Thelma Walker: Does my hon. Friend agree that we need to stop the STPs in their tracks right now so that we can prevent the dangerous downgrading of hospitals and the loss of our accident and emergency centres?
Thelma Walker: Does the Minister agree that it is time we considered bringing the social care sector back into public ownership to remove the profit-making aspect of looking after the most vulnerable in our society?
Lucy Powell: ...today’s young people to progress, which I think was brought to the fore in the general election, and there is also the huge regional inequality that my hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Thelma Walker) mentioned.
Thelma Walker: What steps his Department is taking to ensure that people in each region of England and Wales have adequate access to legal aid providers.
Thelma Walker: What does the Minister have to say to the parents of children with special educational needs who cannot access childcare for their children?
Thelma Walker: Colleges such as Kirklees College had over 3,000 16 to 19-year olds on full-time programmes last year, but the funding available covered only 15 hours a week per student. Does my hon. Friend agree that this is wrong and that we need fair funding for all 16 to 19-year olds, regardless of where they choose to study?
That Lucy Allan, Michele Donelan, Marion Fellows, James Frith, Emma Hardy, Trudy Harrison, Ian Mearns, Lucy Powell, Thelma Walker and Mr William Wragg be members of the Education Committee.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the retention of teachers.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces have made representations for additional funding to support people affected with mental health issues.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of police responses to calls from people with a mental health issue was in (a) England and (b) West Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve support for people with mental health issues.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps the Government has taken to raise awareness of male mental health issues.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times are for people with an eating disorder aged 19 and under to receive treatment in (a) Colne Valley, (b) Kirklees, (c) West Yorkshire and (d) England.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with mental health issues were admitted to accident and emergency departments in (a) Kirklees, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last seven years.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what level of funding the British Transport Police has received to tackle anti-social behaviour on (a) trains and (b) trains stations in (i) West Yorkshire and (ii) England.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on small online businesses of proposed changes to the online sale of knives.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the gender pay gap at the BBC.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department in each of the last seven years.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the use of private financial investment companies to fund the building of new hospitals.
Thelma Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted into the maximum time a patient should travel by road ambulance to the nearest hospital in an emergency.