Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Health Services: ParkingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS Trusts provide free parking to patients.
Answer: National Health Service trusts decide locally on whether they charge for parking on their sites. The published Estates Return Information Collection gives a breakdown of NHS trusts charging for hospital parking for patients and visitors combined.The lates...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOut-patients: AttendanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments were missed in the last 12-months.
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number of missed appointments across the whole National Health Service. In the year from April 2024 to March 2025, the latest provisional data indicates that there were 8.1 million outpatient appointments not atten...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOut-patients: AttendanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS was of missed appointments in 2024.
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the overall cost to the National Health Service of missed appointments.
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of foreign nationals entering the UK as delivery drivers under temporary work schemes.
Answer: Under the current Immigration Rules, the UK operates no Temporary Work schemes that enable the recruitment of delivery drivers from overseas.
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Translation ServicesHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of immigration cases involve the use of interpretation services paid for by the state.
Answer: Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across the Home Office and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordReligion: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of religious institutions in the UK receive funding from foreign governments or entities, broken down by (a) religion and (b) source of funding.
Answer: Obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams across various Government departments and, therefore, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCounter-terrorism: ClothingHome OfficeTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had discussions with counter-terrorism police on the potential impact of full-face coverings in public settings on national security.
Answer: The Home Office has regular and routine discussions with counter-terrorism policing on a wide range of national security issues.The Crime and Policing Bill contains a new criminal offence of wearing, or otherwise using, an item that conceals identity in a...
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: ClothingDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools currently permit the wearing of the (a) niqab and (b) burqa by (i) students and (ii) staff; and whether her Department has issued any guidance on uniform pol
Answer: The department has published non-statutory guidance on developing a school uniform policy, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform/school-uniforms. The guidance sets out that it is for the governing body of a sch...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBalaclavas: Public PlacesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the outcomes of bans on wearing full face coverings in public spaces in (a) France
Answer: Britain has a proud tradition of freedom of speech and religious expression within the confines of the law. There are no current general policies or legislations that ban the wearing of religious and non-religious full-face coverings in public spaces. The...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBalaclavas: Public PlacesHome OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, ?what guidance her Department has provided to (a) police officers and (b) security personnel on interacting with people wearing face coverings that obscure identity in public places.
Answer: Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 provides a power for police officers to demand the removal of disguises in certain circumstances to prevent crime. In addition, if the officer believes that someone is wearing an item for the ...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBalaclavas: Domestic Abuse and Honour Based AbuseHome OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of full-face coverings on levels of (a) coercion, (b) domestic control and (c) honour-based abuse.
Answer: Tackling violence against women and girls, including Coercive or Controlling Behaviour (CCB) and ‘Honour’-Based Abuse (HBA), is a top priority for this Government and our manifesto included a mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. ...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordChildbirth: MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59206More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of births in NHS hospitals to mothers not born in the UK in 2023, broken down by the (a) region of the hospital and (b) mother's country of birth
Answer: The Department does not hold data on the number of births in National Health Service hospitals to mothers not born in the United Kingdom.However, the Office for National Statistics publishes statistics on live births in England and Wales in 2023 by parent...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGP practice lists: MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59205More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of GP registrations made by people not born in the UK in the last five years, broken down by region.
Answer: The Department does not hold data regarding the number and proportion of National Health Service general practice registrations that were for people not born in the United Kingdom.
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Overseas StudentsHome OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who entered the UK on student visas since 2015 have not left the UK within six months of their visa expiry.
Answer: The latest data available on the ‘Source of asylum claims in 2024’ was published by the Home Office on 30th March 2025.
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59203More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people granted (a) refugee and (b) asylum status entered full-time employment within five years of arrival in the last ten years.
Answer: The requested information is not currently available from published statistics, and could only be collated for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: Community DevelopmentHome OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59202More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce levels of self-segregation in (a) housing and (b) schooling in areas with high concentrations of recent immigrants.
Answer: The Immigration White Paper, published 12 May, set out proposals in a number of areas, including integration and English language requirements, further details of which will be set out in due course.
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: English LanguageCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59060More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of adult migrants resident in the UK for over five years who are proficient in (a) spoken and (b) written English.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 11th June is attached.
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Immigration ControlsHome OfficeTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to inform (a) law enforcement, (b) border agencies and (c) local authorities of name changes made by people with insecure immigration status.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave him to Question 58407.
Answered 18 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBurglary: Self-defenceAttorney GeneralTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58414More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what guidance the Crown Prosecution Service provides to prosecutors when considering whether to charge people who have used force in self-defence within their own home.
Answer: Charging decisions in cases regarding householders and the use of force against intruders in England and Wales are made independently by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).Reasonable force may be used by homeowners to protect themselves or others if a cr...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBurglary: Self-defenceAttorney GeneralTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58413More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many homeowners have been prosecuted for using force against individuals unlawfully present in their homes in the last 10 years.
Answer: Charging decisions in cases regarding householders and the use of force against intruders in England and Wales are made independently by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).Reasonable force may be used by homeowners to protect themselves or others if a cr...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBurglary: Self-defenceAttorney GeneralTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58412More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who act in good faith to protect themselves or others from intruders are not prosecuted.
Answer: Charging decisions in cases regarding householders and the use of force against intruders in England and Wales are made independently by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).Reasonable force may be used by homeowners to protect themselves or others if a cr...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBurglary: Self-defenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to review the adequacy of legal protections available to homeowners who use force in self-defence against intruders.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice currently has no plans to review or reform the law regarding householders and the use of force against intruders in self-defence.
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Personal NamesHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) failed asylum claimants that have used multiple identities or aliases while in the UK.
Answer: All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Personal NamesHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers are required to provide supporting documentation when requesting a legal name change.
Answer: All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Personal NamesHome OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of name changes by asylum seekers on (a) national security, (b) immigration enforcement and (c) criminal justice proceedings.
Answer: All asylum claimants are subject to the Home Office’s mandatory security checks to establish and verify their identity, and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
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