Mr Nicholas Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons entitled Report on an unannounced inspection of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre, published on 6 December 2022, what assessment she ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking with FirstGroup to address disruption to TransPennine routes from Newcastle Central Station.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking with Network Rail to reduce instances of overhead line issues on the East Coast Mainline.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve water quality in the River Tyne.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to publish the Government's environmental targets before the COP15 UN biodiversity conference.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides guidance to trainee doctors in the NHS on how to discuss child organ donation with bereaved parents.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming NHS England long-term workforce plan will include a specific plan for (a) midwifery and (b) other occupations within the maternity care team.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives have received support under the NHS Learning Support Fund, and how much financial support they have received, (a) in total and (b) broken down by (i) learning support grant, (ii) ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a tiered system of redress for the Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme to support those with less than 60% disability from an adverse v...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the age profile of the NHS midwifery workforce in (a) England and (b) each NHS region of England (i) for the most recent month for which figures are available and (ii) in the same month in ...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the ratification of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement, when mutual recognition of legal qualifications between those countries will be introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the reduced rate of potential cancer sufferers seeing a consultant within two weeks of an urgent GP referral.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance (ACMI) leasing by airlines on the rights of UK-based airline staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many substantive interviews for asylum applications her Department has carried out in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will take steps to provide funding for computer programming courses in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne East constituency and (b) England.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average monthly cost of accommodation for an asylum seeker was in (a) the UK and (b) Newcastle upon Tyne in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help deliver on the Prime Minister's call for G7 countries to help vaccinate the world against covid-19 by the end of 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have received a decision in each quarter of the last five years from applicants in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne East constituency, (b) the North East and (c) the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have received a substantive interview in each (a) of the last five years and (b) quarter of the last five years in (i) the UK, (ii) the North East and (iii) Newcastle upon...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to process the backlog of retirement applications of NHS workers, so that former NHS staff can access their retirement benefits as soon as possible.