. Two examples include: the Production to Supply ratio last updated in July 2025 (found here Chapter 14: The food chain - GOV.UK) and analysis of the...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70960More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if she will consider the effectiveness of the Family Farm Tax policy.
Answer: The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: ClosuresDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, what assessment he has made of trends in
Answer: Defra is aware of the Office for National Statistics' quarterly business openings and closures data. There are many factors unrelated to government policy that might explain why businesses would be shown as "closing" in the data source, includin...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what region Afghans resettled through the Afghanistan Response Route have been located.
Answer: The regular quarterly Immigration System Statistics provide details on how many individuals have been resettled to the UK broken down by resettlement route, region and local authority area. The number of people resettled under the Afghanistan Resettlement...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: EqualityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70957More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will publish a list of projects focusing on improving equality, diversity and inclusion abroad that have received UK (a) foreign aid and (b) international d
Answer: Data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is available in the Statistics on International Development publications, which are available for 2023 and provisionally for 2024. Data is available broken down by sector for the 2023 publication, includ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: EqualityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much the UK has spent in (a) foreign aid or (b) international development funding on projects on improving equality, diversity and inclusion overseas in the last two year
Answer: Data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is available in the Statistics on International Development publications, which are available for 2023 and provisionally for 2024. Data is available broken down by sector for the 2023 publication, includ...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of releasing the location of asylum seeker accommodation at the local authority level.
Answer: The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria the Government has when choosing appropriate hotels for asylum seeker accommodation.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Answer I gave to Question 71421 on 4 September.
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of the repurposing of hotels as asylum accommodation on the number of jobs in the accommodation sector in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Home Office has a legal obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support whilst their application for asylum is being considered. The Home Office is committed to ensuring that destitute asylum seekers are house...
Answered 26 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the number of people who were (a) referred to the Prevent programme for an initial assessment and (b) did not live in the UK (i) 3 and (ii) 5 years ago in the late
Answer: Prevent aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It works to ensure that people who are susceptible to radicalisation are offered appropriate interventions and support, and that communities are protected against radicalising i...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70951More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of illegal cross-Channel migration on the safety of women and girls living in the UK.
Answer: The Government’s Plan for Change sets out our ambition to secure borders and control immigration. We have introduced the Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill which will give law enforcement counter terror-style powers to identify and disrupt people...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70950More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent irregular migrants who are living in hotels from being able to go out into the community freely.
Answer: Asylum seekers living in asylum accommodation are not detained and are free to come and go from their accommodation as they wish.
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Detention CentresHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70949More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to house irregular migrants only in secure detention centres.
Answer: Immigration detention plays a key role in maintaining effective immigration controls and securing the UK’s borders. The Home Office detains people initially for examination purposes and for the purpose of removing people who have no right to remain in the...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTuberculosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of tuberculosis have been recorded in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The number of people notified with tuberculosis in England over the last 10 years is published as part of the UK Health Security Agency’s tuberculosis annual report. The latest annual report, released in December 2024, includes data up to the end of 2023....
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordInfectious Diseases: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67468 on Diseases: Undocumented Migrants, what information her Department holds on the number of irregular migrants who were found to have an infe
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) does not routinely collect or hold data on communicable disease by visa status for new arrivals to the United Kingdom. However, if an outbreak occurs, data associated with outbreak cases may be collected.There was an ...
Answered 29 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67468 on Diseases: Undocumented Migrants, what the cost to the public purse was for initial health assessments for irregular migrants in each of t
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not hold the information requested.The Department, NHS England and UK Health Security Agency officials are supporting the Home Office and regional and local health partners to support delivery of reforms to the asylum sys...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70945More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department allocated the extra money returned to the Government by local authorities from fines for taking children out of school in each of the last three financial years.
Answer: Over the past three financial years, the department has not received revenue from penalty notices issued for school absences. This reflects the system’s design. It is not intended to generate profit, and local authorities must not set income targets. All ...
Answered 8 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEndometriosis: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) education about and (b) awareness of endometriosis.
Answer: The Government recognises the challenges faced by women with endometriosis and the impact it has on their lives, their relationships, and their participation in education and the workforce.On 15 July, the Department for Education published the revised Rel...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
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