Barry Gardiner

5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to use (a) robots and (b) AI to help support training on innovative surgical techniques.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Brent West

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on when the Building Safety Regulator plans to respond to the applications for (a) Gateway 2 and (b) Gateway 3 approval for the two high ris

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Safety Regulator

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle delays in approvals for Gateway (a) 2 and (b) 3 submissions to the Building Safety Regulator.

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Quotas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make a an assessment of the effectiveness of the distribution of quota between (a) foreign and (b) domestic-owned trawlers under ten metres in the UK inshore fleet.

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will (a) take steps to review the operation of the landing obligation and (b) publish the number of enforcement actions taken against vessels that have failed to comply with the

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Total Allowable Catches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the opening positions for each Total Allowable Catch in the (a) EU/UK bilateral and (b) EU/UK/Norway trilateral negotiations.

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Monitoring

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vessels are taking part in the early adopter phase of the remote electronic monitoring rollout by having cameras installed; and what steps he is taking to increase the number

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish measures for the remaining offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) under stage (a) 3 and (b) 4 of the Marine Management Organisation's offshore MPA process.

26 Apr 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 38 of the Independent review of Border Force by Alexander Downer, published on 20 July 2022, how many and what proportion of officers who are unable to remain in position becaus

24 Apr 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 38 of the Independent Review of Border Force by Alexander Downer, published on 20 July 2022, how many and what proportion of officers who are unable to remain in their post beca

24 Apr 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 38 of the Independent Review of Border Force by Alexander Downer, published on 20 July 2022, whether he has made an estimate of the number and proportion of Heathrow Border Forc

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Oil: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to paragraph 22 of the fifth Special Report of the Energy and Climate Change Committee of Session 2010-11 entitled UK Deepwater Drilling: Implications of the Gulf of Mexico Oil

12 Apr 2024 · Home Office

UK Border Force: Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 38 of the Independent review of Border Force by Alexander Downer, published on 20 July 2022, whether he has made an estimate of the number and proportion of Heathrow Border Forc

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

British Youth Council: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to take steps to help maintain youth representation at the local authority level in the context of the closure of the British Youth Council.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

British Youth Council: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to re-deploy staff at the British Youth Council after its permanent closure.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

British Youth Council: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the permanent closure of the British Youth Council, if she will take steps to ensure that unspent grant funding is re-allocated to support other youth organisations.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

British Youth Council: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department took steps to help prevent the closure of the British Youth Council.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

British Youth Council: UK Youth Parliament

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the closure of the British Youth Council on the Youth Parliament.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Polar Regions: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Natural Environment Research Council funding rules on UK Polar research.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Natural Environment Research Council: Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to review the funding rules for the Natural Environment Research Council so that international partners can be costed in with a value up to 30% of a grant proposal.

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Management Organisation: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under which staff-transfer protocol employees of core civil service Departments were transferred to the Marine Management Organisation in 2009; and whether this protocol has been appli

7 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Marine Management Organisation: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Civil Service employees from core departments retained continuity of employment for contractual purposes when they transferred from working for their previous department to wor

3 Jul 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Rare Diseases: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on progress on the actions in the England Rare Diseases Action Plan on the effectiveness of curren

3 Jul 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Audit Office report Condition of school buildings, published on 28 June, HC1516, which schools pose a risk to the safety of pupils and staff because of potential structural failur

28 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pesticides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to set a target for a reduction in the use of chemical pesticides.

28 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pesticides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of treating biopesticides under a separate regulatory system than chemical pesticides.

13 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Air Passenger Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was raised from private business flights through Air Passenger Duty in 2022 per band of Air Passenger Duty.

13 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Aviation: Private Sector

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the number of private business flights that departed from all UK airports and airfields per Air Passenger Duty band in 2022.

2 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications and further submissions for (a) indefinite leave to remain, (b) family reunion, (c) EU Settlement Scheme, (d) family and private life, (e) British citizenship, and (f) asylum we

15 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Cybercrime and Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) fraud and (b) cyber crime were reported to Action Fraud in each of the last five years; and in each of those years what proportion of those incidents resulted in a prosecutio