Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many women were identified as sleeping rough in (a) Kirklees and (b) West Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Florence Eshalomi - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
On his first day in office, the Prime Minister launched an urgent national drive to end rough sleeping. We have announced £442 million new funding to support this ambition, taking total investment in homelessness and rough sleeping services over the next three years to over £4 billion.
The Government recognises that women experiencing rough sleeping are often less visible and may be at greater risk of violence, abuse and exploitation. Local areas are encouraged to work proactively with specialist women’s services, domestic abuse and violence against women and girls services, health partners and community organisations to identify and support women who may be sleeping rough or at risk of doing so. Further guidance on how local authorities are expected to support women through the Rough Sleeping Programme can be found here: Rough Sleeping Programme Guidance - GOV.UK
You can find data about the number of women sleeping rough in England on gov.uk here. Since June 2025 we have included a question on the number of women sleeping rough in our monthly rough sleeping survey. The annual rough sleeping snapshot also includes data on the number of women estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in England. In addition to our official rough sleeping statistics, we continue to gather information from a variety of sources to understand women’s rough sleeping, including the Women’s Census.
Through the Ending Homelessness in Communities Fund, we are providing £37 million over three years to support specialist organisations that work with women facing some of the greatest barriers to accessing support.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential risks resulting from the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit’s observation of (a) social media complaints about Prevent and (b) children's social media accounts.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The former Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) was subsumed into the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner (OIPC) upon its creation in 2025 and no longer exists. Prior to the transfer of its functions to the OIPC, StaCU was part of the Commission for Countering Extremism. The exercise referenced in StaCU's 2024-25 annual report was undertaken as part of its independent oversight function, and the report was commissioned and published independently of the Home Office. As the OIPC does not currently undertake social media monitoring, neither StaCU nor the OIPC has collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media websites since 1st March 2025.
The open-source observations described in StaCU’s 2024-25 annual report were gathered as part of a specific and time-limited exercise to better understand how the delivery of Prevent was being discussed online and assess whether social media observations could help identify complaints or concerns requiring StaCU’s investigation. StaCU received information from a media monitoring service that identified publicly available references to Prevent, including material from open-source social media websites. This was an exploratory exercise, not an ongoing monitoring function.
Neither the Home Office, StaCU as a unit, or the OIPC holds a list of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit found the open source observations it describes in its 2024-25 annual report, and what criteria did it use to determine which observations to log.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The former Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) was subsumed into the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner (OIPC) upon its creation in 2025 and no longer exists. Prior to the transfer of its functions to the OIPC, StaCU was part of the Commission for Countering Extremism. The exercise referenced in StaCU's 2024-25 annual report was undertaken as part of its independent oversight function, and the report was commissioned and published independently of the Home Office. As the OIPC does not currently undertake social media monitoring, neither StaCU nor the OIPC has collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media websites since 1st March 2025.
The open-source observations described in StaCU’s 2024-25 annual report were gathered as part of a specific and time-limited exercise to better understand how the delivery of Prevent was being discussed online and assess whether social media observations could help identify complaints or concerns requiring StaCU’s investigation. StaCU received information from a media monitoring service that identified publicly available references to Prevent, including material from open-source social media websites. This was an exploratory exercise, not an ongoing monitoring function.
Neither the Home Office, StaCU as a unit, or the OIPC holds a list of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department or agencies hold lists of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The former Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) was subsumed into the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner (OIPC) upon its creation in 2025 and no longer exists. Prior to the transfer of its functions to the OIPC, StaCU was part of the Commission for Countering Extremism. The exercise referenced in StaCU's 2024-25 annual report was undertaken as part of its independent oversight function, and the report was commissioned and published independently of the Home Office. As the OIPC does not currently undertake social media monitoring, neither StaCU nor the OIPC has collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media websites since 1st March 2025.
The open-source observations described in StaCU’s 2024-25 annual report were gathered as part of a specific and time-limited exercise to better understand how the delivery of Prevent was being discussed online and assess whether social media observations could help identify complaints or concerns requiring StaCU’s investigation. StaCU received information from a media monitoring service that identified publicly available references to Prevent, including material from open-source social media websites. This was an exploratory exercise, not an ongoing monitoring function.
Neither the Home Office, StaCU as a unit, or the OIPC holds a list of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media sites since 1 May 2025.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The former Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) was subsumed into the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner (OIPC) upon its creation in 2025 and no longer exists. Prior to the transfer of its functions to the OIPC, StaCU was part of the Commission for Countering Extremism. The exercise referenced in StaCU's 2024-25 annual report was undertaken as part of its independent oversight function, and the report was commissioned and published independently of the Home Office. As the OIPC does not currently undertake social media monitoring, neither StaCU nor the OIPC has collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media websites since 1st March 2025.
The open-source observations described in StaCU’s 2024-25 annual report were gathered as part of a specific and time-limited exercise to better understand how the delivery of Prevent was being discussed online and assess whether social media observations could help identify complaints or concerns requiring StaCU’s investigation. StaCU received information from a media monitoring service that identified publicly available references to Prevent, including material from open-source social media websites. This was an exploratory exercise, not an ongoing monitoring function.
Neither the Home Office, StaCU as a unit, or the OIPC holds a list of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit still operating.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The former Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) was subsumed into the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner (OIPC) upon its creation in 2025 and no longer exists. Prior to the transfer of its functions to the OIPC, StaCU was part of the Commission for Countering Extremism. The exercise referenced in StaCU's 2024-25 annual report was undertaken as part of its independent oversight function, and the report was commissioned and published independently of the Home Office. As the OIPC does not currently undertake social media monitoring, neither StaCU nor the OIPC has collected any open-source observations about Prevent on social media websites since 1st March 2025.
The open-source observations described in StaCU’s 2024-25 annual report were gathered as part of a specific and time-limited exercise to better understand how the delivery of Prevent was being discussed online and assess whether social media observations could help identify complaints or concerns requiring StaCU’s investigation. StaCU received information from a media monitoring service that identified publicly available references to Prevent, including material from open-source social media websites. This was an exploratory exercise, not an ongoing monitoring function.
Neither the Home Office, StaCU as a unit, or the OIPC holds a list of people or organisations that criticise the Prevent programme.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will investigate whether British nationals serving in the Israel Defence Forces may have materially contributed to the occupation of Palestine.
Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK recognises the right of British dual nationals to serve in the legitimately recognised armed forces of the country of their other nationality. Nevertheless, as with any conflict, if you travel overseas to fight, or to assist others engaged in conflict, depending on the circumstances and evidence, your activities while fighting may amount to offences under UK law and you could be prosecuted on your return to the UK. Decisions on the investigation of any alleged criminal offences are a matter for the relevant authorities.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2026 to question UIN 27117, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of further international co-ordination on Public Country by Country Reporting.
Answered by James Murray - Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 10 September 2026 to Question UIN 27117.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will review the decision to exclude trainer aircraft components from arms export suspensions on Israel.
Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We assess that trainer aircraft are not used in Gaza and that they do not materially contribute to Israel's illegal occupation. We keep all licences under continuous and careful review.
Asked by: Iqbal Mohamed (Independent - Dewsbury and Batley)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether any goods, software, technology or equipment exported from the UK to Israel under extant export licences have been identified by his Department as being used for the operation, security, surveillance or management of Israeli prisons or detention facilities holding Palestinian detainees.
Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This Government would not issue or maintain an export licence where there is a clear risk the goods might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of Internal Humanitarian Law (IHL), including with respect to the treatment of detainees. Additionally, in light of the unlawful occupation, we will now refuse all licence applications to Israel for exports that materially contribute to the occupation.
We have also reviewed all extant licences for exports to Israel on the same basis. All licences are maintained under careful and continual review, and we can and will suspend or revoke licences where we assess them to be no longer compliant.