Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with international counterparts to help tackle organised immigration crime.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We are determined to disrupt the small boats gangs and work with international partners more closely to take Organised Immigration Crime (OIC), and this is why the Foreign Secretary convened leading Foreign Ministers to discuss this at the Munich Security Conference in February.
In the 18 months to 31 January 2026, 58,539 foreign nationals were returned;
Last year, 3625 disruptions of OIC were recorded, up to 37% on the previous year.
With new agreements including with Ethiopia and Angola we are determined to remove those who have no right to be here further undermining the business model of people smuggling gangs.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 17 March 2026 to question 119539, whether she plans to take action against a) Yorkshire Water for monitoring sewage overflow levels at Palterton Main Street Combined Sewage Overflow and b) Severn Trent Water for monitoring sewage overflow levels at South Normanton Sewage Treatment Works.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency ensures that water companies are properly monitoring discharges to the environment. It analyses Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data from all water companies to assess compliance and, where appropriate, take enforcement action. This approach applies to Yorkshire Water for Palterton Main Road Combined Sewer Overflow and to Severn Trent for South Normanton Sewage Treatment Works.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to question 98962, what discussions he has had with Derbyshire County Council in the time taken to issue education, health and care plans, since an improvement notice for its SEND services was issued in January 2025.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
Since issuing the improvement notice to Derbyshire County Council in January 2025, the department is regularly and closely monitoring and tracking outcomes against Derbyshire’s local area partnership’s special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) improvement plan, including the time taken to issue high quality education, health and care plans in line with statutory expectations, so that children and young people can access the support they need in a timely manner.
The department has commissioned a SEND adviser to identify barriers, challenge, support and monitor progress against the partnership’s plan. Departmental officials scrutinise reports through a series of formal stocktakes and meetings with local leaders and attend the partnership’s SEND Improvement and Advisory Board which meets monthly and is overseen by an independently appointed chair.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she intends to publish an answer to Question 105314, tabled on 13 January 2026.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
The response to Written Parliamentary Question 105314 was published on 20 March 2026.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what grants are available to help low income families living in houses of solid wall construction, such as former colliery-built houses, increase their homes' energy efficiency.
Answered by Martin McCluskey - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Through the Warm Homes Plan, around ?4.4 billion of grant funding is allocated up to 2030 for low-income and fuel poor households to install solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation.
The Warm Homes: Local Grant delivers upgrades via local authorities to privately owned or rented properties in England with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) below D, and the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund delivers grants for inefficient properties via social housing providers.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) also provides grants of up to ?7,500 towards installation of an air or ground source heat pump and is open to all eligible households in England and Wales. Funding will increase each year out to 2030, totalling around ?2.7 billion over the period.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action is being taken to ensure that monitoring at combined sewage overflow locations in Bolsover constituency is active 100 per cent of the time.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Act 2021 requires all water companies, including Severn Trent, to publish near real time Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data for all storm overflows. EDM installation follows specifications set out in the CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) Event Duration Monitoring Good Practice Guide to ensure robust data quality.
The Government has consulted on strengthening penalties for water company offences. This could include strengthened monitoring requirements and clearer enforcement mechanisms to give the Environment Agency new tools to respond where defined monitoring failures occur at overflow locations.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help prevent circumvention of anti-dumping measures on certain engine oils and hydraulic fluids imported from Lithuania and the UAE by importers.
Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
On 12 December 2025, a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of Lithuanian and UAE engine oils and hydraulic fluids came into effect. The circumvention of imports into the UK is monitored by HMRC which carries out risk-based and intelligence-led checks to tackle any abuse of UK duties. Non-compliance can lead to penalties such as fines, seizure of goods or prosecution. Where appropriate, the Trade Remedies Authority may also conduct a circumvention review to consider whether activity is being undertaken to circumvent the application of the anti-dumping duty through a third country.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support is available for schools situated (a) on and (b) close to unadopted roads where no parties are maintaining (i) those roads and (ii) street furniture to an acceptable standard.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Responsibility for maintaining unadopted private roads rests with the frontagers of the road, who are the owners of properties or land that front, border or have access to the road.
If the road becomes dangerous, the relevant local authority has enforcement powers to force them to carry out repairs.
Schools may engage directly with those responsible for the management and maintenance of private roads to resolve issues, including estate management companies where applicable.
I also refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 18 December 2025 (HCWS1210).
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of NHS midwives undertaking trauma-informed training as part of their maternity care training.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Many National Health Service trusts and Accredited Education Providers such as universities have developed their own training programmes or academic modules around Trauma Informed Care (TIC) for midwives. NHS England is undertaking a rapid scoping exercise on current TIC mandatory and non-mandatory training provision across perinatal services, to assess the merit of more comprehensive TIC training for staff.
Asked by: Natalie Fleet (Labour - Bolsover)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of DVLA-mandated eye tests in rural and semi-rural communities.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s contract with Specsavers for vision testing services provide coverage across England, Wales and Scotland, with 436 stores able to perform the services required.
Specsavers is working to increase the number of stores available to carry out eyesight tests by supplying them with the appropriate equipment.
Specsavers may utilise local opticians for customers who live more than 25 miles from their nearest Specsavers branch, for example those living in rural or semi rural areas.