Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: European Convention on Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been delayed as a result of injunctions granted by domestic courts citing the European Convention on Human Rights in each of the last five years.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: European Convention on Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been delayed as a result of challenges under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the last 12 months.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to legislate to disapply the Human Rights Act 1998 in deportation cases.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: European Court of Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been prevented by interim measures of the European Court of Human Rights in each of the last five years.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing league tables of deportation compliance by countries.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department’s policy is on restricting multiple appeals against deportation.

3 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Deportation: Legal Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of legal aid support in deportation cases in the last 12 months.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has sought to negotiate returns agreements with (a) Pakistan, (b) Albania, (c) Nigeria and (d) Somalia in the last five years.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of deportations that have failed due to a lack of cooperation from foreign governments.

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Deportation: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department applies sanctions to countries that refuse to accept deported nationals.

3 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duties: Underpayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received (a) warnings and (b) punishment for underpaying stamp duty in the last financial year.

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Houses: Closures

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many pubs have closed each year since 2015.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Leicester Centre for Hate Studies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has provided funding to the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester.

2 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has has made of the potential impact of the the suspension of refugee family reunion route on number of visa applications.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Social Media: Arrests and Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted for social media posts in each of the last five years.

2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing English language requirements for non-UK staff within the NHS.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on legal aid for asylum cases in each year since 2019.

2 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Students: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) evacuation and (b) relocation of Palestinian students from Gaza to the UK in 2025.

2 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Chevening Scholarships Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the projected cost to the public purse is of Chevening scholarships awarded to students from Gaza for 2025-26.

2 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Child Benefit: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child benefit claims were cancelled because the claimant was found to be living abroad in each year since 2020.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

David Lammy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of investigating unlicensed fishing by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a breakdown of Personal Independence Payment claimants by (a) nationality and (b) immigration status in each year since 2020.

2 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide an estimate of the total number of Gazans that will enter the asylum system following medical treatment in the UK.

2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost to the public purse is for the evacuation of children from Gaza as of 2 September 2025.

2 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who were applying for asylum have been issued with a driving licence since 2020.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the early release scheme have subsequently been (a) rearrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted of other offences.

2 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of staff working in her Department, broken down by nationality.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Community Centres: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department is advertising a role in Manchester Community Centre for a Sharia Law Administrator.

22 Jul 2025 · Wales Office

Wales Office: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many employees in her Department earn (a) £100,000 and (b) £166,000 or more per year.

22 Jul 2025 · Scotland Office

Scotland Office: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many employees in his Department earn (a) £100,000 and (b) £166,000 or more per year.

Source: official written-questions record.