Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified any properties in Audlem, Cheshire East, as potential sites for asylum accommodation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the relationship between liver disease, benefit claims, and unemployment rates; and what assessment she has made of how those rates correlate with t

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Derbyshire County Council’s use of its High Needs Provision Capital Allocation, including the length of time for which sums remained unallocated; what monito

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of Derbyshire's £20.091 million of unallocated SEND capital at July 2025 that has now resulted in completed and operational SEND provision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce health inequalities in (a) liver disease and (b) liver cancer outcomes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 126283 on Ribble Valley Line, what recent steps she has taken to restore Northern Rail services on Sundays between Clitheroe and Blackburn.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to address the postcode lottery in NHS mental health support for bereaved parents following pregnancy or baby loss; and if she will commit to issuing national st

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is her latest estimate of the cost of a) increasing the upper capital limit for social care to £100,000 and b) increasing the lower capital limit for social care to £25,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage large employers to provide work experience placements for students aged 16 to 18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 16 and 17 year olds have received support through the Youth Guarantee Gateway since its introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking through the National Youth Strategy to support local authorities in England to meet their duty to provide safe and accessible spaces for young people

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government's proposed technical education pathways will require changes to the funding available for post-16 transport in rural areas such as Suffolk.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve cooperation between police forces in tackling offences in rural areas affecting farms and agricultural businesses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, at what age and date in the academic year the Government expects pupils to select a technical education pathway from September 2028, and what assessment she has made of the impact of that choice on the subjects

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of specialist facilities and equipment in secondary schools to deliver the proposed technical education pathways from September 2028.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in Maidenhead constituency were surveyed under the most recent Condition Data Collection programme; and how many were assessed as having building elements in condition grade C or D.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of differing access to technical education pathways as a result of variations in local employer, school and further education capacity on pupils in different

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to the Condition Improvement Fund were received from schools in Maidenhead constituency in each of the last three financial years; and how many were successful.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to exempt (a) campsites, (b) activity centres and (c) other overnight accommodation used by voluntary youth organisations from the proposed Overnight Visitor Le

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the Department is doing to support grassroots cycling clubs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending free prescriptions to 16, 17 and 18-year-olds completing an apprenticeship.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will provide a list of organisations who received funding under the first round of the Common Ground Award by parliamentary constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure an equitable regional distribution of the second round of the Common Ground Award.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HMRC has made of the average change in the amount of time self-employed people and landlords are spending each year on compliance as a result of the introduction of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HMRC has made of additional software and accountancy costs faced by sole traders and landlords who are required to use separate systems for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax and existing VAT reportin