Jo Platt

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government’s response to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the Collection and Transfer of Payments, published on 23 June 2025, what steps she is taking to impr

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to introduce legislation to implement the Government’s response to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the Collection and Transfer of Payments, published on 23 June 202

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including a national services framework for dementia as part of the NHS 10-year Health Plan.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that the reintroduction of face-to-face benefit assessments does not negatively impact veterans with PTSD or mobility impairments.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing veteran aware training for jobcentre plus staff.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that veterans with severe, long-term PTSD qualify for automatic exemptions from repeat disability assessments.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Armed Forces Independence Payment: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether veterans receiving Armed Forces Independence Payment will still qualify for the health element of Universal Credit under the new system.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions: Means-tested Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the War Pension and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme will be categorised as income for means-tested benefits.

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

Begging and Vagrancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle aggressive begging.

6 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department provides to the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

6 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a new Pupil Premium subcategory for persistently disadvantaged pupils.

4 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Motor Neurone Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to make an assessment of the capacity to deliver Early Access Programmes for people with motor neurone disease.

30 May 2025 · Department for Education

Supply Teachers: Employment Agencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor private supply teacher agencies.

30 May 2025 · Department for Education

Supply Teachers: Leigh and Atherton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support supply teachers in (a) Leigh and Atherton constituency and (b) nationally.

21 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including directors’ dividends in the initial calculation of child maintenance payments.

21 May 2025 · Treasury

Personal Care Services: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the application of VAT to the hair and beauty sector, in the context of levels of competition with other self-employed businesses in (a) Leigh and

16 May 2025 · Treasury

Fundraising: Profits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the level of profits earned by social fundraising platforms from charging commission on Gift Aid in the last 12 months.

16 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gift Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on the number of times the guidance set out in the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice on (a) fee transparency on charging commission on Gif

16 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Fundraising

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure compliance with the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Fundraising Practice on the transparency of fees on fundraising platforms.

16 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Gift Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an estimate of the potential impact of banning the charging commission on Gift Aid on revenues to charities.

1 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Credit Unions: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will request that the British Business Bank make an assessment of the potential merits of support for a central finance facility for credit unions.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support employees who leave employment to provide unpaid care to return to work.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to provide specialist employment support for unpaid carers to get into work.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of trends in levels of teacher shortages on SEND provision in schools serving communities with higher levels of disadvantage.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increases in numbers of pupils with SEND on (a) budgets, (b) teacher workloads and (c) quality of provision for schools serving disadvantaged c

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that schools serving communities with higher levels of disadvantage are adequately supported to provide for the needs of SEND pupils.

31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-evaluating the Units of Dental Activity formula.

31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Leigh and Atherton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve (a) patient access to and (b) staff retention in NHS dentistry in Leigh and Atherton constituency.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities training provided in Initial Teacher Training programmes; and what steps she is taking to improve that train

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) including training on (i) dyslexia and (ii) neurodiversity in mandatory Continuing Professional Development requirements for teachers and