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Daniel Francis
Daniel Francis
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Bexleyheath and Crayford
📅 2024–2026
85 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 88.32% (#102 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 1.15%
📝 Topics: Question, Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies, Children: Disability
🤝 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
Motor Vehicles: Wheelchairs 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure that wheelchair accessible vehicles are produced in the United Kingdom.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Question 16 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure an effective legacy from hosting UEFA Euro 2028.
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Gambling: Children 10 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of gambling advertising on the uptake of gambling by children.
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Anniversaries: World War II 10 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to include local communities in (a) VE and (b) VJ Day commemorations.
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Question 27 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to include local communities in VE and VJ Day commemorations.
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Department for Education
Children: Disability 9 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to the Support for Families with Disabled Children programme; and what her planned timeline is for reopening the programme.
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Children: Disability 29 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will invest in data infrastructure to better understand where and when disabled children need support.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Charges: Bexleyheath and Crayford 19 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce water bills in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
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Offensive Weapons: Bexleyheath and Crayford 19 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to help tackle the use of catapults to maim (a) animals and (b) wildlife in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
UK Research and Innovation 4 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what support is available to help UK-based organisations become a UKRI approved research organisation to allow them to apply for research grants.
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Chlorine Dioxide: Autism 9 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of online misinformation in the use of chlorine dioxide in treatments for autism on people with autism; and what steps he plans to take to help tackle this.
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Department for Transport
Roads: Bexley 9 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the London Borough of Bexley's news story entitled Bexley's Roads 7th best in England, published on 12 January 2026, if her Department will publish the data cited in that story.
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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance 2 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department publishes a table ranking each local authority in England regarding the maintenance conditions of their roads.
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Public Transport: Disability 9 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to develop real time information on the availability of accessibility to public transport for disabled passengers.
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Slade Green Station: Bridges 28 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with Network Rail on a timetable to install lighting on the footbridge at Slade Green Station.
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Roads: Barnehurst 27 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with Network Rail on maintaining ownership of the northern part of Hornbeam Lane in Barnehurst.
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Docklands Light Railway: Thamesmead 29 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Transport for London on the potential impact of extending the DLR to Thamesmead on (a) economic growth and (b) housing delivery.
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LeShuttle: Disability 3 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Office of Rail and Road on improving access for disabled people on LeShuttle services.
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Great British Railways 2 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will ensure that Great British Railways has a statutory accessibility duty.
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Railways: Abbey Wood and Crayford 28 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of additional Southeastern services directly from Crayford to Abbey Wood.
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Bexleyheath Line: Southeastern 27 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of additional Southeastern services from London Charing Cross on the Bexleyheath line on the evening and weekend.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Motability 13 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the number of wheelchair accessible vehicles that are purchased through the Motability Scheme are produced in the United Kingdom.
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Employment Schemes: Carers and Disability 10 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleague on developing a cross-departmental strategy to support (a) carers and (b) disabled people into work.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Audiology: Bexleyheath and Crayford 13 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the provision of NHS audiology services in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
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Health Services: Special Educational Needs 3 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children attending residential special schools have received an eyesight, hearing and dental check since April 2025.
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Prescriptions: Fees and Charges 8 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of exempting people with sickle-cell anaemia from prescription charges.
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Cerebral Palsy: Health Services 22 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a national service specification for adult cerebral palsy to be used to commission specialist services within integrated care system areas.
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Ophthalmic Services: Children 3 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the difference between the (a) fee that will be paid to deliver the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service and (b) cost of delivering the same clinical care in…
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Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs 20 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS special schools eye care service will have an oversight and evaluation programme in 2025-26 (a) monitoring coverage and uptake and (b) assessing whether it is delivering comparable health and education outcomes to the proof…
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Community Care 11 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to shift care from hospitals into the community.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Development Aid 11 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure adequate levels of aid are reaching Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Palestinians: Development Aid 11 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Home Office
Undocumented Migrants 5 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce pull factors for migrants seeking to arrive in the UK illegally.
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House of Commons Commission
Question 16 October 2025
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission has considered providing a Changing Places toilet in Portcullis House.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Multiple Occupation 24 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered amending (a) subsection 254(5) and (b) Schedule 14 of the Housing Act 2004.
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Social Rented Housing: Registration 21 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving the regulations on registering as a provider of social housing.
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Parking Offences 22 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of trends in the level of inappropriate use of parent and child parking bays; and whether she plans to legislate in this area.
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Night Shelter Transformation Fund 19 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for notifying applicants to the Night Shelter Transformation Fund of the outcome of their application.
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Night Shelter Transformation Fund 19 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to provide additional funding for the Night Shelter Transformation Fund in the 2025-26 financial year.
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Ministry of Justice
Law Reporting 8 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making (a) court transcription services (i) cheaper and (ii) more accessible for the families of victims and (b) court recordings directly available to those families.
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Law Reporting 8 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether recordings of court proceedings from October 2023 onwards are available for transcription for a period of one year.
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Treasury
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies 2 September 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Law Commission's review of legal frameworks governing (a) co-operatives and (b) community benefit societies will be published.
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Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies 2 September 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress her Department has made on considering the proposal for Charitable Community Benefit Societies to cease being exempt charities and to allow them to (a) register with the Charities Commission and (b) access new funding opportunities in the…
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Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties 22 July 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered the potential merits of increasing draft duty relief for (a) consumers (b pubs and (c breweries in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
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