Written questions

274 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of dispensing PIP payments on a weekly basis.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Trapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban animal snares in England.

5 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for ratifying the United Nations Global Ocean Treaty.

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

Plan for Neighbourhoods: Swimming Pools

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether investment in local swimming facilities is accommodated in the pre-approved interventions for the Plan for Neighbourhoods.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to consult claimants before making any future changes to (a) Personal Independence Payments, (b) Work Capability Assessments and (c) the Disability Living Allowance.

24 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Human Rights: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the development of a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Older Persons.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will reverse the Government’s decision not to provide pension compensation to women who were born in the 1950s and 1960s.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to support SEND transport services following the increase to employers National Insurance contributions.

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

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to provide funding for social rented housing.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking (a) to protect the right to peaceful protest and (b) to prevent politically motivated prosecutions against peaceful protesters.

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Safeline

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to provide funding for the Safeline counselling service for male survivors of sexual abuse after March 2025.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve the accessibility of NHS hospital services for the elderly and (b) reduce the social stigma associated with seeking medical help.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incontinence: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure consistency of waiting times for pessary ring treatment for prolapsed bladders in (a) East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, (b) Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Tr

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to Automated External Defibrillators in residential areas.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Emergency Services: Medals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to introduce medal recognition for emergency services personnel injured in the line of duty.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Eurostar: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to support the reintroduction of Eurostar services to (a) Ebbsfleet and (b) Ashford.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department has taken to stop vetting processes barring those with criminal records being offered peer support roles in the justice sector.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding her Department is providing to promote peer support schemes in (a) custody and (b) community settings in the criminal justice system.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that peer mentors in the criminal justice system are adequately trained and supported in their roles.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison and Probation Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to expand peer-led initiatives in prisons and probation services.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of peer support programs to reducing reoffending rates in the criminal justice system.

30 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the report entitled Nothing has changed, published by Citizens Advice Eastbourne in January 2025.

30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress she has made on the implementation of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023.

29 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Leisure Centres and Sports: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of supporting sports and leisure facilities with energy costs.

23 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Insolvency: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) employment and (b) mental health support is available to entrepreneurs whose businesses go into liquidation.

23 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of raising the temperature threshold requirement for triggering the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.

23 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Victims and Prisoners Act 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Sections 69-72 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 on human rights.

23 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Victim Support Schemes: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding her Department provided to the (a) Survivors Trust Helpline, (b) National Male Survivor Helpline, and (c) Rape Crisis England and Wales helpline in financial year (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-25.

23 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Telephone Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department provided to the (a) Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline, (b) National Perpetrator Helpline, (c) Men’s Advice Line, (d) Galop national LGBT+ victims' Helpline, (e) Natio

23 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Pedestrian Areas: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help support local authorities to fix (a) poor quality and (b) unsafe pavements.

Source: official written-questions record.