Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Meat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36522More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of animals were slaughtered without being stunned for the production of Halal meat in the UK in 2024.
Answer: Of the 1.035 billion animals processed in English and Welsh slaughterhouses in 2024, an estimated 214.6 million animals (20.7%) were slaughtered to produce halal meat of which an estimated 27.0 million animals (2.6% of all animals processed) were slaughte...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36521More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of how many animals were slaughtered without being stunned for the production of Halal meat in 2024.
Answer: Of the 1.035 billion animals processed in English and Welsh slaughterhouses in 2024, an estimated 214.6 million animals (20.7%) were slaughtered to produce halal meat of which an estimated 27.0 million animals (2.6% of all animals processed) were slaughte...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMeat: Ritual SlaughterDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36520More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislation to prohibit the slaughter of animals without being stunned for Halal meat.
Answer: The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter and would prefer all animals to be stunned before slaughter, but we respect the rights of Jews and Muslims to eat meat prepared in accordance with their religious beliefs. Ther...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Health: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Supervised Toothbrushing Programme.
Answer: The Department is investing a total of £11.4 million in 2025/26. This includes £11 million to local authorities in England to implement supervised toothbrushing schemes.£400,000 is being retained nationally to support development of implementation resourc...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-sentence ReportsMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure the provision of pre-sentencing reports for all offenders.
Answer: Where a court is considering whether an offender should receive a sentence of immediate custody, a pre-sentencing report must be obtained and considered before forming an opinion unless, in the circumstances of the case, it considers that it is unnecessar...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: English LanguageHome OfficeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of (a) the number of contracts and (b) the value of those contracts for providing English language courses for refugees over the last three years.
Answer: The Government routinely publishes the details and costs of its procurement contracts on the contract finder website.
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTanksMinistry of DefenceTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of main battle tanks are operational to a deployment standard.
Answer: I hope the hon. Member will understand that we do not routinely disclose figures relating to Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks in the active fleet in the interests of security and operational effectiveness.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWealth: EmigrationTreasuryTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35895More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of high net worth individuals that have left the UK in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Government does not routinely collect or publish data on the total number of taxpayers becoming non-resident during each tax year. Taxpayers are not obliged to tell HMRC that they have left the UK, and may drop out of HMRC’s data for another reason.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Termination of EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any staff in her Department have had their employment terminated due to a failure to declare a conflict of interest when overseeing the granting of contracts in the last ten years.
Answer: Current Home Office ministers are not aware of any such cases, but to go back over the department’s disciplinary process for the last decade to see if any such situation has featured in a termination case could only be done for the purposes of answering t...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ContractsHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department conducted any audits into services provided by contractors to refugees and asylum seekers in the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office applies robust controls to the management of expenditure and performance in relation to all departmental contracts, including publishing on a quarterly basis the rating of the most important contracts against key performance indicators.The...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme, procurement reference CF-0276700D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 7 (London), procurement reference CF-0334200D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 1 (North West), procurement reference CF-0319600D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 3 (Yorkshire & Humber), procurement reference CF-0333600D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service us
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 4 (West Midlands), procurement reference CF-0333700D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users i
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 8 (South West), procurement reference CF-0334500D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 6 (East of England), procurement reference CF-0334100D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 5 (East Midlands), procurement reference CF-0334000D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users i
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Refugee Employability Programme - Lot 2 (North East), procurement reference CF-0333500D58000000L5A4EAK, what the total number of service users is.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to Question 30479 dated 21st February 2025.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to local authorities for the provision of refugee and asylum services in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office publishes information on asylum and refugee expenditure on a regular basis in the Home Office Annual Report, available on gov.uk.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ContractsHome OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts awarded to outside companies for the provision of services related to (a) refugees and (b) asylum have gone over budget in the last ten years.
Answer: The Home Office applies robust controls to the management of expenditure and performance in relation to all departmental contracts, including publishing on a quarterly basis the rating of the most important contracts against key performance indicators.The...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordInheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35881More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of estates paid inheritance tax in 2024.
Answer: The Government publishes the latest Inheritance Tax liabilities statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-liabilities-statistics. Table 12.1 of the Inheritance Tax liabilities statistics has the proportions of UK deaths liable...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders released under the Early Removal Scheme have reoffended in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Early Removal Scheme (ERS) removes foreign national offenders (FNOs) from England and Wales. We do not monitor their behaviour overseas.Between 05 July 2024 and 31 January 2025, 2,925 FNOs have been removed from England and Wales – 21% more than the 2...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a list of countries which have refused to accept the return of foreign national offenders from the UK.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold any such list. The UK has strong returns cooperation with countries across the globe and continuing to build on this cooperation is at the heart of our diplomatic engagement.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing lifetime entry bans for deported foreign national offenders.
Answer: A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. The Home Office does not hold the requested data given that – by definition – anyone we know to be trying to enter the UK ill...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
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