Dr Ellie Chowns

2 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: UK Relations with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to seek closer environmental cooperation and collaboration with the European Union and its agencies as part of the UK-EU reset.

2 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to seek (a) regulatory alignment and (b) a closer relationship with the European Union on chemicals regulation as part of UK-EU reset discussions.

30 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Commodities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with producer country stakeholders as it designs the Forest Risk Commodities implementing regulation.

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health Services and Social Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to disability benefits set out in the (a) Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to

29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Security: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of integrating health services with social welfare advice.

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, if she will take steps to prevent people with

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fruit and Vegetables: Packaging

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the use of single-use plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables in supermarkets.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish national plans to improve (a) respiratory health and (b) other major conditions following the publication of the NHS England 10 Year Health Plan.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing (a) sexual health services and (b) public health back into the NHS.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Development: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the World Bank Group's report entitled Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024, published on 2 October 2024, what steps he is taking to ensure (a) his Depar

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USAID: Malnutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of reduced USAID funding for malnutrition programmes on the UK's funding for such programmes for (a) children and (b) ot

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding he plans to provide for the (a) Child Nutrition Fund, (b) Child Wasting Innovation Programme, (c) ready-to-use therapeutic foods and (d) other nutrition prog

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 3 March

7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Development: Recreation Spaces

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of open public spaces in new housing developments that are owned by private companies.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to publish the 48 new Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the (a) Plan 5 student loan repayment threshold and (b) annual pay for someone on the minimum wage in a full-time job from 1 April 2025 on the net income

2 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Cooperatives and Credit Unions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the technical differences between co-operatives and credit unions which justify excluding credit unions from the exemption from audit requirements available to smaller co-operatives u

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of facilitating the recycling of blister packs.

1 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Economics of Biodiversity Review

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress she is making on implementing the findings of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, published by her Department in February 2021.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Networks

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of district heating schemes.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a scheme equivalent to Fuel Finder for the cost of charging electric vehicles.

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

Horticulture: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions with representatives of the horticultural industry on an alternative to the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme.

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

Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36460 on Litter, what steps he plans to take to support local authorities to tackle littering.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what criteria she plans to use to identify claimants with

28 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on the UK's ability to meet its binding climate and nature targets.

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

Countryside: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals in this Session to create a right of responsible access to the English countryside.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Attendance Allowance: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken to reach decisions on Attendance Allowance applications.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require NHS hospitals to operate pay on exit parking.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Betting: General Election 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 37932 on Gambling Commission, in what month this year she expects the Gambling Commission to concludes its investigation on allegations under s