Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will have discussions with the Israeli government on the bombing of the European Hospital in Khan Younis on 13 May 2025.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The recent attacks on the European Hospital in Khan Younis are deeply concerning. As the Foreign Secretary outlined in his statement on the 20th of May, Israel has repeatedly struck hospitals, and these have rendered the European hospital non-functional. In March, the UK, France and Germany called on Israel to do more to prevent harm to medical personnel and premises in the course of their military operations.

Amid Israel's expanded military operations, the healthcare system in Gaza is now on the brink of collapse. We remain gravely concerned by the lack of adequate medical care in Gaza as nearly all hospitals are damaged or partly destroyed according to the World Health Organization.

My officials and I are in regular dialogue with our Israeli counterparts on the protection of healthcare facilities in Gaza. We will continue to make both public and private representations to the Government of Israel to protect healthcare staff and facilities.

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of black girls participating in sport.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government believes that opportunities to play sport and get physically active should be available to everyone.

We recognise that there are barriers which prevent some people from getting active with women and girls and those from ethnically diverse communities less likely to be active than other groups.

We are committed to breaking down the barriers that contribute to these persisting inequalities in participation and want to ensure that everyone can experience the physical, mental and social benefits that come with being active.

As part of this, our Arm's Length Body for grassroots sport, Sport England, prioritises tackling inequalities by targeting investment towards the most inactive groups.

Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign has inspired millions of women and girls to get active. The next phase of This Girl Can, Tackling Inequalities, primarily targets women who are most likely to be inactive in society, including those from black backgrounds.

Sport England anticipates that 1.6 million women who are less active will be active as a result of the campaign by 2028. This is in addition to already active women who may report being motivated by the campaign.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce child poverty in Battersea constituency.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of this Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The Child Poverty Taskforce is progressing work to publish its strategy as soon as possible. We are exploring all available levers to drive forward short and long-term actions across government to reduce child poverty.

The strategy will look across four key themes of increasing incomes, reducing essential costs, increasing financial resilience, and better local support especially in the early years. This will build on the reform plans underway across government and work underway in devolved governments.

The vital work of the Taskforce comes alongside our commitments to triple investment in breakfast clubs to over £30 million, introduce a Fair Repayment Rate for deductions from Universal Credit, improve the adequacy of the standard allowance with the first sustained above inflation rise in the basic rate of Universal Credit since it was introduced and increase the National Living Wage to £12.21 an hour to boost the pay of three million workers.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps Government Departments have taken to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

We will review and update policy wherever necessary to ensure it complies with the latest legal requirements.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Homes England allocate appropriate funding for developments that provide new wheelchair accessible homes.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Capital funding guidance for the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 sets out that certain categories of supported housing for older and disabled people should be built to be wheelchair accessible.

In July 2024, the government published targets for the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme which confirmed that 5% of homes delivered in the programme will be for supported housing.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of steps taken by his Department to (a) track the final destination of F-35 components and (b) ensure F-35 components are not used by the Israeli military.

Answered by Douglas Alexander - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

Once parts are exported from the UK to the global F-35 programme, the UK does not have access to information about the movement of individual components, and does not have control over whether components in the global spares pool or aircraft assembly facilities are used for specific customer nations or not. However, the UK has suspended the export of F-35 components directly to Israel, where these are for use by Israel.

The only way to prevent UK-produced parts reaching Israel would therefore be for the UK Government to stop the export of parts to the entire F-35 programme, which would prejudice the security of the UK and our allies.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made any (a) formal or (b) informal assessment of the potential risk of genocide in Gaza.

Answered by Hamish Falconer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK's long-standing policy is that any formal determination as to whether genocide has occurred is a matter for a competent national or international court, rather than for governments or non-judicial bodies. It should be decided after consideration of all the evidence available in the context of a credible judicial process.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment in the her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, on levels of poverty among carers in Battersea.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

No assessment has been made on this basis.

The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts.

This government is committed to supporting unpaid carers, who provide invaluable support to elderly or disabled people.

As the Green Paper sets out, we will consider any impacts our reforms might have on benefits for unpaid carers as part of our wider consideration of responses to the consultation and as we develop our detailed proposals for change. We will also continue to work closely with the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure everyone’s health and care needs are met.

We are taking other action to improve Carer’s Allowance separate to the Green Paper. We have pegged the weekly Carer’s Allowance earnings limit to 16 hours’ work at National Living Wage (NLW) levels, and in future it will increase when the NLW increases. The Carer’s Allowance earnings limit increased to be £196 a week net earnings on 7 April 2025, compared to £151 in 24/25. This is the largest ever increase in the earnings limit since Carer’s Allowance was introduced in 1976 and the highest percentage increase since 2001.

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Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Paul Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon Andrew Rosindell Jonathan Davies Jess Asato Marsha De Cordova

Found: Asato John Grady Patricia Ferguson Simon Hoare Adam Jogee Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

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Found: Ayoub Khan Andy McDonald Brian Leishman Llinos Medi Andy Slaughter Neil Duncan-Jordan Marsha De Cordova

Found: Ayoub Khan Andy McDonald Brian Leishman Llinos Medi Andy Slaughter Neil Duncan-Jordan Marsha De Cordova

Found: Collinge Bambos Charalambous Kirith Entwistle Peter Lamb Rachel Taylor Warinder Juss Marsha De Cordova

Found: Lizzi Collinge Bambos Charalambous Kirith Entwistle Peter Lamb Rachel Taylor Warinder Juss Marsha De Cordova

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Found: Adnan Hussain Lizzi Collinge Bambos Charalambous Kirith Entwistle Peter Lamb Warinder Juss Marsha De Cordova

Found: Asato John Grady Patricia Ferguson Simon Hoare Adam Jogee Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Roberts Siân Berry Kate Osborne Peter Dowd Ellie Chowns Andy Slaughter Neil Duncan-Jordan Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Liz Saville Roberts Siân Berry Kate Osborne Peter Dowd Andy Slaughter Neil Duncan-Jordan Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Ramsay Iqbal Mohamed Darren Paffey Steve Witherden Apsana Begum Siân Berry John Whitby Marsha De Cordova

Found: Ramsay Iqbal Mohamed Darren Paffey Steve Witherden Apsana Begum Siân Berry John Whitby Marsha De Cordova

Found: Jess Brown-Fuller John Lamont Lillian Jones Ms Marie Rimmer Margaret Mullane Derek Twigg Marsha De Cordova

Found: Chowns Adrian Ramsay Iqbal Mohamed Steve Witherden Apsana Begum Siân Berry John Whitby Marsha De Cordova

Found: Yasmin Qureshi Kate Osamor Naushabah Khan Ruth Cadbury Bell Ribeiro-Addy Valerie Vaz Marsha De Cordova

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Found: involving Battery Energy Storage Solutions (BESS’s). 37 REPORT STAGE Tuesday 3 June 2025 _NC67 Marsha De Cordova

Tennis APPG
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Found: Murrison MP Parliamentarians Desmond Swayne MP Sir Christopher Chope MP Helen Grant MP Marsha De Cordova

Tennis APPG
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Found: Officers Chair and Registered Contact: Toby Perkins MP Co-Chair: Helen Grant MP Officer: Marsha De Cordova

Healthcare Workers APPG
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Found: Green Party Bob Blackman MP Conservative Sadik Al-Hassan MP Labour Maya Ellis MP Labour Marsha de Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Imran Hussain MP, Harpreet Uppal MP, Kate Osamor MP, Nadia Whittome MP, Paulette Hamilton MP, Marsha De Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Imran Hussain MP, Harpreet Uppal MP, Kate Osamor MP, Nadia Whittome MP, Paulette Hamilton MP, Marsha De Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Richard Bacon MP, Marsha de Cordova MP, Debbie Abrahams MP and Andrew Western MP were also nominated

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Richard Bacon MP, Marsha de Cordova MP, Debbie Abrahams MP and Andrew Western MP were also nominated

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Office of Ellie Reeves MP Hayley de la Motte, Office of Barry Gardiner MP Annie Wenn, Office of Marsha de Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Office of Ellie Reeves MP Hayley de la Motte, Office of Barry Gardiner MP Annie Wenn, Office of Marsha de Cordova

HIV, AIDS and Sexual Health APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Attendees • Marsha de Cordova • Steve Brine • Lloyd Russell Moyle • Baroness Barker • Baroness Wilcox

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Violence Against Women and Girls – 28th February 2022 During Oral Questions to the HO, Marsha de Cordova

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Members: The Lord Alton of Liverpool Sir Peter Bottomley MP Ruth Cadbury MP Douglas Chapman MP Marsha de Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Lingwood, Office of Neil Coyle MP Henry Cavill, Office of Nickie Aiken MP Joe, Office of Marsha de Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Lingwood, Office of Neil Coyle MP Henry Cavill, Office of Nickie Aiken MP Joe, Office of Marsha de Cordova

Faith and Society APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Hon Stephen Timms MP Steve Double MP Fiona Bruce MP Sir Gary Streeter MP Jon Cruddas MP Marsha De Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: of Thangam Debbonaire MP Henry Cavill, Office of Nickie Aiken MP Josie Horton, Office of Marsha de Cordova

Homelessness APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: of Thangam Debbonaire MP Henry Cavill, Office of Nickie Aiken MP Josie Horton, Office of Marsha de Cordova

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: Invitations to the event were disseminated widely and four UK MPs attended: Marsha de Cordova MP, Rachael