Damian Hinds

15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners on Remand

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 65241 on Prisoners on Remand, what data her Department holds on trends in the average length of time spent on remand in that period.

15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 65243 on Prisoners' Release, what data her Department holds on trends over time in the average length of time spent on recall for (a) determinate sentenced priso

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

GCSE: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with (a) OfQual (b) examination boards on the potential impact of moving most GCSEs for most pupils to a digital format.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

GCSE: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of potential advantages and disadvantages of moving most GCSEs for most pupils to a digital format.

14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release entitled UK and Albania agree groundbreaking new arrangement on prisoner transfers, published on 24 May 2023, how many prisoners have been transferred under the agreement with

9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21573 on Mental Health: Children and Young People, whether he plans to publish further updates to those statistics.

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the key subjects into which her Department is recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers.

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects.

9 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Curfews

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisoners eligible for release from prison on home detention curfew were released on home detention curfew (a) in the first month of eligibility and (b) at any time in each of the last three ye

9 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Parole

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of lead times for Parole Board hearings in each year from the earliest year for which data are available to the latest year for which data are available.

9 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of the addition of modular precast concrete blocks in Category C prisons.

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63294 on Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit, what (a) driving factors and (b) assumptions she uses to model projections for the number o

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7July to Question 63294 on Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit, whether projections of the number of claims for (a) PIP and (b) health components of Universal Cr

7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that prisoners released from recall spent on recall in each year for which data are available.

7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of people in prison on custodial sentences was in each of the last 20 years.

7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners on Remand

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was that remand prisoners spent on remand in each of the last 20 years.

7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) assumptions and (b) formulae she uses to model prison place need.

7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of retirement (a) villages and (b) homes without automated external defibrillators.

7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the installation of automated external defibrillators in retirement (a) villages and (b) homes.

1 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

University of Portsmouth Dental Academy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60037 on Dentistry: Higher Education, when he expects the Privy Council approval process to be completed.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department provides to HM Treasury for the purposes of forecasting future numbers of claims for (a) PIP and (b) the (i) Limited Capability for Work Element and (ii) Limited Capability for

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date her Department first published a projection of the number of (a) Primary and (b) Secondary school places that would be needed in September 2024.

23 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of merging the Valuation Office Agency and HMRC when dealing with businesses, in the context of changes to Agricultural Property Relief.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to fund level 6 apprenticeships for all ages for 2027-28.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54726 on Schools: internet, what steps she is taking to ensure blocks on illegal content are (a) technically enforced and (b) cannot be overridden in all educat

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 22 May 2025, HCWS652, whether programmatic advertisements served to UK residents on non-UK sites will be covered by the regulations.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's definition is of expert teachers.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the fall in the number of children at independent schools was in line with her Department’s projections.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Advertising: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take legislative steps to regulate programmatic advertising.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Online Advertising Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which of the actions set out in the Online Advertising Taskforce action plan, published on 30 November 2023, are (a) completed, (b) being taken forward and (c) not being taken forward.