Search — AnswerTheQuestion

RED (20/100) Oral 27 Oct 2026 Sir Julian Lewis to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Does the Foreign Secretary accept that it would be a disservice to the democratic process to identify attempts to interfere with it with invalidation of the result? Does he, like the Prime Minister, now accept that whatever Russia tried to do, it did not have any decisive effect on the referendum on whether to stay in or leave the European Union?

AMBER (50/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Adam Jogee to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to a) protect and b) promote community cohesion in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire.

AMBER (38/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Susan Murray

I have been contacted by constituents whose complaints Capita has closed without resolution and whose pension quotes have disappeared. I heard the Minister say that old cases will not be allowed to sit in backlogs without progress, but my constituent, who served 43 years in the Department for Work and Pensions, alleges that this is an example of Capita manipulating closure figures. Will the Minister say how the Government are monitoring Capita to ensure that complaints are closed only once they have been resolved and that quotes do not disappear?

AMBER (42/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Bob Blackman to Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in consultation with the Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what investment and support her Department is providing for the development of AI-enabled decision-support tools to a

AMBER (72/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Katrina Murray

I thank my hon. Friend for this statement. Like everybody else, I have cases that I have contacted the Minister about, but today I want to raise something else—something that has been consistent across all the cases that my office has dealt with on a regular basis, which is how my constituents are being treated when they call the Capita helpline. My constituents describe being laughed at and being told that, regardless of what happens in this House, it will be up to Capita to decide when they actually get their pensions. These individuals—people who have served this country well for many years—are getting increasingly desperate, as they have often had no income for up to a year. Nobody should be treated without dignity or respect by anybody acting in the name of this Government. I ask my hon. Friend to engage with her officials to ensure that the message that this is completely unacceptable is driven through to Capita.

AMBER (30/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Alison Bennett

I have many constituents who are caught up in this hell—this limbo. Some of them have been waiting for more than a year. However, I also have teachers writing to me concerned about the transfer of the teachers’ pension scheme from Capita to Tata that is now under way. Thinking about lessons learned, what advice would the Minister offer to her counterpart in the Department for Education?

AMBER (66/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Jim Shannon

I thank the Minister very much for her understanding of these issues and her perseverance in trying to deliver results. Everyone in the House can understand her annoyance. The facts are deeply concerning. While the Government and Capita point to putting in place specific milestones for what they count as “workable stock”, the hard data shows that hundreds of priority bereavement and death-in-service cases remain completely trapped, some over 100 days old. Given that the independent remedial adviser and technical audit reports are due this month, will the Minister outline exactly what robust commercial penalties or legal enforcement measures are being prepared against Capita if it fails to restore full contractual service levels immediately?

AMBER (27/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Euan Stainbank

Capita has missed its deadlines and failed in its obligations to my constituents. Supposed priority death-in-service cases, such as Derek’s, are unresolved, and people have been left grieving for over a year without having received what they are entitled to. Quotes such as Anne’s, who retired from the Scottish Prison Service nearly seven months ago, have still not been provided, and annual benefit statements have been delayed, leaving people concerned that they will not be paid accurately when they finally are paid. We should insource this scheme. I appreciate the Minister putting that option on the table, but my constituents deserve transparency as well as action. If not the full report, will the Minister publish just the recommendations from the independent remedial adviser’s report?

AMBER (42/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Mr Will Forster

Several of my constituents are in financial hardship as a result of Capita’s failings. This appalling company has even sent out financial statements and letters with figures deliberately obscured so that former civil servants do not know what they are entitled to. MPs across the House have clearly lost confidence in Capita, so will the Minister agree for the Cabinet Office itself to set up a hotline for MPs to raise cases and hold regular surgeries so that we can ensure that our former civil servant constituents get the money that they are entitled to?

AMBER (58/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Shockat Adam

I thank the Minister not just for her statement but for the tone of her statement, which I am sure will be very much appreciated by many of my constituents, including Kathy, who has given 26 years of her life in service to the Ministry of Defence and the Prison Service, yet Capita’s failure means that her retirement has been blocked three times in just over a year. A fortnightly dashboard is welcome, but what guarantees can the Minister give that Kathy and thousands like her will receive their pension payments on time? Will the auditor’s report be published in full for MPs and the unions?

AMBER (46/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Baroness Barran to Department for Education

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath on 21 October (HL Deb col 679), when they expect to launch and publish the public consultation on V Levels; and whether that consultation will set out how universitie

GREEN (85/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Lord Gascoigne to Women and Equalities

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Office for Equality and Opportunity on 18 September (HC28997), what plans they have for the Office for Equality and Opportunity's Class Unit to asse

AMBER (55/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an evaluation of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish the findings.

AMBER (30/100) Statement 26 Oct 2026 Mr Joshua Reynolds

Stuart is 83. He lives in a care home in my constituency, which his pension pays for, but that pension stopped for four months over the summer, and even after my constituency office intervened he has had less than a quarter of those arrears paid back. Anna, another of my constituents, is in her 80s. She has just come out of hospital, and she is owed a staggering 17 years’ worth of widow’s pension. In July, Capita told me that the payment would be made within two weeks. In August, it said that it had no notes on file from that July meeting. In September, it told me that payment would be made within 10 days. On the 15th of this month, it said that it was still awaiting human authorisation. Last Friday, I was told that four members of Capita’s staff were working directly full time on her case. Would the Minister like to join me this Friday at 11 o’clock for my next weekly Capita casework call to try to ensure that Anna finally gets some of those 17 years’ worth of pension payments?

AMBER (30/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any human rights impact assessments were undertaken in relation to the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme before, during or after its operation.

RED (20/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 John Grady to Home Department

I am concerned about young people and knife crime in my home city of Glasgow. Victim Support Scotland has asked the Scottish Government to carry out a comprehensive review of why young people become involved in knife crime and how effective Scottish programmes are at preventing it. This is backed by my constituent, Neil McCrimmon, and his family. Their beloved son Kory was stabbed to death, and the family has campaigned with great courage against knife crime. I fully support Victim Support Scotland’s call for a comprehensive review. Will the Home Secretary confirm that she would support the Scottish Government, were they to carry out such a review?

AMBER (66/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Stuart Anderson to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local responders and civil servants.

AMBER (48/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public was of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish a breakdown of those costs.

RED (22/100) Oral DEFERRED 26 Oct 2026 John Milne to Home Department

Following recent changes, police are now able to seize vehicles that are used antisocially without first issuing a warning. This is potentially a way for police in my constituency to deal with illegal street racing meets on the A24 and the A264 from Kilnwood Vale down to Southwater. Can the Minister confirm whether this new power is proving to be effective, and how many vehicles have been seized thus far?

RED (8/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Alex Sobel to Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her French counterpart on the removal of people to France under the former UK-France One In, One Out pilot arrangement following its formal conclusion.

AMBER (40/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Jim Shannon to Home Department

I thank the Home Secretary for her answers and for her commitment to trying to stop knife crime. One of the greatest ways of stopping knife crime across this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is to ensure that people cannot buy knives. What is she doing to ensure that access to knives, whether through sections of the media or industry, is stopped? If we stop the knives, we stop the crime.

AMBER (42/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 Stuart Anderson to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what her timeline is for publishing the findings of the review into the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

RED (12/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Chris Philp to Home Department

Foreign nationals, including illegal immigrants, make up 23% of sex offenders. The Home Office knows that, and even hands out leaflets asking illegal immigrants nicely not to rape. That is why mothers in Piddington are now terrified that over 1,000 young male illegal immigrants are about to turn up. In order to protect women and girls, rather than allowing 95% of illegal immigrants to stay and accommodating them in Piddington or anywhere else, should the Government not leave the European convention on human rights and deport them?

GREEN (80/100) Written 26 Oct 2026 James McMurdock to Cabinet Office

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has been made of the extent to which the Be Ready campaign duplicates existing emergency preparedness communications delivered by local authorities, emergency services, utility providers and othe

RED (20/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Greg Smith to Home Department

1. What proportion of people arriving in small boats were removed in 2025.

RED (18/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Greg Smith to Home Department

If small boat crossings were down by enough, the Government would not have to stand up asylum camps at places such as Ministry of Defence Bicester site A, which is just over the Oxfordshire border from my constituency. With 85,000 small boat crossings since the general election, the situation is at crisis point. MOD Bicester site A does not even offer value to the taxpayer; new modelling shows that over three years, the cost would come in at £385 per person per night—nearly double that of the equivalent asylum hotels. Will the Home Secretary actually get on and deport those who have come to our country illegally, rather than using sites like MOD Bicester site A?

RED (5/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Alistair Strathern to Home Department

We inherited a situation in which gangs were profiting from our out-of-control borders and hotel operators were ripping us off, making the most of a backlog that had built up far too high. We have taken some welcome steps, but it is clear that more needs to be done. Returning people with no right to be here is a crucial part of that. How can we step up the processing of cases, and form closer links with other countries, so that we get strong returns agreements and finally get the costs of this out-of-control system down?

AMBER (27/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Max Wilkinson to Home Department

We await more on the agreement with France, and perhaps with Belgium and many other countries. It might just be simpler to have an agreement with the entire EU. It grieves me to say this, but internal difficulties have arisen within the Labour party over migration. Cabinet members seem to be struggling to defend the Home Secretary’s position, and Government Back Benchers have a wide range of opinions. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has called for an “honest discussion” about EU freedom of movement. Will the Home Secretary back down and get behind the Prime Minister, who is open to freedom of movement, or will she stay loyal to her Back-Bench allies in the blue Labour faction, who are so hostile to it?

RED (22/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Sir Edward Leigh to Home Department

Some people, including the Prime Minister, argue that the small boats crisis was caused by our leaving the EU. It started in 2018. In the two years before Brexit, only 289 small boat people were sent back under agreements. What is the solution? The only solution, surely, is to detain and deport. As the Home Secretary will not leave the European convention on human rights, will she at least consider creating return hubs in a distant Council of Europe country, so that we can have a genuine deterrent?

GREEN (78/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Amanda Martin to Home Department 33% vibes

As a Portsmouth MP, I know how important it is that people living in ports along the south coast have confidence in our border security. Will the Minister outline the progress this Government are making in tackling dangerous small boat crossings and the criminal gangs behind them, and reassure my constituents that we will continue to take action? Will she also thank all the emergency services that have helped in this situation?

RED (5/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Pete Wishart to Home Department 50% point-scoring

We heard the Home Secretary make the claim that her changes to indefinite leave to remain would somehow act as a disincentive to people who sought to arrive in the UK on small boats, but she has failed to convince her Back Benchers and some of her Cabinet colleagues. Who has the upper hand on this in Cabinet, and would changes to ILR make a scintilla of a difference to people coming on small boats?

GREEN (78/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Melanie Onn to Home Department 50% vibes

Up to June this year, the returns rate was 35% higher than it had been in the 12 months previously. Does the Home Secretary agree that this is in part due to the improved co-operative relationships that this Government have managed to forge with other countries around the world? Should that not give our constituents greater confidence that this Government take the issue of small boat crossings seriously?

RED (8/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Alicia Kearns to Home Department

Ministers tell us that small boat arrivals are vetted, so we need not worry, but Mohammed Yaseen—who, as we all know, joined al-Qaeda at 16, was convicted as a Daesh terrorist in Germany, and, a British court was told, was a danger to the British people—was put by the Home Office not in a detention centre ready to be deported to Iraq, where the Iraqi people deserve to see him face trial and justice, but instead in a hostel in Windsor. He was free to roam British streets during daylight hours, along with too many of the 95% not yet deported. He is now back in prison, thanks to the newspapers. How can we have any confidence in the Government, when they allow a convicted Daesh member to be released on to our streets while his deportation is pending, and will the Home Secretary today give the commitment that he will be held in detention until he is on a plane, and that his ticket has been ordered?

AMBER (35/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Mr Joshua Reynolds to Home Department

2. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of the UK joining the EU pact on migration and asylum.

RED (18/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Mr Joshua Reynolds to Home Department

The Prime Minister has said that he wants access to the Eurodac database. How does the Government propose to negotiate that without breaching their EU red lines?

GREEN (88/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Chris Murray to Home Department

Illegal immigration is by definition a cross-border phenomenon, which is why we are required to work with our friends and partners across borders. The Home Secretary has already talked about the 50,000-person reduction from France; we increasingly hear reports that for those in the camps in northern Calais, smugglers are hard to find. That is a far cry from the situation under the previous Government, who could not even decide if France was a friend or a foe. Does the Home Secretary agree that it is by working with our allies on international challenges that we can address the problems of illegal immigration, which is what the public are asking for?

RED (5/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Max Wilkinson to Home Department

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and we are indeed flattered to see the Prime Minister discussing improved relations with the EU as a way to solve issues in the asylum system, but when the Government say that they will negotiate access to various agreements, including Eurodac, without dropping their red lines, they are engaging in Brexit delusion of the type we saw under the Conservatives. If we want useful co-operation on asylum and a good deal for taxpayers—because it will cost less if we are in the pact—we will have to join the EU migration and asylum pact, and that means dropping the Government’s red lines, doesn’t it?

GREEN (76/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Alex McIntyre to Home Department

15. What steps she is taking to tackle antisocial behaviour.

GREEN (80/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Sarah Pochin to Home Department

3. What steps she is taking to expedite the deportation of foreign national offenders.

RED (15/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Sarah Pochin to Home Department

Gift Oladele successfully appealed his deportation, after sexually assaulting a woman in Manchester. He then went on to rape a 19-year-old young woman in Wrexham. Can the Minister explain exactly what changes her Government have made to article 8 of the European convention on human rights to make sure that this does not happen again, and when they will take effect?

RED (20/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Ben Goldsborough to Home Department

Nearly 6,000 foreign national offenders were returned in the last year—12% more than in the year before. Clause 20 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill strengthens the measures on circumstances in which it is in the public interest to deport foreign criminals, particularly where their offending is more serious. Will my hon. Friend explain how these changes will build on the progress that has been made, and further strengthen public security?

RED (5/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Blake Stephenson to Home Department

There are 21,000 serious foreign criminals still in the UK. Today, a foreign criminal jailed for four years or more cannot use family or long residence exceptions to avoid deportation. Last week, the Government voted down our amendments in Committee to keep that rule and extend it to terrorists, making the Immigration and Asylum Bill softer on the worst offenders than current law. Will the Home Secretary admit that only leaving the ECHR will guarantee us that foreign criminals are deported?

GREEN (82/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Kirsteen Sullivan to Home Department

4. What steps she is taking to help reduce levels of abuse experienced by retail workers.

AMBER (45/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Kirsteen Sullivan to Home Department

In 2021 my colleague Daniel Johnson MSP introduced landmark protections for Scottish shop workers, following a campaign by USDAW and the Co-operative party, but legislation is not enough. Community policing has declined in Scotland, and my constituents in Winchburgh, Armadale and Bathgate report rising retail crime and abuse of shop workers. Ahead of legislation commencing in England, what discussions has the Minister had with the Scottish Government to learn from Scotland’s experience, and what investment has she made in frontline policing to protect shop workers and communities?

AMBER (50/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Helen Maguire to Home Department

5. What plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to support police to tackle the illegal use of e-bikes and e-scooters.

RED (5/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Helen Maguire to Home Department

I welcome the new police powers to seize illegal e-scooters and e-bikes that, quite frankly, are out of control. In Epsom and Ewell, Operation Scramble seized 15 vehicles and made six arrests in two days, but some police are hesitant to engage in pursuits because of concerns for wider public safety. It is clear that the police cannot address this issue alone. With Christmas approaching, will the Minister commit to a national awareness campaign to ensure that the general public understand the law around e-scooters, and appreciate that they are legal only if they are part of a rental scheme or are being used on private land?

RED (12/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Ms Julie Minns to Home Department

Cumbria police do really good work tackling the use of illegal e-bikes, but with ever-growing numbers of them hitting our streets every single week, Cumbria’s police, fire and crime commissioner and I believe that the single biggest help that we could give the police would be to ban the sale of illegal e-bikes, as my ten-minute rule Bill proposes. What discussions has the Minister had with colleagues in the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade about regulation to achieve that?

GREEN (88/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 John Grady to Home Department

6. What progress her Department has made on reducing levels of knife crime.

RED (20/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Graeme Downie to Home Department

Around 1,000 constituents in Dunfermline recently told me in a city centre survey that they were concerned about coming into the city centre, to places such as the bus station and the Kingsgate shopping centre, because of antisocial behaviour. Will the Minister agree to work with the Scottish Government on the respect orders to ensure that lessons can be learned on both sides of the border, so that people can feel safe in Dunfermline and across England, Scotland and Wales?

AMBER (62/100) Oral 26 Oct 2026 Gill German to Home Department

My recent Pride in Place survey in Rhyl found that antisocial behaviour such as street drinking and fly-tipping is putting many people off visiting their own town centre. With respect orders coming into force today, what guidance is being given to police to make good use of them against repeat offenders so that people want to visit their own town centre again?