Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he expects to receive a final outcome of the October vehicle lighting expert group meeting by the end of the calendar year.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
At the October session of the UNECE lighting expert group, the glare prevention taskforce was requested to further refine and prioritise the published recommendations for consideration at the next session in April 2027.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to table legislation on the General Medical Council’s regulatory framework.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 16 October in response to Question 31464, and to the Written Ministerial Statement HCWS424 that I made to the House on 27 October.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, Is consideration being given to any form of National Service to support the Armed Forces in the lifetime of this Parliament.
Answered by Calvin Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
The Government has no current plans to reintroduce National Service. Since 1963, it has been the policy of successive Governments that the best way of providing for the defence of our country is by maintaining professional Armed Forces recruited from volunteers. The Armed Forces today consists of highly trained, professional men and women in both our Regular and Reserve Armed Forces. We can also call on the Strategic Reserve to provide niche skills and additional mass.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects negotiations on an EU-UK SPS agreement regarding plant species movements between GB and NI to be concluded.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The department is in the advanced stages of negotiations with the European Union on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement. This Government remains committed to concluding negotiations ahead of the next UK-EU Summit on 20 November.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to advise UK citizens to hold some cash reserves in the context of international hacking reports.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Government has provided public advice on preparing for emergencies through the Be Ready Campaign website. This includes advice that people may wish to consider keeping cash for essential purchases in case electronic payments or cash machines are disrupted. The amount held should reflect each household’s circumstances and needs.
Further information is available at: Be ready for emergencies - Be Ready
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total worth of the frozen assets of the previous Libyan regime.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), part of HM Treasury, published in its 2024-2025 Annual Review that over £12.9 billion of assets relating to the Libya sanctions regime have been reported as frozen as of September 2024. This is an aggregated total of all entities and individuals listed on the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to WPQ 34373, thus far what the response has been from traders on their experience of the Windsor Framework arrangements for SPS movements.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Traders have generally welcomed the facilitations offered by the Windsor Framework movement schemes. Defra has engaged with businesses on implementation issues and technical matters. The new SPS agreement with the EU will remove the vast majority of SPS checks and certificates for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, approximately how many students from Queens University and Ulster University have benefited from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships programme in each of the past three years.
Answered by Chris McDonald - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following number of projects have been awarded to each university. Each project would have employed a student to support its delivery. These figures include projects up to KTP Round 1, for which grant offer letters were issued in July 2026.
Year | Queens University | Ulster University |
23/24 | 9 | 2 |
24/25 | 8 | 7 |
25/26 | 8 | 2 |
26/27 | 4 | 3 |
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people used the free e-learning training on Female Genital Mutilation for frontline staff in Healthcare, Police, Border Force and Children’s Social Care in the 2025 calendar year.
Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
In the 2025 calendar year, 47,210 people completed the Home Office's free e-learning course for frontline staff on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
This is part of a range of resources the Home Office provides to help professionals understand and respond to FGM, recognising the vital role of frontline and statutory services in identifying those at risk and supporting victims.
As part of the Government’s package of measures to tackle ‘honour’-based abuse, we are also developing four new e-learning modules for professionals and updating the existing FGM and forced marriage modules.
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to publish the National Road Traffic Projections before the Parliamentary Christmas recess 2026.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport intends to develop a new set of National Road Traffic Projections but has not set a timeframe for doing so. There will not be a new set of National Road Traffic Projections published before the Christmas recess 2026.
Past National Road Traffic Projections have been published for England and Wales only. For details of any traffic projections in the other nations please contact Transport Scotland or the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure.