Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 6 July 2026 to question 14924, what the breakdown is of capital spending in 2024/5 in the category of Other School Funding (Department); and whether any reductions in capital budgets announced in the Defence Investment Plan have been allocated to this spending line.

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

The capital spending recorded under the ‘Other School Funding (Department)’ category in Supplementary Estimates 2024/25 was £1,752 million. This is comprised of funding lines, notably the School Rebuilding Programme, and funding to remove reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which the department has already confirmed remains unaffected, as well as some smaller spending lines such as investment for the ‘Connect the Classroom’ programme.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the UK Visas and Immigration's document entitled Register of licensed sponsors: students, updated on 8 July 2026, how many students were sponsored by each Higher Education Institution listed as a student sponsor in the most recent year for which data is available.

Answered by Mike Tapp

The Home Office does not publish sponsored study visa data broken down by individual Higher Education Institution. However, published data on sponsored study visas is available in the Home Office’s immigration statistics at: Student sponsor guidance - GOV.UK.

The Home Office does not routinely publish a breakdown of sponsor-compliance decisions by assessment type.

Further information is available in the published Sponsor Guidance and the Sponsor Compliance Visits Guidance on GOV.UK: Sponsorship: guidance for employers and educators - GOV.UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of UKVI sponsor-compliance decisions are made via a) desk-based assessments and b) on-site visits.

Answered by Mike Tapp

The Home Office does not publish sponsored study visa data broken down by individual Higher Education Institution. However, published data on sponsored study visas is available in the Home Office’s immigration statistics at: Student sponsor guidance - GOV.UK.

The Home Office does not routinely publish a breakdown of sponsor-compliance decisions by assessment type.

Further information is available in the published Sponsor Guidance and the Sponsor Compliance Visits Guidance on GOV.UK: Sponsorship: guidance for employers and educators - GOV.UK.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Department of Work and Pensions Freedom of Information Act response, reference FOI2026/51669 dated 6 June 2026, how many WCA decisions for non-ESA transition claimants in the period January 2022 to February 2026 were recorded as having a mental and behavioural disorder as their only recorded medical condition.

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

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Department of Work and Pensions Freedom of Information Act response, reference FOI2026/51669 dated 6 June 2026, what proportion of WCA decisions for non-ESA transition claimants in the period January 2022 to February 2026 were recorded as having conditions in a) two, b) three and c) four or more ICD-10 chapters.

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

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to answer question 14925 from the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston.

Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The answer to question 14925 was published on 14 July 2026.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on forensic support services in each year since 2013/14 by a) high, b) medium and c) low secure services.

Answered by Preet Kaur Gill

The following table shows spending on forensic support services according to high, medium and low secure services between 2013/14 and 2023/24, the most recent year for which data is available:

Source: NHS England, Regional Spend Analysis

Notes:

1. 2020/21 figures were not collected due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. There is other spending categorised as “forensic” which is not specifically related to high, medium and low secure services.

The following table shows the number of unique patients who were being cared for in forensic support services in each year since 2016/17, the earliest year for which data is available, broken down by high, medium and low secure services:

Source: NHS England

Notes:

1. The earliest reporting period available from the Specialised Mental Health Patient-Level Dataset is 2016/17. From 2021/22 onwards, the data has been sourced from the Mental Health Services Dataset.

2. The figures represent unique patients within each service category and financial year. However, for unique patients, this is not a distinct count of all patients across secure services. A patient may therefore be counted more than once in the total if they moved between security levels during the same financial year.

3. The same patient may also appear across multiple financial years.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to answer question 14926 from the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston.

Answered by Samantha Dixon

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 14926 on 14 July 2026.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2026 to Question 4373 on Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment and with reference to the Freedom of Information Act response with reference FOI2026/51669, disclosed on 6 July 2026, if he will publish that response.

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

Responses to Freedom of Information requests are considered to be public. The requester can share the response if they so wish.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14422 and the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 12225, if she will provide the total spending in the category of Purchase of Goods, Services and Other Expenditure by the following bodies in the following years: i) Cabinet Office, 2023/4; ii) Central Funds, 2023/4; iii) FCDO, 2024/5; iv) HMRC, 2024/5; v) Navy, Army and Air Force Institute, 2023/4; vi) National Nuclear Laboratory, 2023/4; vii) National Physics Laboratory 2023; and viii) UK Hydrographic Office, 2024/5.

Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)

The relevant information in the case of the listed entities is not publicly available.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to section 5 of the Government Efficiency Framework, if he will publish the most recent quarterly efficiency report provided by the Food Standards Agency.

Answered by Sharon Hodgson

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) does not provide efficiency reporting to HM Treasury under the Government’s Efficiency Framework. This reflects an agreement between HM Treasury and the FSA, recognising the FSA’s size and the proportionate reporting requirements that apply to smaller departments. Consequently, there is no efficiency report available. The FSA continues to progress organisational change and transformation activity to improve efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring it is well placed to meet future demands and deliver its objectives.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the capital budget reduction from 2026/7 to 2029/30 on his Department's delivery of its spending plans, and where reductions have been allocated to meet the budget reduction, with particular reference to the capital spending in Voted Expenditure on page 278 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2026/7 in the following categories: i) Housing and Planning, ii) Local Growth and Devolution, iii) Housing and Planning (ALB)(net) and iv) Integrated Settlements for Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities.

Answered by Samantha Dixon

Departments have been asked to contribute 1p in every £1 of their capital budgets to fund this Government’s Defence Investment Plan, helping keep the country safe in an increasingly volatile world.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will set out further impacts on specific policies and programmes in due course.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the capital budget reduction from 2026/7 to 2029/30 on her Department's delivery of its spending plans; and where reductions have been allocated to meet the budget reduction, with particular reference to the capital spending in Voted Expenditure on page 278 of the Central Government Supply Estimates 2026/7 in the following categories: i) Food and Farming, ii) Improve the environment and rural services, iii) Protect the country from floods (ALB) and iv) Animal, marine and plant health.

Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Departments have been asked to contribute 1p in every £1 of their capital budgets to fund this Government’s Defence Investment Plan, helping keep the country safe in an increasingly volatile world.

Defra will set out further impacts on specific policies and programmes in due course.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for a breakdown of the programme gross spend and income of RDEL in the Housing and Planning Estimate Line in FY 2024/5, with reference to MHCLG's Annual Report 2024/5, SoPS 1.1.

Answered by Samantha Dixon

The Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 reports the figures for both spend and income across all Estimate Lines. For the Housing and Planning Estimate Line in SoPS 1.1, total gross expenditure is stated as £1.583bn with the major items of expenditure, and corresponding links for further information, as follows:

Expenditure

• Homelessness Prevention Grant: 2023 to 2025 - GOV.UK
• New Homes Bonus allocation table: final local government finance settlement 2024 to 2025 - GOV.UK
• Rough Sleeping Initiative: 2022 to 2025 updated funding allocations - GOV.UK
• Rough sleeping winter pressures 2024-25 funding allocations - GOV.UK Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant 2022 to 2025 funding allocations - GOV.UK
• Local Authority Domestic Abuse Duty: 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 funding allocations - GOV.UK

For the Housing and Planning Estimate Line in SoPS 1.1, income is stated as £0.033bn. The main item of income is from the Planning Inspectorate, and further detail can be found here:

Income:

• Planning Inspectorate Annual Report and Accounts 2024 – 2025 – GOV.UK.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his answers to questions 8173 and 13206, in particular that the Get Britain Working initiative has been allocated £240m in 2025/6, if he will publish a breakdown of expected spending across the GBW initiative for the financial years i) 2026/7, ii) 2027/8 and iii) 2028/9.

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

Get Britain Working (GBW) is a strategic objective, capturing several activities across the Department, each programme linked to GBW will report its’ spend against allocated budget. However, DWP do not report financial information in a way that consolidates all GBW related activities, over the Spending Review period (SR25).

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individuals have received student loans from the Student Loans Company over the past 20 academic years, broken down by nationality.

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

The data for the 2020/21 to 2024/24 academic years has previously been published in the attached file.

The department and the Student Loans Company (SLC) have recently strengthened the quality and consistency of their data and now hold robust information on current borrowers’ UK national status and nationality. However, due to GDPR requirements, records are not retained indefinitely. Borrowers whose loans were fully repaid or written off more than six years ago are removed from SLC systems.

As a result, the department does not hold a complete dataset with robust and consistent nationality information over this 20-year time-period. Figures on the number of borrowers by academic year and nationality across the full-time series will therefore not fully reflect historical trends in nationality of borrowers.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many overseas borrowers currently classified as non-compliant by the Student Loans Company had their first student loan disbursed in each academic year since 2005, broken down by nationality.

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

The attached table shows the number of overseas borrowers currently classified as non-compliant by the Student Loans Company (SLC), broken down by the academic year of their first student loan and their nationality.

The population includes all borrowers issued loans by Student Finance England from 2005 to 2024 which are now due for repayment and have an outstanding balance. Borrowers are included if they have any loan which is now liable to repay, they are known to be overseas and they have either defaulted in arrears or been placed in arrears as they have not provided details of their income to SLC. For borrowers in arrears, the SLC may use a debt collection agency to pursue them. Each borrower is listed only once against the year of their first student loan.

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