Blake Stephenson

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new specialist gender centre for children and young people in the East of England will open.

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

New Towns: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of building regulations on the speed of development of new towns.

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

New Towns: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of delivery timescales for New Towns Development Corporations on the ability of those corporations to build beautiful house

4 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the Chagos Islands deal.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Aviation: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the waste hierarchy to encourage councils to assign more black bin waste to the production of sustainable aviation fue

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the most common causes of school absences were in the 2024-25 academic year.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered opening new specialist SEND schools, in the context of trends in the number of education, health and care plans.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Bedford Free School

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to make a further announcement on the future of the Bedford Free School.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with NHS Employers on planned changes to funding for Level 7 apprenticeships.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of people working for state schools who possess a Level 7 apprenticeship qualification.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to funding for Level 7 apprenticeships on costs to the public purse in each of the next five years.

4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Qualifications

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of Civil Service employees who possess a Level 7 Apprenticeship qualification.

4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of Ministerial pensions in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Public Houses: Government Assistance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to provide provide financial support for communities seeking to bring disused pubs back into use.

2 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

GREAT: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of reducing GREAT campaign funding on economic growth.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the year-on-year spending associated with the Chagos Islands deal will be funded.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of UK hospitality's press release entitled, One third of hospitality businesses now operating at a loss, published 2 June 2025.

2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

New Towns Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the New Towns Taskforce recommendations before 23 July 2025.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Public Houses: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the business rates system on pub closures.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Help to Save Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for the Help to Save scheme.

2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction and Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the amount of capital funding that public sector bodies will spend on (a) building and (b) purchasing houses between July 2024 and July 2029.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the document entitled Economic appraisal for investing in local highways maintenance, published on 26 September 2024, what progress her Department has made on publishing its response to the re

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance Survey Report 2025, published on 18 March 2025.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled New dawn for rail as South Western services return to public hands, published on 25 May 2025, what her plans are for operators who fail to meet the stan

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Chiltern Railways: East West Rail Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what process her Department took to appoint Chiltern Railways as the operator of East-West Rail from Oxford-Milton Keynes.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

A421: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish any assessment that National Highways have made of the flooding of the A421 at Marston Moreteyne in September 2024.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Thameslink Line: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has allocated to reducing the number of rail replacement services required on Thameslink services in the 2025-26 financial year.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press release entitled Government pledges greater growth for the coach sector ahead of National Coach Week, published on 6 May 2025, whether she plans to take steps to support the coach se

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Persons with Reduced Mobility National Technical Specification Notice, published in December 2017, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of Appendix

2 Jul 2025 · Leader of the House

Ministerial Statements

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will make an estimate of the number of Government announcements which were made in the House of Commons prior to a Ministerial announcement in the media since July 2024.