Written questions

Gregory Stafford

641 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of workforce understanding of endometriosis.

10 Jul 2026 · Home Office

MBR Acres: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any inspections were undertaken by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit following reports concerning the welfare of dogs during the recent period of extreme temperatures at MBR Acres.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to publish the consultation on phasing out the use of farrowing crates for sows.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she can confirm that the forthcoming consultation on phasing out farrowing crates will be based on a transition to free farrowing systems rather than permitting the continued u

6 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

Children: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her department has considered the potential merits of introducing a statutory requirement for all local authorities to appoint a lead officer for children from Armed Forces families, including those wit

6 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of strengthening statutory guidance to local authorities on accepting existing assessments and plans when Service children with special or additio

6 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the latest assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of access to special educational needs or disabilities provision on a) Armed Forces family satisfaction and b) personnel retention.

2 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Inland Waterways and Rivers: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with Thames Water on the prevention of sewage overflows into rivers and waterways.

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chlorine: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether water companies are required to retain records of chlorine residual measurements taken at individual domestic properties.

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chlorine: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance is issued to water companies on monitoring chlorine residuals at consumers' taps following alterations to domestic plumbing arrangements.

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any epidemiological studies commissioned or conducted by her Department have examined health outcomes associated with changes in household water-supply configuration from indir

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chlorine: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of absorption of chlorine or chlorine by-products through the skin or by inhalation during bathin

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chlorine: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research his Department has commissioned or reviewed since 2000 into potential health effects associated with long-term domestic exposure to chlorinated mains water through bathin

30 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department intends to respond to the Patient Safety Commissioner's call for a decision on a compensation scheme for patients harmed by pelvic mesh and sodium valproate by 16th July 2026

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Insolvency: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the safeguards in the Insolvency Rules 2016 against the misuse of insolvency proceedings as an instrument of economic abuse or coercive contro

18 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Insolvency: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Insolvency Service is taking to (a) identify and (b) respond to cases in which (i) statutory demands and (ii) bankruptcy petitions are used as an instrument of economic abuse or coercive

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of domestic abuse reports closed or recorded as a Domestic Incident rather than as a recorded crime, on the basis that the conduct reported was financial o

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance the Home Office and the College of Policing have issued to ensure that frontline officers recognise coerced debt and the misuse of civil and insolvency proceedings as domestic abuse.

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the use of statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions and other debt-recovery and insolvency proceedings as a means of economic abuse within the meaning of sect

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on (a) National Crime Recording Standard outcomes for course-of-conduct domestic abuse reports recorded as Domestic Incident rather than as a recorded crime, and (b) the

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department and the College of Policing have issued guidance to address the physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports.

18 Jun 2026 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the persistence of a physical-injury threshold in frontline police triage of domestic abuse reports, in the co

18 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to incentivise more research into treatment breakthroughs for pancreatic cancer.

18 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review regulatory processes to incentivise clinical trials for rare and less survivable cancers, including pancreatic cancer.