Every parliamentary written question tabled by Carla Lockhart this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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If her Department will publish a Northern Ireland-specific asylum expenditure table covering accommodation, subsistence, healthcare-related support, education-related support, legal support, transport, security, integration and contract administration since 2019.
Awaiting answer.
What Northern Ireland-specific data her Department holds but does not publish on asylum, immigration enforcement, removals and foreign national offenders.
Awaiting answer.
How many complaints, contract failures, service credits and financial penalties have been recorded against asylum accommodation providers in Northern Ireland since 2019.
Awaiting answer.
What sums her Department disbursed on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland in each month since January 2020.
Awaiting answer.
Whether Northern Ireland-specific performance data are collected under(a) the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts and (b) the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility contract.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals in Northern Ireland prisons, broken down by (a) nationality, (b) sentence status, (c) offence type and (d) immigration status.
Awaiting answer.
What total revenue accrued to the Exchequer from (a) the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, (b) carbon taxes, (c) related environmental levies and (d) other carbon pricing mechanisms, in the latest year for which figures are available.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate she has made of the fiscal cost to the Exchequer of (a) subsidies and (b) tax incentives relating to (i) electric vehicles, (ii) heat pumps, (iii) home retrofit schemes and (iv) decarbonisation grants.
Awaiting answer.
What assessment he has made of the impact of decarbonisation policy costs on (a) industrial energy prices and (b) the international competitiveness of UK industry.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate she has made of the total public expenditure committed to achieving net zero by 2050, including projected liabilities, broken down by year and department.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate he has made of the cost of balancing payments, constraint payments and grid reinforcement associated with intermittent renewable generation.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate he has made of the cost to households of environmental and social obligation policy costs included in (a) electricity and (b) gas bills in each of the last 10 years.
Awaiting answer.
What her planned timetable is for the implementation of (a) the proposed changes to lender reporting practices to Credit Reference Agencies to mitigate the impact of coerced debt on credit files and (b) the other Financial Inclusion Strategy measures relating to victim-survivors of economic abuse.
The Government published its Financial Inclusion Strategy last year, which sets out an ambitious programme of measures for Government and the financial services sector to improve financial inclusion. The overall Strategy will be reviewed two years from publication to provide an update on the implementation of specific interventions. The Strategy considers economic abuse as a key theme across the different areas and seeks to support victim-survivors and help them to regain financial independence through industry interventions to increase access to banking services and inform the insurance sector’s approach to economic abuse. Credit reference agencies, lenders, the expert charity, Surviving Economic Abuse, and wider consumer representatives, are also working closely to develop an approach which improves the impact of coerced debt on victim-survivors’ credit files. This is a complex area with ongoing work needed to ensure any change to the data on a credit file does not negatively affect victim-survivors’ ability to secure credit in future and that they are able to confirm that it is safe for their provider to make changes. Positive progress is being made with updates to follow in due course.
If he will publish a comprehensive balance sheet of direct, indirect and contingent costs associated with meeting net zero targets.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate he has made of the contribution of net zero-related costs to the retail price per litre of (a) petrol and (b) diesel.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate she has made of the total annual value of (a) direct and (b) indirect taxpayer-funded subsidies supporting net zero policies and programmes, broken down by scheme.
Tax reliefs for net zero policies and programmes can be found in the ‘estimated cost of tax reliefs’ document here: Tax reliefs - GOV.UK. To support net zero, government has allocated £65bn in capital spending to clean energy, climate and nature including nuclear across 2025/26 to 2029/30- an average of £16bn a year.
What estimate she has made of the proportion of (a) fuel duty, (b) VAT on fuel, and (c) other motoring taxes that is attributable (i) directly and (ii) indirectly to net zero-related policies.
Awaiting answer.
What estimate she has made of the costs to motorists arising from (a) emissions compliance costs, (b) electric vehicle transition policies and (c) other net zero transport policies.
Awaiting answer.
What comparative assessment he has made of the opportunity cost of (a) public expenditure on net zero policies and (b) alternative uses, including tax reduction and energy bill relief.
Awaiting answer.
What (a) subsidies, (b) grants, (c) contracts for difference payments, and (d) other support mechanisms have been provided for renewable generation since 2010; and what the cumulative cost to taxpayers has been.
For a breakdown of billpayer funding see:Feed-in Tariffs Annual Report: Scheme Year 15 April 2024 to March 2025 - OfgemEconomic and fiscal outlook – March 2026 - Office for Budget Responsibility To note: These billpayer funded levy figures are not equivalent to net impacts on bill payers, as renewable deployment has also suppressed wholesale prices over this period.