Tom Hayes

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how her Department is improving training to ensure bus drivers understand how best to support blind and partially sighted passengers.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department recognises the challenges of visually-impaired people in using bus stop bypasses; and whether she is developing safe, accessible designs for these bus stops.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has investigated the potential for a national rollout of a tactile paving design to allow bus stops to be easily identified.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to ensure prison leavers have housing and health plans in place before release.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Rents: Arrears

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what targets does the Department have for resolving housing arrears under Universal Credit, and how are these monitored.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Rents: Arrears

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to expand the use of direct payments to landlords for vulnerable tenants to prevent evictions and sustain tenancies.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action is being taken to simplify Universal Credit housing cost processes for vulnerable claimants and reduce waiting times.

2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will review the Mental Health Act 1983 to ensure people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse needs are not excluded from treatment.

2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is the Department taking to remove barriers preventing community homelessness health services, such as mobile clinics, from accessing NHS SystemOne records.

2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how will his Department ensure Integrated Care Boards are held accountable for homelessness health outcomes, including hospital discharge into safe accommodation and access to primary care.

2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will his Department bring forward a dedicated homelessness health strategy.

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Géza Buzás-Hábel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Hungarian counterparts on the potential prosecution of Pecs Pride organiser Géza Buzás-Hábel.

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hungary: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Hungarian counterparts on LGBTQ+ human rights.

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Office for Budget Responsibility: Forecasts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the OBR's report entitled Economic and fiscal outlook, published in November 2025.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the role of early years settings is in helping to identify and support the needs of SEND children.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage people to obtain early years qualifications.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Career Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that early years educators can have long, fulfilling and fairly-paid careers in the early years sector.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Bournemouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of free childcare places in Bournemouth.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) part-time and (b) flexible childcare places.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she intends to increase the level of free childcare funding for each child.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with children’s nursery operators on (a) the viability of that sector and (b) the adequacy of the level of funding for childcare provided by the Government.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government’s new school-based nurseries will be operated by the public or private sector.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Financial Services: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking with the financial sector to support the transition to net zero.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Universities: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to support support students affected by (a) course closures and (b) redundancies at universities in financial deficit.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the financial sustainability of higher education institutions; and what information her Department holds on the proportion of higher education institutions that

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Business and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) businesses to (i) comply with new plastic regulations and (ii) transition to sustainable alternatives.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department plans to provide for plastic reprocessing infrastructure in each of the next three years; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed research on the potential (i) environmental and (ii) health impact of (A) microplastics and (B) nanoplastics on (1) ecosyst

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) design innovation and (b) the recyclability of plastic products to help accelerate the the transition to a circular economy for plast

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Biodiversity: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of biodiversity net gain requirements on the (a) cost and (b) timeline for the development of grassroots sports faciliti