All of Mr Peter Martin’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any financial assistance he plans for farms affected by the bluetongue virus within the exclusion zone.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant AQW 35025/22-27, to detail the evidential basis as to why this legislation will apply to motorcyclists, as well as other motor vehicles.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the annual projected costs of her recently announced road network digital survey that will assess road conditions.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any strategies taken by (i) his Department; and (ii) the Health and Social Care Trusts, to treat peripheral arterial disease.
I very much thank the leader of the Opposition for accepting my intervention. He is right; I was in the Department when the report was provided. However, as the Minister outlined, the problems with GTC were not with the staff who inhabited the organisation. The Member may or may not be aware of that. There were…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any measures in place to allow advanced payments from the Strategic Planning and Performance Group to support patients who have to travel to other parts of the UK for specialised medical treatment, but do not have disposable income to pay and reclaim expenses.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average processing time for payments by the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, for patient travel for treatments undertaken in England, in the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any (i) official procedure for a foster carer to quickly resolve a situation where their Universal Credit has been incorrectly assessed due to taking on an additional foster child; and (ii) accountability measures that exist should this occur due to departmental error.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps being taken to ensure that fluctuations in a foster carer's income, due to taking on additional placements, do not trigger incorrect automated assessments, suspensions, or overpayment claims, from the Department for Communities.
Thank you very much, and apologies, Principal Deputy Speaker: I think that I called you "Deputy Speaker" at the start of my point of order. The Minister did not answer my question, because, she said, she was not in post at that time. I do not dispute that, but a colleague of hers, the current Finance Minister, was.…
I will follow on from my colleague's question. The Minister just highlighted a range of fiscal powers that he would like to see, and he mentioned income tax as one of them. If income tax was devolved, what would he plan to do with that?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any (i) guidance issued to (a) Health and Social Care Trusts; and (b) fostering service providers, on the treatment of foster care allowances in the assessment of Universal Credit; and (ii) steps being taken to ensure that potential foster carers are given correct and full…
To ask the Minister of Health, given the cost of placements for children in residential care, to detail any steps in place to encourage and support foster carers to apply without being penalised by the Universal Credit system.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of schools which currently have evacuation chairs for pupils, staff or visitors with mobility impairments, for use in the event of an emergency.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any safeguards in place to ensure that foster carers who respond to urgent requests from Health and Social Care Trusts to take additional children are not financially penalised with regards to their (i) Universal Credit; or other benefits, claims.