Uma Kumaran

17 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that accommodation for housing asylum seekers (a) meets adequate minimum standards and (b) protects residents against (i) mistreatment, (ii) exploitation, (iii) sexu

16 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the reduction in Official Development Assistance, whether her Department plans to maintain its full pledge to the 21st replenishment of the International De

16 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Armed Conflict: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve its capabilities to negotiate humanitarian access to conflict areas.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Networks: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to protect leaseholders from paying for heat network remediation costs.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Networks: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the (a) total and (b) per dwelling building remediation costs associated with the proposed Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme.

11 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help improve access for humanitarian (a) workers and (b) supplies into Sudan.

11 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Humanitarian Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's news story entitled UK Chair statement: Ministerial Roundtable on Sudan, published on 20 February 2025, whether he plans to convene a follo

22 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring Control over the Immigration System, published on 12 May 2025, when she plans to publish further information on how changes to the five-year settle

22 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will update the Decent Homes Standard for social housing to ensure that kitchens over 20 years old are renewed by social landlords.

14 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sri Lanka: War Crimes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on whether former SAS soldiers working in private mercenary companies had any involvement in the committing of war crimes during the Sri

6 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ensure that consideration of (a) maternity pay and (b) pregnancy poverty are included in the work of the child poverty taskforce.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on leave extended by section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 have been provided e-Visas.

22 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for providing eVisas to (a) people on leave extended by section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 and (b) others; and when that rollout will be completed.

1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) monitoring and (b) treatment of tuberculosis.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Voyeurism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of incidences of upskirting.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Voyeurism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle upskirting.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Adult Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding allocations for adult learning in the (a) 2025-26 and (b) 2026-27 financial years.

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

Temporary Accommodation: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that families in all forms of temporary accommodation have access to adequate cooking facilities.

24 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the (a) quality, (b) suitability and (c) adequacy of the nutrition of food provided to (i) babies and (ii) children in contingency asylum accommodation.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Bankruptcy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Person At Risk of Violence fee on victims of domestic violence; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of makin

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Air Pollution: Public Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make clean air a public health priority.

11 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UK Soft Power Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Soft Power Council on the role of science and research in supporting the UK's diplomatic efforts; and whether the contribution of the

5 Feb 2025 · Women and Equalities

Equal Pay

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) resources and (b) legal powers available to the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the context of the introduction of mandatory ethnicity and

5 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 23666 on Cabinet Office: Media, which Ministers received that training.

3 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Stalking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to set national standards on stalking perpetrator programmes.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rights of Way: Rivers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including shared (a) walking and (b) cycling paths in the National River Walks.

30 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to Question 23666 on Cabinet Office: Media, tabled on 13 January 2025.

30 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) away days and (b) leadership conferences for senior civil servants his Department organised between 4 July 2022 and 4 July 2024; and what the cost of these were.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on alleged reports of (a) gender-based and (b) conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan.

13 Jan 2025 · Women and Equalities

Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to help tackle the ethnicity pay gap.