Mr Richard Holden

2 Mar 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coal: Heating

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Government proposes to ban the burning of coal when its emissions levels are similar to that of burning dry wood.

2 Mar 2020 · Treasury

Pensions: Lump Sum Payments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the threshold at which people are able to take out small private pensions as a lump sum.

2 Mar 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Non-molestation Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to strengthen non-molestation orders to require a police response to evidence of breaches.

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Casinos: Cash Dispensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the forthcoming ban on the use of credit card transactions for online gambling, what discussions he has had with casino owners on banning credit card cash machine withd

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education: Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what content the PHSE curriculum contains on gambling; and whether that content has been updated to include reference to (a) loot boxes and (b) other new forms of gambling made accessible within games.

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Pupils: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Ofsted monitoring of schools' policies on reading material provided to pupils for reading at home.

28 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the judgement in the judicial review brought by the Commons Committees for Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons, what steps the Rural Payments Agency has taken to re

25 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Medomsley Detention Centre

If he will commission an independent inquiry into the physical and sexual abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre.

24 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Durham Constabulary: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding Durham Constabulary will receive from (a) central Government and (b) the local precept in (i) 2019-20 and (ii) 2020-21.

24 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Durham Constabulary: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional officers Durham Constabulary will have at its disposal in each of the next three years.

24 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coal: North West Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people in (a) Weardale and (b) North West Durham constituency who are reliant on coal for fuel; what plans she has to provide fin

24 Feb 2020 · Department for International Development

Development Aid: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure that Official Development Assistance is not used for development that causes climate change.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Noise: Court Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the process is to (a) remove and (b) challenge longstanding noise abatement orders.

21 Feb 2020 · Attorney General

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of people that were due to be prosecuted for benefit fraud have had their prosecution proceedings terminated in the latest period for which figures are available; and for what reasons were those pr

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Government has made of (a) the potential merits of hybrid large commercial vehicles as a step towards full electrification and (b) the difference in range between hybrid and electric large c

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Hybrid Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what role hybrid vehicles will have as part of plans to decarbonise the transport sector; and whether new hybrid vehicles will be able to be bought after 2035.

21 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Common Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the judgment in the judicial review brought by the Commons Committees for Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons, whether there are commensurate provisions in relation

11 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the joint-venture approach to housing development and regeneration; and if he will visit the Genesis Project in North West Dur

11 Feb 2020 · Treasury

Productivity: North of England

What steps he is taking to ensure equity of funding to help deliver productivity growth throughout the north of England.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animals: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many animals of each species have been imported to the UK as rescue animals in each of the last 10 years.

10 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Public Lavatories: Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans the Government has to introduce a Bill to allow public lavatories to be excepted from business rates.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure cross-education authority travel provision is provided in rural areas to increase the school choice available to parents.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Transport

Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what schemes are available to help communities which have a high number of unadopted roads, due to the closure of large industry, get adopted status for those roads.

10 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disability: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with intellectual disability are not wrongly diagnosed as having dementia.

10 Feb 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescription Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) tackle the over-prescribing of medicines and (b) ensure reviews of prescriptions are carried out for people who have been on medication for prolonged periods of time.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people requiring insurance protection offered by FloodRE are able to switch insurance supplier.

10 Feb 2020 · Treasury

Employment: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that policies on tackling disguised employment do not encourage the contracting of work to overseas or foreign contractors where HMRC has more limited powers.

10 Feb 2020 · Treasury

Employment: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that policies to tackle disguised employment do not adversely affect genuine contractors.

10 Feb 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of payments to farmers will be under the (a) old and (b) new system in each of the seven years of the introduction of the new payments system for farmers.

10 Feb 2020 · Home Office

Suicide: Bereavement Counselling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of police forces having an automatic opt-in for support services for the Next of Kin/Significant other of people who have, or are