Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that students from countries experiencing armed conflict who have been awarded scholarships at UK universities can take up their places; and what steps her Department is taking to provide assistance with (a) visas, (b) travel, and (c) provision for their dependants.

Answered by Mike Tapp

The UK welcomes students affected by conflict who wish to come to the UK through existing immigration routes. All individuals, including eligible dependants, must meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules and are subject to robust security and visa checks.

The UK has a proud history of offering protection to those most in need. In the Restoring Order and Control statement published last year, alongside the measures to get control of the asylum system, this Government committed to introduce new safe and legal routes to offer sanctuary to those genuinely fleeing war and persecution from around the world.

As part of this, we will be introducing a new route for refugee and displaced students to study in the UK, helping talented refugees to continue their studies and realise their potential.

As confirmed in the Foreign Secretary’s statement of 24 June 2026, the Government has renewed support for high achieving students from Gaza and their eligible dependants to take up fully funded scholarships at UK universities for the 2026/27 academic year.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent to which services supporting adopted and looked after children meet their needs.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation on the future of adoption support, the department is seeking evidence from groups including young people, adopters and carers about the support they would like to see made available, including as young people navigate key transition points. We plan to publish our response later in the year.

Our Implementation Plan, ‘Delivering the Children’s Social Care Reset’, sets out an ambitious programme of change across children’s social care so that young people have opportunities to thrive however challenging their experiences have been. The plan can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/delivering-the-childrens-social-care-reset.

Our Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act will drive forward our reforms and place a new duty on local authorities to provide Staying Close support to care leavers up to the age of 25 and to publish information about their arrangements to support care leavers’ transition to adulthood.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve services to support adopted and looked after children transitioning to adulthood.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation on the future of adoption support, the department is seeking evidence from groups including young people, adopters and carers about the support they would like to see made available, including as young people navigate key transition points. We plan to publish our response later in the year.

Our Implementation Plan, ‘Delivering the Children’s Social Care Reset’, sets out an ambitious programme of change across children’s social care so that young people have opportunities to thrive however challenging their experiences have been. The plan can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/delivering-the-childrens-social-care-reset.

Our Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act will drive forward our reforms and place a new duty on local authorities to provide Staying Close support to care leavers up to the age of 25 and to publish information about their arrangements to support care leavers’ transition to adulthood.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements are in place to ensure that claimants who have previously received support from a Disability Employment Advisor are known to all staff interacted with.

Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

To ensure customers with complex barriers receive the right support from Jobcentres, our Disability Employment Advisers offer direct support (1-2-1) to customers on top of the help provided by their work coach or Pathways to Work Adviser. Using their knowledge of the local community, Disability Employment Advisers also collaborate with local organisations (e.g. GPs, NHS, charities) to facilitate support that meets customer needs.

Throughout the customer health journey, Disability Employment Advisers assist work coaches and Pathways to Work Advisers with tailoring their support to help disabled customers and those with long-term health conditions move closer to and into the labour market. This includes ensuring that the customer’s support needs are noted in the additional support record on the Universal Credit live service operating system.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the needs of people with autism are understood and accommodated by police forces.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The College of Policing set the professional standards for police in England and Wales. The College’s core guidance includes the initial training for officers under the Policing Education Qualifications Framework which incorporates autism, learning disabilities, mental health and vulnerabilities. Through this, officers are taught to assess vulnerability and amend their approaches as required.

The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) have established a National Neurodiversity Working Group whose work includes supporting police forces to design and deliver a service to be proud of relating to neurodivergent victims, witnesses, suspects, and residents.

Through this working group the NPCC are seeking to pull together examples and knowledge of good practice, to help share thinking to help each autonomous force find solutions to their local challenges.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration he has given to reviewing criteria for those in receipt of Attendance Allowance to be able to access to the Motability scheme.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)

Attendance Allowance is intended to help those with a severe disability who have long term care or supervision needs which arise after reaching State Pension age. Government mobility support is focused on people who are disabled earlier in life; developing mobility needs in older life is a normal consequence of ageing, which non-disabled younger people have had opportunity to plan and save for.

There is no constraint on what an award of Attendance Allowance can be spent on, and a recipient may choose to use this benefit to fund mobility aids.

Qualifying benefits for the Motability Scheme are the enhanced rate mobility component Personal Independence Payment (enhanced rate mobility component Adult Disability Payment in Scotland), higher rate mobility component Disability Living Allowance (higher rate mobility component Child Disability Payment in Scotland), Armed Forces Independence Payment and War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement.

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