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Division Votes
3 Mar 2025 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context
Rupert Lowe voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 3 Reform UK No votes vs 0 Reform UK Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 339 Noes - 172
3 Mar 2025 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context
Rupert Lowe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 4 Reform UK Aye votes vs 0 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 347
3 Mar 2025 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context
Rupert Lowe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 3 Reform UK Aye votes vs 0 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 176 Noes - 332
3 Mar 2025 - Finance Bill - View Vote Context
Rupert Lowe voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 2 Reform UK Aye votes vs 0 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 113 Noes - 331


Speeches
Rupert Lowe speeches from: Business of the House
Rupert Lowe contributed 1 speech (66 words)
Thursday 6th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Rupert Lowe speeches from: English Football: Financial Sustainability and Governance
Rupert Lowe contributed 1 speech (255 words)
Thursday 6th March 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport


Written Answers
Proscribed Organisations
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Monday 3rd March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) investigated and (b) deported for supporting groups proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 in the last ten years by proscribed group.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government takes proscription offences very seriously. It is an offence under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for a person to invite support for a proscribed organisation or express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation.

Data on arrests, charges and convictions for the proscription offences in sections 11 to 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 can be found in the quarterly Home Office publication ‘Operation of Police Powers under the Terrorism Act 2000’.

The most recent publication was published on 12 December 2024 and includes data up to the year ending September 2024: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-tact-2000-to-september-2024.

Data is not published on investigations or deportations relating to section 12 offences. Data providers are not required to provide further detail on events leading to the arrest. Collecting and verifying the data requested to answer this question could only be done at disproportionate cost to the organisations responsible.

Diego Garcia: Military Bases
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Monday 3rd March 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 25 February 2025 on Defence and Security, Official Report, whether payments to Mauritius for the continued lease of the Diego Garcia military base will be included in the announced increase in defence spending.

Answered by Luke Pollard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

The terms of the treaty are still being finalised, once the treaty is finalised it will be put before Parliament for scrutiny in the usual way.

Access to Work Programme: Mental Illness
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Monday 3rd March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a list of mental health conditions that qualify for the access to work scheme.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

There is no list of mental health conditions that qualify for the Access to Work Scheme. Access to Work is available for all disabled people and those with a health condition who require workplace adjustments that go beyond what would normally be expected from an employer through their duty to provide reasonable adjustments as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.

Railways: Noise
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the powers of train conductors to tackle disruptive levels of noise on trains.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Train operating companies including their conductors can already use the Railway Byelaws to address disruptive levels of noise, and we have no plans to make changes to this currently. To ensure ease of travel and safety for everyone using the railway, the rules set out in Byelaws must be adhered to and enforcement action can be taken against those who do not comply with them.

Treasury: Aviation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) air miles and (b) flights she has completed since 5 July 2024.

Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

All overseas ministerial travel, including flight details is regularly published in transparency returns. These figures are scheduled to be published in due course.

Access to Work Programme
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people used Access to Work support in 2024; for what reasons; and what the cost to the public purse was of this.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The most recent complete financial year of data available in the published Access to Work official statistics is 2023/24: Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2024 - GOV.UK.

In 2023/24, around 61,630 people received a payment for any Access to Work provision and total expenditure across all provision was £257.8 million.

We have interpreted reasons for using Access to Work as being the primary medical condition reported by the individual. In 2023/24, the largest Access to Work customer group in terms of number of payments, by primary medical condition was those with a ‘Mental health condition’, who account for 27% (16,560) of the total number of customers. Those with the primary medical condition ‘Learning disability’ are the second most common group and make up 11% of customers (6,720 people). Those who are ‘Deaf or hard of hearing’ are in receipt of the highest proportion (30%) of total Access to Work expenditure.

The Department intends to publish data for the financial year 2024/25 in the next official statistics publication which has a provisional publication date of September or October 2025.

ICT: Personal Records
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to request access to encrypted personal data from (a) TikTok, (b) Alphabet, (c) Meta, (d) Amazon and (e) Microsoft.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Surveillance
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Apple devices have been accessed by her Department under surveillance legislation in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Cryptography: Apple
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the decision by Apple to withdraw its advanced data protection system in the UK on cybersecurity risks to (a) businesses, (b) journalists and (c) other people.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Cybersecurity
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

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 impact of introducing encryption backdoors for use by the Government on the risk of the exploitation of those backdoors by (a) foreign states and (b) cybercriminals.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Cryptography
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to publish regular transparency reports on the number of encryption-related demands her Department makes to (a) Apple and (b) other technology companies.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Cryptography: Apple
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Apple was directly instructed to disable its Advanced Data Protection encryption service for UK users.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Home Office: Apple
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings (a) she, (b) Ministers from her Department and (c) senior officials from her Department have had with Apple since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

Home Office Ministers and senior officials regularly meet with key stakeholders, including technology companies, on a range of policies and issues.

Details of ministerial meetings are published on a quarterly basis on gov.uk.

Home Office: Apple
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has requested access to Apple customers' personal data under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Cryptography: Apple
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of people affected by the removal of Apple's Advanced Data Protection.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.

Television Licences
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Wednesday 5th March 2025

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total number of TV licence fee payers was in each of the last ten years.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The BBC is responsible for collection of the TV licence via TV Licensing. TV Licensing publishes the number of licences in force in its Annual Review, which can be found here: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/our-performance-AB6

Access to Work Programme: Interviews
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Wednesday 5th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of interviews for the access to work scheme took place (a) remotely and (b) in person in 2024.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Customers applying for support from Access to Work can submit an online or written application. Interviews are only conducted for those customers requiring an assessment of their needs through one of our Holistic Assessment Providers. Customers are offered the choice of a virtual or face-to-face interview. In 2024, around 16,180 workplace assessments were held remotely and around 2,380 were held in person.

Please note:

  • The data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.
Access to Work Programme: Cost Benefit Analysis
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Wednesday 5th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the Access to Work scheme.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Department has not assessed the potential merits of conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the Access to Work scheme and currently does not have plans to do so.

Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Tuesday 4th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30518 on Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services, what the spend in social security benefits was on people receiving those interpretation services by language of interpretation.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

This information is not collected by DWP, and thus is not available.

Railways: Standards
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Wednesday 5th March 2025

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of people impacted by train delays in 2024.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department does not hold information on the number of people affected by train delays. Rail industry data measures train delays. The Office of Rail and Road publishes quarterly and periodic (four-weekly) statistics on punctuality, reliability and causes of delay for passenger trains operating on the mainline network in Great Britain.

This data set includes the percentage of recorded station stops that were arrived at ‘On Time’ (early or less than one minute after the scheduled time). In the year ending 4 January 2025, the proportion of station stops that were arrived at ‘On Time’ was 67.1%.

These statistics can be found on the passenger rail performance data portal at https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/ .

Greyhound Racing
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support greyhound racing in England.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

As the Secretary of State said recently, we have absolutely no plans to ban greyhound racing. We appreciate the joy it brings to many people in our country and the important contribution it makes to British cultural life and the rural economy, providing some 5400 jobs across Great Britain.

The industry is supported by voluntary contributions from participating bookmakers through the British Greyhound Racing Fund, which plays a crucial role in its growth and sustainability. The Government remains committed to ensuring voluntary contributions reflect the value of the sport to the betting industry.

Department for Education: Equality
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the total cost to the public purse for the provision of diversity, equality and inclusion courses for staff in her Department in 2024.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department spent £190,000 on diversity and inclusion learning and development courses in 2024, defined as courses where the main theme of the training is diversity, equality and inclusion.

Universal Credit: Foreign Nationals
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Wednesday 5th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of Universal Credit payments made to foreign nationals in 2024.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers.

Undocumented Migrants: Employment
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of raising the illegal working civil penalties to employers found to be hiring illegal migrants.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The civil penalties were recently raised in February 2024 to £45,000 per illegal worker for a first breach from £15,000, and up to £60,000 for repeat breaches from £20,000.

Visas: Migrant Workers
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of work visas that will be issued in 2025.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of work visas issued in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release. See the entry clearance visa data tables.

Future grant rates are very uncertain and liable to change.

Defence: Finance
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral statement by the Prime Minister of 26 February 2025 on Defence and Security, Official Report, column 631, on what his Department plans to spend the increase in defence spending.

Answered by Luke Pollard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

Full details will be set out in the Strategic Defence Review to be published in spring 2025.

Offenders: Deportation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of deported foreign national offenders that have illegally re-entered the UK in the last 12 months.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. The Home Office does not hold the requested data given that – by definition – anyone we know to be trying to enter the UK illegally will be refused entry.

Undocumented Migrants: Costs
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost of the public purse of all illegal migrants per migrant per year, excluding asylum seekers.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

Relevant data concerning Home Office expenditure on tackling illegal immigration is published on a routine basis in the Department's annual reports.

Offenders: Deportation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of deportations for involvement in grooming gangs did not take place due to the individual renouncing non-UK citizenship.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer he was given on 28 January to Question UIN 25838.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Internet
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide a breakdown of costs relating to her Department's podcast entitled First Draft.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The podcast was created and delivered as part of the DCMS Communications Teams' day to day work at no extra cost.

Offenders: Deportation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing lifetime entry bans for deported foreign national offenders.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

A deportation order requires a person to leave the UK and prohibits them from lawfully entering the UK while it remains in force. The Home Office does not hold the requested data given that – by definition – anyone we know to be trying to enter the UK illegally will be refused entry.

Visas: Overseas Students
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications to extend student visas were successful in 2024.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

Information on grants and refusals of extensions of stay to study is published in table EXE_D01, within the ‘Extensions detailed datasets’ file, at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK. The latest publication includes data up to 31st December 2024.

Universal Credit: Medical Certificates
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming Universal Credit received fit notes in 2024.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The number of people on Universal Credit in Great Britain who submitted an accepted fit note to the Department from January 2024 to September 2024 is 805,890.

Notes:

Numbers are rounded to 10.

Statistics have been provided to September 2024 in line with latest published statistics on fit notes.

Although most will have submitted Statements of Fitness for Work (fit notes), other forms of medical evidence that the Department accepts (e.g. hospital discharge letters) will be included in the totals.

Data was taken from Universal Credit analytical systems but results have not been quality assured to Official Statistics publication standard.

The Department regularly publishes Universal Credit Health Journey caseload statistics on Stat-Xplore including the monthly number of people on UC Health with a current fit-note.

Visas: Married People
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Thursday 6th March 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of spousal visas granted to people who were (a) first and (b) second cousins to their spouse in 2024.

Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)

I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 20 December 2024 in response to Question UIN 19992.

Swimming Pools: Closures
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public pools closed in 2024.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

Twelve swimming pools on sites owned by Local Authorities closed in 2024. In the same time period, six swimming pools have opened. Facilities may close for a number of reasons: this can include consolidating multiple older facilities into a modern, better located facility and decisions to close facilities are at the discretion of Local Authorities.

Levelling Up Fund: Coastal Areas
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the next tranche of levelling up funding is due to be paid to coastal towns.

Answered by Alex Norris - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Monitoring Returns determine the amount councils are paid in relation to each Levelling Up Fund project, with the next payments due in late March.

Public Expenditure: European Union
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid to the EU in 2024.

Answered by Darren Jones - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

HM Treasury will soon be publishing details of UK payments under the Financial Settlement in 2024 and its latest estimate for outstanding UK liabilities as at 31st December 2024, in the annual European Union Finances Statement. Publication is expected in Spring 2025.

Coal: Imports
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the (a) value and (b) volume of coal imported into the UK was in 2024.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Coal import data are published by HMRC in the Overseas Trade Data tables. The coal import value and volume for 2024 will be published in table G.2 of the Digest of UK Energy Statistics in July 2025.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Aviation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the total number of (a) air miles and (b) flights undertaken by his Department's staff in 2024.

Answered by Michael Shanks - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero had a total number of airmiles of 5,234,196 and total number of flights of 1768 in 2024.

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications were made to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme in 2024; and how many and what proportion of those applications were unsuccessful.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

9,554 applications were submitted to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme in 2024. 4,593 of these applications have now concluded, with 4,589, or 99.9% of, claims rejected.

Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders were granted temporary release in 2024.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

The number of foreign national offenders Released on Temporary Licence (ROTL) in 2024 is not available; this data forms a subset of ROTL data scheduled for future publication in April 2025. In accordance with the requirements of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, we may not give any early indication of the contents of this statistical report.

Prisoners: Transgender People
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of assaults committed by biological males serving a custodial sentence in a women-only facility in 2024.

Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

No such assaults have been reported.

Railways: Standards
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total number of minutes was by which trains were delayed in 2024.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The ORR publish statistics on delay minutes on their website at https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/ (Table 3184). In the year ending 4 January 2025, a total of 15,897,997 delay minutes (15.9 million) were recorded in Great Britain. For context, there were a total of 7,335,930 (7.3 million) trains planned in the calendar year January 2024 to December 2024 (Table 3123).

Of these trains, 85.2% were measured as either arriving within 5 minutes at the scheduled final destination time (for London, South-East, Regional and Scotland operators) or within 10 minutes of the final scheduled destination time (for long distance operators) (Table 3113, Public Performance Measure).

Ministers have been clear that rail services have been failing passengers, we need to improve services for passengers and deliver better value for money for the taxpayer.

The Rail Minister is meeting with the Managing Directors of all train operators and their Network Rail counterparts, to address poor performance and demand immediate action to raise standards.

Domicil: Taxation
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 7th March 2025

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people with non-domiciled tax status who permanently left the UK in each month of 2024.

Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government’s priority is improving the UK’s competitiveness internationally and securing economic growth. The non-dom reforms have been specifically designed to make the UK competitive with a modern, simple tax regime that is also fair. The reforms establish a tax regime for new residents, which is more attractive to new arrivals than the current rules.

The Government published a Tax Information and Impact Note for this policy on 30 October. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-changes-for-non-uk-domiciled-individuals/reforming-the-taxation-of-non-uk-domiciled-individuals.

There have always been relatively large flows of non-doms in and out of the UK every year. For example. in the latest HMRC statistics for tax year 2022/23, 8,000 non-doms left and 13,000 arrived.

We anticipate that some non-doms ineligible for the new regime will exit the UK in response to the changes. Taking this migration response into account, the OBR expects the non-dom reforms to raise £33.8 billion over the next five years to help fund the public services and investment projects needed to drive growth.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 28th February 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of laundrette services for irregular migrants housed in hotels through contracted services in 2024.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer I gave him on 2 December 2024 to Question UIN 15593.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 28th February 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of laundry services for irregular migrants housed in hotels in 2024.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The cost of laundry and cleaning services at hotels are included in the overall payment made for the use of each property rather than through any separate contractual arrangement.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 28th February 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of cleaning in hotels housing irregular migrants in 2024.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The cost of laundry and cleaning services at hotels are included in the overall payment made for the use of each property rather than through any separate contractual arrangement.

Undocumented Migrants: Hotels
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 28th February 2025

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-disclosure agreements were signed by staff in hotels hosting irregular migrants in each of the last five years.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is not responsible for the employment of staff in asylum hotels and is not aware of any such arrangements they may have signed.

Children: English Language
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Friday 28th February 2025

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children who do not speak English as a first language.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The department publishes information on whether a pupil’s first language is known or believed to be other than English. This data can be found in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication, which is based on the January school census. The most recent figures are available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

A pupil is recorded to have English as an additional language if they are exposed to a language at home that is known or believed to be other than English. This measure is not a measure of English language proficiency or a good proxy for recent immigration.




Rupert Lowe mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
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Parliamentary Research
Estimates Day debate: The spending of the Department of Health and Social Care - CDP-2025-0049
Feb. 28 2025

Found: NHS: Finance 11 November 2024 | UIN 12311 Asked by: Rupert Lowe To ask the Secretary of State for



Bill Documents
Mar. 05 2025
Bill 155 2024-25 (as introduced)
Quantitative Easing (Prohibition) Bill 2024-26
Bill

Found: Presented by Rupert Lowe supported by Richard Tice, Jim Allister, James McMurdock and Lee Anderson.