Jess Asato

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Work Coaches have been trained to understand domestic abuse; and who that training is provided by.

10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the civil service has implemented a policy of paid leave for staff who have experienced domestic abuse.

10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the civil service has implemented a domestic abuse policy for employees.

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has provided guidance for health and care staff on non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department requires health and social care staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs to receive safeguarding training on the risks of non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behavio

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department requires mandatory training in coercive and controlling behaviour for health and social care staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs.

10 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has provided guidance for multi-agency staff on non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

10 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department requires staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs to receive safeguarding training on the risks of non-intimate partner coercive and controlling behaviour of older victims.

10 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department requires mandatory training in coercive and controlling behaviour for all staff in multi-agency safeguarding hubs.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, if he will provide a breakdown by (a) location and (b) roles of the additional 6,70

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to (a) deliver long-term financial sustainability for the supported housing sector and (b) prevent the decommissioning of supported housing schemes.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with Homes England on the (a) design and (b) delivery of the 10-year Affordable Homes Programme.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Family Hubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of funding his Department is providing to the (a) Best Start in Life strategy and (b) Best Start Family Hubs.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Child Rearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's policy paper Giving every child the best start in life strategy, published on 7 July 2025, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that parenting support delivered as pa

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing statutory guidance to NHS commissioning bodies to ensure that they commission counselling and psychotherapy professionals to provide

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance to NHS commissioners on commissioning qualified counselling and psychotherapy services as part of the specialist support provided to survivors of domestic abuse and sexual

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of (a) current waiting times and (b) levels of access to specialist counselling support for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence f

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the extension of the PINS programme on children with developmental language disorder.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Assistance Animals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to give emotional support animals the same legal status as guide dogs.

21 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Running: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Abuse of women runners: implications for the violence against women and girls policy agenda, published by the University of Manchester in November 2024, whether s

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing annual statistics on the number of children who miss education due to long term illness; and if she will publish statistics on the child's (a

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s statutory guidance entitled Children missing education: statutory guidance for local authorities, published August 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s statutory guidance entitled Children missing education - Statutory guidance for local authorities, updated August 2024, when she plans to update the guidance; and if she will

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to support schools to develop timetabling expertise in order to enable more flexible working patterns for teachers (a) who are mothers and (b) generally.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Loneliness

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to update the Government's loneliness strategy, entitled, A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness, published on 15 October 2018.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to develop central commissioning guidance for clinically-based domestic violence and abuse specialists.

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

National Age Assessment Board

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of establishing and operating the National Age Assessment Board; and if she will divert this expenditure into training social workers in local authorities.

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to review the (a) accuracy, (b) ethics and (c) fairness of (i) scientific methods and (ii) artificial intelligence tools used to assess the age of unaccompan

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to publish (a) the number of people claiming to be children who have been assessed as adults on first arrival and (b) the number later found to be children f

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's age-assessment process for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and what steps she is taking to ensure that children are treat