Sir Mark Hendrick

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase funding to local authorities for the provision of free bus travel to schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to help increase the affordability of bus travel for school children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Annual Review of Local Government complaints in England for 2022-2023, publi...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to publish a consultation on reforms to the use of farrowing crates for pigs and cages for laying hens.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on delivering commitments in the G7 famine prevention and humanitarian crises compact.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to cancel or recall existing licenses that allow companies to carry out exclusive-use cosmetics ingredients on animals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of increases in child poverty levels in Preston constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to end the two-child limit for benefit payments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the levels of child poverty in Preston constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is her Department's policy to support a ban or moratorium on deep-sea mining in international waters.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains her Department's policy to prohibit the live export of animals for slaughter or fattening.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) incidents of and (b) arrests for shoplifting were recorded in each police force across England in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of, (b) charges for and (c) convictions for shoplifting in (i) Preston and (ii) England there were in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether figures relating to sentencing referencing the statutory aggravating factor of providing a service to the public introduced by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 are recorded.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have their (a) payroll and (ii) pensions managed by private limited company Shared Services Connected Ltd; what was the cost to the public purse of using this company in (i) 2020-21 (ii) ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Leader of the House of Commons on finding Parliamentary time for the remaining stages of the Kept Animals Bill.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to introduce a policy similar to Homes for Ukraine scheme for individuals from (a) Afghanistan, (b) Syria, (c) Sundan and (d) Ethiopa.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the National Education Union on industrial action by its members.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools are able to purchase all the classroom resources they need.