Alex Ballinger

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to reintroduce a safeguarding database for children.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Royal Mail

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has plans to review the processes for recording tracking histories at Royal Mail's Heathrow distribution centre.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Game: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect grouse and their habitats.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure food allergy labels are visible and legible; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a minimum type s

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to stop the provision of (a) clinical and (b) therapy services by (i) unregulated and (ii) unregistered individuals.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Identity Cards: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered the introduction of an official ID scheme for (a) disabled people and (b) their carers.

28 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Gambling: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of raising taxation on gambling operators.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS staff training is (a) effective, (b) time efficient and (c) value for money.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Proscribed Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to proscribe (a) the English Defence League and (b) other far right groups.

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to increase regulations on property developers to help ensure high standards of development.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle (a) supply chains issues and (b) shortages of ADHD medication in the West Midlands.

6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Public Buildings: Arson

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve the capacity of local authorities to rebuild public buildings affected by arson.

6 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming spousal visa regulations to (a) reduce the 10-year duration, (b) remove renewals and (c) prevent penalisation due to a pa

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a mandatory and formal way for recording if and when patients have had an assessment for section 117 aftercare.

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Psychiatry and Social Workers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandatory training for (a) psychiatrists, (b) psychiatric nurses and (c) social workers on legal obligations under section 117 of the Me

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Drax Power Station: Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of trees from (a) primary and (b) old growth forests burnt by the Drax power station since 2012.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) protect the creative industries and (b) ensure copyright legislation remains strong in response to proliferated use of AI.

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the shortages in Pancreatic enzyme replacement medication.

6 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equal access to diagnosis of prostate cancer.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the (a) affordability and (b) accessibility of parental leave.

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help local authorities scruitnise the work of property developers.

5 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Tax Collection: Debts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with HMRC on instructions given to debt collection agencies in the event of (a) an unresolved dispute or (b) error on a taxpayer's account.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Fire and Rescue Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to improve morale in the fire service.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

West Midlands Fire Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the West Midlands fire authority plan to bring back familiarisation visits.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Fire and Rescue Services: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure national standards in the training of fire service personnel.

29 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to increase statutory parental leave.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Motorcycle Industry Association’s publication entitled A Licence to Net Zero, published in October 2023.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with the Motorcycle Industry Association on user licensing for powered light vehicles.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to consult on introducing licence upgrade courses for powered light vehicles.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total number of passes for the AM moped licence was in 2024; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of conducting a review of user licensing for powered light vehicles.