Blake Stephenson

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Administration of Justice: Infrastructure and Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judicial reviews of (a) major infrastructure projects and (b) planning applications and (c) other issues have taken place in each of the last five years.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Private Education: Business Rates and VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) business rates on private schools and (b) VAT on school fees on economic growth.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 26150 General Practitioners: Bedfordshire, if he will make an estimate of the size of the healthcare workforce in Bedfordshire in July 2029.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Written Question 26150 on General Practitioners: Bedfordshire, what assessment he has made of the impact of rurality on on a GPs workload.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

AstraZeneca: Merseyside

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has conducted a lessons learned review over negotiations with AstraZeneca on proposed investment in Merseyside.

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

Local Government: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25793 on Local Government: Employers' Contribution, what methodology her Department used to determine that £515 million of a

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

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she expects her reforms to local government to abolish the office of the elected Mayor of Bedford.

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

Local Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her proposed changes to the NPPF on (a) Bedford Borough and (b) other councils that have a Local Plan at examination.

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

Farmers: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of median income for farmers in the 2024-25 financial year.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sick Leave: Productivity

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of workplace sickness on productivity.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 64 of the document entitled GM 701 Asset delivery asset maintenance, published by Standards for Highways in March 2020, if her Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of H

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Govia Thameslink Railway and London Northwestern Railway: Nationalisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for nationalising (a) London Northwestern Railway and (b) Thameslink.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Education: Central Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to Central Bedfordshire Council to help support the transition from a three to a two-tier education system.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25799 on Property: Bedfordshire, what his Department's timetable is for confirming the allocations of funding to local authorities.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Project Gigabit: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of rolling out Project Gigabit in Bedfordshire on local economic growth.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of reaching his Department's target to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence in (a) 2030 and (b) 2032 on the effectiveness of the UK's defence capabilities.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of GDP that will be spent on defence by 2030.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in the US on levels of defence spending by the UK.

7 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of rules on access to (a) cash and (b) banking services in new towns.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy the Environment Agency's guidance entitled New national flood and coastal erosion risk information, updated on 28 January 2025, in the con

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's guidance entitled New national flood and coastal erosion risk information, updated on 28 January 2025, whether he has made a comparative asse

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Environment Agency's guidance entitled New national flood and coastal erosion risk information, updated on 28 January 2025, whether he has made a comparative asse

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he reviewed the NaFRA2 flood zone data on surface water flooding before it was published.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the NaFRA2 flood zone data.

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

Housing: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of houses in Local Plan sites highlighted in the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and (b) future likeliho

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

Property Development: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of current planning permissions granted in areas highlighted in the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and

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

Housing: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of houses built in areas highlighted the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and (b) future likelihood of su

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

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the New Towns Taskforce will publish a list of potential new towns.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funds given to the proposed national Nature Restoration Fund will be allocated to the county where the development they are offsetting takes place.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Oxford-Cambridge Arc

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of increases to employers’ National Insurance on employment in the Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor.