To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the adequacy of support provided through the legal aid system for victims of domestic abuse.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards the restoration of the probation service in England and Wales to public ownership and control.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to address so-called "legal advice deserts".
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their Safety in custody quarterly: update to December 2020, published on 29 April, what steps they are taking to address self-harm in women’s prisons.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the pay banding scales for phlebotomists in the NHS.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase minimum sentences for perpetrators of violence against women and girls.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve support in the justice system for the victims of violence against women and girls.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle (1) violence, and (2) self-harm, on the youth secure estate.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the rate at which perpetrators of crime are charged in the criminal justice system.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle the backlog of cases in (1) courts, and (2) tribunals.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform judicial review.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the financial value to the biomass industry of the zero carbon exemption for biomass within the UK's emissions trading scheme (ETS).
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the size the overseas carbon footprint is of the cutting down of trees, converting them into wood pellets, and shipping them to the UK to generate electricity for Britain.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the diversion of the Ryanair flight FR4978 on 23 May which resulted in the arrest of the journalist Roman Protasevich.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano on 22 May, what assessment they have made of the impact on the (1) inhabitants, and (2) environment, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of implementing a requirement for banks to regularly publish data on the reimbursement rates of bank transfer scam victims.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the finance industry regarding the adoption of the voluntary Contingent Reimbursement Model Code; and what steps they are taking to persuade retail banks to sign up to the Contingent Reim...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice they have given to manufacturers of over-the-counter medicines on how their supply to Northern Ireland can be maintained given the requirements of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk to supply of over-the-counter medicines to Northern Ireland as a result of the requirements of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions (1) they have had, and (2) they are planning to have, with the government of the Republic of Ireland on the supply of over-the-counter medicines to Northern Ireland.