Every parliamentary written question tabled by Siân Berry this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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To provide details of the distribution so far of funding from the December 2025 announcement from the National Institute for Health and Care Research of £13.7 million for brain tumour research, including (a) the funding allocated to research to date, and (b) the funding actually paid out for research to date.
Awaiting answer.
Whether her Department has taken steps to assess and act upon the recommendations in the June 2026 report from the APPG for Cycling and Walking, on illegal e-bikes, in particular around police and local authority enforcement.
Awaiting answer.
Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of increased funding support needed for local authorities to speed up the completion of non-cladding remediation works in social housing.
Awaiting answer.
What steps her Department is taking to assess and improve the standards under which laboratory animals, including dogs, are bred and kept in extreme heat episodes.
Awaiting answer.
Whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording requirements in PACE Code A covering stop and search are extended to strip searches.
Awaiting answer.
What steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not routinely recording additional characteristics of vulnerability during child strip searches, including a) child in need status, b) looked after child status, c) SEND status, and d) medical vulnerabilities status.
Awaiting answer.
What discussions she has had with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services on plans to consider facial recognition as an assessment criteria for the PEEL legitimacy inspections.
Awaiting answer.
What steps she is taking to help tackle police forces recording a) the location, b) whether a supervisor was consulted, and c) whether an appropriate adult was present during strip searches as ‘unknown’.
Awaiting answer.
If she will consider the potential merits of publishing the search history for strip searches at the local force level disaggregated by age, gender, and ethnicity.
Awaiting answer.
If she will consider the potential merits of piloting the use of decision-breaks and real-time supervision as a way of tackling racial profiling in the application of strip search powers.
Awaiting answer.
Whether she has plans to help ensure that the recording of the ethnicity of individuals who are strip searched is based on their self-identification.
Awaiting answer.
What assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's annual stop and search data release finding that the majority of strip searches were carried out on the suspicion of drug possession.
Awaiting answer.
Which organisations, departments and practitioners the Department is consulting in the development of the forthcoming Youth Custody Transformation Plan; what the planned timeline is for developing and publishing that plan; and what arrangements the Department will make for sector engagement, including consultation with youth justice services, children’s charities, practitioners, academics, and children with lived experience.
Awaiting answer.
What assessment she has made of the a) arrest rate, b) no further action rate, and c) linked outcome rate for police use of strip search powers.
Awaiting answer.
What steps she is taking to help tackle cases of police forces not making a safeguarding referral following the strip search of a child or a vulnerable adult.
Awaiting answer.
Whether he plans to apply the findings from the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: interim report to Disability Living Allowance in areas where elements of both systems operate in similar ways.
Awaiting answer.
With reference to the answer to the Answer of 10 May 2002 to Question 54672, what recent guidance his Department has given to public bodies on potential embarrassment as a justifiable reason to withhold the release of material relating to the Royal Family under the Public Records Act 1958 (as amended in 1967).
Awaiting answer.
What steps she is taking to ensure that foreign commercial interests do not act to disadvantage domestic producers in the implementation of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate.
Awaiting answer.
What assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing statutory guidance to local authorities that anyone with a chronic and progressive condition should not be reassessed for a Blue Badge.
Awaiting answer.
What is the AI model that will conduct AI facial age assessments on children at the border; and what assessment she has made of the risk of error and bias in AI facial age assessment technology to conduct age assessments on children seeking asylum.
Awaiting answer.