Steve Darling

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Support for Mortgage Interest

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes made to Support for Mortgage Interest in 2018 on people in receipt of that loan.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Support for Mortgage Interest

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing Support for Mortgage Interest from a loan to a benefit.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her timeline is for completing the second pensions review.

9 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of maladministration around communications of State Pension age changes on the six sample cases in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's

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

Cats and Dogs: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of breeding for extreme conformations on the health and welfare of (a) dogs and (b) cats.

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

Dogs: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to regulate the use of stud dogs in dog breeding.

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

Dogs: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Animal Welfare Committee’s December 2024 opinion on specialised dog reproductive practices.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the terms of reference are for the Motor Insurance Taskforce.

6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the recall to prison programme.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are waiting for their pension credit application to be processed in each region.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on the six sample cases in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled Women’s State Pension age:

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish all Departmental research undertaken in relation to the Government's response to the PHSO report on communication of Women's State Pension age on 17 December 2024.

3 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Memory Clinics: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set targets to reduce memory clinic waiting times in (a) Torbay, (b) Exeter and (c) Barnstaple.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to support indoor pig farmers to adopt free farrowing systems.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 6270 on Poultry and Pigs: Animal Welfare, if he will publish a public consultation on the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of support available to people going through tribunals for claiming (a) Universal Credit and (b) other benefits.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pet Travel Scheme: Cats

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cats travelled to the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme via (a) sea, (b) tunnel and (c) air in 2023 and 2024.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pet Travel Scheme: Cats

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cats travelled to the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme in each month of (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pet Travel Scheme: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs travelled to the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme in each month of 2023.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cats: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cats were imported under the Balai Directive in each month of (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what projects the full-time equivalent civil servants working on rail projects in the South West are working on; and what proportion of their time is spent on each project.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Bank Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of enhancing the banking offer within Post Offices.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pet Travel Scheme: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs travelled to the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme by (a) sea, (b) tunnel and (c) air in each of the last 12 months.

11 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help young universal credit claimants into work.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Boards: Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance to integrated care boards on representation for NHS Primary Care stakeholders.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Disposable Wipes: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislative proposals to ban wet wipes containing plastic.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff are currently working on her Department's response to the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of mandatory reconsiderations of work capability assessment decisions have resulted in a different decision in each of the last three years.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling the provision of a copy assessment report when informing claimants of a decision on a benefit claim under the Health Transformation Pr

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling automated recording of health assessment information under the Health Transformation Programme.