Pete Wishart MP: written questions
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Prisons: Immigration OfficersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70328More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the embedded hubs for the Immigration Prison Teams are located; which prisons are included in each hub; and how many Immigration Officers are employed in each hub.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold central data on the number of visits conducted by immigration officers in UK prisons. However, as of 29 August 2025, there were 77 Immigration Officers employed by Foreign National Offender Returns Command. These officers are...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Immigration OfficersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Immigration Officers are were employed in the operational arm of the Foreign National Offender Returns Command Immigration Prison Team on 29 August 2025; which prisons those officers are base
Answer: The Home Office does not hold central data on the number of visits conducted by immigration officers in UK prisons. However, as of 29 August 2025, there were 77 Immigration Officers employed by Foreign National Offender Returns Command. These officers are...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Immigration OfficersHome OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visits by Immigration Officers have taken place in each Scottish prison in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold central data on the number of visits conducted by immigration officers in UK prisons. However, as of 29 August 2025, there were 77 Immigration Officers employed by Foreign National Offender Returns Command. These officers are...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: MedalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62546More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason paramedics employed by air ambulance charities are excluded from eligibility for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; and if his Department
Answer: Employees of air ambulance charities and independent ambulance services are not eligible for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as they are not employed by the National Health Service or an NHS foundation trust. T...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16125More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help support people who are unable to re-mortgage their properties because of fire safety issues.
Answer: Ten mortgage lenders (banks and building societies) have signed a joint statement confirming they will lend on properties in buildings before they have been remediated. Leaseholders should be able to re-mortgage their homes with one of these lenders, even...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024Home OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to repeal Part II of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024.
Answer: The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 amended Section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as inserted by section 59 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023).The provisions in t...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the 14th Report of Session 2017-19 of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Immigration detention,
Answer: No recent review of this report has taken place. However, the Government is committed to tackling irregular migration and strengthening border security. We are maximising efforts to establish a system that is better controlled and managed by increasing en...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13185More
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 immigration detention (a) in total, (b) per person detained and (c) by detention centre in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The total amount spent on immigration detention in the 2024/25 financial year will be published in the Home Office annual report and accounts in 2025.The Home Office does not publish the costs associated with each Immigration Removal centre as this is com...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDetention Centres: CostsHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13184More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of increasing the immigration detention estate by 290 places.
Answer: The Home Office does not comment on service provider procurement exercises, which are commercially sensitive. However, contracts are published upon the Contracts Finder website, once awarded. The Home Office is committed to ensuring value for money on all...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: GeorgiaHome OfficeTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to withdraw Georgia from the list of safe states as defined in immigration legislation.
Answer: Section 80AA of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (as amended and inserted by section 59 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023) provides for a list of generally safe states for whom asylum and human rights claims would be declared inadmissible;...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordArts: VisasDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 900680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made with Cabinet colleagues on easing restrictions for UK artists seeking to tour in EU countries.
Answer: This Government is working collaboratively across departments to look at how best to help touring artists, and improve arrangements for musicians, performing artists and their support staff being able to tour across the EU.We will engage with the new Euro...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil of the Nations and Regions: StaffCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8109More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full time equivalent staff will be allocated to the office of the Envoy to the Regions and Nations.
Answer: The terms of reference for the Prime Minister's Envoy for the Nations and Regions will be published online in the normal way, setting out the purpose, scope and remit of the role.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil of the Nations and Regions: FinanceCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8108More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total operating budget of the Envoy to the Regions and Nations will be.
Answer: The terms of reference for the Prime Minister's Envoy for the Nations and Regions will be published online in the normal way, setting out the purpose, scope and remit of the role.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncil of the Nations and Regions: LocationCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8107More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, where the role of Envoy to the Regions and Nations will be based.
Answer: The terms of reference for the Prime Minister's Envoy for the Nations and Regions will be published online in the normal way, setting out the purpose, scope and remit of the role.
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4604More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding was allocated to the Pension Credit week of action campaign, launched on 2 September 2024.
Answer: The Government’s Pension Credit awareness week of action, during which the DWP joined up with key stakeholder organisations such as Age UK, Citizens Advice, and local authorities to promote Pension Credit, was one part of the Department’s ongoing promotio...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditTreasuryTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4603More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding her Department has allocated to the Pension Credit Week of Action campaign, launched on 2 September 2024.
Answer: The Government wants those eligible for Pension Credit but not currently claiming it to receive the benefits they are entitled to, including their Winter Fuel Payment. We will continue to maximise opportunities to promote Pension Credit – such as the rece...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2748More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the National Wealth Fund will be allocated to (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will improve our ability to mobilise private capital in the UK’s most important sectors and assets, supporting thousands of jobs across the country, and playing a central role in our industrial strategy. And it will generate a ret...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth Fund: DevolutionTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2747More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the administration of the National Wealth Fund.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will improve our ability to mobilise private capital in the UK’s most important sectors and assets, supporting thousands of jobs across the country, and playing a central role in our industrial strategy. And it will generate a ret...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth Fund: DevolutionTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2746More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the devolved Administrations will have a role in determining where the National Wealth Fund is spent in those nations.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will improve our ability to mobilise private capital in the UK’s most important sectors and assets, supporting thousands of jobs across the country, and playing a central role in our industrial strategy. And it will generate a ret...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth Fund: DevolutionTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2745More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to determine how the National Wealth Fund will be spent; and whether she plans to hold discussions with the devolved Administrations on such decisions.
Answer: The National Wealth Fund will improve our ability to mobilise private capital in the UK’s most important sectors and assets, supporting thousands of jobs across the country, and playing a central role in our industrial strategy. And it will generate a ret...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
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