Helen Whately

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will instruct the Health and Safety Executive to provide information on their planned inspections of battery storage units at Cleve Hill Solar Park before they are switched on.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to monitor the responsiveness of the Health and Safety Executive to inquiries from hon. Members.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has held recent discussions with the Health and Safety Executive on their inspection plans for the battery storage units at Cleve Hill Solar Park.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that the Health and Safety Executive responds to requests from the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent on battery safety at Cleve Hill Solar Park.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) revised Battery Safety Management Plan’s adoption of the National Fire Protection Agency 855 (2023) exclusion zone standards and (b) BS

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) exclusion zones, (b) fire suppression systems, and (c) environmental risk mitigation measures outlined in the revised Battery Safe

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of measures implemented by (a) the Health and Safety Executive, (b) Kent Fire and Rescue Service, (c) Swale Borough Council, and (d) the Environmen

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what accountability mechanisms are in place for (a) the Health and Safety Executive, (b) Kent Fire and Rescue Service, (c) Swale Borough Council and (d) the Environment Agency to ensure the a

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the responsibilities of the (a) Health and Safety Executive, (b) Environment Agency, (c) Kent Fire and Rescue Service and (d) Swale Borough Council are in certifying the safety of Cleve

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Service Charges: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons she has yet to implement the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 on (a) providing a comprehensive rights of redress to homeowners on (i) pri

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons she has yet to implement the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 on (a) providing freeholders with equivalent rights to leaseholders on esta

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to implement the secondary legislation enabling the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 to fully come into force.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s investigators can apply to police to have individuals suspected of committing fraud against the Department arrested.

3 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Fraud

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the Public Sector Fraud Authority has applied to the county court for a recovery order for the assets of people found to have committed fraud in each of the last five years.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times her Department has used (a) section 71 and (b) section 71ZE of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 to recover assets from people found to have committed fraud in each of the last

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Offensive Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to e-petition 701064.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, with which organisations she has held discussions on the proposed c

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, with which organisations she has held discussions on her proposed r

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, which organisations will be responsible for spending the additional

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of th

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what measures her Department will use to assess the effectiveness o

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for employme

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations have presented to the Child Poverty Taskforce ministerial advisory sessions; and on what topics.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the press notice entitled Government bolsters employment support to unlock work for sick and disabled people, published on 6 March 2025, how this policy will relate to the Additional W

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 3.26 of the Autumn Statement 2023, CP 977, what progress her Department has made on rolling out mandatory work placements for Universal Credit claimants who were unable to fi

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department’s policy to stop (a) Universal Credit, (b) New Style Jobseeker's Allowance and (c) income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claims of people who refuse to (i) engage with a Jobcen

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department’s policy for claimants eligible only for basic Universal Credit who have not found employment after 18 months to undertake mandatory work experience placements.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department plans to provide for road improvements at the capital roads project Brenley Corner; and when work will begin on it.

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31062 on Death Certificates, what the median time taken was to register a death at the most localised level for which data is available.

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) local authorities, (b) local police and (c) rural stakeholders on tackling rural crime.