Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Visas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a breakdown of companies sponsoring skilled visas by Nature of Business (SIC).
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes a range of Research and...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27494More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of skilled visa holders who are sponsored by (a) takeaways, (b) restaurants and (c) convenience stores.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes a range of Research and...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: MuslimsHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27492More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of her Department's Islamic network in each of the last five years.
Answer: The costs of individual faith and belief networks over the last five financial years are not held centrally in an accessible form, and could only be identified and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost. However, the...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: EqualityHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the potential cost to the public purse was of her Department's equality network in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office does not have an equality network, but in relation to the cost of staff networks in general, the Hon Member may want to look at Answer of 23 May 2024 to Question UIN 26338.
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Overseas StudentsHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding (a) family members and (b) dependents from student visas.
Answer: The Student route already restricts most students from bringing their dependants to the UK. Partners and children are the only family members which can be sponsored by students as dependants and only if the relevant student meets certain relevant criteria...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that will become eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in each of the next ten years.
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes a range of Research and...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOverseas StudentsDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on the number of international students.
Answer: The government is committed to a United Kingdom that is outward looking and welcomes international students, who make a positive contribution to the UK’s higher education sector, our economy and society as a whole. Universities in England receive an estim...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBorders and Deportation: Departmental ResponsibilitiesHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Department for Borders and Deportation.
Answer: The Home Office is the department for border security, including overseeing the establishment of Border Security Command and delivering more than 16,400 deportations of people who have no right to be here since July 2024.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: VisasHome OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27482More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reintroduce the Resident Labour Market Test.
Answer: As announced by the Prime Minister on 28 November 2024, the Government will be producing a White Paper this year setting out our plans for reducing net migration, which will be published in due course.
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChevening Scholarships ProgrammeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a breakdown of the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) recipients by nationality of the Chevening Scholarship in each of the last five years.
Answer: Chevening Scholarships provide fully-funded postgraduate masters awards at UK universities for future global leaders from approximately 140 eligible countries and territories. Chevening Programme ExpenditureFinancial yearTotal programme expenditure 2019 -...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommonwealth Scholarships ProgrammeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27480More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) nationality of each recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship was in the last five years.
Answer: The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC), provides post-graduate awards (Fellowships, Masters and PhDs) at UK universities to students from approximately 64 eligible Commonwealth countries and British Overseas Territories.Commonwealth Progr...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Migrant WorkersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of people with a High Potential Individual visa are in employment.
Answer: The information requested is not held by this Department.
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSkilled Workers: VisasTreasuryTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27478More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of holders of Skilled Worker visas are net contributors to the Exchequer.
Answer: The Migration Advisory Committee advises government on migration issues. In their 2024 annual report, they estimated the average skilled worker migrant has a positive net fiscal impact of £16,300.Their analysis does not provide a distributional breakdown ...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Migrant WorkersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27477More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled immigration worker visa grants on job opportunities for low skilled domestic workers.
Answer: This would be a matter for UK Visas & Immigration and the Home Office.
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Migrant WorkersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27476More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled migrants' entitlement to benefits on the public purse.
Answer: The Department has no current plans to make such an assessment.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUSA: World Health OrganizationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the withdrawal of the USA from the World Health Organisation will lead to an increase in UK contributions to that organisation.
Answer: We have been consistently clear that US executive orders are matters for the US government and US people. In November 2024, the UK announced new funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in support of its delivery and transformation agenda. The UK wi...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCivil Servants: Workplace PensionsTreasuryTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27077More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of civil service pensions for the next 50 years.
Answer: The Treasury’s central affordability measure for public service pensions is the projected pension benefit payments as a percentage of estimated GDP. This reflects the fact that most public service pension schemes are unfunded and financed through taxation...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of rehabilitation of foreign national offenders.
Answer: We provide rehabilitation services to offenders given community sentences and those sent to prison. All Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) given custodial sentences are referred to the Home Office to consider deportation.HMPPS manages the risks and rehabil...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCorporation TaxTreasuryTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27075More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of decreasing corporation tax to the lowest level in Europe.
Answer: At the Budget the Government published a roadmap setting out its corporate tax policy for the parliament, providing the stability needed for businesses to make long term investments and support our growth mission. The roadmap confirmed that the main rate ...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCorporation Tax: Tax YieldsTreasuryTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27074More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of lowering corporation tax on tax revenue.
Answer: At the Budget the Government published a roadmap setting out its corporate tax policy for the parliament, providing the stability needed for businesses to make long term investments and support our growth mission. The roadmap confirmed that the main rate ...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: RefugeesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many refugees were in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the public purse was.
Answer: The Department does not hold the requested information on refugees in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Decision-makers check that an individual has leave to remain in the UK with recourse to public funds and meets all other eligibility requ...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: SchoolsHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a restriction on irregular migrants housed in (a) hotels and (b) other government-funded accommodation within walking distance of schools duri
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 19 November to Question UIN 13616.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: SchoolsHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an increased police presence around schools that have reported loitering by irregular migrants.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 19 November to Question UIN 13616.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: SchoolsHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a curfew for irregular migrants housed by local authorities close to schools that have reported incidents of loitering by irregul
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 19 November to Question UIN 13616.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23577 on Deportations, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording this information centrally.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the letter I sent him on 11 December 2024 regarding the collection of official statistics.
Answered 3 Feb 2025
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