Steve Darling

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Care Leavers: Hospitality Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of care experienced young people securing employment in the hospitality sector following the cessation of local authority support.

8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dangerous Dogs: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish (a) transparent and (b) clear data on (i) hospital admissions and (ii) presentations to minor injury clinics due to dog bites in each healthcare trust in the most rec

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Pedestrian Areas and Public Transport: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Sight Loss Council's report entitled MakeTransportAccessible - creating the perfect world for blind and partially sighted people, published on 1 November 2023, what steps her Department is

7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 2 June from the hon. Member for Torbay.

3 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glaucoma: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a national glaucoma pathway, in the context of similar models in (a) Wales and (b) Scotland.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unpaid Work: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effectiveness of (a) the Get Set Progress scheme and (b) paid internship programmes for disabled people; and what discussions he has had with Cab

2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Red Arrows: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) the Red Arrows and (b) other military display teams in the Spending Review 2025.

2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Hawk Aircraft: Red Arrows

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to replace the Hawk T1 fleet used by the Red Arrows.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work and Health Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the Work and Health programme that last took applicants in September 2024.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full time equivalent civil servants are working on animal welfare policy.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to animal welfare in the Spending Review 2025.

30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department has allocated for the promotional campaign on pet-friendly tenancy rights following the Renters’ Rights Bill.

30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Pets

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many civil servants are working on the communications campaign relating to pet-friendly tenancies following the Renters’ Rights Bill.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rehoming banned breeds which have passed behavioural assessments.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs are exempt under the XL bully exemption scheme.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many FTE civil servants his Department has allocated to work on the exemption scheme for dogs initially classified as XL bullies.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the dangerous dogs control scheme in Calgary, Canada.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats and Dogs: Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many FTE civil servants his Department has allocated to work on developing a single point of search for the microchip database for (a) dogs and (b) cats.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Disability and Neurodiversity: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to provide financial support to (a) Eat That Frog in Torbay and (b) other community organisations which are support hubs for those who are (i) disabled and (ii) neurodivergent to

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Industry: North Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of refusing new (a) oil and (b) gas developments at (i) Rosebank, (ii) Jackdaw and (iii) other potential oil and gas fields.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Education: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the (a) length and (b) frequency of gaps in education for children in care that are the result of placement moves.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Education: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the educational instability that children in care face.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether capital funding has been allocated to South Western Ambulance Service for the modernisation of their estate.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Combe Pafford School: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department took with Torbay Unitary Authority to help ensure the adequacy of consultation to reduce the number of moderate learning disability placements at Combe Pafford School Torquay.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that specialist medical services are accessible outside London.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tourette's Syndrome: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the number of specialist practitioners (a) researching and (b) treating Tourette’s Syndrome.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tourette's Syndrome: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve the quality of training on (a) Tourette’s syndrome and (b) other tic disorders for service providers nationally.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tourette's Syndrome: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing NICE guidance for (a) Tourette’s Syndrome and (b) other tic disorders.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tourette's Syndrome: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase funding into research on the (a) causes of and (b) treatments for Tourette’s syndrome.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of incorporating targeted cattle-based testing, enhanced slurry management, and wildlife vaccination from the Gatcomb project into its T