Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the use of the Unlawful Combatants Law to detain Palestinian doctors.

Answered by Stephen Doughty - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK government has regularly engaged with Israeli counterparts to express deep concern about the detention and treatment in detention of Palestinian doctors and other detainees. We have been consistently clear that all detainees, including doctors, must be treated with dignity and in full accordance with international law we have been clear that any allegations of torture or mistreatment must be thoroughly investigated.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether processes are in place to manually decouple British citizens' biometric profiles from persons of interest once a false-positive match can be established at e-gates.

Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The eGates check biometric details of passengers against their passports, whilst a separate biographic check is made against watchlists of persons of interest.

Where a watchlist match is subsequently assessed as a false positive, capability to further distinguish between subjects of interest and false positive matches is restricted to a limited number of watchlist entry types. The Home Office continues to invest in improvements to identity matching and identification processes to reduce false positive matches.

Found: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour; Lewisham North) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative; Droitwich and Evesham) Dr Rupa Huq

Found: Rochford) Vicky Foxcroft (Labour; Lewisham North) Damian Hinds (Conservative; East Hampshire) Dr Rupa Huq

Found: Rochford) Vicky Foxcroft (Labour; Lewisham North) Damian Hinds (Conservative; East Hampshire) Dr Rupa Huq

Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Chair); Mr Bayo Alaba; Dr Rupa Huq; Liz Jarvis

Found: Watch the meeting Members present: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Chair); Mr Bayo Alaba; Dr Rupa Huq; Liz Jarvis

Found: of the public bill committee The Health Bill Committee was chaired by Sir Roger Gale (Con), Dr Rupa Huq

Submit Evidence (by 4 Nov 2026)

The committee will examine the department's progress in delivering 'Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy', which was published in December 2025.