Jess Asato

70099 • Assistance Animals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to give emotional support animals the same legal status as guide dogs.

70119 • Schools: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the extension of the PINS programme on children with developmental language disorder.

69476 • Running: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Abuse of women runners: implications for the violence against women and girls policy agenda, published by the University of Manchester in November 2024, whether she plans to recognise women runners as a distinct group for purposes of the forthcoming Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.

68494 • Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s statutory guidance entitled Children missing education - Statutory guidance for local authorities, updated August 2024, when she plans to update the guidance; and if she will make it her policy to regularly update the guidance to adapt to emerging trends and needs as indicated by new data collected.

68495 • Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s statutory guidance entitled Children missing education: statutory guidance for local authorities, published August 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of specifying the (a) role and (b) responsibility of local authorities for providing education to children who are absent from mainstream education due to long term illness.

68496 • Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing annual statistics on the number of children who miss education due to long term illness; and if she will publish statistics on the child's (a) region, (b) age, (c) ethnicity, (d) gender and (e) type of illness.

68152 • Teachers: Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to support schools to develop timetabling expertise in order to enable more flexible working patterns for teachers (a) who are mothers and (b) generally.

63102 • Loneliness

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to update the Government's loneliness strategy, entitled, A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness, published on 15 October 2018.

62873 • Health Services: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to develop central commissioning guidance for clinically-based domestic violence and abuse specialists.

61259 • Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's age-assessment process for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and what steps she is taking to ensure that children are treated as children unless evidence proves otherwise.

61260 • Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to publish (a) the number of people claiming to be children who have been assessed as adults on first arrival and (b) the number later found to be children following further assessment.

61261 • Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to review the (a) accuracy, (b) ethics and (c) fairness of (i) scientific methods and (ii) artificial intelligence tools used to assess the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and what child-centred safeguards are in place to protect their welfare.

61262 • National Age Assessment Board

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of establishing and operating the National Age Assessment Board; and if she will divert this expenditure into training social workers in local authorities.

57800 • Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the children who will now receive free school meals will also be eligible for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme.

57009 • Warm Homes Plan: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Warm Homes Plan will include the decarbonisation of rural off-grid households.

57010 • Warm Homes Plan: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Warm Homes Plan will include clean heating solutions required in rural areas as well as urban areas.

55994 • Financial Services: Disadvantaged

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a mandatory disclosure regime for financial services providers on activities to improve financial inclusion.

55996 • Truancy: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of prosecutions for child truancy from school on mothers.

55998 • Truancy: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to take steps to help minimise the potential impact of prosecutions for child truancy from school on mothers.

46306 • Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of recommendation 4 of the report by the Older People’s Housing Taskforce entitled Our future homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing and community for an ageing population, published on 26 November 2024.

EDM 1138 • Foster Care Fortnight

That this House celebrates Foster Care Fortnight from May 12 to May 25 in its aim to raise awareness about fostering and...

EDM 1101 • Bury Film Group

That this House congratulates the Bury Film Group for its outstanding contribution to community life in Bury St Edmunds ...

EDM 1694 • Antisemitism and Holocaust inversion

That this House believes antisemitism is a pernicious and dangerous form of racism that threatens not only Jewish people...

EDM 1701 • Changing Places Toilets Awareness Day

That this House notes Changing Places Toilet Awareness Day 2025 which takes place on 19 July; recognises the importance ...

EDM 1672 • National Day of Memory for Victims of Honour-Based Abuse, 14 July

That this House recognises the National Day of Memory for Victims of Honour-Based Abuse on 14 July as an opportunity for...

EDM 1085 • Ian Gibson Fellowship

That this House welcomes the announcement by the Quadram Institute and UK charity, Invest in ME Research, to fund the fi...

EDM 1138 • Foster Care Fortnight

That this House celebrates Foster Care Fortnight from May 12 to May 25 in its aim to raise awareness about fostering and...

EDM 756 • Injury on Duty Award Scheme

That this House acknowledges the inherent risks undertaken by police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other member...

EDM 414 • Disclosure and Barring Service checks for hon. Members and Peers

That this House believes that all Parliamentarians should be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check when they...

EDM 444 • Violence against women and girls

That this House marks 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and White Ribbon ...

EDM 12 • 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

That this House congratulates the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) on its 200th anniversary of saving lives at...