Ben Lake

25 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Water Abstraction

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to improve the collection of data in agricultural water use.

25 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Abstraction: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to reform the abstraction licensing regime in England.

21 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the use of AI in benefit fraud investigations does not discriminate against vulnerable people.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the eligibility threshold for means-tested free school meals for Universal Credit recipients in line with (a) inflation and (b) national livi

29 Feb 2024 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason it is his policy that a person born between 2 October 2000 and 29 April 2006 is only considered to have British citizenship at birth if their British citizen father was married at the

26 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Biofuels: Electricity Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she made of the potential implications for the proposals in her Department's consultation entitled Transitional support mechanism for large-scale biomass electricity generator

26 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Biofuels: Carbon Capture and Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the use of woody biomass as feedstock for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage on (a) global land use and (b) the

26 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers had agreements under the Environmental Land Management Scheme as of 26 February 2024.

16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ahmad Manasra

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether the Government has made representations to the Government of Israel on the (a) treatment and (b) appeal for early release on medical grounds of Ahmad Manasra.

16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ahmad Manasra

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had discussions with international human rights organisations on the case of Ahmad Manasra.

16 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will increase humanitarian aid to Sudan.

8 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Foreign Companies: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times HMRC has directed non-established taxable persons whose business is not established in the EU to appoint a VAT representative in each of the last five financial years; what information his Department

6 Feb 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Lotteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department’s research on charity lottery sales and prize limits will assess the case for removing sales limits.

5 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Knives: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will commission research into the prevalence of offending with (a) knives and (b) other sharp instruments in domestic residential settings.

5 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Knives

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has received representations from (a) the police and (b) other bodies on the rounding of kitchen knives as a means of reducing the risk of injury in knife offending in domestic residential

5 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Knives: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences involving (a) knives and (b) other sharp instruments were recorded in a (i) domestic residence and (ii) non-domestic setting by each police force in England and Wales in the last yea

5 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Cultural Heritage: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring greater protection to landscapes with a distinct literary (a) heritage and (b) value in planning policy.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment has he made of the adequacy of the UK’s chemical safety regulations.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2023 to Question 3556 on Chemicals: Regulation, for what reason no new additions to the UK’s Substance of Very High Concern waitlist are expected before 2025.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether existing smart meters will need to be replaced when the UK's 2G and 3G networks are phased out in 2033.

2 Feb 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when the management of the Data Communications Company's smart meter network will transfer from O2 to Vodafone.

24 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2024 to Question 9914 on Universal Credit: Farmers, whether he has made an assessment of the potential financial impact of moving from Working Tax Credits to Univers

22 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with pharmaceutical companies on making the Covid vaccine commercially available.

16 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using annual income as the basis for Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure patterns.

16 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using alternative methods of calculating monthly Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure pat

16 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the financial impact of moving from Working Tax Credits to Universal Credit on recipient farmers.

8 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Football: Women

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Barnett Formula consequential funding for Wales will be of the announcement of 29t November 2023 of £30 million for women and girls football in England; and when the Welsh government will receive that fundi

19 Dec 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Morocco: Human Rights

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will raise with the Moroccan Ambassador the potential release of detained Saharawi human rights activists.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Deposit Return Schemes: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Internal Market Act 2020 on plans to implement a deposit return scheme in Wales.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Probiotics: Labelling and Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing restrictions on use of the term probiotic (a) on food labels and (b) in marketing for foods containing probiotic micro