Paula Barker

23 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Merseyside Police: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help support Merseyside Police to tackle organised crime gangs.

23 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Merseyside Police: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Merseyside Police on tackling (a) violent and (b) knife-related crime.

23 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Tommy Robinson: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Metropolitan Police in relation to (a) reports of planned protests by Tommy Robinson on Saturday 26 October 2024 and (b) public protection during those protest

23 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor far-right activity.

14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of (a) trends in level of planning applications granted for buy-to-let developments and (b) the potential impa

14 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing private rented sector tenants' protections and rights of redress against (a) landlords and (b)

14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Services: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence entitled Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness, published on 16 March 2022,

10 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the role of letting agencies on trends in the level of rents in the private rented sector.

10 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that home care workers are paid correctly for their travel time.

10 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Commonwealth: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help promote LGBT rights across the Commonwealth.

10 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Departmental Coordination

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will have discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on a role for a Women and Equalities Minister in the cross-government strategy to tackle homelessness.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Belzutifan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide Belzutifan to patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Revenue Support Grant

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will incorporate other streams of funding into the Revenue Support Grant.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of trends of the level of demand on statutory services provided by local authorities since June 2010.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the local authority funding gap in the next two years.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to give local authorities greater flexibility in respect to grant funding.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to end local authority competitive bidding.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help protect victims of domestic abuse and violence who are affected by the early release of some prisoners.

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Restraining Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason each prisoner who was released under the revised terms of the early release scheme and had previously breached a restraining order was released.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dietetics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to use NHS dietitians to help reduce health inequalities.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allied Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the integration of (a) dietitians and (b) allied health professionals in the delivery of (i) public health and (ii) primary care.

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allied Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to utilise the expertise of (a) dietitians and (b) other allied health professionals to tackle long-term healthcare challenges.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

NHS: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure the continuity of (a) patient care and (b) NHS resilience in respect to specialist food products used by the NHS in the contex

4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to publish the next round of submissions on homelessness duties owed to Ukrainians by each lower-tier local authority.

4 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Ukrainians living in the UK are not separated from their families, in the context of changes to the Ukraine visa schemes in February 2024.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Educational Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing rail discounts for schools purchasing tickets for excursions.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit and Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps with HMRC to data match housing benefit claimants with those eligible for pension credit.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Energy: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support elderly, disabled people who are ineligible for pension credit with higher energy costs.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the processing times for pension credit applications.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to simplify the pension credit application process.