Alison Bennett

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the proportion of carers who are provided practical support after they have undertaken a carer’s assessment.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of placing a new statutory duty on local authorities to ensure all unpaid carers are able to take regular breaks.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how much local authorities have spent on unpaid carers in each of the last five years.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Better Care Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the recently published policy framework for the Better Care Fund will support unpaid carers; and whether the Better Care Fund includes any ringfenced funding for supporting unpaid carers.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to require integrated care boards to remove requirements for (a) same sex couples and (b) single women to have privately-funded IVF cycles before they are accepted for NHS-funded I

21 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Crimes against Humanity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will ask the International Criminal Court to investigate the Taliban’s actions towards women in Afghanistan as crimes against humanity.

21 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Crimes against Humanity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of designating gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law.

21 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Pensions: Age

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review the increase to the normal minimum pension age for accessing private pensions from April 2028.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to require integrated care boards to remove requirements for (a) same sex couples and (b) single women to have privately-funded IVF cycles before they are accepted for NHS-funded I

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Urinary Tract Infections: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of specialists in female urology across England to ensure that women suffering from recurrent episodes of UTIs receive the highest

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to change the classification of military compensation to bring it in line with civil compensation, in the context of what is categorised as a source of income for benefits means te

13 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Mobility Scooters: Overseas Trade

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review the commodity code classification for mobility scooters.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Protection Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to review the indexation of pensions paid by the Pension Protection Fund.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to reform the benefit system for young people living in supported accommodation to ensure that the taper rate for Housing Benefit does not disincentivise them from working.

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

Pesticides: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to change pesticide maximum residue level regulations in Great Britain to align with the EU regime still in place in Northern Ireland.

3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Trastuzumab Deruxtecan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of levels of access to Enhertu for cancer patients in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Scotland.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Coroner Deborah Archer's report entitled Maeve Boothby O’Neill: Prevention of Future Deaths Report, reference 2024-0530, dated 7 October 2024, what steps he has taken to ensure th

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Parental Pay: Multiple Births

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to review the rates paid by employers of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay and (c) Statutory Shared Parental Pay for parents of (i) twins and (ii) higher order m

27 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Cohabitation: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting the transfer of property between co-habiting siblings from inheritance tax.

27 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to take steps to support the used electric vehicle market.

16 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the universal provision of Fracture Liaison Services by 2030.

18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sipavibart: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the licensing process for the drug sipavibart.

18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Immunosuppression: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with representatives of Forgotten Lives UK on access to (a) preventative treatments and (b) support services for immunosuppressed people.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Sixth Form Colleges: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to provide additional funding to non-academised sixth form colleges for increasing the pay of teachers to the same level as teachers in academised sixth form colleges.

2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Exemptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a time limit for claiming Council Tax exemption under Class F.

25 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of how much businesses in the social care sector will pay as a result of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions (a) nationally and (b) in each constituency.

25 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of businesses in the social care sector that will pay the increase in employers National Insurance contributions (a) nationally and (b) in each constituency.

25 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) overall cost to businesses in the social care sector of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions and (b) average cost to each business in this secto

25 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of social care providers affected by the increase in employers National Insurance contributions.

1 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to increase awareness amongst GPs of the signs and symptoms of cardiomyopathy.