James Naish

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave and Parental Pay: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent progress his department has made on the parental leave and pay review.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on the 30by30 action plan, published on 29 October 2024.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase training and funding for police firearm licensing authorities.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Aviation: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of easing regulatory rules to allow more pets to fly in-cabin on flights.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Adoption: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve levels of mandatory trauma accreditation within professionals working with adopted children.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve adoption services.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave and Parental Pay: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to respond to his Department's consultation on parental leave and pay review which closed on 25 August 2025.

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to end the blanket use of body mass index thresholds to determine eligibility for joint replacement surgery.

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase help access to weight loss injections for people with long-term health conditions.

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made in meeting the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard.

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce elective care waiting times, including for joint replacement surgery.

5 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the next phase of the Modern Service Frameworks.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department are taking to help lower charging costs for electric vehicles at public charging points.

18 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wood-burning Stoves

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to introduce restrictions on the number of wood burning stoves permitted per residential property; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact

16 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Rape: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered reclassifying date rape drugs such as flunitrazepam and gamma-hydroxybutyrate as weapons.

11 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Game: Gun Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing in vicarious liability for landowners to reduce grouse shooting.

11 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the beginning of the statutory time period of 9.30am nationally during weekdays for concessionary bus pass holders.

4 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: DNA

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost savings from expanding DNA testing in criminal trials.

4 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Syria

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of new immigration rules on people who arrived under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement Programme.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to address the difference in home fee status eligibility for siblings who are both British nationals where one child benefits from Withdrawal Agreement protections and anothe

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department will consider introducing discretionary provisions within home tuition fee eligibility criteria for British nationals living abroad who can demonstrate genuine and ongoing connections to

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of home tuition fee eligibility rules on British citizens who relocated to EU member states while the UK was part of the European Union; and wheth

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits of calculating maintenance loans through net rather than gross household income and (b) impact of that change on single parental income

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Question 8287answered on 16 October 2024, what is the (a) status of the best practice guide to community consultation and engagement and (b) when this guide will be completed.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 16 October 2024 to UIN 8287, what the status is of the proposed rural design guide; and when that guide will be completed.

13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of changing planning laws to ensure developments with full planning permission are (a) completed on time and (b) n

13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the forthcoming Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill will include provisions to (a) regulate the use of estate rentcharges on freehold properties, (b) limit enforcement p

13 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freehold: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Section 121 of the Law of Property Act 1925 powers on freehold homeowners' ability to sell properties subject to estate ren

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing the use of body mass index thresholds to determine eligibility for joint replacement surgery.

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to weight loss injections for long-term conditions.