Alex Ballinger

24 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Migration and Conflict Directorate

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Migration and Conflict Directorate in (a) preventing and (b) reducing conflict in priority contexts; what

21 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Yemen: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much foreign aid she plans to grant to Yemen for the 2026-27 fiscal year.

21 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Yemen: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance funding she plans to provide to Yemen in each of the next five years.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Diesel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the transition to electric vehicles on small businesses that provide repairs to diesel vehicles.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of inaccessible (a) public transport and (b) streets on disabled people seeking employment.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Public Footpaths

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will respond to her Department's consultation entitled Managing Pavement Parking, which closed on 22 November 2020, by 31 December 2025.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of amending the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill to include measures to prevent pavement parking.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve the confidence of the Sikh community in the police to report hate crimes that (a) include and (b) do not include extreme violence.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Hate Crime: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Sikhs entitled Anti-Sikh Hate Crime Re

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Sikhs: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent racially-motivated (a) violence and (b) sexual assault against members of the Sikh community.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Trading Standards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of (a) the adequacy of funding for local trading standards and (b) the potential impact of this on their ability to respond promptly to complex and re

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what measures he is taking to ensure small businesses deliver (a) prompt, (b) competent and (c) honest services to consumers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) consumers are protected from consumer fraud by small businesses and (b) victims are (i) promptly and (ii) sufficiently compensated for their losses.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Trading Standards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local authorities on ensuring that local trading standards services are adequately resourced.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Fraud: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure civil court judgments related to consumer fraud are effectively (a) satisfied and (b) enforced; and what steps he is taking to ensure perpetrators cannot continue with such behav

16 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Police: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on ensuring that police (a) officers and (b) staff receive (i) mental health and (ii) self-harm prevention support.

2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gambling: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the (a) commissioning and (b) funding model for gambling harm treatment services is structured across England; and whether he plans to issue a Letter of Comfort to Providers.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gambling: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding for gambling harm treatment services will be structured through (a) block funding, (b) activity-based models or (c) outcome-based models; what his Department's timetable is for (i)

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gambling: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the contracting process to enable established providers to apply for or maintain commissioned status for the commissioning of gambling harm treatment services will be through (a) open tende

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gambling: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities will be responsible for commissioning gambling harm treatment services in relation to the portion of the Gambling Levy allocated for treatm

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a comparative assessment of penalty levels for uninsured driving in (a) the UK and (b) other European countries.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of penalty levels for uninsured driving.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: Motor Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered including measures to combat uninsured driving in the Road Safety Strategy.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Road Safety Strategy will be published.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings the Secretary of State for Defence attended on (a) OP RUBIFIC and (b) the Afghan Response Route between September 2023 and 4th July 2024; and if he will provide the date of such meetings.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings the Minister for Defence Procurement attended on (a) operation RUBIFIC and (b) the Afghan Response Route between August 2023 and 4 July 2024.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

COBR

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a COBR meeting took place on OP RUBIFIC between 21 May 2024 and 25 June 2024.

21 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Hacking: Afghanistan

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any COBR meetings took place on the (a) data breach relating to Afghanistan and (b) Afghan Response Route between August 2023 and May 2024.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that companies are legally obliged to prevent (a) human rights abuses and (b) environmental harms in their supply chains.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to consult tea producers for the review of Responsible Business Conduct.