Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 on the ability of agencies to complete terrorism risk assessments prior to the discharge of convicted terrorist offenders.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is issued to NHS mental health providers on assessing terrorist risk when discharging patients convicted of terrorism offences.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all people convicted of terrorism offences who are discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 are subject to a formal terrorism risk assessment before release.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information on how many people convicted of terrorism offences have been discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last 10 years requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Not all people convicted of terrorist offences discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) are subject to a specific formal terrorist risk assessment. There are a range of risk management tools used both within the hospital and prison settings which assess and seek to mitigate the terrorist risk an offender will present when detained under the MHA and prior to being discharged from a hospital to the community or to return to prison. Additionally, these offenders will be part of Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of terrorism offences have been discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information on how many people convicted of terrorism offences have been discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last 10 years requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Not all people convicted of terrorist offences discharged from detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) are subject to a specific formal terrorist risk assessment. There are a range of risk management tools used both within the hospital and prison settings which assess and seek to mitigate the terrorist risk an offender will present when detained under the MHA and prior to being discharged from a hospital to the community or to return to prison. Additionally, these offenders will be part of Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many critical concrete structures are considered to be at risk of significant deterioration within the next decade.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
It is the responsibility of infrastructure operators, including local highway authorities and arm’s length bodies, such as National Highways, to maintain their networks and any associated concrete structures.
To help support this, the Government is investing billions of pounds in transport infrastructure, including £24 billion of capital funding between 2026-27 and 2029-30 to maintain and improve our motorways and local roads across the country.
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many bridges in the United Kingdom are subject to weight restrictions.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold data on the number of bridges subject to weight restrictions.
The Government last year announced a £1 billion package of investment for key local highway enhancement projects and the new Structures Fund for repairing run-down bridges and other local highway structures.
This is in addition to the Department’s record investment of £7.3 billion over the next four years to maintain and improve the quality of local roads and highway networks, including local highway bridges and structures.
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many meetings special advisers in her Department have held with representatives of (a) Alphabet and (b) its subsidiaries since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Ian Murray - Minister of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK as part of the Department’s transparency returns. The following meetings have taken place after the most recent publication.
Special advisers regularly meet with a broad range of stakeholders to support ministers in the development and delivery of government policy.
Minister | Date | Meeting | Attendees |
|---|---|---|---|
Narayan | 03/06/2026 | Online Safety and the Social Media Consultation discussion. | Youtube |
Vallance | 19/01/2026 | To discuss opportunities for the UK Quantum ecosystem | Deepmind |
Lloyd | 19/05/2026 | To hear Google/Alphabet’s views on the trends in AI cyber capabilities and discuss the UK approach to improving cyber resilience. | |
Murray | 15/06/2026 | To discuss how Google Cloud can best support DSIT's strategy for Modern Government. | |
Narayan | 14/06/2026 | Online Safety and the Social Media Consultation discussion. | Google/YouTube |
Narayan | 15/06/2026 | Attended a dinner on the Frontier of AI hosted by Google Deepmind. | DeepMind |
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many meetings Ministers in her Department have held with representatives of (a) Alphabet and (b) its subsidiaries since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Ian Murray - Minister of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Details of ministers’ meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK as part of the Department’s transparency returns. The following meetings have taken place after the most recent publication.
Special advisers regularly meet with a broad range of stakeholders to support ministers in the development and delivery of government policy.
Minister | Date | Meeting | Attendees |
|---|---|---|---|
Narayan | 03/06/2026 | Online Safety and the Social Media Consultation discussion. | Youtube |
Vallance | 19/01/2026 | To discuss opportunities for the UK Quantum ecosystem | Deepmind |
Lloyd | 19/05/2026 | To hear Google/Alphabet’s views on the trends in AI cyber capabilities and discuss the UK approach to improving cyber resilience. | |
Murray | 15/06/2026 | To discuss how Google Cloud can best support DSIT's strategy for Modern Government. | |
Narayan | 14/06/2026 | Online Safety and the Social Media Consultation discussion. | Google/YouTube |
Narayan | 15/06/2026 | Attended a dinner on the Frontier of AI hosted by Google Deepmind. | DeepMind |
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how frequently is the long term condition of bridges monitored and how is this information recorded.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Responsibility for monitoring and inspecting the condition of local highway bridges sits with local highway authorities. Guidance recommends that they determine how often they inspect their local highways bridges by considering appropriate criteria, for example through a formal risk assessment, and that detailed inspection records should be kept.
We understand that many local authorities choose to follow guidance for National Highways bridges which sets out that general inspections should be undertaken every two years and principal inspections every six years.
Asked by: Jack Rankin (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential merits of using specialist technologies for improving the life of ageing infrastructure.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department works with infrastructure operators on innovations for better managing transport infrastructure. For example, the Department encourages councils to embrace innovative practices to deliver better road maintenance programmes and supports research and innovation including through funding programmes such as Live Labs 2.