Kerry McCarthy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to prohibit or discourage the use of plastic confetti and replace with biodegradable alternatives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will encourage local authorities to (a) measure the level of furniture provision within their social housing stock a

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will standardise the approach for measuring and monitoring data on domestic abuse survivors and the housing tenure t

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer to UIN 117428 given on 10th March 2026, what the timescale is for the evaluation of the Prison Education Service and if he will provid

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the current evaluation of the Prison Education Service will include a review of pay structures for prison education staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food p

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) the adequacy of the number of approvals for people to become adoptive parents and (b) whether further steps should be t

Government Departments: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on updating Government Buying Standards relating to food procurement.

Food: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which public bodies will be required to comply with the revised Government Buying Standards for food and catering services.

Food: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that public sector food procurement meets the proposed requirement for 50% of food spend to me