Wera Hobhouse

27 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Green Homes Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what data her Department holds on the number of (a) leaseholders and (b) freeholders that have received retrofitting grants in the last 12 months.

27 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Green Homes Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Evaluation of the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme, published in June 2023, how many (a) leaseholders and (b) freeholders (i) applied f

21 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to improve the application process for student visas.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the actual benefit-cost ratio for each (a) new station built and (b) reopened line in each of the last 10 years.

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Passengers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the projected passenger number were in the business case for each (a) new station and (b) reopened rail line in the last 10 years; and what the actual passenger numbers were in each case 12 months after th

21 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the benefit-cost ratios were for each (a) new station built and (b) reopened line in each of the last 10 years.

20 Nov 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Social Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of launching a consultation on a social energy tariff.

14 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Google and (b) other online providers of travel information on ensuring that information can be accessed on journeys that can be made involving demand responsive

14 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's response to the Transport Select Committee's report entitled Implementation of the National Bus Strategy, HC 1431, published 22 June 2023, what his Department's timescales are

14 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 4 of the Sixth Special Report of the Transport Committee of Session 2022-23 on Implementation of the National Bus Strategy: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report, published

10 Nov 2023 · Department for Education

Music: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to provide additional funding to music hubs for the increased employer contributions to the teachers’ pension scheme.

8 Nov 2023 · Treasury

Aviation: Fuels

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of utilising UK Emissions Trading Scheme revenues from aviation to fund UK-based sustainable aviation fuel production.

19 Oct 2023 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Harassment

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government plans to increase protections against harassment in the workplace.

19 Oct 2023 · Treasury

Osteoporosis: Fractures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of (a) people leaving work and (b) sick days taken due to osteoporotic fractures on tax revenues.

19 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide additional funding to extend the provision of fracture liaison services to all NHS trusts.

17 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Rodents

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons reported a rat infestation in (a) 2022-2023 and (b) 2021-2022.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Anaerobic Digestion: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on the impact of subsidies to the anaerobic digestion industry on the sale of surplus food to

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Compulsory Purchase

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will take capital gains tax into account when calculating the resale value of land bought by his Department under a compulsory purchase order for the Birmingham-Crewe leg of HS2.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he was first informed of the Prime Minister's decision not to go ahead with the Birmingham to Crewe section of HS2; and when compulsory purchase of land for this section of HS2 ceased.

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemochromatosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the reasons for which the drafting process for NICE guidelines on haemochromatosis was paused in April 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Haemochromatosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the scope of draft NICE guidelines on haemochromatosis with regards to (a) known forms of haemochromatosis and (b) pathogenic variants att

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of grant funding schemes funded by her Department are performing to a satisfactory standard according to their respective monitoring and evaluation processes as of 13 October

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much from the public purse the Government has provided to local authorities to support Net Zero initiatives in each of the last three years.

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government Pension Scheme: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what is meant by proper advice in the Local Government Pension Scheme’s proposed responsibilities on climate risk.

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Local Area Energy Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of funding arrangements for local authorities to develop local area energy plans; and whether she has made an assessment of

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Local Area Energy Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the recommendation in the report by Citizen's Advice entitled Close to Home, published in June 2023, on the potential me

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Local Area Energy Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department is taking steps to support local authorities (a) to (i) create and (ii) deliver local area energy plans and (b) to work with local communities as part of that process.

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Government Pension Scheme: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's expected timeline is to publish its response to the consultation entitled Local Government Pension Scheme (England and Wales): Governance and reporting of clima

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuels: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether She has made an estimate of the quantity of aviation fuel used by aircraft registered in the UK in each of the last five years.

13 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Greenwich

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reinstating direct trains from Greenwich and Woolwich to London Charing Cross.