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Antonia Bance
Antonia Bance
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Tipton and Wednesbury
📅 2024–2026
116 speeches on Hansard record
⚠️ Votes attended: 68.53% (#365 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.74%
📝 Topics: General Practitioners: Pay, Metals: Licensing, Multi-academy Trusts: Corporate Governance
🤝 Member of 11 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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44 written answers on parliamentary record
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Department for Business and Trade
Energy Intensive Industries: Costs 2 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme will be funded; when his Department plans to consult on how the scheme will be funded; and whether the costs of the scheme will be passed onto other consumer bills.
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Motability 12 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Motability Scheme on supporting the British automotive industry.
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Oscar Mayer: Conditions of Employment 31 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with Oscar Mayer on their employment practices.
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Conditions of Employment 5 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when his Department plans to bring forward the Employment Rights Bill.
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Department for Education
Multi-academy Trusts: Corporate Governance 24 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2026 to Question 113238, whether she has made an estimate of the number of multi-academy trusts which are chaired by individuals who are themselves chief executives of other multi-academy trusts.
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Multi-academy Trusts: Corporate Governance 27 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the number of multi-academy trusts which are chaired by individuals who are themselves chief executives of multi-academy trusts.
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Multi-academy Trusts: Corporate Governance 26 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has issued guidance to multi-academy trusts on the necessary characteristics, qualities and attributes of chairs.
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Schools: Speech And Language Disorders 1 August 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state schools are taking part in the Early Language Support for Every Child Programme by (a) local authority and (b) constituency.
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Schools: Neurodiversity 1 August 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state schools took part in the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools programme in the most recent financial year by (a) local authority and (b) constituency.
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Music: Education 22 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state schools are taking part in the Music Opportunities Pilot by (a) local authority and (b) constituency.
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Academies 28 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library of the House of Commons a table setting out (a) the name of the trust and (b) the company number of that trust under which it is registered with Companies House for every academy trust in the English schools system.
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Academies 28 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library of the House of Commons a table setting out (a) whether it is a maintained school or an academy trust, (b) by which local authority it is maintained, or to which trust it belongs, (c) the URN of the school, (d) the name…
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Academies: Off-payroll Working 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 86 of the document entitled Academies consolidated annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022, published on 5 February 2024, whether it is her Department's policy that off-payroll arrangements can be used for the payment of (a)…
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Academies: Off-payroll Working 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of academy trusts that have reported off-payroll arrangements for staff who are also trustees in each of the last five years.
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Department for Transport
Railways: West Midlands 2 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the cost of a standard-class annual rail season ticket from (a) Coseley, (b) Bescot, (c) Tipton, and (d) Dudley Port stations to Birmingham New Street in 2010.
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Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties 14 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of vehicle tax is paid in instalments using direct debit; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of charging a 5% surcharge when paying vehicle tax by direct debit on lower income motorists.
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Large Goods Vehicles: Parking 15 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce a strategy to help improve the (a) quality and (b) quantity of truck parking.
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Large Goods Vehicle Drivers 15 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of new HGV drivers that would need to be trained annually to maintain workforce levels; and what steps her Department is taking to help support the industry to train HGV drivers.
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Taxis: Licensing 26 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to take steps to review taxi licensing in the context of the findings of the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Apprentices: Engineering and Plumbing 31 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether existing employer incentive payments adequately support small and micro-businesses to deliver and sustain full four-year Level 3 electrical and plumbing apprenticeships.
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Apprentices: Engineering and Plumbing 31 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential cumulative impact of changes to employment and administrative costs on small and micro-businesses’ recruitment and retention of electrical and plumbing apprentices.
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Housing Benefit: Supported Housing 17 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the Housing Benefit taper rate from 65% to 55% for people living in supported accommodation who are in work.
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Universal Credit 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households with children claiming Universal Credit contain two adults in full-time work in the latest period for which data is available.
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Benefits Rules: Supported Housing 15 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many supported housing residents have (a) reduced their working hours and (b) left employment due to the interaction of Housing Benefit and Universal Credit rules in the last five years.
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Social Security Benefits: Children 16 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of abolishing the two-child limit policy for (a) two-earner couple households and (b) two-earner couple households in which both earners are in full-time work.
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Social Security Benefits: Children 16 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households affected by the two-child limit policy are (a) two-earner couple households and (b) two-earner couple households in which both earners are in full-time work.
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Personal Independence Payment: Tipton and Wednesbury 8 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who receive (a) enhanced daily living Personal Independence Payment awards and (b) standard daily living Personal Independence Payment awards did not score four or more points on any individual activity descriptor in 2024-25 in…
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Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Death 3 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients died from cancer within three months of diagnosis in each of the last five years.
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General Practitioners: Pay 19 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by how much will the pay of general practice staff, including nursing staff, increase for the financial year 2025-26.
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General Practitioners: Pay 19 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether general practice employers in England will be required to provide a 4% pay uplift to (a) nursing staff and (b) other general practice staff in line with the NHS pay award for the financial year 2025-26.
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General Practitioners: Pay 19 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of pay transparency for (a) staff and (b) nursing staff working in GP surgeries.
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General Practitioners: Pay 19 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a recovery mechanism in incidents of NHS pay uplifts not being provided to (a) nursing staff and (b) other general practice staff by general practice employers.
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Ivf 20 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for IVF for access to treatment for surrogate mothers where the intended parents are same-sex male couples.
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Home Office
Drugs: Ketamine 27 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of updating the 10-Year Drugs Plan to reflect (a) the increase in ketamine use and (b) other changes in the drugs landscape.
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Metals: Licensing 4 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action she is taking to stop unlicensed scrap metal dealing.
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Metals: Licensing 4 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of preventing scrap metal yards using prepaid credit cards to pay scrap metal dealers.
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Metals: Licensing 4 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps (a) the police and (b) immigration enforcement are taking to prevent unlicensed scrap metal dealing.
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Sexual Offences 9 September 2024
To ask Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect workers travelling home late at night who are at risk of sexual violence.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Community Relations: Religion 13 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding is available to support interfaith projects aimed at promoting community cohesion.
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Temporary Accommodation: Costs 28 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6735 on Temporary Accommodation: Costs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential savings to local government in respect of temporary accommodation costs…
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Local Government Finance 18 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the (a) equality of and (b) potential impact on councils in low income areas of the funding formula for local government; and whether she has plans to reform that formula.
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Temporary Accommodation: Costs 14 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of (a) section 21 evictions and (b) the provisions in the Renters' Rights Bill on (i) temporary accommodation costs and (ii) local authority finances.
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Tenants' Rights 14 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure tenants are aware of new rights created through the Renters' Rights Bill.
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Treasury
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties 28 October 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of charging a 5% surcharge when paying vehicle tax by direct debit on lower income motorists; and whether she has plans to remove this surcharge.
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