Richard Foord

31 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the impact of trends in average waiting times for processing probate applications on the financial well-being of recipients.

31 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for probate cases to be processed in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) in the latest period for which data is available.

31 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the impact of the withdrawal of the Warm Homes Discount on (a) people in receipt of disability benefits and (b) other vulnerable people.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure the provision of non-dairy milk products in (a) schools and (b) other early-years learning environments.

30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking with local authorities to increase levels of social care provision.

30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Social Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the impact of covid-19 infection rates among health and social care staff on the delivery of frontline health and social care services.

30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that health and social care staff continue to have access to free covid-19 testing.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she is taking steps to provide support for for households who no longer qualify for the Warm Homes Discount due to changing eligibility criteria.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people qualified for the Warm Homes Discount in winter (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service enforces the collection of child maintenance payments from parents who are not living with their children.

24 Jan 2024 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) rural and (b) cross-county border bus services.

11 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help people book a driving test close to where they live.

11 Sep 2023 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time is for a driver's test in (a) England and (b) the South West as of 12 September 2023.

27 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) review the breeds of dog covered by and (b) update the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.

27 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Areas: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last met the Neighbourhood Watch Network to discuss rural crime.

27 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Areas: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the National Farmers Union on tackling rural crime.

27 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the Neighbourhood Watch Network to discuss rural crime.

27 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the National Police Chiefs Council to discuss rural crime rates.

27 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date (a) she or (b) a minister in her Department last met with the National Rural Crime Network to discuss measures to tackle rural crime.

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the potential savings of reducing the armed forces by 10,000 personnel in each year until 2030-31.

22 May 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to make additional funding available for youth services in the UK.

22 May 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the real-terms change to funding for youth services has been in each year since 2015.

9 May 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the UK’s defence readiness.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Park Homes: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he intends to publish a response to the report Mobile Homes: The impact of a change in the maximum park home sale commission, published on 16 June 2022.

13 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Registered Nurses are both currently not working and in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.

8 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities

Disability: Customers

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure companies make reasonable adjustments for customers with a disability.

7 Mar 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support school bus services; and what steps she is taking with stakeholders to protect existing school bus routes from cutbacks.

23 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Health Security Agency: Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has had discussions with (a) the UK Health Security Agency and (b) Wiltshire Council on the decision to close Hickory House nursery at Porton Down science park.

17 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support, including counselling, to people living in rural communities as part of the Major Conditions Strategy.

17 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Social Rented Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department plans to take to provide housing providers with support to meet the standards set out in the forthcoming Social Housing Regulation Bill.