Written questions
136 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the value for money of spending by local authorities on defending SEND tribunal appeals in the 2023-24 financial year.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which there has been an increase in the number of SEND tribunal appeals in the last academic year.
22 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of whether there are socio-economic disparities in the outcomes of special educational needs and disability tribunals.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support low-income families to apply for education, health and care plans.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effectiveness of implementing cohort-based education, health and care plans.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Cerebral Palsy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to education, health and care plans for children with cerebral palsy in education settings.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the different ways in which local authorities allocate funding for education, health and care plans.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) support and (b) improve decision-making in the provision of education, health and care plan assessments.
17 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy.
15 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Mortgages: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reforming mortgage regulation.
14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance on commissioning policies for NHS-funded IVF.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of auto-enrolment schemes for free school meals.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Child Maintenance Service is taking to ensure equitable treatment of Armed Forces families.
9 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on intermittent shortages of (a) Olanzapine and (b) other anti-psychosis medicines in the UK.
8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review the adequacy of levels of access to ADHD medication; and if a Minister will meet with the hon. Member for York Outer to discuss ADHD medication shortag
19 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Slavery: Care Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent modern slavery in the care sector.
10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) raise awareness of Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and (b) support children with this condition in York Outer constituency.
3 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Statistics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to improve the frequency of cancer statistics releases.
29 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Autism: York Outer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) raise awareness of and (b) support adults with autism in York Outer constituency.
13 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting lists for elective procedures.
25 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of battery energy storage systems.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Future Home Standard on National Grid capacity.
23 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will meet the hon. Member for York Outer to discuss reforms to speed up the planning process.
23 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to conduct a review into local authorities’ pre-application processes.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential economic merits of improving internet connectivity on the rail network.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to (a) protect and (b) support vulnerable people in relation to online gambling addictions.
23 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) the dementia diagnosis rate and (b) the provision of specialist care services for those living with dementia in York Outer constituency.
23 Oct 2024 · Women and Equalities
Employment: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her department is taking to improve the protection for people who have experienced (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) disability discrimination at work.
23 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: York Outer
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of demand for nursery spaces in York Outer constituency.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when his Department plans to next update the National Policy Statement for energy infrastructure; and whether that update will include battery storage as significant energy infrastructure.
Source: official written-questions record.