Helen Whately

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Anti-social Behaviour and Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle (a) organised crime, (b) theft and (c) antisocial behaviour in rural areas.

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle rural crime; what progress she made on a rural crime strategy; and when she plans to launch that strategy.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of young people claiming Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions receive enhanced support for (a) daily living and (b) mobility.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Personal Independence Payment (a) claims are and (b) spending is for mental health-related conditions.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Personal Independence Payment claims for mental health conditions are required to undergo reassessment.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Personal Independence Payment claims for mental health conditions over the next three years.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged between 18 and 24 were in receipt of Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions (a) this year and (b) in each of the last five years.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual expenditure on Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions was in the most recent financial year for which data is available.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2024 to Question 15504 on Agriculture: Subsidies, what issues were discussed with growers.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many meetings (a) he and (b) Minsters from his Department have had with (i) growers and (ii) fruit growers in the last 12 months; and when did those meetings take place.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2024 to Question 15461 on Agriculture: Subsidies, when officials from his Department met with growers in the last 12 months; and what type of grow

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the (a) capacity and (b) efficiency of the medical examiner system in the new death certification process.

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the new death certification process does not cause further distress for grieving families.

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates: South East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce backlogs in the death certification process in the South East.

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) average and (b) longest recorded wait time is for the issuance of death certificates since September 2024.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on the use of articificial intelligence.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025 to Question 2435 on Roads: Kent, what the outcome was of her Department’s capital roads portfolio review.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

A229: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when work will begin on the capital roads project Blue Bell Hill.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

A229: 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 Blue Bell Hill.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Medical Certificates: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2025 50 Question 22715 on Medical Certificates: Public Consultation, whether she plans to launch the fit note trailblazers.

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to respond to the independent report entitled Our Future Homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing and community for an ageing population, published on 26 November 20

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what artificial intelligence technologies are used by her Department; and for what purpose each technology is used.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the white mail artificial intelligence programme used by her Department.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Older People: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the recommendations of the independent report entitled Our Future Homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Older People: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the recommendations of the independent report entitled Our Future Homes: Housing that

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to increase the number of Personal Independence Payments assessments that are conducted face-to-face.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department’s policy on assessing Personal Independence Payments claims remotely has changed since 7 July 2024.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of pilot schemes for third party data sharing powers as set out in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with financial services sector stakeholders on the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals and Social Services: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to increase (a) hospital and (b) social care capacity for winter 2024-25.