Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 14 February 2025 to Question 30619 on Deportation and (b) 25 February 2025 to Question 33426, how many appeals against deportation orders have sought to rely on rights under the ECHR in the most recent period for which figures are available for and in which a manual review would not be of disproportionate cost.

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

The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on how many days she has worked from her Department's office in Wolverhampton since 4 July 2024.

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

The Deputy Prime Minister and ministerial team work from a number of locations and offices across the country. The Deputy Prime Minister does not regularly work from the Wolverhampton office or Darlington Campus.

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent roles there are in his Department relating to equality, diversity and inclusion; and how many of those roles are unfilled but budgeted for.

Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 26 September 2024 to Question 5190 to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe).

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-10/5190

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 30616 on Asylum: Health Services, if she will make it her policy to collect information on the amount spent by local authorities on services to support (a) refugees and (b) people seeking asylum to access healthcare services.

Answered by Jim McMahon - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

As set out in my answer to Question 30616, the department does not hold this information to the level requested. At this time, line 49 in the local authority expenditure and financing statistics accounts for services or interventions for asylum seekers, including:

• Supported access to health, housing or education services
• Language/interpreter support
• Providing advice and information
• Access to legal advice

MHCLG engages with local authorities and other government departments to understand what data is a priority to capture within the local authority expenditure and financing statistics, and considers making changes on a case by case basis. At present, we do not have plans to collect additional information on local authority spend on refugees.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 33002 on Asylum: Finance, if she will make an estimate of the number of top-up payments made to Asylum Support Enablement Cards in each week since 4 July 2024.

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

I refer the Honourable Member to the Answer he received on 3 March 2025 to UIN 33002.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish her Department's advice issued to Cambridgeshire County Council in relation to plans to expand the number of places at Meadowgate Academy in Wisbech.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

In February 2021, the department approved the expansion of Meadowgate Academy by 60 places. The department has not provided advice to Cambridgeshire County Council on plans to expand the number of places.

Found: We did not receive a response to the first letter, to Rt Hon Steve Barclay.

Found: March 2025 at 10.00 am Meeting in the Speaker’s Study Present: The Speaker, in the Chair Steve Barclay

Found: Resolved, That Steve Barclay and Dr Andrew Murrison be Members of the Finance Committee.