Ben Lake

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential role of (a) heat pumps, (b) EV charging points, (c) solar PV and (d) other low carbon technologies in offsetting the energy dema...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a single rate for electricity standing charges levied on households across the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the level of residential energy customer debt; and if he will make a comparative assessment of the implications for his policies of changes in the lev...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to help ensure that (a) stakeholders and (b) the public are able to feed into (i) the UK’s position and (ii) responses to amendments submitted ...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of thefts of goods and cargo from HGVs stationary at (a) rest stops and (b) other locations have been reported in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of supplies of the Cevac Chlamydia vaccine.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of kinship carers who have (a) temporarily and (b) permanently withdrawn from the labour market as a result of their caring responsibilities in the last 12 mont...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of introducing paid kinship care leave for new kinship carers on (a) those carers and (b) the children in their care.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making Intelligent Speed Assistance software mandatory for motorcycles sold in the UK.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of staffing assigned to the HMRC National Insurance helpline.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2023 to Question 165459 on Pensions: Telephone Services, when he expects for the additional resource assigned to the Future Pension Service to reduce the amount of tim...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the average increase in insurance premiums for small businesses in the last two years; and what assessment he has made of the impact of increases in insurance premiums on small bus...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on discussions with the insurance industry to agree specific conditions for forms of Government support that should not be taken into account when calculating business interruption insuranc...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the data collected by the Financial Conduct Authority on affected insurers and the progress of their non-damage business interruption insurance claims, what recent discussions he has had with (a) t...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing VAT to 5 per cent for hospitably businesses for (a) tourism and (b) hospitality.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions she has had on the potential merits of imposing a moratorium on deep sea mining with her counterparts in (a) France, (b) New Zealand, (c) Chile and (d) other countries which hav...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made on tackling the matter of dogs attacking livestock.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to help ensure the accuracy of the information published online setting out the carbon footprint of different modes of transport; and whether his Department has made an estimate of the r...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of each element of the Integrated Rail Plan core pipeline, including (a) Northern Powerhouse Rail, (b) Transpennine Route Upgrade and (c) other rail schemes i...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) Northern Powerhouse Rail, (b) Transpennine Route Upgrade, (c) other rail schemes in the North and Midlands and (d) each element of the Integrated Rail Plan core pipeline are (i) classed as England and Wa...