Every parliamentary written question tabled by Will Forster this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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How many noise important areas of the M25 there are within Surrey; and what the locations are.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for creating noise maps, and associated Noise Important Areas, as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. These road noise maps and the associate...
What requirements her Department places on Network Rail to undertake ecological surveys prior to vegetation clearance.
Network Rail is expected to carry out activities in a way that minimises harm, and wherever possible improves the natural habitat while maintaining the performance and safety of the railway. Network Rail undertakes checks for nesting birds, which is parti...
How many noise important areas of the M25 there are within Woking constituency; and what the locations are.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is responsible for creating noise maps, and associated Noise Important Areas, as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. These road noise maps and the associate...
Whether Network Rail is required to obtain a licence from Natural England before carrying out works that may disturb protected species.
If Network Rail is carrying out work that may impact protected species, then it will look to carry out the work in such a way as to avoid needing a licence in the first place. If non-licensable activities are not feasible for the work required, then Netwo...
Whether he intends to widen the protections in PD12J to all domestic abuse cases.
The Government is committed to reforming the Family Court in order to better support victims and survivors of domestic abuse.Practice Direction 12J (PD12J) applies in private law children’s proceedings where the court is considering where a child should l...
What estimate she has made of the total cost to police forces in England and Wales of policing protests and public demonstrations in each financial year since 2019-20.
The Home Office does not routinely collect information on the costs of police operations. It is a local decision for elected Police and Crime Commissioners and their equivalents, working with their chief officers, to determine how best to allocate resourc...
What assessment she has made of the potential merits of exempting families with children from the reduction in the move-on period for refugees in accommodation from 56 days to 28 days.
The Home Office has not reduced the move on period. In December 2024, the Home Office began piloting an extended 56-day grace period. In September 2025, the pilot was paused for single adults and came to an end for all cohorts on 8 March 2026.From the 9 M...
Whether an equality impact assessment was conducted on the decision to reduce the move-on period for refugees in accommodation from 56 days to 28 days.
The Home Office has not reduced the move on period. In December 2024, the Home Office began piloting an extended 56-day grace period. In September 2025, the pilot was paused for single adults and came to an end for all cohorts on 8 March 2026.From the 9 M...
What the estimated cost is of reviewing refugee status for every refugee every two and a half years for 20 years.
We are committed to ensuring our policies are sustainable and do not place unnecessary burdens on the taxpayer, and this policy is no different.We do not want people to remain on Core Protection for the long term, and only those who do remain on Core Prot...
How many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2021 to 2025; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initi...
How many people from Afghanistan claimed asylum in the UK from 2015 to 2020; how many of those people were women and girls; and how many of those people were granted asylum.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. The number of asylum claims and grants, broken down by nationality, age, and sex, is published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum claims and initi...
Whether parking guidance to local authorities includes the powers and duties of traffic wardens and parking attendants to lift material used to cover (a) a car parked in a parking bay and (b) a motorcycle parke
Statutory guidance does not specifically address the lifting of covers placed over motor vehicles as part of Civil Enforcement Officers’ process of establishing evidence of parking contraventions. However, the statutory guidance requires civil enforcement...
Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of accommodation provided by local authorities for survivors of domestic abuse; and what information his Depa
Under Part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, every Tier One local authority in England must assess local need for, and commission, support for victims of domestic abuse and their children within safe accommodation. To support delivery of the duty, the Min...
With reference to Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership's report entitled Child Safeguarding Practice Review: Sara Sharif, published on 13 November 2025, whether his Department plans to review the accessibilit
What happened to Sara Sharif was a tragedy. Whilst Sara’s father and stepmother are rightly serving life sentences for their appalling crimes, it is clear that our response must not stop there.We recognise the challenges raised by the Local Child Safeguar...
Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of local authorities' financial resources to deliver the measures in the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 in the next 12 mo
The government is providing £3.6 billion funding for homelessness services from 2026/27 to 2028/29, including more than £2.2 billion for local authorities to prevent and address homelessness and rough sleeping through the Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and ...
What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on skills shortages of changes to the indefinite leave to remain pathway for skilled worker visa holders.
The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.As part of this consultation, we sought views on the potential impact of the proposed c...
Whether her Department plans to publish a formal response to the earned settlement consultation.
The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.As part of this consultation, we sought views on the potential impact of the proposed c...
Whether she plans to introduce transitional arrangements for individuals who are currently on the five-year route to indefinite leave to remain.
The Government ran a public consultation from 20 November 2025 to 12 February 2026 to gather views on the earned settlement proposals.The consultation has now closed and we are in the process of reviewing and analysing all responses received. This analysi...
Whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of Sarah’s Law on women.
The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, also known as Sarah's law, was introduced in 2011 and allows members of the public to make an application to police for information about a person who has contact with a child.The Scheme is designed to safeguard a...
If she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Clare’s Law.
We know that more needs to be done to address issues and inconsistencies in the way that the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (also known as ‘Clare’s Law’) is currently being implemented across forces in England and Wales.In the recently published Viol...