Written questions

Sarah Owen

669 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Public Lavatories: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he is taking steps through the planning system to help increase the number of changing places toilets.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that school work experience placements are accessible to students living with disabilities.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much was paid to the non-executive directors of her Department between 7 February 2023 and 7 February 2024.

8 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthcare Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to NHS trusts to meet the increased pay costs for health care assistants arising from the introduction of high

8 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthcare Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the financial impact of the higher pay bands for health care assistants introduced in July 2021 on NHS trusts.

8 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthcare Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the progress made by NHS trusts in moving health care assistants from band two to band three for the pay bands that were introduced in July 2021.

23 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Languages

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps the Government took to mark United Nations International Mother Language Day.

23 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Education

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to help ensure more of the global population have access to education in their native language.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Imports: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of levels of costs for businesses of UK customs clearance fees on imported goods from the EU.

21 Feb 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Imports: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help support small businesses with importation fees on goods from the EU.

21 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department issues for NHS Trusts on carbon reduction planning; and if she will publish guidance for trusts on offsetting carbon emissions.

5 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Voluntary Contributions: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he will alter the existing categories for voluntary National Insurance contributions up to 15 years to include British National (Overseas) visa holders by (a) creating a new category of eligibility for Class

26 Jan 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Electronic Training Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Animal Welfare (Electronic Collars) (England) Regulations 2023 will come into force on 1 February 2024.

16 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases relating to the (a) mis-selling and (b) fraudulent advertising of pets took place in small claims courts in each year since 2018.

15 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what alternative accommodation his Department is providing for asylum seekers being moved out of hotels.

15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kashmir: Politics and Government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Countering Illegal Migration during the debate on the Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of

11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of clinical trials have been available for brain tumour patients each year since 2020; and whether he has made an estimate of the number of brain tumour patients that h

9 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of installing high-efficiency particulate absorbing filters in schools to tackle the risk of covid-19 infection.