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Catherine Fookes
Catherine Fookes
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Monmouthshire
📅 2024–2026
112 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 78.68% (#225 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.00%
📝 Topics: Children: Maintenance, Motorcycles: Driving Instruction, Financial Conduct Authority
🤝 Member of 16 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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44 written answers on parliamentary record
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Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions 6 February 2026
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent discussions he has had with Capita on ensuring newly retired civil servants receive pensions on time.
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Department for Business and Trade
STEM Subjects: Employment 6 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help protect STEM jobs in Wales.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Floods: Insurance 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce insurance premiums for homes at high risk of flooding.
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Bats: Conservation 3 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what actions he is taking to mitigate the potential impact of the built environment on bat populations.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Copyright 12 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help support right holders’ control over whether their works are used to train AI models.
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River Severn: Mobile Phones 12 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the River Severn Partnership and Streetwave's Mobile Coverage Survey.
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Children: Monmouthshire 18 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent children in Monmouthshire being exposed to pornography.
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Department for Transport
Driving Tests: South Wales 20 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce car driving test wait times at (a) Monmouth test centre, (b) Abergavenny test centre and (c) test centres in South Wales.
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Driving Tests: Monmouthshire 5 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the availability of practical car driving tests in Monmouthshire.
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Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Tests 7 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of (a) HGV driving test slots and (b) HGV driving test examiners.
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Motorcycles: Driving Instruction 6 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of motorcycle compulsory basic training.
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Motorcycles: Driving Instruction 6 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to improve the training required for motorcycle drivers.
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Motorcycles: Driving Instruction 6 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made following her Department's closed consultation on improving moped and motorcycle training.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance 9 March 2026
What steps he is taking to improve the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service.
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Universal Credit: Self-employed 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help support Universal Credit claimants to become self-employed.
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Access to Work Programme 16 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the effectiveness of access to work programmes for disabled people.
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Job Creation: Graduates 12 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help support the creation of graduate jobs.
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Child Maintenance Service 10 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to introduce legislation to implement the commitments outlined in the Government’s response to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the Collection and Transfer of Payments, updated 23 June 2025.
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Access to Work Programme 11 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Pathways to work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published in March 2025, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce levels of time taken to access Access to Work applications and (b) ensure…
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Children: Maintenance 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the income change threshold on child maintenance allowance on both the (a) paying and (b) receiving parents.
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Children: Maintenance 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of altering the income change threshold on child maintenance allowance reviews.
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Personal Independence Payment: Appeals 6 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available to people waiting for a Personal Independence Payment tribunal.
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NHS: Long Covid 12 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of including long covid as an industrial illness for people working the NHS during the covid-19 pandemic.
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Hearing Impairment: Children 24 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with Auditory Verbal UK to discuss (a) barriers to opportunities and (b) improved outcomes for deaf children.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Paramedical Staff: Employment 3 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure newly qualified paramedics can access appropriate NHS job opportunities.
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Maternity Services 3 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a UK Maternity Commissioner.
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Health Services: Wales 17 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure patients living near the England-Wales border receive timely care after a cross-border referral.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Women 7 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK ODA spending supports women and girls internationally.
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Home Office
Money Laundering: Business 19 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle the use of cash intensive businesses for money laundering.
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Human Trafficking: Victims 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure victims of sex trafficking are adequately safeguarded from being trafficked in the future.
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Money Laundering: Businesses 1 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the use of cash intensive businesses for money laundering.
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Fraud: Internet and Telephone Services 10 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle scams perpetrated (a) by telephone and (b) online.
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Immigration: Ukraine 8 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of making changes to Ukraine visa schemes to facilitate routes to settlement.
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Ministry of Defence
LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme 11 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on issuing payments under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing Associations: Freedom of Information 10 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including housing associations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme: Domestic Abuse 8 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that low-income (a) victims of domestic abuse, (b) victims of sexual abuse by someone in the home and (c) immediate family members of victims of sexual abuse can access legal aid.
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Personal Independence Payment 6 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessments her Department has made of the adequacy of Personal Independence Payment tribunal wait times; and what steps she is taking to reduce them.
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Treasury
Financial Conduct Authority 4 September 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the regulatory efficacy of the Financial Conduct Authority.
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Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services 8 July 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of HMRC phone line performance.
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Financial Conduct Authority 23 April 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the recent Report on the Call for Evidence about the Financial Conduct Authority, published by the APPG on Investment Fraud & Fairer Financial Services, whether she plans to introduce the recommended legislative changes.
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Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties 2 April 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of disabled people unable to claim an exemption on vehicle tax due to being over the age limit to access a benefit with a mobility component; and whether she has plans to reduce this gap.
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Inheritance Tax: Monmouthshire 18 November 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many estates were subject to inheritance tax in Monmouthshire constituency in each tax year between 2019-20 and 2022-23.
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Wales Office
Flood Control: Wales 3 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help support recovery from flooding caused by Storm Claudia in Wales.
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Question 11 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on increasing economic growth in Wales.
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