Steve Darling

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UK City of Culture

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the competition for the UK City of Culture enables all participants to enhance their cultural offer.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UK City of Culture

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to launch the next Cities of Culture prospectus.

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Credits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Simplification update – January 2024, published 16 January 2024, when she plans to implement changes to National Insurance credits for parents who did not claim Child Bene

6 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps should be taken prior to a test for change on a healthcare offer.

6 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which services GIRFT have been reviewing as part of the healthcare system that impacts on Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in the last two years.

6 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister has oversight of the Getting It Right First Time programme.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will meet with the hon. Member for Torbay to discuss the Afghan Resettlement Programme.

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average wait time and (b) number of calls received were for the Winter Fuel Payment helpline in each winter since 2015.

4 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Humanitarian Aid: Ukraine

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered tax breaks for companies that donate humanitarian products to Ukraine.

4 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to reports that around 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported or transferred into Russia or Russian-held territories, what steps his Department

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time-equivalent civil servants are working on trading corporation agreements with the fishing industry.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Catches: White Fish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has considered increasing the trawler by-catch limit for bass.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Post-mortems: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many parents who have experienced the death of a child have waited more than three months to receive the final post-mortem report.

21 Feb 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Voluntary Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have made use of the National Insurance Credit buy-back scheme in each year since 2015.

21 Feb 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Voluntary Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent civil servants have worked on the National Insurance Credits buy-back scheme in each year since 2015.

21 Feb 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Voluntary Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of promoting the National Insurance Credits buy-back scheme for each year since 2015.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Personal Independence Payment requests that were initially refused were subsequently accepted after appeal in the latest period for which data is available.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which local authorities have engaged with the Government on increasing applications for pension credit since November 2024.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of her Department's proposed changes to the Work Capability Assessment on the Child Poverty Strategy.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children live in households in which at least one person is subject to a Limited Capability to Work Assessment in (a) the UK and (b) Torbay constituency.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for when each consultation attached to the Employment Rights Bill will have reported to the Government.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will list the consultations his Department is undertaking in connection with the Employment Rights Bill; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of each listed consultation.

11 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Cryptocurrencies: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges to prevent their use in financial crime.

11 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Fraud: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen cooperation with other nations to help tackle online fraud.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will pause the safety valve scheme until it's review is published.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities are part of the review into safety valve schemes.

7 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent Commission into Adult Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the expected timeline is for Baroness Casey's Commission into Adult Social Care, including the dates for evidence submission.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tickets: Sales Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with ticket vendors on the potential impact of the use of apps for purchasing tickets for events on (a) all digitally-excluded people, (b) people with disabilities an

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Torbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS dentists in Torbay constituency.

4 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Insurance: Corruption

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to (a) investigate and (b) raise awareness of (i) unethical and (ii) potentially corrupt practices within the insurance industry.