Blake Stephenson

69457 • New Towns: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of delivery timescales for New Towns Development Corporations on the ability of those corporations to build beautiful houses.

69458 • New Towns: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of building regulations on the speed of development of new towns.

65095 • Ministers: Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of Ministerial pensions in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.

65096 • Civil Servants: Qualifications

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of Civil Service employees who possess a Level 7 Apprenticeship qualification.

65097 • Apprentices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to funding for Level 7 apprenticeships on costs to the public purse in each of the next five years.

65098 • Apprentices: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of people working for state schools who possess a Level 7 apprenticeship qualification.

65099 • Apprentices: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with NHS Employers on planned changes to funding for Level 7 apprenticeships.

65100 • Bedford Free School

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to make a further announcement on the future of the Bedford Free School.

65101 • Schools: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered opening new specialist SEND schools, in the context of trends in the number of education, health and care plans.

65102 • Schools: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the most common causes of school absences were in the 2024-25 academic year.

65103 • Aviation: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the waste hierarchy to encourage councils to assign more black bin waste to the production of sustainable aviation fuels.

65104 • Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the Chagos Islands deal.

64459 • Housing: New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department’s proposed New Towns will be able to demolish areas of existing housing.

64460 • Housing: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 56032 on Housing: Costs, what steps she plans to take to incentivise developers to build at a level that reduces house prices.

64461 • Energy Performance Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring landlords to update Efficiency Performance Certificates regularly.

64462 • Ministerial Statements

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will make an estimate of the number of Government announcements which were made in the House of Commons prior to a Ministerial announcement in the media since July 2024.

64463 • Railways: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Persons with Reduced Mobility National Technical Specification Notice, published in December 2017, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of Appendix B.

64464 • Bus Services: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press release entitled Government pledges greater growth for the coach sector ahead of National Coach Week, published on 6 May 2025, whether she plans to take steps to support the coach sector in the East of England, in the context of the Universal UK theme park project.

64465 • Thameslink Line: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has allocated to reducing the number of rail replacement services required on Thameslink services in the 2025-26 financial year.

64466 • A421: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish any assessment that National Highways have made of the flooding of the A421 at Marston Moreteyne in September 2024.

EDM 1398 • Mauritius Treaty

That the Agreement, done at London and Port Louis on 22 May 2025, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great ...

EDM 439 • Housing

That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (Englan...