Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to (1) expel Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir from the UK following their sentencing on 10 April for involvement in people smuggling, and (2) permanently revoke any rights they have to live in or visit the UK in the future.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government’s top priority remains the safety and security of the United Kingdom and its citizens.

The Home Secretary has the power to deprive an individual of British citizenship where it was obtained by fraud, or where deprivation is conducive to the public good.

Deprivation on conducive grounds is used only for individuals who pose a threat to the UK or whose conduct is considered to involve very high harm, for example activities relating to national security (including terrorism and espionage), war crimes, serious and organised crime, or extremism and the glorification of terrorism.

The Government does not comment on individual cases or on operational activity however any referrals the Home Office receives relating to serious organised crime are subject to thorough investigation and decisions on deprivation are taken on a case-by-case basis.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what vetting procedures were undertaken prior to the appointments of Gordon Brown as the Prime Minister’s Special Reviewer on Global Finance and Cooperation, and Baroness Harman as the Prime Minister's Adviser on Women and Girls.

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

It is a longstanding principle maintained across multiple administrations not to comment on individuals’ security clearance.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the National Energy System Operator about building new onshore and offshore electricity transmission routes along the coasts to cater for Scotland's overcapacity in wind power and associated large converter stations.

Answered by Lord Whitehead - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) recommends necessary transmission infrastructure through its independent strategic network planning processes. Notably the upcoming Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP) and the Centralised Strategic Network Plan (CSNP). The SSEP will identify optimal locations for generation technologies across Great Britain. The CSNP will use this modelling as an input to produce holistic design recommendations, ensuring onshore and offshore routes and associated assets such as converter stations are considered with demand in mind.

While the National Energy System Operator’s (NESO) independent strategic network planning processes (including the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan and the Centralised Strategic Network Plan) will identify the need for new infrastructure at a system level, the detailed routing of onshore and offshore routing of transmission assets is a matter for the Transmission Owners. In Scotland, planning and consenting of onshore electricity infrastructure is devolved, and decisions are taken by Scottish Ministers in accordance with Scottish planning policy and statutory processes.

Found: Letter dated 18/05/2026 from Lord Livermore to Lord Swire regarding the issue of UK gas storage, as discussed