Darren Paffey

15 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing further recourse in situations where an employment tribunal award (a) relating to (i) wages, (ii) holiday pay, (iii) compensatory noti

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

Building Safety Regulator

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on when the remediation enforcement unit within the Building Safety Regulator will be set up.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Tenants: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that (a) homeless people, (b) people in temporary accommodation and (c) other people who are eligible for, but are not in receipt of, the housing eleme

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Small Businesses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of (a) waiting times for (i) appeals and (ii) repayments and (b) other delays in HMRC processes on (A) investment in and (B) the growth of small busine

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that increases in the National Living Wage are matched by sustainable funding for local authority social care budgets.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diseases: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits of introducing a preventative screening programme for (i) kidney and (ii) chest conditions and (b) impact of such a programme on (A) ea

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD and Autism: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Dpartment holds on the average waiting times for (a) ADHD and (b) autism diagnosis for (i) primary school age and (ii) secondary school age children.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Water: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on water safety education for primary school children.

12 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Motor Insurance: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle (a) insurance fraud and (b) ghost brokers in the motor insurance industry.

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

Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of unsafe cladding on the ability of leaseholders to sell their flats; and what steps his Department plans to take to

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

Fire Prevention: Southampton Itchen

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has independently reviewed the most recent Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls completed by Vistry for French Court, SO14 2DZ.

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

Leasehold: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions his Department has had with insurance companies on costs for (a) residents and (b) leaseholders in buildings with (i) cladding and (ii) fire safety defect

8 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for access to work applications.

5 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for the review of the child maintenance calculation.

5 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recourse is available in situations where an employment tribunal award has been made but cannot be enforced because the company is no longer trading and has not gone into formal insolvency.

5 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what options her Department is considering to reduce fatalities involving young drivers through the Road Safety Strategy; and when that strategy will be published.

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

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the (a) results of the Remediation Programme Insurance Survey and (b) Government response to that survey will be published.

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

Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support is available to leaseholders to meet the costs of remediating non-cladding related fire safety defects (a) of fire doors and (b) in general.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of permitting (a) homeowners, (b) renters and (c) small businesses to install sub-1kW grid-tied solar systems without r

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Billing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with Ofgem on ensuring that consumers are treated fairly in relation to historic overpayments to energy network operators; and whether he has considered opt

4 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Water Supply: Fluoride

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) the potential merits of adding fluoride to drinking water and (b) the potential impact of this on oral health for children.

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Tenancy Deposit Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of using (a) no-deposit and (b) deposit alternative schemes in the private rented sector on tenants; and wha

11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the role of the mitigation hierarchy of (a) avoidance, (b) mitigation and (c) compensation in ensuring ecological protections (i) during the plann

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Southampton Itchen

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Southampton Itchen constituency on 9 June 2025.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Free School Meals: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take with the Department for Education to monitor the potential impact of the (a) expansion of free school meal eligibility and (b) changes to School Food Standar

4 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will change the ownership arrangements for equipment funded through the Access to Work scheme to allow disabled employees to retain their assistive technology when they change or leave employment

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Buses: Wheelchairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that wheelchair users have reliable access to priority spaces on buses.

20 May 2025 · Home Office

Licensing Laws: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of current fee levels under the Licensing Act 2003; and whether she plans to review that Act to ensure that licensing fees reflect the actual costs incurre

20 May 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to (a) review and (b) remove the upper age limit for entry into flying and other officer roles in the armed forces.

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neuroendocrine Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to update NHS commissioning policy to include funding for Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours with liver metastases.