Ian Lavery

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Primary Education: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are in place to ensure that children from low-income families in the North East have access to high-quality early years education; and what additional support is being provided to reduce dispariti

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether they plan to increase or redistribute funding to schools in the North East.

13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Hazardous Substances

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products among nursing staff on (a) reproductive and (b) other long-term h

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Hazardous Substances: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to require NHS employers to provide ongoing (a) training and (b) health surveillance for all staff who (i) handle and (ii) otherwise may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products; and

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Drugs: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to promote the use of (a) biological safety cabinets, (b) closed-system drug-transfer devices and (c) engineering controls in healthcare settings; and whether she plans to pr

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Hazardous Substances: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to review the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations to ensure that hazardous medicinal products with reprotoxic effects are controlled to the same standard as (a)

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Government Departments: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how the cyber risk to Government has changed in the last 5 years; how his Department's approach to cyber security has changed in that time; and what assessment he has made of how the Go

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Government Departments: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department plans to be able to meet its target for the Government to be cyber resilient by the end of 2025.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle misogyny in schools.

15 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Racial Hatred and Religious Hatred: Blyth and Ashington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) race and (b) religious hate crimes took place in Blyth and Ashington constituency between September (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025.

15 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for victims to wait for cases to be heard.

15 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to educate communities on the rise of far right extremism.

15 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Palestine Action: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for protesting the proscription of Palestine Action.

10 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of prosecutions of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.

18 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure an adequate supply of ADHD medication.

18 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Developing Countries: Debts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to help amend UN frameworks to tackle global debt.

18 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Developing Countries: Debts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support global debt relief.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people under the age of 16 are claiming Disability Living Allowance in (a) Blyth and Ashington constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) the North East and (d) England.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming the Personal Independence Payment are also claiming the (a) limited capability for work and work-related activity component of Universal Credit or old-style Employment and Suppo

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Carer's Allowance and Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of what the weekly reduction in income would be for a household where one person receives (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and does not have four points in any descript

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming the standard level of the Personal Independence Payment who did not score four points in any of the 10 descriptors have a claim where someone else receives the carers component

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming the enhanced level of the Personal Independence Payment who did not score four points in any of the 10 descriptors have a claim where someone else receives the carers component

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming the standard level of the Personal Independence Payment who did not score four points in any of the 10 descriptors have a claim where someone else receives Carer's Allowance in

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving the enhanced level of PIP did not score four points in any of the ten descriptors allowing someone else to receive carers allowance in (a) Blyth and Ashington constituency, (b)

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving the standard level of PIP did not score four points in any of the ten descriptors in (a) Blyth and Ashington constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) the North East and (d) Englan

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving the enhanced level of PIP did not score four points in any of the ten descriptors in (a) Blyth and Ashington constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) the North East and (d) Englan

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Bureaucracy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the workload of teachers.

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Education: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the divide in attainment between the north and south of England; and what the barriers are to reducing that divide.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle shortages of medications due to supply issues in the North East of England.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the statistics are for poverty related death per local area in each of the last five years.