To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of avian influenza.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of people (a) accessing national trails and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of risk of incursion of African Swine Fever to the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of working with organisations such as the UK Seafood Federation to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect seabird populations from offshore wind turbines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers insure against the risk of avian influenza outbreaks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the mental health of farmers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to help reduce the cost of groceries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the risk of incursion of Foot and Mouth disease to the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to assist producers in driving sustainability in production of sugar that is refined in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which Departments are working on the development of a food strategy; which Department is leading this work; what the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies offers employees who are foster carers (i) flexible...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers affected by flooding who have not received payments under the Farming Recovery Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12669 on Animal Products: Smuggling, if he will make an assessment of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled Simpler Recycling in England: policy update, published on 29 November 2024, what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled, Government introduces import ban of cattle, pigs and sheep from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to decolonise the (a) artwork and (b) heritage assets in (i) his Department and (ii) each of its...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 18359 on Cabinet Office: Infrastructure, which existing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2024 to Question 18555 on Asylum: Hotels, what assessment her Department has...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to publish a consultation on data sharing powers between relevant government agencies and political...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether nutrient neutrality mitigation levy measures will be subject to economic viability assessments; and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many times the Communities and Recovery Steering Group has met; on what dates; in which locations; and whether...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to revert the voting system for (a) mayoral and (b) Police and Crime Commissioner elections to the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) abolition of the Office for Place and (b) removal of...

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...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help older residents in rural areas to downsize.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take legislative steps to allow local authorities to reject planning applications for (a) new and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the resources available to local government for planning enforcement...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's Remediation Acceleration Plan, published on 2 December 2024, what her planned...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant of the Answer of 24 October 2024 to Question 9472, what progress her Department has made on supporting...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's Remediation Acceleration Plan, published on 2 December 2024, what assessment her...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to encourage investment in high streets in (a) Gloucester and (b) Gloucestershire.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 August 2024 to Question 1688 on Planning, what progress her Department has made on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what checks her Department undertakes before providing funding to community organisations for Hong Kongers in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to prohibit landlords from requiring more than one month's rent in advance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to housing and planning regulations on (a) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the conversion of a single property into a house of multiple occupancy increases the overall number of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the homelessness strategy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral answer of 15 January 2025, Official Report, House of Lords, Col. 1123, on Political...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the correspondence entitled Local government reorganisation: letter to two-tier areas, published on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to respond to representations from Cheshire East Council to set a council tax referendum threshold of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the requirement to present voter ID at polling stations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support survivors of domestic violence in South Cotswolds constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she expects the Planning Inspectorate to publish the written representations received to planning application...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people have received funding from the disabled facilities grant in (a) Gloucester and (b) Gloucestershire in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the requirement to provide a National Insurance number when registering for a postal vote.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the cost of procuring (a) audio and (b) tactile voting solutions at every polling...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support small businesses impacted by flooding in Gloucester.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken with relevant authorities to support armed forces veterans with (a) housing and (b) financial...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether an (a) Equality Impact Assessment and (b) Environmental Principles assessment was undertaken on the decision...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to help (a) first-time buyers and (b) low-income families secure housing in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 December 2023 on The Next Stage in Our Long Term Plan for Housing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the section entitled timelines and next steps of her Department’s letter to local councils of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support the building of social housing in Devon.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help build more affordable accommodation for young people living in supported...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that new housing developments have adequate access to primary health services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that there is adequate provision for affordable social housing for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2024 to Question 23744 on UK Research and Innovation: Staff, how much funding Innovate...

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into idiopathic pulmonary hypertension in the 2023-24 financial year;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December 2024 to Question 20215 on Animal Experiments, what her planned timetable is for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with the Regulatory Innovation Office on the AI Opportunities Action Plan since July 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take legal advice on whether introducing an exception to copyright for text and data mining with an...

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many (a) internal policy reviews, (b) independent reviews, (c) external reviews, (d) taskforces, (e) public...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to block mobile phone signals for contraband mobile phones held by prisoners across the prison estate.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with a home address in Wales before entering custody were in prison for the offence type of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will bring forward legislative proposals to (a) ensure that new offences are consent-based without requiring proof of motive, (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23643 on Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner, for what reasons funding amounts for individual...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse of legal aid for foreign national offenders was, broken down by nationality, in each of the last ten years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of magistrates recruited since the 2022 recruitment campaign.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17817 on Slavery: Victims, whether all victims of modern slavery will be covered by the duty.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 824 on Development Aid, when she plans to set out her approach on restoring official development...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to (a) implement and (b) allow public sector employees to utilise existing private cycle to work style salary sacrifice schemes to...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department made of the potential impact of changes to the threshold for agricultural property relief and business property relief on...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22322 on Housing: Pylons, whether her Department is taking steps to help increase awareness of the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to Air Passenger Duty on Aberdeen Airport.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will (a) review and (b) update the Overseas Scale Rates.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the of the potential impact of (a) agricultural and (b) business property relief on ancient woodlands.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of removing VAT from veterinary care.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that provision of support services for adopters with newly placed children is geographically equitable.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for announcing funding for the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund for financial year 2025-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on creating a national matching service for adoption services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which there has been an increase in the number of SEND tribunal appeals in the last academic year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help schools identify children who need SEND education within the school system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of variations in per pupil funding for places in pupil referral units on pupils'...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are waiting for a SEND school placement in (a) Surrey and (b) Dorking and Horley constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to train staff in the provision of SEND education.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to open more SEND schools in (a) Surrey and (b) Dorking and Horley constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authority is responsible for children's care when they are relocated to a privately run children's home by a local authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have used AI in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support students with special educational needs who have left independent schools in Surrey Heath constituency...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 98 of the Education and Skills Funding Agency's publication entitled Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on establishing Attendance Hubs; what datasets her Department is collecting to measure the success of that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help low-income families pay for after-school clubs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding mechanisms she is considering to support primary schools in (a) installing and (b) maintaining library facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to including a tiered assessment model within the education, health and care plan process.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential benefits and disbenefits for (a) prospective and (b) current students of international...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to develop financial literacy education in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools to improve financial resilience in younger people.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to local authorities is of housing children in privately run children's homes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to improve SEND information, advice and support services for families.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage reading for pleasure by (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to implement dedicated SEND units in mainstream schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help children from SEND schools into (a) work and (b) further education.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are taken to inform local (a) doctors and (b) police when children in care are relocated by a local authority to a privately run children's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 2.40 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many private dwellings have been converted into children's homes in Leicestershire in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on what (a) oversight and (b) scrutiny there is over Surrey County Council's education department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to provide (a) educational and (b) training support to apprentices, in the context of of recent trends in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle the decline in pupils achieving the expected standard in (a) reading, (b) writing and (c) maths by age 11 in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much time staff in his Department have spent dealing with enquiries on the EU Regulation on General Product Safety in each month between...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when she plans to meet the trustees of the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential local ecological impact of the proposed Lime Down Solar Farm in South Cotswolds...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to make an assessment of the potential impact of the purchase of the Wylfa power...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the pause to the applications process for new entrants to the connections queue from 29 January 2025 announced by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether proposals to temporarily close parts of St Anne’s beach to lay cables to connect the Morgan and Morecambe windfarm to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress National Grid Electricity Transmission have made on (a) proposals to connect the transmission grid in north Wales to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of installing solar panels on the roofs of (a) car parks, (b) warehouses (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to improve the energy efficiency of homes in rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to extend the Warm Home Discount beyond 2026.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help ensure Great British Energy creates jobs in industrial communities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK offshore oil and gas industry’s investment in renewable energy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce energy bills for businesses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many properties are not connected to the national (a) gas and (b) electricity grid in South Holland and The Deepings constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what options are available to people applying for a Schengen visa who do not have access to their e-Visa due to technical issues.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on steps to help tackle knife crime in the devolved nations.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what national security mitigations she plans to take in the context of the Chinese embassy planning application.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to inform local communities before migrants are housed in hotel accommodation in that area.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to roll out automatic number plate recognition cameras in (a) Forest of Dean and (b) other rural constituencies.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Police Federation's press release entitled Pensions update from the Police Federation of England and Wales, published...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 22767 on Border Security Command, what aspect of system leadership the Border Security...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the police to help tackle burglaries.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been recruited by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary since 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which areas are covered by the pilots for asylum accommodation administered by (a) city mayors and (b) local authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme will apply to the 48 Group.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of public libraries in rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support public libraries in Gloucester.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with (a) broadcasters and (b) social media companies on making more sporting events freely available to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential contribution of Scheduled Monuments to the tourism industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a customs union between the UK and the European Union on (a) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to improve local government support for arts and culture.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the commissioning of an updated site-by-site report of the RAAC hospitals as set out in the policy paper entitled New...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 24413 on Cardiovascular System: Health Services, for what reason his Department...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on elective care waiting lists.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the restriction of puberty blockers for the treatment of gender incongruence on the (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people diagnosed with osteoporosis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government if taking to reach an agreement to end collective action by GPs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of (a) debt collection practices and (b) the use of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of lack of access to NHS dental services on health outcomes in Lincolnshire.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) financial and (b) social impact of hospices on the (i) health and (ii) social care sectors.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the roll-out of Oxevision in mental health hospitals on patient wellbeing.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of what the GP-to-patient ratio will be in Bedfordshire in July 2029.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many eye care professionals are delivering NHS Special School Eye Care Service under Primary Ophthalmic Service contracts; and how...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department to tackle shortages of NHS dentists in Devon.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will take steps to work with the Lead Ministers for Disability to help ensure disabled children receive specialist...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the earnings and capital thresholds for disabled adults in receipt of social care support to ensure they are not...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what grants are available for (a) district and (b) borough councils to support mental health initiatives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance has been issued on the use of inclusive language by NHS staff with respect to the LGBTQ+ community.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training is provided to NHS staff to highlight the differences in symptoms of a heart attack between men and women.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) planned and (b) preventative maintenance at NHS hospitals impacted by delays to the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fund the ongoing maintenance of the Royal Berkshire Hospital until it is rebuilt.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's New Hospitals Programme: plan for implementation, published on 20 January 2025, what assessment he has...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's reforming elective care for patients plan, published on 6 January 2025, what steps he is taking to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter of 6 November 2024 from the Hon. Member for Henley and Thame on a constituent's concern over...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time period is for issuing payments via the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (a) are pending, (b) have been paid and (c) have been...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the supply of semaglutide in Hazel Grove constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) encourage Integrated Care Boards to prescribe semaglutide for weight management.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the staff time taken in ambulance trusts to meet the target for the NHS to reach net zero by 2040, broken...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that doctors (a) should have a mandatory duty to report suspected cases abuse and neglect and (b) should be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made with NHS England on rolling out the Fracture Liaison Service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral statement of 17 December 2024, Official Report, Column 167, on Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the annual pensioner Christmas bonus in line with inflation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of people receiving an adequate pension since 2019.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit applications made before 21 December 2024 are waiting to be resolved.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are living in (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty in South Cotswolds constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in poverty in (a) Northumberland, (b) the North East and (c) nationally in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her policy to allow Household Support Fund allocations to be used by local authorities to purchase (a) slow cookers and (b) kettles.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to help support parents into work.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with (a) disabilities and (b) long-term health conditions into work.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of job centres on economic growth.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pension credit cases have not been cleared within 50 days since September 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is for Pension Credit appeals to be reviewed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the household benefit cap on families with children living in poverty.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, HC 62, whether the exercise to correct National Insurance records...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions the Minister for International Development has had with Baroness Shafik on evidence submitted to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to implement the 2030 Strategic framework for international climate and nature action.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's International Women and Girls Strategy 2023-2030, published in March 2023, what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of protecting global water supplies in humanitarian and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the (a) Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) Chief Secretary to the Treasury on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to incorporate the UK’s obligation to prevent and prohibit torture into the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to consult survivors of human rights violations on his Department's human rights strategy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief on his (a) priorities and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to provide humanitarian aid in Sudan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the continuity of UNRWA's operations in the Occupied Palestinian...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department made of the safety of travel to Trinidad and Tobago before issuing recent...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the (a) conditions and (b) treatment of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed relocation of his Department's site at East...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) cost and (b) timeline is for the establishment of his Department's office in Glasgow.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) employed and (ii) self-employed tattoo artists there are.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the grades were of the staff that supported the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards with his review into the hon. Member for Hampstead...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17545 on Prime Minister: Public Appointments, what the (a) bodies and (b) offices are.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 13808 on 9 Downing Street: Media, what (a) alterations and (b) other works have taken place in...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what oversight his Department provides towards the Government's progress on the Places for Growth targets; and whether his Department produces RAG...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to reduce the size of the Government Communications Service as part of the Spending Review Phase 2.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 8803 on Cabinet Office: Software, whether additional work under existing contracts has been...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Second Permanent Secretary, European Union and International Economic Affairs has made a declaration of political activity; and if he...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether public appointment competitions under the Governance Code for Public Appointments can be (a) extended before the public deadline for the...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2024, to Question 15236, on Cabinet Office: Staff, how many individuals are registered with the Skills Match Hub;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department's timeline is for making autonomous vehicles commercially available for use on UK roads.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help tackle drink driving in rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the AI Opportunities Action Plan, published on 13 January 2025, whether the plan will help support the introduction of regulations...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report entitled The cycling opportunity by Sustrans,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road lighting schemes on (a) motorways and (b) all-purpose trunk roads were renewed at the end of their service life following completion of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received a response from the DVLA to the Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Xander Irvine.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has plans to mandate a standard platform height for train stations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to review the policy paper entitled Airports National Policy Statement, published on 5 June 2018.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review the air traffic movement cap at Heathrow.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the (a) affordability and (b) transparency of train fares; and whether she plans to regulate dynamic...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a direct train link between Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station and Manchester Airport.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received representations from Macquarie Group on increasing the number of flights (a) to and (b) from UK airports.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help (a) support women in the workplace and (b) help tackle (i) pregnancy and (ii) maternity...

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that businesses comply with the Equality Act 2010 in granting access to disabled individuals accompanied by guide dogs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to decolonise the (a) artwork, (b) heritage assets in (i) his Department and (ii) each of its arm’s length bodies and (iii) Armed...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which officials attended meetings with Israeli Major General Oded Basyuk on 22 January 2025; and for what reason.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he met General Oded Basyuk of the Israel Defense Forces in January 2025.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on the potential merits of devolving the Crown Estate to Wales.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on electoral registration in Wales.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many general practice surgeries in England and Wales currently employ nursing associates.

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of concerns raised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists about the impact of the use of video monitoring technology on some mental health patients,...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking steps to prioritise the use of cost and clinically effective cancer medicines that result in fewer patient visits to hospital.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many "yellow card" reports the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency received for each antidepressant in 2024.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to meet the targets for increasing the number of nursing associates included in the 2023 NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure artificial intelligence technologies used to aid healthcare diagnostics are available in every hospital.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of parents illegally accessing cannabinoid epilepsy treatments for their children.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the benefits of limiting the amount of alcohol sold to customers in bars and restaurants at airports; and what...

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the average time taken for (1) all, and (2) individual, police forces in England and Wales to process (a) applications for, and (b)...

To ask His Majesty's Government how many notices of intent the Home Office issued to asylum applicants deemed potentially inadmissible under sections 80B and 80C of the Nationality, Immigration...

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to implement the proposal of the Law Commission in its Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, published on 18 July 2022...

To ask His Majesty's Government what performance management system is used by HM Prison and Probation Service; when it was last reviewed; and whether it requires managers to submit annual...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to ensure that workers are (1) protected from sexual harassment, and (2) able to travel between...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Collins of Highbury on 23 December 2024 (HL3321), which individuals have been designated as perpetrators of sexual violence...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take in response to reports of abductions of Rohingya refugees from camps in the Teknaf area of Bangladesh.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support the BBC World Service to reopen their Arabic language provision.

To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Thailand regarding Uyghur asylum seekers detained there.

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will make representations to the interim government of Bangladesh to strengthen security in and around Rohingya refugee camps.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to remove copycat third-party websites that re-sell government services.

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of Official Development Assistance has been dedicated to peacebuilding and mediation support programmes in each year between 2016 and 2025.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the need to research new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies; and whether they intend to invest in universities to...

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to place restrictions on the allocation of public funds to research intended to develop mirror life.

To ask His Majesty's Government how much public bodies have spent on research intended to develop mirror life.

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Coaker on 19 December (HL3498), what filtering mechanisms exist within the service complaints system to prevent...

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current national budget of the Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations.

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the Strategic Defence Review to complete its work and to publish its findings and recommendations.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the usefulness of the annual reports of the external scrutiny team of the Council of Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations,...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Coaker on 19 November 2024 (HL2338), whether the investigations referred to are now complete.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of wave and tidal energy in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan.