Rachel Gilmour

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telephone Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned switchover from landlines to digital technologies by January 2027 on rural households without broadband.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) increasing the level of funding available for demand responsive transport and (b) introducing bus concessions for people up to the age of 22.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Disadvantaged: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the English indices of deprivation to include rurality as a factor.

16 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding for specialised rural crime teams.

16 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Valuation Office Agency: Standards

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the size of the backlog on Valuation Office Agency decisions.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Retail Trade: Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with retailers on the safety and security of people who are lone working in stores.

1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that supported housing demand is met.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of maternity care.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure adequate external scrutiny of the Child Poverty Strategy.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle human health risks associated with spot on pet treatments containing (a) fipronil and (b) imidacloprid.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase levels of funding available for farmers.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support food security.

1 Sep 2025 · Attorney General

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of rural crime.

1 Sep 2025 · Women and Equalities

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to tackle violence against women and girls.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pesticides

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including pet treatments as a significant source of pesticides as part of the UK Pesticides National Action Plan 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what interim regulatory measures will be introduced before a successor regulator to Ofwat is established.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to apply sufficient (a) regulatory and (b) financial pressures on water and sewerage companies to ensure the provision of drainage connections to rural communit

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will consider the human health risks to (a) children and (b) adults of spot on pet treatments containing (i) fipronil and (ii) imidacloprid; and if he will take steps to address

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will include pet treatments as a significant source of pesticides as part of the UK Pesticides National Action Plan 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) support is provided for claimants with (i) severe health conditions and (ii) daily-living needs who score zero on a Personal Independence Payment assessment,

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help increase awareness of (a) Access to Work and (b) other employment support programmes.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS dental services will receive increased funding from the Spending Review.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the proportion of NHS funding allocated to dentistry over the remainder of this Parliament.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on primary care NHS dental services per head of population in England in real terms in each of the last 10 years (a) inclusive and (b) exclusive of the patient charge revenu

17 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Civil Society: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of investment in rural VCSE infrastructure on inequalities in access to (a) GP, (b) mental health, (c) community and (d) o

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Archives: Tiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support the (a) preservation and (b) public accessibility of the legacy photographic archives documenting the (i) industrial and (ii) cultural heritage of Tiverton and

14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to establish a ring-fenced research fund for studying the reproductive safety of sodium valproate.

11 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of restricting concessionary bus travel to journeys after 9:30am on disabled people's employment prospects; and if she will make an assessment of the potenti

10 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the (a) sustainable funding and (b) fair commissioning of (i) hospice and (ii) palliative care services take into account the higher cost of delivering services in

10 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming (a) NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and (b) National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme will include policies on staffing in rural areas.