Hilary Benn

17 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to identify people in Afghanistan who may be eligible for settlement in the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement and Scheme.

17 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Visas: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department is providing to people in Afghanistan on how they should apply for family reunion or spouse visas.

16 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones: Aerials

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will review the potential effect of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code on rents paid to landowners to allow mobile masts on their land.

15 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants who want to update their biometric residence card to reflect their EU Settled Status have to pay a fee for (a) the application and (b) biometrics in respect of their application.

15 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her departmental official's reply of 9 April 2021 to the Right hon. Member for Leeds Central regarding his constituent Ms C ?and her settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, fo

15 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason CTM has yet to respond substantively to the case referred to them in May 2021 by the hon. Member for Leeds Central on behalf of his constituent, Mr Q.

15 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide a response to the correspondence from the Right hon. Member for Leeds Central of 10 May 2021 regarding his constituent Mr Q., reference HB6862.

14 Sep 2021 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what checks goods coming into the UK from companies based in the EU are currently subject to.

14 Sep 2021 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the forms and documents that companies based in the EU exporting to the UK have to complete when sending their goods into the UK.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions: Electric Scooters

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for riding (a) an electric bicycle and (b) an electric scooter on the pavement in England in the last 12 months.

13 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of allegations that drones from Pakistan have been used in the recent fighting in the Panjshir valley.

13 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Tax Credit: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department will complete its investigation into the fraud allegedly committed against the hon. Member for Leeds Central's constituent ML and reinstate her tax credits.

6 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of cases referred through the benefit fraud portal were found to be fraudulent claims in the last 12 months.

6 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to check that a tenancy agreement and the rent quoted are genuine when considering the housing allowance element of a universal credit claim.

3 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons publicly-funded schools are not part of the Home Office list of institutions licensed to sponsor migrants under the Student route of the points-based system while exceptions are avail

3 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waking Watch Relief Fund: Leeds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide details of all the buildings in (a) LS1, (b) LS2, (c) LS6, (d) LS7, (e) LS9, (f) LS10 and (g) LS11 postcode areas that have received funding from the Waking Wa

3 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Interpreters

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will urgently review the application by S, the former interpreter for UK forces whose case was covered on Newsnight on 2 August 2021 and 19 August 2021, under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (A

3 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation facing the Oromo people in Ethiopia.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport

Cars: Global Positioning System

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to make the fitting of GPS trackers on all new cars compulsory.

3 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people who normally receive a flu vaccination, including people with asthma and lung conditions, will receive a covid-19 booster vaccination in autumn 2021.

3 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent reductions in UK aid on the use of donated medicines in developing countries.

3 Sep 2021 · Treasury

International Monetary System: Belarus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the granting of new Special Drawing Rights to Belarus by the IMF.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for International Trade

Tradeshow Access Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has plans to replace the Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP).

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to exempt medicines required to treat sickle cell disease from prescription charges.

18 Aug 2021 · Treasury

Banks: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on UK citizens living overseas who do not have a UK mobile phone number of increased security measures by UK banks that require the possession of such a number.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the hotel quarantine charges increased from 12 August 2021 in relation to the covid-19 travel rules.

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Transport

Immigration Controls: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set out the criteria used in respect of the covid-19 travel rules in deciding that (a) Pakistan should remain on the red list and (b) India, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates should move fr

18 Aug 2021 · Department for Transport

India and Pakistan: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's estimate is of covid-19 vaccination rates in (a) India and (b) Pakistan as of 31 August 2021.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: India and Pakistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of travellers entering the UK from (a) India and (b) Pakistan, who were tested by the NHS in July 2021, were found to have a positive result for covid-19.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to use the flu vaccine list to prioritise patients, including those with asthma, for the covid-19 booster vaccination.