To ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to support plant health professionals to guard against unknown and novel pests and diseases not currently listed on the UK Plant Health Risk Register.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of rare earth elements, other mining products and logging products from Myanmar in the UK supply chain; and what steps they are taking to reduce the environmental and human rights...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk to (1) local job security and economic security, and (2) animal welfare, from the planned onshore salmon farm in Cleethorpes, considering the large-scale die-off of salmon at Mount...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support local authorities in protecting vulnerable trees from pests and diseases, including valuable urban trees, such as the National Elm Collection in Brighton and Hove.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the importance of people’s social and cultural connections to trees, as seen in the recent losses of the Sycamore Gap tree and the Whitewebbs oak tree; and, given the widespread threats fac...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that valuable, potentially tolerant, or disease-resistant trees, such as ash trees that have survived chalara ash dieback, are not unnecessarily felled.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to maintain the British National (Overseas) (BNO) visa route that offers a pathway to British citizenship for BNO passport holders and their dependents on the basis that a holder can apply for indefinite l...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of Rohingya refugees being cast into the sea by the Indian navy near the maritime border with Myanmar; and what representations they have made to the government of India about those...
To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis they have undertaken of the expected contribution of precision-bred crops and foods to gross domestic product, agritech growth and public revenues; and whether any such analyses have been independently reviewe...
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have conducted a review on the balance of public investment between agricultural genetic modification and alternative strategies for sustainable farming and food security.
To ask His Majesty's Government how much public funding has been allocated to research and development for the commercialisation of crops, livestock, foods and micro-organisms produced by agricultural genetic modification since 2014; and what proportion o...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the needs of disabled asylum seekers and refugees for healthcare, including mental healthcare; and what assessment they have made of enabling asylum seekers with relevant qualifications and...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to protect vulnerable populations from drug-resistant fungal infections by assessing the risks of agricultural fungicide use for the emergence of clinical anti-fungal resistance within the envir...
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the number of doctors who have applied for specialty training across all 65 medical specialties in terms of (1) individual applicants, and (2) numbers of applications, in each of the past five years; and what is the...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of general practices which have stopped offering prescriptions for hormones for transgender patients; and what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that these prescriptions a...
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding of the report Computer Says No by the New Britain Project that Britons spend 1.52 billion hours a year dealing with personal administration; and what impact this issue has on ov...
To ask His Majesty's Government how many Afghan women who have applied for asylum in the UK since the fall of Kabul in 2021 have been denied that status; and what provision they are making for such women and their families.
To ask His Majesty's Government what actions they are taking to support negotiations on the United Nations framework convention on international tax co-operation.
To ask His Majesty's Government when, if at all, they plan to introduce extended producer responsibility for textiles.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessments they have made of the potential risks for British researchers and citizens from the lèse-majesté law in Thailand in the light of the arrest of American academic Paul Chambers; and what plans they have to ma...