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Written questions by O'Brien.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Neil O'Brien this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.

Department:All (817)Department for Education (131)Department for Work and Pensions (109)Ministry of Justice (87)Home Office (83)Department of Health and Social Care (64)Treasury (51)Department for Transport (43)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (31)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (30)Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (30)Department for Business and Trade (28)Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (26)

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17 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6948 on Offenders: Foreign Nationals, if she will publish a breakdown of foreign national offenders by detailed offence type.

Reply

We recently provided information on the offence group of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in prison on 30 June 2024, in answer to PQ 6948. This can be found in the attached table.The Department currently has no plans to publish a breakdown of foreign nat...

17 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

What guidance his Department provides to integrated care boards on the use of funding for dentistry; and whether such funding is required to be ring-fenced for the provision of dentistry services.

Reply

NHS England has issued guidance on the ringfencing of dental budgets between 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance-for-2024-25/To ensure comp...

16 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

How many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.

Reply

The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom: Region of residenceUK bornBorn outside the UK East Midlands2,3923,876 East of England3,2425,325 ...

14 Oct 2024·Department for Education·Answered
Asked

What the cost to the public purse will be per local authority to fund (a) the teachers' pay additional grant, (b) the teachers' pension employer contribution grant and (c) the core schools budget grant for fina

Reply

In 2024/25, the department is providing schools and high needs settings with £900 million through the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), £1.1 billion through the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) to support them with the increased ...

11 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

If she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber are published on the same basis as decisions of the Upper Tribunal.

Reply

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 October 2024 to Question 7538: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.Decisions on publishing judgments, including those judgments of the Immigrati...

7 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

If she will publish decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on the same basis that decisions of the Upper Tribunal are currently published.

Reply

The decision whether to publish a judgment is a judicial one.Currently, judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal are not routinely published. However, members of the public and the media can apply to the tribunal for a co...

7 Oct 2024·Department for Education·Answered
Asked

How many and what proportion of people in leaving care services were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.

Reply

Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found he...

7 Oct 2024·Department for Education·Answered
Asked

How many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.

Reply

Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found he...

7 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

How many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were in (a) the period to 2014 from the earliest date for which data are available and (b) each year since 2014, by UK statistical region f

Reply

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

7 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

How many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men who received care for a diagnosed HIV infection were born in (i) the UK, (ii) Europe, (iii) Northern Africa, (iii) Eastern Africa, (iv) Middle

Reply

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

4 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
Asked

What the average wait time for a car driving test was at each driving test centre in each month since January 2015.

Reply

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
Asked

What estimate she has made of the number of additional driving tests that will be needed to reduce the average wait time for a test to the seven-week service standard.

Reply

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
Asked

What steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests.

Reply

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
Asked

What the average wait time was in each driving test area in each month since January 2015.

Reply

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
Asked

How many people were waiting more than 24 weeks for a driving test in each driving test area in each month since January 2015.

Reply

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
Asked

How many phone calls to report hospital stays for claimants of (a) disability benefits, (b) low or no income benefits and (c) universal credit there were in each month since January 2010.

Reply

We do not hold the information requested.

4 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
Asked

What the average duration of phone calls to report hospital stays for claimants of (a) disability benefits, (b) low or no income benefits and (c) universal credit, including time spent on hold, was in e

Reply

We do not hold the information requested.

4 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
Asked

Whether claimants of (a) disability benefits and (b) low or no income benefits can report a hospital stay via a phone call; and if her Department will take steps to introduce a tell me once system.

Reply

For Disability Benefits, the usual route for the customer to notify us of a hospital admission is either via phone or in writing. Universal Credit customers can report a hospital stay via a phone call, they can also report it digitally via a journal messa...

4 Oct 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered
Asked

What data his Department holds on the number of bidirectional chargers for electric vehicles that have been installed.

Reply

Bidirectional chargers for electric vehicles to enable them to export as well as import energy from their batteries is an emerging technology area. It will enable electric vehicle drivers to sell electricity back to the grid, as well as power their homes ...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Whether there are circumstances where a victim cannot call for a foreign national offender to be deported in a victim impact statement.

Reply

Whether a deportation order for a foreign national offender is made is ultimately a decision for the Home Secretary. Any foreign national offender convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is referred to the Home Office at the earli...

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