Alex Sobel

11 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

HM Land Registry

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for (a) restructuring HM Land Registry fees, (b) tabling secondary legislation to restructure fees, prioritising free access to data and (c) ensurin

6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Heat Pumps: Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for the implementation of changes to permitted development rights for air source heat pumps.

6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what safeguards her Department has put in place to help protect unaccompanied children from Ukraine through the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Hong Kong: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to (a) advise and (b) safeguard British-based (i) businesses and (ii) people operating in Hong Kong.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of waiving the written aspect of the English Language Test requirement for the Skilled Worker Visa where the role is manual.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Biofuels: Electricity Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to appoint the Independent Sustainability Advisor on large scale biomass.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Period Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the period product scheme will continue within schools in the year 2025-26.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will renew the Adoption and special guardianship support fund for 2025.

8 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Electronic Travel Authorisations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether dual citizens with British or Irish nationality are required to apply for electronic travel authorisation to travel to the UK in instances where their British or Irish passport has expired.

8 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Electronic Travel Authorisations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on whether transport carriers can accept (a) an expired British passport and (b) other evidence of British citizenship as proof of exemption from the electronic

17 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kenya: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much overseas aid funding his Department disbursed to (a) the Kenyan government and (b) Kenyan civil society organisations in financial year (i) 2022-2023 and (ii) 2023-2

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dietetics: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of dietetic apprenticeships.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Drax Power Station: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, If he will delay announcing subsidy decisions on Drax until after he has received Ofgem’s report on the compliance of Drax with sustainability rules during the last financial year.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Prize Money: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to publish the research that her Department has commissioned London Economics to undertake on the online prize draws and competitions market.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Prize Money

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to bring forward secondary legislation to regulate large-scale commercial prize draws.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Prize Money

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age, published on 27 April 2023, when she plans to introduce consumer protections for players

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Prize Money

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to limit the value of prizes offered by large-scale commercial Prize Draws.

5 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sanctions: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to increase resources for enforcement agencies to (a) investigate and (b) prosecute complex sanctions evasion schemes.

5 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating confiscated proceeds from (a) sanctions breaches and (b) penalties for (i) human rights and (ii) humanitar

4 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure translators used by police forces are impartial.

4 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Human Rights and Oppression

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a (a) hotline for reporting and (b) focus group on (i) politically motivated assaults and (ii) transnational repression.

4 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sponsor licenses are processed within the service standards timeframes.

2 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training the NHS offers on pathological demand avoidance.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting schools to train staff to support (a) autistic students and (b) students with pathological demand avoidance.

2 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kenya: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations on allegations of (a) corruption, (b) police killings, (c) disappearances, (d) torture and (e) attempts to suppress the right to protest i

2 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sub-Saharan Africa: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help ensure and (b) verify that funding provided to governments in (i) Uganda, (ii) Kenya and (iii) other countries in sub-Saharan

2 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kenya: Judiciary

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had (a) meetings and (b) other discussions with (i) The Good Law Project and (ii) other campaigning groups on judicial independence and the rule of law in Keny

2 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kenya: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent (a) meetings or (b) other discussions with human rights NGOs on reports of human rights abuses in Kenya following protests in that country.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training her Department requires call handlers to complete.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a service standard timeframe for criminal investigations by her Department into fraud.