Written questions
36 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Hate Crime: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of hate crime incidences recorded in (a) the Barking constituency and (b) London in each of the last 10 years.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses for allocating protective security funds to different religious groups under the places of worship protective security fund; and whether the number of reported religi
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Faith Schools and Mosques: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help keep (a) mosques and (b) muslim faith schools secure.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Religious Buildings: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of hate crime around places of worship.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Religious Buildings: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of protective security schemes for religious places of worship.
1 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cyprus: Overseas Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of lifting the trade embargo on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
1 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cyprus: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to support a political solution in Cyprus .
10 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Betting Shops: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to increase maximum licensing fees for Track Betting Premises to local authorities.
7 May 2025 · Department for Education
Physical Education: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of PE provision in the national curriculum.
28 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Photographic Reconnaissance Unit: War Memorials
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made on confirming the site for the planned Photographic Reconnaissance Unit Memorial.
17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in levels of improvements to diagnostic services for pancreatic cancer since July 2024.
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Music and Dance Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to fund the Music and Dance Scheme in 2025-26.
19 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Hamas
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
19 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on the amount of UK aid that has reached Gaza since 15 January 2025.
19 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Occupied Territories: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide further aid to (a) the Occupied Palestinian Territories and (b) Gaza.
6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Commonhold
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Commonhold White Paper: The proposed new commonhold model for homeownership in England and Wales, published on 3 March 20
26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Greater London Authority
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to give local authorities in London a formal decision-making role in future integrated settlements applied to the Greater London Authority.
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the cap on Local Housing Allowance payable for temporary accommodation through the Housing Benefit subsidy system.
3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neurological Diseases: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of medicine for people with (a) epilepsy and (b) Parkinson’s disease.
3 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business Growth Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the Business Growth Service will (a) work with local authorities in design and implementation and (b) progress wider government aims for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.
3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the current Personal Independence Payments system for (a) supporting people with long-term illness and disability (b) adequate assessment
3 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Heathrow Airport: Job Creation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of additional jobs created by Heathrow expansion.
3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) estimate her Department has made of the number of local authorities not meeting targets on guidance set for housing delivery and (b) assessment she has made of the poten
31 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Film: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the equitability of film tax relief schemes.
27 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the timeframe GPs have to authorise repeat prescriptions.
5 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of regulating micro-mobility modes of transport.
21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the uptake of breast cancer screening in (a) London and (b) the North East London Health and Care Partnership.
21 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October to Question 8348 on Driving Tests: Greater London, what the average waiting time was at a driving test centre in the wider London area in (a) 2019 and (b) 2015.
9 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to meet demand for SEND educational provision in (a) London, (b) Barking and (c) the UK.
9 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the capacity is of SEND (a) schools and (b) provision within mainstream schools in (i) London and (ii) Barking.
Source: official written-questions record.