Jess Asato

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the children who will now receive free school meals will also be eligible for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Warm Homes Plan will include clean heating solutions required in rural areas as well as urban areas.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Warm Homes Plan will include the decarbonisation of rural off-grid households.

30 May 2025 · Department for Education

Truancy: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to take steps to help minimise the potential impact of prosecutions for child truancy from school on mothers.

30 May 2025 · Department for Education

Truancy: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of prosecutions for child truancy from school on mothers.

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Financial Services: Disadvantaged

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a mandatory disclosure regime for financial services providers on activities to improve financial inclusion.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to prevent social media companies from removing provenance metadata from content posted online.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to promote the use of provenance metadata on content shared online to help reduce disinformation.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of recommendation 4 of the report by the Older People’s Housing Taskforce entitled Our future homes:

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Pornography: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his planned timetable is for responding to the recommendations of the report entitled Creating a safer world: the challenge of regulating online pornography, published on 27 Februa

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to (a) reduce consumption amongst children and (b) encourage reformulation of products that are high in fat, sugar and salt that are targeted at children.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Malnutrition: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to (a) tackle, (b) prevent and (c) monitor child poverty in the form of malnutrition.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Malnutrition: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to screen for malnutrition in (a) children and (b) adults across the country in a consistent manner.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of counsellors trained to support children who have experienced or witnessed domestic abuse.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that children who have witnessed domestic abuse can access age-appropriate counselling and therapeutic interventions.

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Counselling: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence are informed of their rights to access pre-trial therapeutic support.

21 Feb 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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that counselling for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence includes culturally competent and specialist support for diverse communities.

21 Feb 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 he has made of the adequacy of funding for counselling services supporting survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence.

21 Feb 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 steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of trauma-informed counselling services for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of work by third-sector organisations to (a) support families of children struggling with school attendance and (b) tackle the root causes of low

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of non-attendance sanctions.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing school-based whole family support practitioners to support the SEND system.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the implementation across (a) schools and (b) local authorities of its working together to improve school attendance guidance; and whether she has plans to r

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the charity School-Home Support report entitled Strengthening the bridge between home and school, published on 26 November 2024; an

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

Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has plans to halve the number of non-decent homes in the (a) social and (b) private sector by 2030.

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

Housing: Furniture

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of unfurnished homes on (a) prison leavers, (b) people escaping domestic violence and abuse and (c) people that cannot

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

Furniture Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had engagement with the Child Poverty Taskforce on (a) furnished tenancies and (b) the potential impact of the decent homes standard on trends in the level of fur

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

Social Rented Housing: Furniture

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of updating the decent homes standard to ensure that at least 10% of homes for social rent are offered furnished.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Electricians: Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to calculate the number of experienced adult learners undertaking electrical training via the (a) experienced worker route and (b) an equivalent national vocational qualifica

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Electricians: Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help students studying classroom-based electrical technical diplomas transition into the electrical workforce.