Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the collection 'Employers: illegal working penalties', last updated on 9th September 2026, whether the Department will publish or provide a record of all illegal working civil penalties issued to UK employers from 1 January 2016, including, for each penalty, the liable party, the business name at which the illegal workers were encountered, the address, postcode and final value of penalty.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
Since 1 January 2016, the Home Office publishes a report each quarter which includes details of illegal working civil penalties naming employers who have:
Non-compliant publications dating back to 1 January 2016 can be found on the National Archive website.
The Department does not plan to publish a record of all illegal working civil penalties issued to UK employers but will continue to keep the policy under review.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average hourly earnings by single year of age for those aged (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20, (f) 21, (g) 22, (h) 23, (i) 24 and (j) 25 were in each year between 1997 and 2010.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 15th September is attached.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2026 to Question 28021, for what reason a breakdown of asylum claimants who previously held a study visa by sponsoring institution is not currently published.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data. These reviews allow us to balance the production of our regular statistics whilst developing new statistics for future releases.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 70 of the Environment Agency's Annual Report and Accounts 2015/6, if she will provide a breakdown of the £50.2m spent by the Environment Agency in Hired and Contracted Services in 2015/6.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Breakdown of the £50.2 million spent by the Environment Agency in Hired and Contracted Services in 2015/6:
Category | Amount (£m) |
Contracted services (including flood maintenance activities and maintenance of Flood, Hydrometry & Telemetry, and Waterways assets) | 30.8 |
Information Communications Technology (ICT) Contracted services (i.e. building, servicing and maintaining digital and communication technology systems and data) | 19.4 |
Total | 50.2 |
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department and the MHRA are taking to enforce restrictions on the advertising of cannabis-based products for medicinal use on social media.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 1 June in response to Question 3220.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she considers the volume of prescriptions issued for cannabis-based products for medicinal use to be consistent with patient safety.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 1 June in response to Question 3220.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 are held in (a) low, (b) medium and (c) high secure hospitals as of the latest date for which figures are available.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 were discharged from hospital in the most recent 12 months for which data is available, broken down by section.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are currently detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983, broken down by section.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England publishes annual Mental Health Act Statistics, including the total number of people detained under the Mental Health Act on 31 March each year. The latest data is available at the link below, and new data for the year ending 31 March 2026 will be published on 15 October:
Table 8a in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures, 2024-25, available at the following link, provides information on discharges from hospital under court and prison disposal provisions, excluding Community Treatment Orders, broken down by section:
Figures are provided for both the number of discharges, and the length of detention. Data on patients detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act 1983 is not broken down by hospital security level.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were ineligible for government-funded childcare in 2023/4, 2024/5 and 2025/6 as a result of the £100,000 earnings limit; and what her Department's estimate is of the value of funded childcare unavailable to those families.
Answered by Paul Waugh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The £100,000 adjusted net income per year threshold applies to the working-parent entitlement and Tax-Free Childcare, rather than to all forms of government childcare support. Children aged three-and-four years old who were ineligible for the working parent entitlement due to the £100,000 threshold would have still been able to access 15 hours of childcare support through the 15-hour universal childcare entitlement.
We are able to release estimates of the number of children ineligible for working parent funded childcare entitlements, because of a parent exceeding the £100,000
threshold.
Year (July to following June) | 2019/ 2020 | 2020/ 2021 | 2021/ 2022 | 2022/ 2023 | 2023/ 2024 | 2024/ 2025 | 2025/ 2026 |
Total children (range, rounded to the nearest 100) | 11,800 - 23,400 | 12,300 - 24,300 | 13,800 - 27,100 | 15,500 - 28,900 | 15,600 - 30,800 | 46,400 - 91,300 | 50,500 - 99,000 |
Total value of hours (range, rounded to the nearest million) | £44m - £88m | £46m - £91m | £52m - £101m | £55m - £108m | £58m - £115m | £239-469m | £446m - £874m |
The following caveats should be noted for this analysis: