David Simmonds

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish representations received from (a) Hillingdon council, (b) Harrow council and (c) other local authorities on the cost of supporting asylum seekers.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities in (a) London and (b) England on the adequacy of funding to support asylum seekers.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of people of Chagossian descent who have arrived at Heathrow Airport since 1 July 2024.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that people of Chagossian descent who are planning to move to the UK are offered help with finding permanent accommodation.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37161 on Resettlement: Chagossians, whether Hillingdon Council has claimed costs for the statutory provision of support for Chagossians who have rec

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37161 on Resettlement: Chagossians, if she will publish the costs for the provision of statutory support claimed by each local authority as of 31 Ma

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 37161 on Resettlement: Chagossians, what information her Department holds on the costs incurred by local authorities for the provision of statutory

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with local authorities on the potential impact of migrants from the Chagos Islands on levels of service provision.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Resettlement: Chagossians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support people of Chagossian descent who arrive in the UK.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Community Development: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will require that organisations in receipt of funding from (a) her Department and (b) its arms-length bodies should not participate in boycotts against (i) Israel and (ii) the participatio

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to request an indicative vote from this House on the proposed expansion of Heathrow Airport.

21 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Beijing: Embassies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 22931 on Beijing: Embassies, what discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the steps required to secure pl

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Measurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his Department’s policy is on the continued use of imperial measures in retail and hospitality settings.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 19680 on High Streets Task Force, what discussions his Department had with retailers on the impact of the reduction in retail, hospitality and leisu

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Nightclubs: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 18963 on Nightclub: closures, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increases in (a) business rates from the reduction in rat

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to reduce the legal age to (a) buy Lottery tickets and (b) gamble.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cultural Heritage

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her policy is on (a) contested heritage and (b) retain and explain.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Flags

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on departmental plans to fly flags other than the Union flag in 2025.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to provide support for the proposed Liverpool to Manchester railway improvement project.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to revise the Airports National Policy Statement, published on 5 June 2018, in the context of the proposed Heathrow Airport expansion.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Fire and Rescue Services: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 22 October 2024, to Question 8751, on Fire and Rescue Services: Police, for what reason her Department won't repeal Section 37 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list each individual awarded contract to strategic suppliers for the provision of asylum accommodation and support services including the value of each contract.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether private healthcare has been provided to asylum seekers in the last 12 months.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, how many civil servants have been assigned to support Baroness Casey's audit; and what

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had recent discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the application for a new Chinese Embassy.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Whitehall

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23517 on Crime: Westminster Bridge, what role HM Government plays in relation to policing within Whitehall’s Government Secure Zone area.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story entitled, Survivors of sexual abuse to be empowered in closed case reviews, published on 16 January 2025, if she will publish the full terms of reference

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24505, how many people were housed in asylum accommodation in the last 12 months.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24505 on Asylum: housing, what is the expected cost to the public purse of accommodation for asylum seekers in 2025.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24505 on Asylum: housing, what the estimated spending is on accommodation for asylum seekers in 2025.