Carla Lockhart

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the review by the Minister for Social Security and Disability on PIP eligibility will incorporate (a) regional data and (b) stakeholder views from (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) Upper?Bann constituen

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) Universal Credit and (b) PIP awards in Northern Ireland will remain indexed to inflation until 2029-30 under proposed welfare reforms.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to (a) PIP and (b) Universal Credit on (i) community cohesion and (ii) equitable access to benefits in Northern Irelan

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of freezing the health element of Universal Credit for new claimants from April?2026 on (a) poverty rates, (b) the cost of living and (c) workforce p

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will allow exhibition poultry from Northern Ireland to return from short-term events in Great Britain under general licence subject to veterinary certification.

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to provide financial assistance to hobbyist poultry breeders in Northern Ireland to meet veterinary certification costs for participation in shows in Great Britain.

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

Birds: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce a movement protocol for non-commercial avian species used for (a) shows and (b) exhibitions.

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the risk of exhibition poultry returning from short-term events in Great Britain to Northern Ireland; and whether he plans to introduce (a) veterin

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland and (b) Animal and Plant Health Agency on creating an (i) a

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the potential impact of the (a) testing and (b) certification requirements for poultry under the Windsor Framework on non-commercial exhib

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

Poultry: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reinstating the general licence conditions for the movement of exhibition poultry between Northern Ireland and Grea

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Trader Support Service: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many small and medium-sized enterprises in Northern Ireland have used the Trader Support Service; and what proportion of the service’s costs have supported those businesses.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Trader Support Service: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has allocated funding to continue the Trader Support Service beyond 2025-26.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Trader Support Service

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the Trader Support Service’s costs are spent on (a) administrative and (b) operational overheads.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Trader Support Service: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the value for money of the Trader Support Service for business support outcomes in Northern Ireland.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Trader Support Service: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost to the public purse is for the Trader Support Service since 11 June 2020, broken down by financial year.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the recommendations of the Motor Insurance Taskforce are implemented equitably in all regions; and how she plans to monitor this.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Motor Insurance Taskforce (a) has analysed and (b) will publish regional insurance pricing data.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for the publication of the Motor Insurance Taskforce's final report; and whether it will include regional breakdowns of findings and recommendations.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which (a) consumer representatives and (b) regional insurers in Northern Ireland have been consulted by the Motor Insurance Taskforce.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Motor Insurance Taskforce has considered the motor insurance market in Northern Ireland.

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Infrastructure: Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish an assessment of the economic impact of legally binding net zero targets on infrastructure investment in the UK.

1 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Religious Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) places of worship and (b) religious sites (i) damaged and (ii) destroyed in Ukraine since February 2022; and whethe

1 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Ukraine

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 about the treatment of (a) non-Orthodox and (b) minority faith groups in Ukrainian terri

1 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Radicalism: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle online radicalisation in Northern Ireland; and whether she plans to introduce region-specific counter-extremism initiatives.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Cybersecurity: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to improve cyber resilience among (a) small businesses and (b) local authorities in Northern Ireland.

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Career Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to promote careers in the Armed Forces among young people in Northern Ireland.

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential role Northern Ireland-based industries might play in helping support the UK’s nuclear (a) deterrent and (b) wider defence supply chains.

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Strategic Defence Review: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role Northern Ireland will play in the implementation of the Strategic Defence Review 2025.

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ammunition: Factories

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Strategic Defence Review 2025, whether he plans to locate a munitions factory in Northern Ireland.