Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards exist to ensure that faith-based guidance distributed in support of vaccination programmes is clearly distinguishable from official public-health advice.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government provides guidance to schools on supporting the delivery of school-aged vaccination programmes, directing them to work with NHS-commissioned School Aged Immunisation Services and providing NHS and UK Health Security Agency vaccine information and resources to be shared with parents and carers. Any additional materials used by individual schools are a matter for them, and the Government plays no role in disseminating or endorsing any such materials.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance exists for schools on distributing healthcare materials produced by faith-based organisations alongside NHS vaccination information.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government provides guidance to schools on supporting the delivery of school-aged vaccination programmes, directing them to work with NHS-commissioned School Aged Immunisation Services and providing NHS and UK Health Security Agency vaccine information and resources to be shared with parents and carers. Any additional materials used by individual schools are a matter for them, and the Government plays no role in disseminating or endorsing any such materials.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times (a) her Department, (b) Border Force and (c) a contractor acting on their behalf directed a search and rescue vessel to (i) suspend, (ii) disable, or (iii) otherwise cease transmitting Automatic Identification System data since 1 January 2020.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
Responsibility for the coordination and tasking of search and rescue operations within the UK Search and Rescue Region rests with HM Coastguard, an agency of the Department for Transport. The Home Office does not comment on operational tactics, capabilities or procedures relating to maritime operations. You may therefore wish to direct questions concerning the operation of search and rescue vessels to the Secretary of State for Transport.
AIS transmission is not mandatory for all vessels, however where it is used the ultimate authority and absolute discretion to deactivate AIS rests solely with the ship's Master. While nation states can issue official advisories or requests suggesting that vessels turn off AIS in specific high-risk zones, the Master retains professional judgment to comply if the safety or security of the vessel is genuinely compromised. Any instance of switching off the AIS must be properly recorded in the ship's official logbook with the time, position, detailed reason, and subsequent reactivation details. The Home Office has not issued any official advisories to search and rescue vessels operating in UK waters to deactivate AIS transmissions.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office, Border Force and any person acting under their authority has the power to require, request and advise search and rescue vessels, including RNLI lifeboats, to deactivate and suspend Automatic Identification System transmissions.
Answered by Anna Turley - Minister of State (Home Office)
Responsibility for the coordination and tasking of search and rescue operations within the UK Search and Rescue Region rests with HM Coastguard, an agency of the Department for Transport. The Home Office does not comment on operational tactics, capabilities or procedures relating to maritime operations. You may therefore wish to direct questions concerning the operation of search and rescue vessels to the Secretary of State for Transport.
AIS transmission is not mandatory for all vessels, however where it is used the ultimate authority and absolute discretion to deactivate AIS rests solely with the ship's Master. While nation states can issue official advisories or requests suggesting that vessels turn off AIS in specific high-risk zones, the Master retains professional judgment to comply if the safety or security of the vessel is genuinely compromised. Any instance of switching off the AIS must be properly recorded in the ship's official logbook with the time, position, detailed reason, and subsequent reactivation details. The Home Office has not issued any official advisories to search and rescue vessels operating in UK waters to deactivate AIS transmissions.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on (a) the average call answer time and (b) time spent on hold for people calling the HMRC employers general enquiries line in the last year.
Answered by James Murray - Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
HMRC’s average call answer time for the Employers helpline in 2025/26 was 24 minutes 50 seconds. The definition of ‘average call answer time’ is the average time spent waiting in the queue for an adviser. This is from the time that the customer finished listening to HMRC’s automated messages and completed their selection from HMRC’s automated menu to the time when they get to speak to an adviser.
The average time spent on hold was 2 minutes 14 seconds. This measures the time after a call has been answered by an adviser when the caller is subsequently put on hold.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) independent assurance, (b) external audit and (c) third-party review was conducted on the (i) cancellation and (ii) remediation cost estimates contained in, or used to inform, the document entitled High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 1: decision to continue delivery following programme reset – Accounting Officer Assessment summary (May 2026), updated on 19 May 2026.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The cancellation and remediation cost estimate assumptions were initially assured within HS2 Ltd. The analysis was then reviewed and assured by the Department of Transport, including the Department’s independent project advisors. As part of the Accounting Officer Assessment process, the analysis was independently reviewed by the Department’s Economic Centre of Excellence. The HS2 reset has, and continues to receive, Parliamentary scrutiny.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has carried out a review of the Greater Manchester Housing Investment Loans Fund to determine whether lending decisions were made in accordance with relevant borrower concentration limits and subsidy control, valuation, monitoring surveyor, governance and external audit requirements.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
My Department has not carried out a review of individual lending decisions made through the Greater Manchester Housing Investment Loan Fund against the requirements listed.
As a combined authority, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is subject to statutory overview and scrutiny arrangements and has separate Overview and Scrutiny and Audit Committees.
GMCA has also published details of the governance and due diligence arrangements applying specifically to the Fund.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's Research, Information and Communications Unit provides guidance or briefings to police Family Liaison Officers assigned to the families of crime victims.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
RICU does not provide guidance or briefings to police Family Liaison Officers assigned to the families of crime victims.
RICU provides analysis on terrorist use of propaganda and exploitation of the internet to inform the UK’s counter-terrorism system. All activity complies with relevant legislation. RICU works with a range of partners across HMG to support this counter-terrorism mission, including Counter Terrorism Policing.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Student Loans Company funding was paid in respect of students studying at campuses operated by UK Management College in the latest academic year for which figures are available.
Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
To the nearest 10, the number of students studying courses run by UK Management College in receipt of Student Loans Company (SLC) support in the 2024/25 academic year was 3,360, as of 31 August 2025.
To the nearest million, the total amount of Student Finance England funding paid to students studying courses run by UK Management College in receipt of SLC support for the 2024/25 academic year was £62 million, as of 31 August 2025.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students studying at campuses operated by UK Management College were in receipt of Student Loans Company support in the latest academic year for which figures are available.
Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
To the nearest 10, the number of students studying courses run by UK Management College in receipt of Student Loans Company (SLC) support in the 2024/25 academic year was 3,360, as of 31 August 2025.
To the nearest million, the total amount of Student Finance England funding paid to students studying courses run by UK Management College in receipt of SLC support for the 2024/25 academic year was £62 million, as of 31 August 2025.