Helen Whately

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Garden Communities: Sittingbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how safeguarding the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land will be taken into account when she considers the Highsted Park development.

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the commitment to safeguard the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land is applied to planning decisions.

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to safeguard the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land.

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to report on the effectiveness of her safeguarding of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land in line with the National Planning Policy Framework.

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish how many hectares of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land are (a) protected, (b) under consideration for development and (c) approved for consent in

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Garden Communities: Sittingbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason she called in Highsted Park outline planning applications 21/503906/EIOUT and 21/503914/EIOUT.

3 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria she uses to call in planning applications before they are discussed by local councillors.

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of the £240 million funding allocated to her Department in the Autumn Budget 2024 for trialling new ways of getting people back into work on savings

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Connect to Work and Universal Support

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the differences are between the (a) Connect to Work and (b) Universal support schemes.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Office for Budget Responsibility on the timing of the implementation of changes to the Work Capability Assessment on their projections.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Connect to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the Connect to Work programme will be implemented in 2025, in the context of its predecessor programme being planned for 2024; and if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of

2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Employment: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the White Paper entitled Get Britain Working, published November 2024, whether the 384,000 additional Talking Therapies places in Priority 1 were previously (a) announced and (b)

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Get Britain Working White Paper, published on 26 November 2024, what differences there are between DWP ASK and the A-cubed tool.

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding for supported employment provision in integrated settlements for devolved authorities is spent in line with the delivery plans for that funding.

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what new funding has been provided for the Get Britain Working Fund.

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Minimum Wage: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of removing minimum pay age bands for the National Minimum Wage on youth (a) inactivity and (b) unemployment.

29 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

WorkWell

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s press releases entitled (a) Good work is good for health, published on 6 November 2024 and (b) New £64 million plan to help people stay in work, published on 7 May 202

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Living Wage: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the National Living Wage on the (a) number of people claiming Universal Credit and (b) amount of working age benefi

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Living Wage: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the National Living Wage on youth (a) inactivity, (b) unemployment and (c) employment.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

WorkWell

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to expand the WorkWell pilot.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department intends to implement the recommendations of the Disability Action Plan, published on 5 February 2024.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Autism Employment Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the recommendations in the Buckland Review of Autism Employment.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the labour market.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on levels of (a) employment, (b) unemployment and (c) economic inactivity.

28 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions announced the Autumn Budget 2024 on jobs.

28 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Employment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on jobs.

21 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with producer organisations on the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme.

21 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to make a decision on the future of the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme.

21 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme beyond 31 December 2025.

19 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Garden Communities and M2: Sittingbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to decide on the proposed (a) M2 motorway junction and (b) Highsted Park outline planning applications.