Nick Thomas-Symonds

68482 • House of Lords Composition

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 19 June 2025, on House of Lords Appointments, HCWS718, whether the Prime Minister has a target size for the number of sitting peers in the House of Lords.

68359 • EU Law

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has been made of the potential impact of dynamic alignment with EU law under the 2025 UK-EU Common Understanding on the constitution.

67140 • Procurement: International Humanitarian Law

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the recent UN report A/HRC/59/23 entitled, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, published on 16 June 2025, whether his Department will consider updating procurement processes to ensure companies implicated in genocide do not receive (a) public money and (b) Government contracts.

67141 • Procurement: International Humanitarian Law

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, published on 16 June 2025, whether he is taking steps to review contracts with companies listed in the report.

67142 • Procurement: International Humanitarian Law

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, published on 16 June 2025, what steps he is taking to raise concerns on the accusations contained within the report with (a) UK-based companies and (b) companies with UK government contracts listed in the report.

68483 • House of Lords Appointments Commission

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62990 on House of Lords Appointments Commission, what the Government’s policy is on the number of Non-Party Political Life Peers proposed by HOLAC who will be created each individual year of this Parliament.

68721 • Church of Ireland

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will take steps to re-establish the Church of Ireland as the established church of Northern Ireland.

69065 • Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the timeliness of payments of compensation to the victims of infected blood.

68292 • Infected Blood Inquiry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's planned timetable is for responding to the Additional Report by the Infected Blood Inquiry, published on 9 July 2025.

68259 • Independent Review of the Windsor Framework

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish a response to the Independent Review of the Windsor Framework.

67904 • Universities: Fees and Charges

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 60489 on Universities: Fees and Charges, whether young people from EU member states coming to the UK under the proposed UK-EU youth mobility scheme would pay international student fees.

68119 • George Cross Committee

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 66338 on George Cross Committee, when the decisions of the George Cross Committee are notified to applicants.

67747 • Independent Review of the Windsor Framework

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 24053 on Independent Review of the Windsor Framework, what steps he has taken to ensure the (a) support arrangements for that review were independent and (b) independence of the review process in general.

65879 • Ethics and Integrity Commission: Correspondence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has received any correspondence from external organisations on the Ethics and Integrity Commission since 4 July 2024.

65677 • Infected Blood Inquiry: Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is planning to take to (a) consult further with the infected blood community and (b) involve that community in the development of the Government's response to the Infected Blood Inquiry.

66338 • George Cross Committee

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when (a) was the most recent and (b) is the next scheduled meeting of the George Cross Committee.

65678 • Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the equality impact assessments undertaken in relation to the development of regulations on infected blood compensation.

65679 • Infected Blood Compensation Authority: Operating Costs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of the (a) establishment and (b) ongoing administration of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.

65680 • Infected Blood Compensation Authority: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the funding allocated to the Infected Blood Compensation Authority is drawn from the £11.8 billion set aside by the Government for infected blood compensation or provided from a separate budget.

64801 • Small Businesses: Northern Ireland

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Windsor Framework on SMEs in Northern Ireland.