Shivani Raja

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to i) support local authorities in managing temporary accommodation costs and ii) ensure value for money in capital investment programmes.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the financial sustainability of local authorities projecting significant drawdowns from reserves within the next three years.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of above inflation council tax increases on the delivery of local public services in a) England and b) Leicester.

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

Agriculture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Basic Payment Scheme 2023 claimants have accessed support through the Farming Resilience Fund since October 2021.

10 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local authority taxi and private hire licensing enforcement policies are brought into line with the Statutory Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Standards.

5 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Sex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to review NHS communications to ensure that language on (a) pregnancy and (b) breast feeding reflects biological sexes.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS Blood and Transplant donor exclusion policies (a) reflect up-to-date medical evidence and (b) do not unnecessarily restrict donor participatio

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department last reviewed NHS Blood and Transplant’s donor eligibility policy on the use of unlicensed injectable substances.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the permanent exclusion of people who have used tanning injections is consistent with the current evidence base on the persistence of bloodborne infection risks.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the lifetime blood donation deferral for people who have used tanning injections with a fixed-term exclusion period similar to tho

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Blood and Transplant has made an assessment of the potential impact of the use of tanning injections more than (a) 12 months (b) three months prior to donating on blood safety.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason people who have used tanning injections are permanently unable to donate blood.

4 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed international students levy on economic growth in (a) Leicester, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the United Kingdom; and if she will ensure the

4 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed international students levy on the competitiveness of UK universities.

30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Sex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of not referencing biological sexes in some maternity care guidance on the safeguarding of patients.

30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Integrated Care Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to delegate the commissioning of vaccination and immunisation services to integrated care boards from April 2026.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: East Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of national cultural funding for (a) Leicester and (b) the East Midlands compared with other regions.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish a breakdown of departmental funding allocated to major cultural festivals in the last five years.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Faith Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing the subsidy for Ofsted inspections on independent religious schools in (a) Leicester and (b) England.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of removing the subsidy for Ofsted inspections on (a) small and (b) specialist independent schools.

16 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breastfeeding

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has allocated funding to (a) initiatives and (b) organisations that promote the use of the term chestfeeding.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce the variation in integrated care board (ICB) funding for children's hospices; and if he will commit to holding ICBs to account for the way in which they (a) commission c

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Together for Short Lives’ report entitled Overstretched and Underfunded: The State of Children’s Hospice Funding in 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of cu

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: South America

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his policy is on seeking a UK-Mercosur free trade agreement.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to tackle racial discrimination within local authorities.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the value for money of local authorities pursuing repeated appeals against employment tribunal decisions.

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Disinformation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps (a) his Department and (b) the NHS are taking to counter (i) misinformation and (ii) disinformation about vaccines.

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Integrated Care Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the readiness of integrated care boards to assume responsibility for commissioning vaccination and immunisation services from April 2026.

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to issue guidance to local authorities on the discretionary provision of concessionary bus passes for carers of disabled people.

9 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Recreation Spaces and Sports: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of removing Sport England’s role as a statutory planning consultee under the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on t