Jim Shannon

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Levelling Up Fund: Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much and what proportion of levelling up funding allocated to Northern Ireland has been for projects within Strangford constituency.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment: Freedom of Speech

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that the (a) employment rights and (b) freedom of speech of people of faith are protected (i) in the workplace and (ii) during the recruitment process.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Boots: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had discussions with Boots on the potential impact of its planned store closures.

12 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Public Sector: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that public sector workers in Northern Ireland are able to receive a pay award that is equal to levels in England and Wales.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Planning Permission: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking with local authorities to improve the time taken to process planning applications.

12 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Jimmy Lai

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he is taking steps to ensure that Jimmy Lai receives regular consular access.

12 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: India

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the relationship between India and China.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Religion: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 41 of the Annual Report of His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2022-23, published on 23 November 2023, if he will publish additional non-statutory g

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Religion: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 41 of the Annual Report of His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2022-23, published on 23 November 2023, what steps her Department is taking (a) impro

7 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Ukraine

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Russian missile strike on Odesa on 6 March 2024; and what diplomatic steps he is taking to support U

7 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her expected timescale is for the availability of the Galleri blood test in cancer testing and diagnosis across the NHS.

6 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iraq: Politics and Government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of progress towards implementing the Sinjar agreement in Iraq.

5 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Osteoporosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many over 25s have been diagnosed with osteoporosis in the last three years.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she is taking steps to ensure that developers of wind farms supply a single point of contact for the public.

5 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Intensive Industries: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Energy intensive industries given £12 million boost to cut emissions and costs, published on 13 February 2023, how much of that £12 m

5 Mar 2024 · Home Office

Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had discussions with the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice on tackling female (a) trafficking, (b) exploitation and (c) sexual exploitation in Northern Ireland.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to encourage people to be tested for HIV.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sickness Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of trends in the number of people claiming long-term sickness benefits.

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Politics and Government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on political stability in Pakistan.

4 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has been made of trends in the level of army recruitment over the past five years.

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: Politics and Government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will hold discussions with his Chinese counterpart on (a) ending transnational repression of and (b) the removal of bounties placed on Hong Kong pro-democracy activists livi

4 Mar 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he is taking steps to provide emergency shelter kits for people in Ukraine.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to introduce legislative proposals to increase the amount of caring allowance available to people who care for more than one person.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has had recent discussions with the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland on trends in the number of children living in households in relative poverty in that region.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with the Trussell Trust on the trends in the level of donations required to meet demand for food banks.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expediting applications for Personal Independence Payments made by people with life-threatening conditions.

1 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gastrointestinal Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people with lower gastrointestinal cancers are diagnosed in line with the faster diagnosis standard.

1 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gastrointestinal Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve the rate of early diagnosis of (a) bowel and (b) bowel-related cancers.

1 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gastrointestinal Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of patients with lower gastrointestinal cancers who receive their first treatment within 62 days of being urgently referred by their GP.

1 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure equality in bowel cancer outcomes.