Helen Maguire

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

Homelessness: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure councils have the resources needed to provide safe, stable housing for homeless families.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Voluntary Organisations

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of fee-less community bank accounts being closed and replaced with fee-paying business accounts on (a) allotment societies and (b) other small voluntary organisa

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

Water Treatment: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle underperforming wastewater treatment plants.

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

Temporary Accommodation: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the findings from the National Child Mortality Database, if her Department will bring forward legislative proposals to mandate local authorities to provide cots

3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will issue additional guidance to Integrated Care Boards on determining appropriate levels of funding for hospices to ensure equitable access to palliative care services across di

3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that children with severe epilepsy can access second-generation cannabis-based medicines through the NHS.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) maintenance grants and (b) other policies to help improve the level of participation of disadvantaged students in higher education.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional short term funding to hospitals who are the (a) second and (b) third phase of the New Hospital Programme to

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of aging hospital infrastructure on clinical outcomes.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Thames Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Thames Water on its financial viability.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new firearms licence certificates have been granted in each of the last five years.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (a) value of unclaimed armed forces (i) preserved and (ii) deferred pensions; and what steps he is taking to pass those pensions to beneficiaries.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 on the (a) effectiveness and (b) operational capabilities of UK defence.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) increase the role of the private sector within the defence sector and (b) allow industry partners to carry out essential cyber defence activities.

23 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new firearms licence certificates have been granted in each of the last five years.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Households: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to support households with one-off unexpected costs including boiler repairs.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Living Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to provide financial support for families during the three-month waiting period before applying for Disability Living Allowance; and if she will make an assessment of the potent

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Buildings: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national strategy to make properties built before 1920 more energy efficient.

20 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Almshouses: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of exempting alms-houses from Selective Licensing charges.

17 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2024 to Question 16652 on Military Bases, if his Department will now provide a response.

17 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20117 on Defence Equipment Expenditure, when his Department plans to send that letter.

16 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestinians: Recognition of States

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 902156 on Palestinians: Sovereignty, whether he has a planned timetable for recognising a Palestinian state.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on recruitment consultants in each year since 2016; and how many personnel have been recruited to the (a) RAF, (b) Army, (c) Navy and (d) Marines in each year since 2016.

14 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Greenland: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in Denmark on the US interest in Greenland.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Warships: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the (a) number of days and (b) proportion of expected lifespans that naval vessels spend in maintenance.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Joint Expeditionary Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) UK and (b) other personnel were in the Joint Expeditionary Force in each year since 2016; and how much the UK has contributed to the Joint Expeditionary Force in the same period.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

British National (Overseas): English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support her Department provides to local authorities for English language tuition for (a) British National (Overseas) visa holders and (b) their families.

13 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British National (Overseas): Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2170 on British National (Overseas): Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with other banks on access to (a)

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Education: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing domestic fee status for the children of British National (Overseas) visa holders in the UK.

13 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Police: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with individual police forces on ensuring a timely administration of the Immediate Choice Police pension group to receive their McCloud remedy pension payments.