Alex Sobel

8 Oct 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Solar Power: Feed-in Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will reconsider proposals to end the export tariff for new solar installations from April 2019.

8 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Academies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the BBC Panorama investigation entitled Profits before Pupils? broadcast on 13th September 2018, whether his Department plans to review financial governance in academies.

8 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Academies: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to monitor and evaluate the work done by contractors on academy schools for quality assurance purposes.

8 Oct 2018 · Department for Education

Academies: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve financial transparancy in academy trusts.

12 Sep 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a mental health bed in Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2008-09.

12 Sep 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients under the age of (a) 25 and (b) 16 have been referred out of the area for mental health treatment in each year since 2009.

10 Sep 2018 · Department for Transport

Community Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's new guidance on community transport on the operation of (a) Age UK and (b) other charities.

10 Sep 2018 · Department for Transport

Railways: Bicycles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage train operators to allow passengers' bikes on trains.

7 Sep 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Torture: Rendition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department have had with international counterparts on whether to launch an independent judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture a

7 Sep 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Torture: Rendition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what factors the Government will take into account in its decision on whether to launch an independent judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture and rendition.

7 Sep 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Torture: Rendition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who will take the final decision on launching an independent judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture and rendition.

7 Sep 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Torture: Rendition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the Government plans to announce whether to launch an independent judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture and rendition.

7 Sep 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Torture: Rendition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons the Government extended its deadline for announcing whether to launch an independent judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture and rendition.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum who have experienced forms of violence that may be difficult to disclose have adequate access to legal representation.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that women seeking asylum who have experienced forms of violence that may be difficult to disclose have adequate access to legal representation.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that women claiming asylum who have experienced forms of violence that may be difficult to disclose have adequate access to legal representation.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the (a) adequacy of support for and (b) capacity of legal aid solicitors to represent people with complex asylum cases.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish the conclusions of the review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; and whether he has plans to undertake a review of the effect of legal aid reform since 200

23 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that legal aid solicitors have the capacity to meet the demand for their services in relation to complex asylum cases.

23 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 2007 in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) England in each year since 2009.

23 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of out-of-area placements made for inpatients in each year since 2009.

23 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average number of (a) available and (b) occupied consultant-led mental health beds in Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2009.

23 Jul 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Israel: Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on Israel’s immigration policy which restricts the access of international passport holders to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

23 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bread: Marketing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals in relation to the appropriate labelling and marketing of bread products; and if he will make a statement.

23 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Real Bread Campaign

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the goals of the Real Bread Campaign; and if he will make a statement.

23 Jul 2018 · Treasury

Bank Services: Mobile Phones

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has issued guidance to consumers without mobile phones on alternatives to the one-time password code banking system; and if he will make a statement.

23 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion Act 1967

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967.

23 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Meat: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect on the environment of reducing meat consumption nationally.

19 Jul 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Occupied Territories: Tourism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will seek assurances from Israeli immigration officials that access to the Occupied Palestinian Territories for international visitors will remain unhindered.

19 Jul 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Occupied Territories: Tourism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on access to the Occupied Palestinian Territories for international visitors.