Written questions

Dr Ellie Chowns

438 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Misrepresentation: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress the Competition and Markets Authority has made on its investigation into misleading environmental claims, announced on 26 January 2023.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure the adequacy of support for children in kinship care.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Products: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many products have been investigated in detail by the Competition and Markets Authority as part of its fast-moving consumer goods investigation announced in January 2023.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Products: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made on their investigation into misleading environmental claims made in relation to fast moving consumer goods announced in January 2023;

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Charging Points: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to help prevent price differentials for different types of users of EV charging points.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent Commission into Adult Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to set a new date for cross party talks to discuss the work of the Independent Commission on social care.

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

Consumer Goods: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16660 on Consumer Goods: Carbon Emissions, what discussions he has had with the (a) Circular Economy Taskforce and (b) Committees

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescription Drugs: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the environmental impact of prescribing (a) inhalers and (b) other medicines.

24 Mar 2025 · Women and Equalities

Noise

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance on limiting ambient noise in specific settings to help improve levels of accessibility.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of General Practitioners' report entitled Towards Greener Prescribing in General Practice, published in March 2025, what plans his Department has to expand medic

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Royal College of General Practitioners' report entitled Towards Greener Prescribing in General Practice, published

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support primary care to reduce carbon emissions from prescribing.

20 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his Israeli counterpart on whether UK-made (a) arms and (b) arms components for (i) F35 aircraft and (ii) other arms have been used in the Is

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

Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) products of animal origin and (b) products containing products of animal origin have entered the UK from (i) Germany, (ii) Slovakia and (iii) Hungary since imports have be

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

Livestock: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the auto-clearance system on the UK’s ability to enforce (a) bans on the import of live (i) cattle, (ii) pigs and (iii) sheep and

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

Shipping: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to update data provided to the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee on establishing a crime and policing working group to help tackle disability hate crime on public transport.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Rodenticides: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 August 2024 to Question HL407 on Rodenticides: Safety, to which species the Government Oversight Group is considering extending the monitoring of Second-Generation Anticoagul

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Amazonia: Rainforests

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in Brazil on the four-lane highway through protected Amazon rainforest being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Be

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of BP’s plan to scale back renewable energy investment on achieving the UK’s 2030 target to reduce emissions by 68% compared to

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of BPs decision to scale back investment in renewable energy and increase investment in oil and gas on their ability to be a credible par

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with BP on the company's new strategy to prioritise oil and gas production over investment in renewable energy; and whether he has made an assessment of the potent