Steve Darling

4 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to help ensure that grants for affordable housing schemes do not sit as debt on housing association balance sheets.

3 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Tools: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a regional breakdown of the costs of tool theft.

3 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Tools: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle tool theft.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Dawlish

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of recent disruption on the Dawlish rail line on the local economy of Torbay.

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Police: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the implementation of the right person right care policy by Devon and Cornwall constabulary.

30 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Batteries: Lithium

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of fire regulations on Lithium Ion battery storage in the (a) commercial and (b) domestic sector.

30 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent civil servants are currently working on phase five of the South West Rail Resilience programme.

28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Foundation Trusts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which health foundation trusts other than Devon are under NHS Oversight Framework Level 4.

28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Post-mortems

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the turnaround times for (a) hospital and (b) HM Coroner's Office post mortems in (i) neonatal and paediatric and (ii) other cases.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

National Insurance Contributions: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent civil servants are working on supporting people who wish to buy back missing National Insurance years before the 5 April 2025 deadline.

28 Jan 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Publicity

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government is spending on public awareness campaigns to inform people about the opportunity to buy back missing National Insurance years before the 5 April 2025 deadline.

28 Jan 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to raise awareness of the opportunity for people to buy back missing National Insurance years.

28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much additional funding for maintenance at delayed schemes in the New Hospital Programme has been made available for each hospital in each year.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a legal right to Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for disabled (a) tenants and (b) leaseholders in residential blocks who are unable to ind

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: ME/CFS

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the economy of economic inactivity due to myalgic encephalomyelitis.

24 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: National Insurance Credits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, HC 62, whether the exercise to correct National Insurance records for recipients of Universal Credit has been completed in line wit

22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Givinostat

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing access to givinostat.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

After School Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help low-income families pay for after-school clubs.

21 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of centrally procuring scaffolding to prop up hospitals awaiting funding via the New Hospital Programme.

20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on ensuring that patient access to treatment for very rare diseases is not delayed in circumstances where there is uncertainty on the incidence and

16 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: Public Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of requiring defibrillators to be placed in all new (a) social housing developments, (b) supermarkets and (c) other pub

16 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: Emergency Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to require all emergency service vehicles to have defibrillators.

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Stoma Appliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on providing adequate facilities for stoma bag patients.

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Hospitality Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the hospitality industry.

14 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Tourism: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of a tourism tax on the tourist industry.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what charities his Department has supported to assist refugees into the NHS.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what direct funding his Department provides to support refugees with medical backgrounds with integrating into the NHS.

14 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) fraud, (b) debt and (c) error through AI.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times (a) in the A&E queue and (b) for Torbay and South Devon NHS foundation trust.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for (a) ambulances held in queues and (b) people waiting at home for an ambulance.