Helen Grant

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carers Allowance and Child Benefit: Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to support the separated parents of children who are not the parent in receipt of (a) child benefit and (b) carers allowance.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Education: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of making mental health first aid a compulsory component of teacher training.

4 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to have discussions with the General Dental Council on (a) reforms to the overseas registration exam and (b) steps the Council can take to (i) make use of the new powers granted t

7 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve patient access to GP appointments.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

Transport: Maidstone and the Weald

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to reallocate funds allocated to HS2 in the South East to projects in Maidstone and the Weald constituency.

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help support people with obsessive compulsive disorder in (a) the workplace and (b) other public settings.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authority contracts are (a) awarded following fair processes and (b) represent value for money.

1 Sep 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress the Government has made on meeting its £11.6 billion climate finance pledge by 2026; and if he will make a statement.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains her policy to ban the use of electric shock collars on cats and dogs in England.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Responsible Dog Ownership working group has made recommendations on additional measures to reduce dog attacks.

1 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking with train operating companies to ensure that planned ticket office closures do not disproportionally affect (a) disabled and (b) elderly passengers.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Privatisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk that the privatisation of Channel 4 would lead to the loss of distinctive UK content and a shift towards generic content tai

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Department's news story, It’s time to level up Britain’s screens, published on 23 June 2021, what evidence his Department used to inform the assessment that choice

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that under a potential change in ownership model Channel 4 would maintain its focus on producing content that appeals to young people.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that under a potential change in ownership model Channel 4 would maintain its current levels of investment in skills and productivity for young people.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking in relation to securing the contribution that Channel 4 makes to the UK’s creative economy through its (a) regional offices and employees, (b) 50 per cent commiss

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make and publish the results of an assessment of the potential effect that a change in Channel 4’s ownership model may have on the levelling up of the UK’s creative sector out

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Privatisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had with UK production companies on the potential impact that privatising Channel 4 may have on the future of the

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that a potential change to Channel 4’s publisher-broadcaster model will not negatively effect businesses and employment in the UK’s production sector.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will conduct and publish the results of an assessment of the potential impact of revising Channel 4’s publisher-broadcaster model on (a) the UK production sector as a whole, (b) sm

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of delivering the Government’s objectives for Channel 4 by increasing the broadcaster's investment and commissioning more content under the corpor

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what dates (a) he and (b) officials across Government have had discussions and meetings with (i) global media companies, (ii) UK broadcasters and (iii) financial institutions on the p

7 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many veterans in receipt of (a) an armed forces compensation scheme guaranteed income payment and (b) the war pension scheme unemployability supplement have undertaken a work capability assessment t

7 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many veterans in receipt of a war pension are claiming employment support allowance as part of their universal credit claim.

4 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Thameslink Line: Maidstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the timely implementation of the City Thameslink Service from Maidstone East before the end of 2019.

5 Jul 2018 · Home Office

Customs: Port of Dover

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that the port of Dover is able to manage its customs clearance operations after the UK leaves the EU without increasing the level of administration undertaken by smal

5 Jul 2018 · Treasury

Small Businesses: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how small businesses will manage their VAT arrangements with EU customers after the UK leaves the EU; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of those new arrangements on the level of administration u

15 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of community-based sentencing options on reducing the numbers of mothers on the prison estate and children in care; and if he will ensure that his Department's new female

15 Nov 2017 · Department for Education

Mothers: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of maternal imprisonment on a child's emotional development; and if she will make a statement.

15 Nov 2017 · Department for Education

Mothers: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on steps to reduce the number of children separated from their mothers and families through maternal imprisonment.