Zöe Franklin

14 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of business rates on the level of investment by companies in (a) energy-efficient buildings and (b) renewable technologies.

14 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support family-owned businesses with significant inheritance tax liabilities following company valuations.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Extradition: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that no person is extradited to Hong Kong for an act that is not a crime in the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the safety of the use of PAVA spray in youth offender institutions.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Independent Review of the Loan Charge

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to publish the Loan Charge Review.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to introduce a ban on kerosene-powered private jets as part of the Government’s net zero strategy.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Aviation: VAT Exemptions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will review the VAT exemption applied to private jet travel.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Air Passenger Duty: Exemptions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to remove the Air Passenger Duty exemption for aircraft under 5.7 tonnes.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Air Passenger Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will increase Air Passenger Duty on private jet flights to (a) match and (b) exceed the rate applied to first-class scheduled flights.

28 Aug 2025 · Women and Equalities

Religion: Community Relations

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the provision of funding to support cross-community interfaith work.

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

Forests: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to review the (a) application and (b) enforcement of the UK Forestry Standard in Surrey, in the context of recent logging activities at Bummoor Copse; and

10 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Hazardous Substances: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to regulate (a) poisonous and (b) harmful substances procured (i) domestically and (ii) internationally that may be used for suicide.

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Poisons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what systems are in place within (a) Border Force and (b) her Department to monitor the international procurement of poisons; and whether those systems are applied consistently across all countries.

8 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) effectiveness and (b) value for money of outsourcing interpreter and translation services for court proceedings; and what steps she has taken to ensure (i)

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring airlines to issue compensation for denied boarding automatically.

4 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with airlines on the (a) accessibility and (b) clarity of compensation claim processes; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of claims procedures on

4 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that ensure that (a) refugees and (b) stateless people are not penalised for their irregular (i) entry or (ii) arrival.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to give pension scheme trustees the authority to award discretionary increases to those already claiming a pension.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to safeguard members' benefits when a sponsoring employer seeks to extract pension scheme surpluses.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

South Western Railway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) increase capacity and (b) ensure more passengers are able to be seated on services into London on South Western Railway.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of allowing asylum seekers to work unrestricted by the Immigration Salary List after six months awaiting an asylum decision on (a) the economy an

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support the Community Sponsorship scheme for refugees.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Visas: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that there is adequate (a) capacity and (b) resources for anticipated levels of demand for English-language classes, in the context

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the employers' National Insurance Contributions on providers of adult social care.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include (a) national commissioning standards for adult social care, (b) assurance and (c) oversight of adult social care commissioning in the National Care Service.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to begin consulting with adult social care providers on proposals for a Fair Pay Agreement.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Child Maintenance Service late payment fees being deducted from maintenance payments on receiving parents and children.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Maintenance Service is required to justify delays in its decision-making processes.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Child Maintenance Service takes to provide clear explanations and evidence when rejecting claims submitted by paying parents.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the (a) accuracy and (b) transparency of Special Expenses calculations by the Child Maintenance Service for (i) flights, (ii) fuel and (iii) ot