Victoria Collins

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Impact Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department conducted a Disability Impact Assessment of the Public Switched Telephone Network migration.

5 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Orchestras: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to orchestral tax relief on touring orchestras’ ability to fund UK charity concerts and community programmes.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of preserving full funding for Level Seven apprenticeships for (a) people from disadvantaged backgrounds, (b) career changers and (c) people retur

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of removing funding for Level Seven apprenticeships for people aged 22 and above on (a) gender equality and (b) social mobility.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Treatment: River Ver

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) ensure that planned upgrades to Markyate Sewage Treatment Works go ahead, in the context of Thames Water’s financial position and (b) to prev

5 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Artificial Intelligence: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State in response to the question from the hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted of 2 May 2025, Official Report, column 11, if her Depart

5 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Chinook Helicopters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to hold an independent judge-led public inquiry into the 1994 RAF Chinook Helicopter crash.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Hertfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people in mental health crises receive adequate support in emergency services in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency and (b) Hertfordshire.

2 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Motor Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Financial Conduct Authority plans to review the methods used by car insurers to determine vehicle valuations in write-off settlements.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Energy Performance Certificates: Business Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that commercial properties have reached the minimum requirement of EPC Grade B by 2030.

2 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Motor Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Financial Conduct Authority plans to review the methods used by car insurers to assess vehicle value in write-off settlements.

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Motor Insurance: Fees and Charges

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to prevent motor insurers from raising premiums for vehicle theft victims making non-fault claims in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted, (b) Hertfordshire, and (c) the rest of England.

30 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Insurance: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with car insurance companies on the affordability of compulsory car insurance for drivers who require larger vehicles for disability-related mobility needs.

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Motor Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the potential impact of changes to the costs of car insurance on vulnerable motorists.

30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy will include (a) objectives and (b) targets beyond the initial 10-year framework to ensure sustained progress in reducing child poverty in (i) Harpenden an

30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Means-tested Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the uptake of means-tested benefits among households with children in poverty in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) Eng

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been allocated by his Department for research into the (a) causes, (b) treatment, and (c) long-term effects of long covid in children and young people.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue updated clinical guidance to support (a) GPs, (b) paediatricians and (c) school nurses in (i) diagnosing and (ii) treating children with long covid.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a national register of children and young people diagnosed with long covid.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that children and young people with long covid have access to age-appropriate care and treatment.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of long covid in children and young people in (a) England and (b) Hertfordshire; and if he will publish estimates of the number of affected indi

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to help consolidate agricultural advice services; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on the (a) consistency and (b) coor

30 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Harpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.

30 May 2025 · Home Office

British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, what assessment she has made on the ability of British Nationals Overse

30 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Hertfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to maintain the five year qualifying period for current indefinite leave to remain visa holders in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency and (b) Hertfordshire.

30 May 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Directive 2010/63EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, what steps her Department is taking to (a) record and (b) publish the number of animals bred for use in scientific

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for ADHD treatment.

30 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Off-payroll Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of umbrella company practices on the (a) rights and (b) take-home pay of contractors; and whether he plans to bring forward legislative prop

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Off-payroll Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the off-payroll working reforms on self-employed individuals.

30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that reviews of Personal Independent Payment claims for people with complex and chronic health conditions consider the (a) overlap between multiple health issue