Mary Kelly Foy

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made with Ofgem of the potential merits of allocating more funding to local power grids to help ensure the reliability of levels of power supplied to rural

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he has taken to tackle compensation delays for people impacted by the Horizon Post Office scandal; what steps he is taking to (a) close the loophole that allows the Post Office to reset the

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Data Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of data centres on regional energy usage, in the context of increases in the use of AI.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Geothermal Power: County Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential across the Durham Coalfield for producing sustainable geothermal energy from disused mines.

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to distribute the second tranche of hospice funding based on (a) levels of need and (b) areas of deprivation.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to NHS dental services in City of Durham constituency.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to mental health services in City of Durham constituency.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices in City of Durham constituency.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Self-harm

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure the proposed offence of (a) encouraging or (b) assisting self-harm will not criminalise (i) people or (ii) charities providing support to affected people; whether she plans to iss

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Self-harm and Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has plans to consult people with lived experience of self-harm and suicide on the implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Self-harm and Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take steps to encourage social media and search platforms to exceed the requirements of the Online Safety Act 2023 in reducing access to harmful suicide and self-harm content

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions he has had with Ofcom on progress by the Small but Risky taskforce on tackling the risk posed by dangerous online platforms.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to tackle the risk posed by small high-risk online platforms.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support veterans in City of Durham constituency.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in City of Durham constituency.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Libraries: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support public libraries in City of Durham constituency.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Holidays

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to establish additional public holidays to mark (a) St Andrew's Day, (b) St David's Day, (c) St George's Day and (d) St Patrick's Day.

6 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Travel: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to update Overseas Scale Rates in the upcoming Spring Forecast.

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leukaemia: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with leukaemia in (a) City of Durham constituency and (b) the North East.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Funerals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024 in the context of reports of delays to funeral services.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time taken was to certify a death in (a) hospital and (b) the community in the period since changes were made to the death certification process in September 2024.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) he and (b) his Department has had discussions with County Durham and Darlington Foundation NHS Trust on delays to death certification.

4 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestinians: Religious Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his international counterparts on taking steps to protect places of worship in Palestine.

4 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

West Bank: Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of reports of alleged settler violence in the village of Umm al-Khair in the southern West Bank.

3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: City of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce health inequalities in City of Durham constituency.

3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to prepare a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities in the North East.

9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of ADHD medication in the North East.

6 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Electronic Cigarettes: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) he and (b) his Department has had discussions with representatives of the vaping industry since the general election.

11 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the policy paper entitled Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation, last updated on 8 November 2023, reflects his Department's current policy.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Further Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that new investment in further education contributes to (a) improving staff conditions and (b) closing pay gaps between college and school teachers.