Mike Martin

16 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 23 of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on small businesses that provide school uniforms.

15 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Perinatal Mortality: Coroners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the powers of Coroners to include the investigation of stillbirths.

13 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of continuation of the conflict in Sudan on the number of Sudanese refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Apprentices and Classroom Assistants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) fast-tracking higher-level teaching assistants to become teachers and (b) introducing teaching apprenticeships.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Information Sharing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that NHS patients who consent to have their data shared with UK medical institutions for research and development will not have their data shared overseas.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that private ambulance service personnel on NHS contracts receive (a) recognition and (b) honours.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing civil rather than criminal penalties on people found in possession of drugs for personal use.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of moving responsibility for drugs policy to the Department of Health and Social Care.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for an autism diagnosis in Kent in (a) 2025 and (b) 2020; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for receiving an autism diagnosis.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Protection From Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for the implementation of the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023.

13 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the planned reforms to agricultural property relief, what steps her Department will take to support farmers who have lost their exemption because their (a) spouse or (b) civil partner has died.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to hospitals on using withheld numbers to contact patients about appointments.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Wildlife: Rodenticides

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Rodenticide Stewardship Scheme in reducing wildlife exposure to rat poisons; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Stansted Airport: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the penalties are when the LAeq noise contour threshold at Stansted Airport is exceeded; and who enforces those noise restrictions.

19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with long covid are adequately supported.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a British supplier of Creon.

16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 101 of the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether she plans to postpone local authority elections in Kent in 2025.

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of supply chain issues surrounding the importing of Creon into the United Kingdom on patients with pancreatic diseases; and what steps he is taking to incr

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Medicines Shortages Task Force.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions: Index Linking

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing indexation of pension rights accrued before April 1997.

16 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Overseas Students: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2024 to Question 16106 on Overseas Students: Ukraine, whether students who have extended visas under the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme and whose graduation

16 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ryan Cornelius

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to raise the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's ruling that the United Arab Emirates has unlawfully detained Ryan Cornelius with th

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

A21: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has had discussions with National Highways on the long-term plans for upgrading the A21.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

A21: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to monitor the effectiveness of the A21 Safety Package; and what metrics will be used to measure safety improvements.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

A21: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the A21 Safety Package will address visibility issues.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

A21: Hedges and Ditches

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her expected timeline is for (a) hedgegrow maintenance and (b) vegetation clearance along the A21 in the Lamberhurst area.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed sale of Royal Mail on its ability to fulfil its obligations as a universal service provider.

9 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to agricultural property relief on farmers whose (a) spouse and (b) civil partner has died.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

River Grom: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a water meadow on the flow from South Tunbridge Wells Waste Treatment Works into the River Grom.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Independent Water Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Independent Water Commission will have powers to approve natural water management approaches.