Mary Kelly Foy

68547 • Special Educational Needs: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that PSHE education is consistently embedded as part of the curriculum in all year groups in secondary education.

64135 • Mobile Phones: Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help improve mobile telephone signal in (a) Brancepeth Village, (b) County Durham and (c)) across the country.

63650 • Literacy: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report of the National Literacy Trust entitled Children and young people’s writing in 2025, published in June 2025.

63665 • Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional steps her Department plans to take to improve the process of accessing evisa accounts.

56339 • Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he had discussions with transgender individuals on the Sullivan Review.

55099 • Pensions: Inheritance Tax and Probate

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has assessed the potential impact of making pensions subject to (a) inheritance tax and (b) probate on bereaved families.

55144 • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Care Quality Commission plans to inspect medical care services at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

55145 • Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure NHS trusts consistently meet the 62 day target for starting cancer treatment.

55146 • Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) continuity of care in cancer treatment pathways, (b) assigning named points of contact and (c) back-up contacts for all patients.

53990 • Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that women have access to high-quality (a) interpretation and (b) translation services at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.

53991 • Immigration Controls: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Evaluation of Action Access, an Alternative to Detention Pilot by UNHCR, published in January 2022, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of community-based alternatives to detention for women.

53992 • Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what oversight mechanisms her Department has established to ensure that Serco fulfils its contractual obligations as the operator of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.

53993 • Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any penalties have been applied to Serco for non-compliance with contractual obligations at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre in the past 12 months.

53628 • Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on considering the hierarchy of road users when assessing local speed limits.

53629 • Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the weight that should be given to quality of life issues when assessing local speed limits.

53630 • Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring local authorities to consider the curtilage of properties when assessing local speed limits.

52671 • Personal Independence Payment: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May to Question 904060 on Personal Independence Payment: Reform, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed PIP changes on people in the North East.

52311 • Cycling: Helmets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of making the wearing of cycle helmets a legal requirement for cyclists.

904060 • Personal Independence Payment: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment on people in the North East.

49429 • Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department includes local authority (a) owned and (b) managed Gypsy and Traveller sites within its definition of social housing under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.

EDM 1573 • Durham Miners' Gala 2025

That this House celebrates the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, to be held on Saturday, 12 July 2025, organised by the Durham ...

EDM 1436 • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 2025

That this House recognises June as Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month; celebrates the rich and diverse cultures, hi...

EDM 1393 • National Carers Week 2025 and the Women in the North report

That this House notes that 9 to 15 June 2025 marks Carers Week; recognises the vital contribution made by unpaid carers ...

EDM 1247 • International Nurses Day 2025

That this House recognises 12 May 2025 as International Nurses Day and pays tribute to the exceptional dedication, profe...

EDM 503 • St Leonard’s Catholic School

That this House sends its congratulations to St Leonard’s Catholic School in City of Durham for achieving an outstanding...

EDM 266 • Ruth Wilson fundraising for Mind

That this House congratulates Ruth Wilson, from Mount Oswald in City of Durham constituency, and Vice Principal of John ...

EDM 264 • Low level letter boxes and back injuries

That this House notes that low level letter boxes cause back injuries to postmen and women each year, force postal staff...

EDM 248 • Regional National Apprenticeship Skills Awards

That this House congratulates New College Durham and the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust on their outs...

EDM 176 • Durham Learning Alliance

This House congratulates the Durham Learning Alliance, a partnership between Durham University, Bishop Auckland College,...

EDM 75 • St Leonard’s Catholic School, City of Durham

That this House expresses its support for the parents, pupils and staff at St Leonard’s Catholic School in City of Durha...

EDM 20 • Durham Miners' Gala 2024

That this House celebrates the Durham Miners’ Gala, also known as the Big Meeting; believes that the Durham Miners’ Gala...

EDM 1637 • Government policy on the Hillsborough Law

That this House notes the Prime Minister’s promise to introduce the Hillsborough Law to Parliament before the 36th anniv...

EDM 1626 • Apprenticeships strategy

That this House believes that the scandal of low pay for apprentices must end and that apprentices need pay above the na...

EDM 1642 • Outsourced cleaners on Tyne and Wear Metro

That this House welcomes the Labour Government’s promise to ‘oversee the biggest wave of insourcing for a generation’; n...

EDM 1614 • Democracy and human rights in eSwatini

That this House recognises the widespread human rights abuses committed under the autocratic Tinkhundla system of govern...

EDM 1612 • Safe Inside Prisons Charter

That this House notes with alarm the rising levels of violence against prison staff, which again have reached record hig...

EDM 1573 • Durham Miners' Gala 2025

That this House celebrates the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, to be held on Saturday, 12 July 2025, organised by the Durham ...

EDM 1525 • Cancer Prevention Action Week on alcohol and cancer

That this House commemorates Cancer Prevention Action Week on alcohol and cancer organised by World Cancer Research Fund...

EDM 1333 • Future of rail freight

This House notes with concern that the future of rail freight in Great Britain is uncertain; welcomes ASLEF’s Rail Freig...

EDM 1446 • Acquisition of food manufacturer Bakkavor by Greencore

That this House notes its concerns following the agreement in principle from shareholders of Bakkavor, a major food manu...

EDM 1424 • Israel’s interception of the British-flagged Madleen boat

That this House expresses alarm at the Israeli military’s interception of the UK-flagged civilian vessel Madleen in inte...

EDM 1451 • UK Government recognition of the state of Palestine

That this House notes the high-level international conference for the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine a...

EDM 1282 • Fairtrade tea campaign

That this House condemns the grave working conditions that many tea growing communities face across the world; notes wit...

EDM 1407 • World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

That this House notes that 15 June 2025 marks World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), an international occasion to high...

EDM 1436 • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 2025

That this House recognises June as Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month; celebrates the rich and diverse cultures, hi...

EDM 1392 • Madleen Freedom Flotilla Ship

That this House stands in solidarity with the crew of 12, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, of the Madleen Free...

EDM 1399 • PA Media Ltd parliamentary newswire coverage

That this House notes with concern the proposals by PA Media Ltd, trading name of the Press Association, to cut posts an...

EDM 1393 • National Carers Week 2025 and the Women in the North report

That this House notes that 9 to 15 June 2025 marks Carers Week; recognises the vital contribution made by unpaid carers ...

EDM 1386 • Climate Finance Fund (Fossil Fuels and Pollution) Bill

That this House welcomes the contribution made by the Climate Finance Fund (Fossil Fuels and Pollution) Bill, published ...

EDM 1000 • Ensuring stability for Ukrainian refugees in the UK

That this House believes that Ukrainian refugees fleeing war must be treated with compassion in the UK; recognises that ...

EDM 1121 • Restless legs syndrome

That this House recognises the significant impact of restless legs syndrome (RLS), also known as Willis-Ekbom disease, w...