Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
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Written questions
Kenton BeasleyDepartment for TransportTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will ask the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to respond to the coroner's Prevention of Future Death report following the death of Kenton Beasley.
Answer: Unfortunately, although the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency had prepared a reply to the coroner, an oversight meant it was not sent as intended. I can confirm that the DVLA has now responded to the coroner on 24 October.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGraham FaulknerDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84673More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ask the Health and Safety Executive to respond to the coroner's Prevention of Future Death report following the death of Graham Faulkner.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) records indicate that a detailed response to the coroner's Prevention of Future Death report following the death of Graham Faulkner was sent by e-mail on 3 July 2024.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordStephen SleafordMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department intends to respond to the coroner's Prevention of Future Death report following the death of Stephen Sleaford.
Answer: HM Prison and Probation Service responded to the coroner’s Prevention of Future Death Report following the inquest into the death of Stephen Sleaford on 9 December 2024, which was within the statutory deadline of 56 days from the date of the report. The r...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: InternetCabinet OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84661More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve public preparedness for emergencies.
Answer: Advice for the general public on how to prepare for emergencies is published at GOV.UK/Prepare, which provides simple and effective steps that individuals, households and communities can take to be more prepared for a range of emergencies. The Prepare web...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordInnovation and Research: Migrant WorkersDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84660More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has held discussions with the Home Secretary (a) attracting and (b) retaining talented (i) researchers and (ii) innovators through the UK visa system.
Answer: As set out in the Immigration White Paper, the Government is committed to delivering a competitive immigration system that attracts and retains talented international researchers and innovators. This includes reforms to our top talent visa routes, such as...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordScience: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support schools to provide practical science activities as part of their curriculum.
Answer: The government recognises the vital role of practical science activities in schools in fostering scientific understanding and engagement.The national curriculum already provides opportunities for schools to deliver practical science lessons, including a r...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDrinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to establish new statutory action standards for PFAS in drinking water.
Answer: The Drinking Water Inspectorate published a report on 26 February 2025 recommending revisions to some of the parameters listed in the drinking water regulations; this included a new standard for PFAS. Defra and the DWI will work together to consider pote...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPer- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl SubstancesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to create a national inventory to (a) capture and (b) report sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Answer: This Government is actively considering its approach to managing the risks posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and progressing work on PFAS measures. To better understand legacy PFAS pollution, the Environment Agency (EA) has undertaken a ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordChemicalsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to produce a chemicals strategy.
Answer: The delivery of a Chemicals Strategy was a commitment included in the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) 2023. Defra’s future approach to chemicals management will be set out in the revised EIP.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what volume of UK aid has been successfully delivered to Gaza in the last six months.
Answer: All allocations of our Humanitarian Programme are available publicly on Development Tracker. We have published further information on Core Relief Items through the programmes annual review with the next to be published by November 2025. Quantifying how mu...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: EpilepsyDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of training provided to school staff on assisting children who have epilepsy.
Answer: Governing bodies must ensure that the arrangements they put in place are sufficient to meet their statutory responsibilities and that policies, plans, procedures and systems are properly and effectively implemented. This includes the duty under Section 10...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMileage AllowancesTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84371More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to update the HMRC mileage rate to reflect changes to (a) fuel costs, (b) vehicle asset depreciation and (c) vehicle running costs since 2011.
Answer: The Approved Mileage Allowance Payment rates are used by employers to reimburse an employee's expenses, tax free, for business mileage in their private vehicle. These rates are also used by self-employed drivers to claim tax relief on business mileage (wh...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: RailwaysDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her department holds on the potential benefit of the (a) construction and (b) operation of a western rail link to Heathrow Airport on (i) trends in the level of economic growth (ii) the environ
Answer: The economic and societal benefits of a western rail link to Heathrow Airport were previously assessed as part of a business case development process which concluded in 2021. No further work to assess the benefits of a rail link has been undertaken by DfT...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTax Avoidance and Tax EvasionTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84363More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential merits of making (a) directors and (b) owners of (i) dissolved and (ii) all other companies personally liable for the underpayment of taxes arising from the adaptation of tax (
Answer: The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and cracking down on avoidance and evasion. The Government is determined to do more to close in on promoters of marketed tax avoidance and recently consulted on a package of measures to strengthen HMRC’s ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTax AvoidanceTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84362More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to introduce a universal stop notice for tax avoidance schemes.
Answer: The Government recognises the damage caused to the tax system by those that promote tax avoidance schemes. It takes action to prevent that damage, for example by publishing details of schemes and promoters to help customers to steer clear of or otherwise ...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Peacekeeping OperationsMinistry of DefenceTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84329More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any military officers have been sent to Israel for the purposes of monitoring the ceasefire in Gaza.
Answer: No. A small number of UK planning officers have embedded in the US-led Civil Military Coordination Centre (CMCC), including a 2* deputy commander, to ensure that the UK remains integrated into the US-led planning efforts for Gaza post-conflict stability. ...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLGBT Veterans Independent ReviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 38 of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
Answer: Recommendation 36 relates to the expansion of the Veterans’ Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) accreditation scheme to include care homes and hospices. In July 2024, a pilot was launched by the Royal Star and Garter, supported by the VCHA. An evaluation ...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLGBT Veterans Independent ReviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing recommendation 36 of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
Answer: Recommendation 36 relates to the expansion of the Veterans’ Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) accreditation scheme to include care homes and hospices. In July 2024, a pilot was launched by the Royal Star and Garter, supported by the VCHA. An evaluation ...
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEthiopia: Armed ConflictForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps she has taken with humanitarian organisations to prevent sexual violence in conflict-affected areas in Ethiopia.
Answer: Combatting conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) within Ethiopia continues to be a key focus for the UK and we work with UN partners as well as NGOs and the Red Cross in order to support those affected by these particular human rights violations. Civili...
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrime: Crime PreventionHome OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allow legitimate cyber activity (a) necessary for the (i) detection and (ii) prevention of crime and (b) justified as being in the public interest.
Answer: The Government is conducting an ongoing review of the Computer Misuse Act. As part of the review, we are scoping several proposals to update the act, including how we can better support legitimate cybersecurity researchers so they can operate within a cle...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRussia: AssetsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84259More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made a recent estimate of the value of Russian owned assets held in the Overseas Territories.
Answer: The Overseas Territories (OTs) stand with the UK in condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. The OTs have committed to implement UK sanctions in full. The Governments of the Territories take seriously their responsibility for the implementation and enfor...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: IntimidationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84258More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of state actors in Pakistan targeting UK residents with (a) political intimidation and (b) interference on those re
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 17 March 2025 to Question 36232.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordFirearms: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a single firearms licensing authority for England and Wales.
Answer: The Government has no plans to introduce a single firearms licensing authority. The Firearms Act 1968 places statutory responsibility for firearms licensing on the Chief Officer of Police of each individual force in England, Wales and Scotland. This frame...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: Written QuestionsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to answer Question (a) 74612 and (b) 74613, tabled on 3 September 2025.
Answer: The responses to Written Parliamentary Questions 74612 and 74613 were published on 22 October 2025.
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: OxygenMinistry of DefenceTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve systems for delivering oxygen to battlefield trauma casualties without making use of pressurised cylinders; and what estimate he has made of when this will be available for fron
Answer: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) deploys oxygen concentrators under certain circumstances to deliver oxygen without pressurised cylinders. The Defence Investment Plan will set out any further funding available to support the wider roll out of oxygen concentr...
Answered 29 Oct 2025
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