Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Coastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the potential economic impact of coastal erosion in Hemsby on (a) tourism, (b) local employment and (c) local tax revenues.
Answer: Great Yarmouth Borough Council are the Risk Management Authority (RMA) for the Hemsby area. They are best placed, using local knowledge and data, to continue making detailed risk assessments, including for the potential economic impacts. To support all RM...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the most recent estimate is of the number of businesses in Hemsby at risk of loss to coastal erosion within (i) 5 and (ii) 10 years.
Answer: Great Yarmouth Borough Council are the Risk Management Authority (RMA) for the Hemsby area. They are best placed, using local knowledge and data, to continue making detailed risk assessments, including for the potential economic impacts. To support all RM...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the most recent estimate is of the number of residential properties in Hemsby at risk of loss to coastal erosion within (i) 5 and (ii) 10 years.
Answer: Great Yarmouth Borough Council are the Risk Management Authority (RMA) for the Hemsby area. They are best placed, using local knowledge and data, to continue making detailed risk assessments, including for the potential economic impacts. To support all RM...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCoastal Erosion: HemsbyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the current and projected rate of coastal affecting Hemsby, Norfolk over the next (i) 5, (ii) 10 and (iii) 25 years.
Answer: In January 2025 the Environment Agency published the new National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) on ‘Check coastal erosion risk for an area in England’ and Shoreline Management Plan Explorer. The new NCERM dataset is openly accessible via data.gov.u...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOffenders and Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 95752 on Offenders and Undocumented migrants, if she will increase the amount of staff to 6,500.
Answer: The 65 staff are directly involved in tracing and resourcing for this activity is regularly reviewed. They work in partnership with the police, other government agencies, and commercial companies to identify information on a person that may help to progre...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOffenders and Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 95752 on Offenders and Undocumented migrants, what the roles of those 65 staff are.
Answer: The 65 staff are directly involved in tracing and resourcing for this activity is regularly reviewed. They work in partnership with the police, other government agencies, and commercial companies to identify information on a person that may help to progre...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOffenders and Undocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2025 to question 95741 on Offenders and Undocumented Migrants, if he will commit to collating and verifying the requested data to publish on a regular basis.
Answer: Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user requests, the public resources required to compile the statistics, and importan...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRadicalism: IslamHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been removed from the UK in each of the last five years for involvement in, incitement of, or support for extremist Islamist ideology.
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 a disproportionate cost.
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100115More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered suspending visa routes from countries assessed as high-risk for terrorism;
Answer: The UK operates a robust and effective visa system, which is an important part of securing the UK border and a vital tool for the UK in reducing illegal immigration, tackling organised crime and protecting national security. A requirement to obtain a visa...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which visa routes are currently open to nationals of countries designated as high-risk for terrorism-related activity.
Answer: The UK operates a robust and effective visa system, which is an important part of securing the UK border and a vital tool for the UK in reducing illegal immigration, tackling organised crime and protecting national security. A requirement to obtain a visa...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100113More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to designate a country as high-risk for terrorism and extremist activity for the purposes of visa policy.
Answer: The UK operates a robust and effective visa system, which is an important part of securing the UK border and a vital tool for the UK in reducing illegal immigration, tackling organised crime and protecting national security. A requirement to obtain a visa...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRadicalism: IslamHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the current level of threat from Islamist extremists.
Answer: The UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, provides a comprehensive framework for tackling all forms of terrorism and is kept under constant review to ensure our approach remains fit for purpose in response to emerging risks and challenges.As outlined ...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTerrorism: ConvictionsHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100111More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals convicted of terrorism-related offences are currently present in the UK following completion of their custodial sentences.
Answer: The Home Office does not centrally record the data as requested. However, the department does publish data on the numbers of terrorist offenders released from prison in Great Britain. This includes offenders released at the end of their sentence, as well ...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMigrants: DetaineesHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals assessed as posing a national security risk have absconded from immigration control in each of the last five years.
Answer: The first priority of Government is protecting our national security and the safety of our people. As a matter of longstanding Government policy, we do not comment on the detail of national security and intelligence matters.
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordRadicalismHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100109More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role the Prevent strategy currently plays in identifying and disrupting Islamist radicalisation; and whether changes are planned to improve its effectiveness.
Answer: Prevent aims to limit exposure to radicalising narratives, both online and offline, and to create an environment where radicalising ideologies are challenged and are not permitted to flourish.The Prevent Duty Guidance sets out how local partners should ad...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRadicalismHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many premises have been investigated, restricted, or closed in the last five years due to concerns relating to extremist ideology.
Answer: It is a long-standing policy that the Home Office does not comment on specific cases.Regardless of the worldview it draws from, if an ideology is causing harm by radicalising others into hatred, violence and extremism we will take action to prevent this a...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordRadicalismHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight mechanisms exist to monitor institutions where extremist ideology may be promoted.
Answer: The Prevent duty requires specified authorities such as education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice agencies (prisons and probation) to help prevent the risk of people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism which includes the ne...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential need for further legislative or operational measures to prevent, disrupt, and dismantle extremist networks that pose a threat to public safety.
Answer: The police have a range of tools and powers to counter the activities of extremist networks including Counter-Terrorism, hate crime, public order and wider public safety legislation. Where extremists breach criminal thresholds we will take action.Since th...
Answered 19 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorism and Immigration: Information SharingHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that immigration enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies share intelligence effectively.
Answer: The Home Office undertakes a range of measures to ensure border security however, we do not comment on matters of intelligence.
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorismHome OfficeTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals to counter-extremism programmes have been made in each of the last five years, broken down by ideology.
Answer: i) Individuals referred to the Prevent programme 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...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectoral Register: NationalityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to require the Electoral Commission to collect nationality data already held by EROs in order to improve transparency and electoral integrity.
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number of foreign nationals registered to vote in UK local elections. Electoral registers are managed at a local level by Electoral Registration Officers. The Electoral Commission already has access to information ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElections: Local GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has considered standardising the collection of nationality-grouped data at national level to ensure consistent oversight of local-election eligibility acro
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number of foreign nationals registered to vote in UK local elections. Electoral registers are managed at a local level by Electoral Registration Officers. The Electoral Commission already has access to information ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordElectoral Register: NationalityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether nationality data held by EROs is used in any national-security screening or analysis relating to electoral interference risk.
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number of postal or proxy votes issued to foreign nationals eligible to vote in English local elections. The Department also does not hold data on the number of foreign nationals registered to vote in English local...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAbsent Voting: Foreign NationalsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has conducted any assessment of risks posed by foreign-state or foreign-network mobilisation of postal-voting blocks among overseas nationals eligible to
Answer: The Government is committed to upholding and strengthening UK democracy by protecting against foreign interference, improving political transparency, adding tougher checks for donations and closing loopholes by reinforcing electoral legislation against fo...
Answered 9 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordElectoral Register: Foreign NationalsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the absence of nationality-grouped oversight forms part of the Government’s election integrity risk assessments, and if so, what assessment has been made of the risks ass
Answer: The Government is committed to upholding and strengthening UK democracy by protecting against foreign interference, improving political transparency, adding tougher checks for donations and closing loopholes by reinforcing electoral legislation against fo...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
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