Bell Ribeiro-Addy

69048 • Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce legally-binding national targets to help reduce levels of child poverty.

69049 • Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a judicial-review mechanism to hold the Government accountable for meeting statutory poverty reduction targets.

69108 • Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce levels of severe poverty.

69109 • Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing cyclical target-setting for poverty reduction.

69110 • Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by The Big Issue entitled Poverty Zero, published in June 2025.

69111 • Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to eradicate destitution by 2035.

69112 • Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of its use of algorithmic decision-making tools on levels of risk of (a) bias and (b) discrimination.

69113 • Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any of the algorithmic systems used by her Department are subject to independent oversight.

69114 • Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether benefit claimants are informed when their claims are assessed using algorithmic tools.

69115 • Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in its use of AI systems in public services.

69116 • Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit decisions made using (a) automated and (b) AI-assisted systems have been overturned on appeal since 2020.

69117 • Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department collects data on (a) errors and (b) false positives arising from algorithmic fraud detection tools.

68461 • Nurses: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Government’s immigration policies on trends in the level of recruitment of internationally educated nurses into (a) the NHS and (b) social care roles; and whether he has prepared contingency plans for a reduction in the level of recruitment.

67964 • Employment and Poverty: Basic Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what lessons she has learnt from international trials on Universal Basic Income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.

67965 • Identity Cards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered creating a national identity card system.

67966 • Affordable Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of applying the Decent Homes Standard to affordable housing.

67967 • Crisis and Resilience Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Crisis and Resilience Fund will include funding for furniture.

67968 • Department for Work and Pensions and NHS: Postal Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Ofcom's decision to allow Royal Mail to cut Saturday deliveries and move to an alternating weekday model for second class letters on the delivery of letters from the NHS and Department for Work and Pensions.

67969 • Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if she will provide the ethnic breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proportion of (a) total deferrals and (b) total deferrals per ethnic group.

67970 • Blood: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if he will publish the combined ethnic and gender breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proportion of (a) total deferrals and (b) total deferrals per ethnic group.

EDM 1419 • Impact of upgrading the energy efficiency of private rented homes

That this House recognises that nearly four million private renters regularly struggle to pay their energy bills, with p...

EDM 1357 • Rule of Law and democratic freedoms in Tanzania

That this House notes with deep concern the arrest, detention and charging of the leader of the main Tanzanian oppositio...

EDM 1277 • All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations report

That this House notes the publication of the Laying Ancestors to Rest report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afr...

EDM 1148 • Black Maternal Health Awareness Week 2025

That this House notes with concern that Black women in the UK are still three times more likely to die during pregnancy ...

EDM 1136 • Travel-related restrictions and haemoglobin tests for blood donations

That this House celebrates the opening of the new Brixton Blood Donation Centre, which has welcomed over 3,700 donors in...

EDM 934 • Workplace disabilities and sickle cell disease

That this House regrets that despite being a serious lifelong condition, sickle cell disease is not consistently recogni...

EDM 868 • Cap exemption under Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

That this House notes with concern that the new £25,000 cap on the Listed Places of Worship scheme has created significa...

EDM 809 • LGBTQI+ people in immigration detention

That this House welcomes the ongoing review of the Home Office's Adults at risk in immigration detention policy; notes t...

EDM 353 • TFL concessions

That this House welcomes the Government’s Passenger Rail Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which is nearing completion o...

EDM 1754 • Arrest of protestors in Liverpool

That this House expresses its concern at the physical methods used by the police to arrest a 74 year old woman protestin...

EDM 1655 • Animals

That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulati...

EDM 1725 • Proposal for a wealth tax

That this House welcomes the proposal from leading tax experts for the introduction of an annual wealth tax of 2% on ind...

EDM 1683 • UK-based medical charities in Palestine

That this House expresses its appreciation for those working for UK-based medical charities in Palestine, including Medi...

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 1671 • Peace and sovereignty in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

That this House expresses deep concerns about the devastating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and t...

EDM 1670 • Mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and action plans

That this House notes with concern that nationally, there is a 6% pay gap between employees from Black, African Caribbea...

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 1621 • Funding for training of professional journalists

That this House is worried by guidance issued by the Secretary of State for Education to the Office for Students which s...

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 1282 • Fairtrade tea campaign

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

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 1266 • Import of goods from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

That this House notes that the International Court of Justice has called for all states to abstain from entering into ec...

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 1542 • Prison education insourcing

That this House notes the worrying state of prison education, with 82 percent of prison and young offender institutions ...

EDM 1492 • Military escalation between Israel and Iran

That this House expresses immense concern at the escalating military confrontation between Israel and Iran, which has al...

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 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 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...