Written questions

157 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Crewe and Nantwich

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) support and (b) resources his Department are providing to help support medical facilities in Crewe and Nantwich constituency.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy and Standing Charges: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce (a) energy prices and (b) standing charge fees.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help protect workers on sponsored visas from mistreatment by unscrupulous employers.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department is using to allocate funding for school solar panel installation; and what steps she is taking to ensure that the most energy-inefficient school buildings are prioritised.

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

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the extended producer responsibility scheme on small food manufacturers.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Misrepresentation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to prevent companies fraudulently mis-selling (a) solar panels and (b) other energy generating equipment.

14 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Travel: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the overseas scale rates.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government takes to help ensure that apprentices are well-supported by their employers.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help raise awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in (a) hospitals, (b) schools and (c) local authorities.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Police Community Support Officers: Crewe and Nantwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of police community support officers in Crewe and Nantwich constituency.

5 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential contribution of cash ISAs to the economy.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to ensure the Integrated Transport Strategy prioritises road safety.

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

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the newly built homes her Department is planning will be smaller than (a) three and (b) four bedrooms in the next four years.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Mathematics: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure students who would have benefitted from the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme are still provided with the same opportunities they may have otherwise had.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to inform members of the teachers pension scheme who are in (a) final salary and (b) career average schemes of their right to retire at 55.

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

HM Land Registry

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the Land Registry’s backlog.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the consequences will be for landlords who do not raise their EPC rating to C when it is unfeasible to do so.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that research into long-COVID is adequately funded.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Cheshire East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to (a) help improve road infrastructure and (b) tackle traffic congestion around the Nantwich Bypass.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to support small independent SEND providers.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to include people with mental health problems in the disability criteria for disabled railcards.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vasa Praevia: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include vasa praevia screening as part of antenatal care within the NHS.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure airlines do not discriminate against elderly people who are not able to digitally check-in.

4 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Police: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) comply with the McCloud remedy and (b) provide assurances to members of the Police Pensions Scheme.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure unpaid carers claiming carers allowance over the retirement age on behalf of a disabled spouse below retirement age continue to receive benefits.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has plans to mandate a standard platform height for train stations.

9 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Business

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans his Department has to ensure that (a) commercial and (b) retail units utilise (i) solar panels and (ii) other renewable energy sources.

9 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the accessibility of the railways for disabled people.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) Community First Responders and (b) Emergency Medical Technician use blue light vehicles.

29 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Ofsted: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Ofsted's complaints procedure; and what her Department's policy is on its future.

Source: official written-questions record.