Written questions

1,495 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Leisure: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the leisure facilities available for disabled people in Stockport constituency.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Stockport Station: Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with (a) Network Rail and (b) Avanti West Coast on the quality of public toilets at Stockport station.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Optical Fibres

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to extend Project?Reach to Stockport railway station.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for publication of the animal welfare strategy; and if he will make it his Department's policy to ban male chick culling as part of the strategy.

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of NHS Greater Manchester’s proposed reduction in the number of NHS-funded IVF cycles from two to one on residents of Stockport.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) frequency of Northern Rail services in (i) Stockport constituency and (ii) across Greater Manchester on Sundays.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the speed of the rollout of the Access for All scheme across (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Greater Manchester.

19 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and (b) voluntary sector organisations on the implementation of the forthcoming Civil Soc

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Heaton Chapel Station: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to provide funding for step-free access at Heaton Chapel Station.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

River Mersey: Trifluoroacetic Acid

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on levels of trifluoroacetic acid in the River Mersey.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cricket: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing levels of participation in cricket in state secondary schools in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) England.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cricket: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has a strategy to help increase participation in cricket by women and girls.

11 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Western Sahara: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 57392 on Western Sahara: Politics and Government, what his policy is on United Nations Security Council Resolution 377 pass

10 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Cider: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take fiscal steps to prevent the sale of high-strength ciders at low prices in supermarkets; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of preventing those sales on levels of alcohol harm

9 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Banks and Building Societies: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a standalone offense of assaulting a retail worker that includes (a) bank and (b) building society workers.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Stockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of driving tests in Stockport.

4 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Western Sahara: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s policy is on the status of the territory of Western Sahara.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

British Transport Police: Stockport Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish the average response time for British Transport Police at Stockport station in each of the last five financial years.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Drinking Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) impact of the AUK1 specification for toilet backflow protection on the quality of drinking water and (b) merits of formally

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Benefit and Universal Credit: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has considered extending eligibility for (a) Child Benefit and (b) the child element of Universal Credit to families of 16 to19 year-olds undertaking apprenticeships, in order to

2 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Business: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Business Property Relief on family-owned manufacturing businesses.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Neurology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2025 to Question 53645 on Parkinson's Disease: Greater Manchester, whether his Department plans to (a) collect and (b) publish regional data on the average waiting

21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will review the medical exemption list for free prescriptions.

21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of Produodopa treatment for people with Parkinson’s in (a) Stockport and (b) Greater Manchester.

20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for patients with Parkinson's disease to see a neurologist in (a) Stockport and (b) Greater Manchester in the latest period for which data is available.

20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has allocated to medical research into Parkinson's disease in each of the last three financial years.

19 May 2025 · Department for Transport

British Transport Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for the British Transport Police.

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of improving diabetes care on reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease.

16 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Manchester Airport: Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of rail (a) capacity and (b) performance of Manchester Airport Station.

12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Parkinson's Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her department has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment on people with Parkinson's disease.

Source: official written-questions record.