Rachael Maskell

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Office: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of procurement processes used at The Post Office.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has plans to strengthen the accountability of Post Office senior managers through the Government's shareholder role.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of bringing The Post Office under public ownership.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to take steps to help restore post offices that closed as a result of Horizon programme failures.

8 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether recent progress has been made towards opening the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Land Use: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to reform the National Planning Policy Framework to help ensure that land is not being banked.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Plans: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral statement by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety of 19 December 2023 on Long-term Plan for Housing, what recent progress has been made o

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bacterial Diseases and Sepsis: Lasers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has provided funding for research into laser treatments for the prevention of (a) sepsis and (b) bacterial infections for people with wounds.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: Sepsis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of sepsis cases have been identified in (a) children and (b) adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in the last 12 months.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to increase protections for liberties under the Mental Health Act 1983.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that the human rights of people detained under the Mental Health Act are upheld.

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care: Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with pharmacists' representatives on the potential impact of community pharmacies delivering the NHS Pharmacy First Service on their (a) finances and (b) workforce.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

All Saints Roman Catholic School York and Tang Hall Primary School: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make funding available to help (a) Tang Hall Community School and (b) All Saints Roman Catholic School commence building upgrades.

8 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to delay the implementation of the Government's proposed measures to restrict the ability for international students to bring family members to the UK on student visas.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Legionnaires' Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that an outbreak of legionella in a school is followed by an assessment of the adequacy of the steps taken (a) before and (b) after the outbreak.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of school behaviour policies on levels of school refusal among children.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of school behaviour policies on the mental health of students who (a) have mental health needs and (b) are neurodivergent.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Academies: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local authority powers to intervene in multi-academy trusts.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Conditions of Employment: Immunosuppression

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to put employment protections in place for immunocompromised people shielding from covid-19.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

South Bank Multi Academy Trust: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will request Ofsted to undertake an investigation into (a) the adequacy of (i) disciplinary and (ii) other policies at South Bank Multi Academy Trust and (b) the potential impact of those policies on sch

8 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) access to and (b) the standard of palliative care; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of provisions in the Health and Care Act

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture and Sports: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to provide financial support for (a) art, (b) music, (c) heritage, (d) sport and (e) other local cultural offerings.

8 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has taken recent steps to end the use of the false swim test.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Animal Experiments: International Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking with international partners to (a) reduce and (b) end experiments on animals in scientific research.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Human Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to support human relevant science.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Human Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding her Department has allocated to research and innovation relating to human relevant science since her Department was established.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of advanced partnership arrangements for co-ordinating local bus services; what best practice he has identified; and if he will issue guidance to local partnersh

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Local Transport Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for publishing updated guidance for local transport authorities on local transport plans; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that local stakeholders reviewing th

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Council Tax: Referendums

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the level above which local authorities can raise the social care precept before triggering a local referendu

8 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of removing access to legal aid for people who lose their entitlement to Universal Credit under measures announced in the Autumn statement on such people.