Written questions
1,705 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Shoplifting: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of prison sentences for violent shoplifting offences.
30 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Shoplifting: Arrests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) arrested and (b) charged for shoplifting offences in 2024.
30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish a timetable for local government re-organisation.
30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Ashfield District Council about phase one of the local government re-organisation.
27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of asylum seekers enrolled in university access programmes in each of the last five years.
27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of students from low income backgrounds enrolled on university access programmes.
27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many asylum seekers have begun degree qualifications whilst waiting for leave to remain in the UK.
27 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people under the age of twenty five were referred to Prevent in each of the last ten years, broken down by sex.
27 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people referred to the Prevent programme more than once.
20 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Veterans: Chemicals
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with veterans who were guarding the Qarmat Ali water treatment in Iraq in 2003 on their exposure to sodium dichromate.
20 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Veterans: Chemicals
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will write to veterans who were responsible for guarding the Qarmat Ali water treatment in Iraq in 2003 to offer medical checks.
20 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children: Inquiries
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she hold discussions with the Rt hon. and hon. Members from (a) Yorkshire and (b) Greater Manchester about the potential merits of a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
16 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme trustees about the review of that Scheme.
16 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to provide (a) educational and (b) training support to apprentices, in the context of of recent trends in the level of Level 7 funding.
16 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Home Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to ensure parents maintain the right to home educate their children.
10 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Ashfield and Mansfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) healthcare services, (b) GPs and (c) mental health support in (i) Ashfield and (ii) Mansfield constituencies.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the sustainability of energy produced by Drax power station in the last 12 years.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government plans to continue providing subsidy payments to the Drax power station.
9 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to help (a) first-time buyers and (b) low-income families secure housing in Ashfield constituency.
9 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to support (a) victims and (b) victims families impacted by grooming gangs; and what steps she is taking to ensure these incidents don't occur in the future.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Apprentices and Training: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to support (a) vocational training and (b) apprenticeship programs in Ashfield constituency.
19 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Swimming: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential financial impact of VAT on private swimming schools.
19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Multiple Sclerosis: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, What steps his Department is taking to help ensure that (a) Sativex and (b) other medications for MS patients are (i) affordable and (ii) funded in (A) Nottinghamshire and (B) other areas.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Extended Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that children with Special Educational Needs have equal access to (a) before- and (b) after-school care in Ashfield.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Kinship Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What steps her Department is taking to ensure that kinship families receive financial support similar to that of (a) foster and (b) adoptive families.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity and Natural Gas: Standing Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that standing charges for (a) electricity and (b) gas reflect actual service costs.
19 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Charges: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle water poverty among older people.
19 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
China: Overseas Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to enhance the vetting and monitoring processes of Chinese businesses operating in the UK.
12 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Park Homes: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to protect park home owners from charges by park owners when they sell their home.
12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of mental health support for men under 50.
Source: official written-questions record.