Suella Braverman

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) the timeframe and (b) other aspects of Operation Fernbridge for investigating allegations of child sexual abuse at Grafton Close children’s home.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to conduct a review of whether both the General and Specific Licences are proportionate, enforceable and workable for organisers of bird gatherings.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the revised bird gathering licensing regime on the long-term viability of community bird shows and exhibitions.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with the Animal and Plant Health Agency on the adequacy of the notice period required when applying for a specific licence and the time to communicate t

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out the process her Department takes to determine an application for a bird gathering operating under the specific licence.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to review the requirement for digital-only submission of licence applications and supporting documents for bird gatherings when operating under the Specifi

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Animal and Plant Health Agency on securing veterinary oversight for licensed bird gatherings.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has assessed the adequacy of the availability of suitably qualified veterinary professionals to support bird gatherings under revised licensing rules.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the transition from general to specific licences does not adversely impact small bird-keeping groups.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of bird-gathering licensing arrangements on hobby keepers, small-scale breeders and local bird events.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department consulted bird keepers prior to introducing the Specific Licence on 8 December 2025.

27 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason Passeriformes was included under the Specific Licence effective from 8 December, 2025.

23 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Care Homes: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that survivors reporting historic abuse in children’s homes receive consistent and transparent engagement from responsible local authorities.

23 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Care Homes: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the support currently available to survivors of abuse linked to former children’s homes such as Grafton Close.

23 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Care Homes: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of historic safeguarding failures at Grafton Close Children’s Home in Richmond upon Thames.

23 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the prevalence of missing or incomplete historic records relating to children’s homes and local authority care files.

23 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms exist to ensure that local authorities provide timely access to historical care records for former looked-after children who make such requests.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Richmond upon Thames

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of record-keeping by Richmond upon Thames Council relating to looked-after children in the 1970s and 1980s.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that survivors of historic abuse are supported in a trauma-informed manner when approaching local authorities for (a) information and (b) redress.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on engaging directly with survivors of historic abuse rather than referring them to external insurance solicitors.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Richmond upon Thames

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the processes used by Richmond upon Thames Council when responding to individuals who come forward with disclosures relating to historic abuse th

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Treatment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to review the regulatory framework governing effluent recycling to ensure independent scrutiny and auditing of any future plant, in line with international practice.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Reservoirs: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Planning Inspectorate has full access to environmental, technical and financial risk assessments before considering the Development Consent

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of low consumer confidence in the quality of tap water on public behaviour, including increased bottled water use.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Treatment: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the level of customer engagement undertaken by Southern Water and Portsmouth Water on the acceptability of effluent recycling, and whether she pla

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the deliverability of the Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project within the proposed timescale.

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Reservoirs: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the risk of pollution to the Havant Thicket Reservoir arising from treatment failures, and what steps he is taking to ensure that such risks are f

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Langstone Harbour: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the trial plant results indicating inconsistent removal of bacteria and total dissolved solids, and what implications this has for water quality and pub

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Langstone Harbour: Water Treatment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the environmental risks associated with constructing the proposed effluent recycling plant on a contaminated landfill site adjacent to Langstone H

22 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Southern Water’s appraisal of alternative water resource options in its draft Water Resources Management Plan 2024, following the plan’s