Shivani Raja

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the level of variation between local authorities in the discretionary provision of free bus passes for carers of disabled people; and what steps she is taking to ensure a consist

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Schedule documents associated with the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts were removed from public view on the Contracts Finder website; and if she will take steps

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Sickle Cell Disease Quality Improvement Programme will continue when the Department of Health and Social Care takes over the responsibilities of NHS England.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sickle Cell Diseases: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Institute for Health and Care Research will report on its evaluation into the Sickle Cell Disorder Emergency Department Bypass Unit pilots.

14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve Care Quality Commission processing times for the registration of care providers in (a) England and (b) Leicester East constituency.

14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the Care Quality Commission’s registration process times; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of those processing times on th

14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the timeliness of Care Quality Commission processing of applications for registration as (a) care providers and (b) registered managers in (i) England and (ii)

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32327 on Asylum: Hotels and the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63118 on Asylum: Housing, whether her Department retains data on (a) occupancy leve

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the (a) occupancy level and (b) property capacity data discussed at (i) monthly contract management meetings and (ii) quarterly boards under the asylum accommodation and

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has used (a) occupancy level and (b) property capacity data to assess the cost-effectiveness of asylum accommodation contracts in the last 12 months.

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what definition her Department uses for (a) occupancy levels and (b) property capacity in the management of asylum accommodation contracts.

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data on (a) occupancy levels and (b) property capacity is provided to her Department by accommodation providers under Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts.

8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of instances of pre-term infants both (a) not receiving the maternal vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus

7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timeline is for the publication of an assessment of the (a) efficacy and (b) impact of the maternal vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus.

7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve data transparency for vaccination uptake figures for the maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme by reducing the four-month lag in

27 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making aid available to Christian communities facing violence or persecution in central and northern Nigeria.

27 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK aid spent on supporting Christian communities facing violence or persecution in central and northern regions of Nigeria

27 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Housing: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2025 to Question 54068 on Housing: Contracts, what guidance her Department has issued to contractors on Bed Space Size in relation to accommodation contracts.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC Asian Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the compliance of the BBC’s closure of Asian Network News with its (a) service agreement and (b) Charter duties to reflect diverse communities.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC Asian Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on whether the BBC conducted a race equality impact assessment prior to the decision to close Asian Network News.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC Asian Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Ofcom approval was sought before the BBC announced the closure of Asian Network News; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of seeking retrospective approval.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC Asian Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to discuss the closure of Asian Network News with the BBC Director-General.

26 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department considers (a) occupancy levels and (b) property capacity when assessing the cost-effectiveness of asylum accommodation contracts.

26 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics are used by her Department to assess whether asylum accommodation contracts represent value for money.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Honour Based Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to create a statutory definition of honour-based abuse.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that family carers are meaningfully involved in the (a) planning and (b) decision-making processes of local integrated care systems.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) identify and (b) support (i) hidden and (ii) unpaid family carers who (A) are and (B) are not engaged with formal care systems.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS (a) engagement with and (b) leadership responsiveness to small community-led carer networks.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) hidden and (b) unpaid carers from ethnic minority communities; and whether he has made an assessment of support needs in Leicester East constituen

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

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the financial impact of being required to apply Extended Producer Responsibility charges retrospectively in the absence of published official rates for r