Rupert Lowe MP: written questions

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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: EqualityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary co
Answer: In DSIT we have no colleagues in roles which are primarily focused on transgender policy. We have one colleague who is our Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion they are a Grade 7.
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: EqualityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary c
Answer: The team responsible for policies relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion do not align roles to single protected characteristics. As of 31 December 2025, there were six employees (with a full-time equivalent of 6.0) on payroll in this team. The annua...
Answered 4 Feb 2026
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: EqualityDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 19 Jan 2026WithdrawnUIN 106717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: EqualityDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: There are no roles in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero primarily focussed on transgender policy. The Department has fewer than five staff in roles primarily focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. The total annual salary cost is in the ...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Department for Education: EqualityDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: The department currently employs three civil servants in roles focused on diversity,equity and inclusion. Following a review of all job titles across the department, we can confirm that there are no roles whose primary focus is transgender policy.Within t...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: EqualityDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: We cannot provide the number and salary of staff who are employed in roles primarily focussed on a combination of diversity, equity and inclusion. Doing so would breach the Data Protection Act and risk identifying individual members of staff because the d...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Department for Business and Trade: EqualityDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) does not employ any civil servants whose roles are primarily focused on transgender policy, diversity, equity or inclusion.
Answered 26 Jan 2026
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Cabinet Office: EqualityCabinet OfficeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106712More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: The Cabinet Office has less than 5 civil servants who work in roles primarily focused on those areas internally in the department. We cannot provide annual salary cost details in such cases as that disclosure of the information would contravene principle ...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Attorney General's Office: EqualityAttorney GeneralTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106711More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Answer: The AGO does not employ any Civil Servants whose role primarily focusses on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion.
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Afghanistan: ResettlementMinistry of DefenceTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Afghanistan Response Route to date.
Answer: As set out previously, as of July 2025, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) assessed the total cost of the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) to be approximately £400 million. The Department anticipates a further £450 million in forecasted expenditure related to ...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Resettlement: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for the total number of people to enter the UK through the Afghanistan Response Route to date.
Answer: The information you have requested is published in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK. Data on the Afghan Response Route (ARR) are published in table Res_01 of the Safe and legal (humanitarian) routes to the UK summary tables, wh...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
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Attorney General's Office: ResearchAttorney GeneralTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106053More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The Attorney General’s Office has not conducted any feasibility studies within the time period, as such there has been no cost to the public purse.
Answered 27 Jan 2026
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Wales Office: ResearchWales OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The cost to the public purse is zero as the Department has not undertaken any feasibility studies in the last five years.
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Scotland Office: ResearchScotland OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The Scotland Office can confirm that the cost over the last five years of conducting feasibility studies is nil.
Answered 20 Jan 2026
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Northern Ireland Office: ResearchNorthern Ireland OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) manages its projects in accordance with the principles of HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money to ensure the effective and efficient use of public funds.Following a review of departmental records for the last five years, t...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
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Ministry of Justice: ResearchMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not centrally held in an accessible form.Due to this any response could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 22 Jan 2026
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: ResearchMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost to the Department.
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Ministry of Defence: ResearchMinistry of DefenceTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: Feasibility studies are an essential tool to avoid committing funds to unsuitable projects and their use is considered as part of routine project management.As this is not centrally held, it is not possible to provide this information without incurring di...
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Home Office: ResearchHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Treasury: ResearchTreasuryTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106045More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held as we do not track costs in this way.
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: ResearchForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: Data on feasibility studies specifically for projects that did not proceed is not tracked individually. Isolating this would require manual review of large volumes of data, making it impractical to extract reliably without disproportionate effort and cost...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
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Department of Health and Social Care: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held in this format in the Department’s accounts system and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 28 Jan 2026
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Department for Work and Pensions: ResearchDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 20 Jan 2026
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Department for Transport: ResearchDepartment for TransportTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106041More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: Feasibility studies are a routine part of the Department’s approach to assessing potential transport projects, and the associated costs are managed within individual programme budgets rather than held in a single collated dataset. These studies are conduc...
Answered 23 Jan 2026
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: ResearchDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106040More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Answer: The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology does not hold a central record of feasibility studies undertaken for projects that subsequently did not proceed. Identifying the total cost over the last five years would require manual review of recor...
Answered 22 Jan 2026
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