Rachael Maskell

21 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of raising the rate of pensions in line with (a) rent and (b) other cost of living expenses.

20 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that trail hunting on his Department's land complies with the Hunting Act 2004.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that the benefit system helps people impacted by increases in (a) inflation and (b) mortgages.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Income: Debts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, What estimate he has made of the minimum individual income threshold that is required to prevent people from going into debt.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department is taking to help people financially in areas that are subject to high housing costs.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of Local Housing Allowance for residents in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has he made of the implications for his policies of the report entitled Guarantee our essentials: reforming Universal Credit to ensure we can all afford the essentials in hard times publ

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure that all families have access to (a) a toothbrush and (b) toothpaste.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to commission (a) dental surgeons and (b) other professional educators to deliver preventative dental health programmes to children and young people.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that all children have access to dental health education before 31 December 2023.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of schools collecting data on whether children and young people are seeing an NHS dentist.

20 Jun 2023 · Women and Equalities

Equal Pay

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of trends in equal pay in (a) York and (b) the UK.

20 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Right Care, Right Person model operated by North Yorkshire Police on (a) service users and (b) engagement with mental health services.

20 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) welfare concern and (b) mental health incident cases attended by police officers in each of the four months (i) before and (ii) after the roll-out of

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help people change (a) diet and (b) exercise to (i) achieve and (ii) maintain healthy BMI.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle obesity-related ill health in adults.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diets

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to provide people with access to (a) professional dietary (i) information and (ii) support and (b) weight control support.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Children: Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to prevent hunger among children whose families are subject to the two-child benefit cap during the school summer holidays.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the impact of the cost of living on people in receipt of Personal Allowances to purchase care.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve management of delayed discharges.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to (a) release funding for winter planning and (b) set out priorities for winter pressures for the NHS in 2023-24.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Integrated Care Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the introduction of integrated care boards on the quality of social care.

19 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Better Care Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing funding for the Better Care Fund on integration between health and social care.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment: Bullying

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of anti-bullying (a) policies and (b) legislation on the number of incidences of bullying at work.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Remote Working: Equal Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the impact of working from home policies on the gender pay gap.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Parental Pay: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of raising levels of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay and (b) Statutory Paternity Pay on staff retention.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Pregnancy: Dismissal

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of legislation protecting pregnant women from dismissal; and if she will take legislative steps to increase penalties on employers who dismiss staff

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Equal Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what further steps she plans to take with businesses to help ensure equal pro rata pay between full-time and part-time staff.

15 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Immigration and Visas: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ensure that (a) all (i) visa and (ii) other immigration applications are processed within 12 months, unless there are exceptional circumstances requiring a longer pro

15 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission the creation of a digital tool to enable asylum seekers to be provided with updates on their case.