Mrs Elsie Blundell

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of subsidising the cost of IT courses for staff in small and medium enterprises.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with stakeholders in Greater Manchester on improving local public transport.

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Midwives: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of midwives.

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) midwives and (b) maternity units across Greater Manchester have up-to-date equipment.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Churches: Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has plans to provide support to (a) community and (b) social enterprises to help re purpose churches that are now closed.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the modifications to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.

24 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine: International Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve unity amongst his European counterparts on the provision of support to Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

24 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Offensive Weapons: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) local authorities and (b) business across Greater Manchester on steps to tackle the sale of (a) knives and (b) other offensive weapons to (i) teenagers and (ii

24 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Knives: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to increase sentences for individuals that sell knives to (a) teenagers and (b) young people.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the handling of complaints regarding private hospice care.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to make heat pumps more (a) accessible and (b) cost effective to lower income households.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety Measures

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of re-introducing the hard shoulder on all motorways.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Technology: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology on support for small technological start-ups in Greater Manchester.

21 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of research and development tax reliefs on the expansion of small businesses.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of hospital bed availability in health trusts in the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services and Primary Care: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce pressures on (a) community health and (b) primary care settings within the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Mayor of Greater Manchester on pavement parking.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on the potential merits of including provisions to help tackle pavement parking in the English Devolution Bill.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase the UKs (a) manufacturing and (b) refining capacity for sustainable aviation fuel.

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

Social Rented Housing: Mould

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that housing associations take swift action on remediating mould and damp issues across their housing stock.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to tackle the flow of illicit drugs in Greater Manchester.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Dental Health: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the integration of oral health education across primary schools.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that potential reform of the national contract for dentists considers the views of dentists practicing in Greater Manchester.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the factors that contribute to people being unable to access NHS dentists in Greater Manchester.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Rochdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to increase the number of adults that have visited a dentist in Rochdale Borough in the last two years.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Rochdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of adults that visit a dentist in Rochdale Borough, compared to the last two years.

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to support people suffering with Endometriosis in Greater Manchester across regional healthcare settings.

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to improve working conditions for people living with endometriosis.

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to reduce the amount of time taken for cases related to perpetrators of domestic abuse to reach court in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Rochdale Borough.

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Pathfinder family court scheme being rolled out in (a) Wales, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Greater Manchester.