Tom Hayes

11 Sep 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Unemployment: Film and Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of unemployment in (a) the visual effects sector and (b) UK film and TV post production.

10 Sep 2024 · Treasury

Rent a Room Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Rent a Room Scheme tax-free earnings threshold.

10 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Accreditation UK scheme for institutions providing courses to students on a Sponsored Study visa.

10 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to include (a) a youth mobility scheme and (b) measures to support the English Language Training sector in the UK in future trade deals with non-EU countries.

10 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office

UK Trade with EU: Trade Agreements

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to include (a) a youth mobility scheme and (b) measures to support the English Language Teaching sector in the UK in future trade deals with EU countries.

10 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

English Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the English Language Teaching industry.

10 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

English Language: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of English Language Teaching centres that have closed permanently since the pandemic began.

10 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Education: Communication

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch a national public communications campaign ahead of winter 2024-25 on how to stay well including advice on (a) vaccinations for (i) flu and (ii) coronavirus, (b) keeping warm and (

9 Sep 2024 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide disability awareness training to all civil servants in public-facing roles.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to close the disability employment gap by 2030.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward legislation to introduce target dates to eradicate poverty for vulnerable groups.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will introduce legal aid for tenants for (a) housing repair issues and (b) enforcing legal housing rights.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rents: Increases

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce annual limits to in-tenancy rent increases linked to (a) inflation and (b) real median income growth.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce a legal right to (a) suitable emergency accommodation and (b) adequate support for people at risk of street homelessness.

9 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Service: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require Integrated Care Boards to have a dedicated focus on tackling health inequalities for inclusion health populations.

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the move-on period for newly-recognised refugees to a minimum of 56 days.

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to amend the Modern Slavery Statutory Guidance, published in May 2024, to ensure that people who (a) have been referred to the National Referral Mechanism and (b) do not have le

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that competent authorities issue decisions on (a) reasonable grounds within five working days and (b) conclusive grounds within 30 days of a reasonable gr

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Sections 14.128-131 of the Modern Slavery Guidance, published in May 2024, if her Department will take steps to amend the prioritisation criteria to ensure her Department prioritises

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Illegal Migration Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to remove clauses 22-25 from the Illegal Migration Act 2023.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Public Sector: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on using (a) the Public Sector Equality Duty and (b) equality impact assessments to ensure that (i) women and (ii) wome

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Leave: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will introduce statutory paid leave for survivors of domestic abuse.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will extend the Domestic Violence Easement available to survivors claiming (a) Job Seekers’ Allowance and (b) Universal Credit to disabled survivors who (i) claim Employment Support Allowance and

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to reform child maintenance services by (a) abolishing fees for survivors of violence against women and girls and (b) implementing robust enforcement measures for non-paying paren

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether future funding for organisations tackling violence against women and girls will (a) support the full running costs of services, (b) make provision for cost of living increases over the funding

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that her Department collects (a) comprehensive, (b) comparable and (c) disaggregated data on (i) violence against women and girls, (ii) the protected characteristics o

9 Sep 2024 · Home Office

Domestic Violence: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the Domestic Violence Indefinite Leave to Remain and Destitution Domestic Violence Concession to all migrant victims of domestic abuse regardless of immigration status

5 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance: Bournemouth East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people applying for child Disability Living Allowance waited longer than 20 weeks in Bournemouth East constituency in the last 12 months for which data is available; and

5 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding of the (a) High Needs Block of the Dedicated Schools Grant and (b) servicing of the debt incurred by local authorities.

5 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND provision in (a) Bournemouth, (b) Christchurch and (c) Poole.