Steve Witherden

58512 • Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a timeline for the Law Commission of England and Wales’s review of the homicide law.

53359 • Local Housing Allowance: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44809 on Local Housing Allowance: Wales, what (a) metrics, (b) data points and (c) analysis were used to assess the impact of Local Housing Allowance rates referenced his answer; and whether this included the impact on the number of people becoming homeless.

52774 • Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to publish an updated response to the Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review.

52471 • Shared Rural Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he has taken under the Shared Rural Network programme to map investment in the hardest-to-reach areas.

904165 • Mobile Phones: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help improve mobile phone coverage in rural areas.

50339 • Revenue and Customs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of widening the eligibility criteria for organisations seeking to engage with the HMRC Wealthy External Forum.

50340 • Local Housing Allowance: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44809 on Local Housing Allowance: Wales, what (a) metrics, (b) data points and (c) analysis were used to determine the impacts of Local Housing Allowance rates referenced his Answer; and whether the effect on the number of households becoming homeless was factored into that analysis.

49624 • Social Security Benefits: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish an assessment of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on Wales.

48746 • Pylons: Powys

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Vrynwy Frankton pylon project on net zero.

48747 • Pylons: Powys

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of (a) the Vrynwy Frankton pylon project and (b) other pylon projects on farm animals.

48748 • Pylons: Powys

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) the Vyrnwy–Frankton pylon project and (b) other pylon projects on local businesses that rely on tourism.

48749 • Ambulance Services: Medals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for The Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to paramedics employed by air ambulance charities.

45314 • Press: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of introducing a press regulator that is independent of (a) the media industry and (b) politicians.

45315 • Religious Buildings: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to protect places of worship from police raids.

45316 • Economic Growth: Climate Change

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of climate change on economic growth.

45317 • Climate Change: Costs

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the cost to (a) the public purse (b) businesses and (c) individual people from climate change.

44809 • Local Housing Allowance: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not uprating local housing allowance rates on homelessness in Wales.

44810 • Homelessness: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on the potential impact of the spare room subsidy on homelessness in Wales.

44811 • Security of Tenure: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on the potential difference of security of tenure that will exist between England and Wales following the passage of the Renters Rights Bill.

44812 • Private Rented Housing: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with the Welsh Government on their decision not to legislate to end no-fault evictions for private rented sector tenants in Wales; and what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of this decision.

EDM 937 • Keeping transport workers safe

That this House notes with concern the findings of the TSSA union’s latest report entitled Keep transport workers safe –...

EDM 279 • Oscar Mayer strikes

That this House acknowledges the strike by hundreds of Oscar Mayer workers in Wrexham, protesting the company’s intentio...

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 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 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 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 1598 • Wales Women's Team UEFA Women's Euro 2025

That this House congratulates the Wales Women's football team for qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2025 tournament and wishe...

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 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 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 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 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 1317 • Impact of No Recourse to Public Funds on child poverty

That this House recognises the urgent need for child poverty measures to include all children living in the UK, regardle...

EDM 1310 • Arms exports to Israel

That this House calls on the Government to immediately suspend all arms exports to Israel in line with majority public o...

EDM 1311 • Humanitarian aid into Gaza

That this House calls on the United Nations, alongside the Security Council, to take urgent action to facilitate humanit...

EDM 1065 • Securing habitat for endangered swifts and other cavity nesting birds

This House notes with concern the dramatic decline in the breeding population of swifts whose numbers have dropped by 60...

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 1242 • Future of the UK baking industry

That this House notes with concern recent media reports that Associated British Foods, parent company of Allied Bakeries...

EDM 1235 • Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for Police Community Support Officers

That this House recognises the vital contribution made by Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in communities acros...

EDM 1251 • Support for the trans community

That this House celebrates the contribution that the trans community, binary and nonbinary, makes to the UK; recognises ...

EDM 1184 • Climate and Nature Bill

That this House declared an environment and climate change emergency on 1 May 2019, recognising the urgent need for acti...