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Paul Foster
Paul Foster
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ South Ribble
📅 2024–2026
28 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 89.85% (#78 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.00%
📝 Topics: Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Meetings, Epilepsy: Cannabis, Drugs: Hospices
🤝 Member of 8 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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32 written answers on parliamentary record
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Cabinet Office
Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Meetings 2 September 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a ministerial attendance list for the meeting of the Domestic and Economic Affairs Committee of the Cabinet on 16 November 2023.
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Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Meetings 2 September 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a ministerial attendance list for the meeting of the Domestic and Economic Affairs Committee of the Cabinet on 19 December 2023.
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Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Meetings 2 September 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a ministerial attendance list for the meeting of the Domestic and Economic Affairs Committee of the Cabinet on 22 January 2024.
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Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Meetings 2 September 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Ministers attended the meeting of the Domestic and Economic Affairs Committee on 25 March 2024.
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Domestic and Economic Affairs (Union) Committee: Hacking 2 September 2025
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a meeting of the Domestic and Economic Affairs Committee of the Cabinet relating to a data breach took place in October 2023,.
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Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: South Ribble 16 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve SEND provision in South Ribble constituency.
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Special Educational Needs 30 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department monitors the compliance of individual local authorities with statutory duties under the Children and Families Act 2014 in relation to the delivery of EHCP provision.
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Special Educational Needs: Lancashire 30 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Education, Health and Care (a) requests and (b) needs assessments have been (i) completed and (ii) issued within the statutory 20-week timeframe by Lancashire County Council in the last 12 months.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: South Ribble 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent on flood prevention works to protect the village of Croston in South Ribble constituency in the last five years; and what funds are allocated for future improvements.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Project Gigabit: South Ribble 21 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take steps to enable (a) constituents and (b) businesses in South Ribble constituency to become eligible Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme.
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Project Gigabit 21 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has alternative plans for reaching (a) premises and (b) communities that are deemed too expensive to reach through Project Gigabit.
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Department for Transport
Chorley Station: Access 1 April 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on when accessibility improvement works will commence at Chorley railway station.
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M6: Accidents 17 March 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of road traffic accidents leading to a fatality on the M6 motorway within Lancashire since 2022.
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Avanti West Coast: Compensation 22 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much compensation was paid under the delay repay scheme for journeys on Avanti West Coast in 2024; and how much and what proportion of this compensation was paid from the public purse.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: South Ribble 9 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Ribble constituency are in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP); how those payments are broken down between the (a) daily living and (b) mobility component; and how many of those people did not score a four or…
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State Retirement Pensions: Women 18 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of women impacted by the maladministration of pension communications as highlighted by the WASPI campaign in South Ribble constituency.
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Pension Credit: South Ribble 22 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pensioners receive Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency; and how many of these are new recipients since 31 July 2024.
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Pension Credit: South Ribble 12 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency; and if she will make an estimate of the number of people who are not claiming Pension Credit but are eligible in that constituency.
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Winter Fuel Payment: South Ribble 12 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Ribble constituency received a winter fuel payment in the 2023-24 financial year.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Drugs: Hospices 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospices (a) have all medication supplied (i) for free and (ii) at a discounted rate and (b) do not have medication supplied by the NHS.
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Drugs: Hospices 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
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Drugs: Hospices 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
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Epilepsy: Cannabis 21 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of (a) Dravet and (b) Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
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Epilepsy: Cannabis 21 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of epilepsy.
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Epilepsy: Cannabis 21 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust on the potential merits of enabling clinicians to prescribe unlicensed cannabis products to children for clinical reasons.
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Epilepsy: Cannabis 21 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of NHS policy on the assessment of individual funding requests to support children for whom prescribing medical cannabis could help prevent repeated admissions to hospital.
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Cannabis: Medical Treatments 14 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients under the age of 18 are in receipt of an NHS funded cannabis-based (a) prescription and (b) medication.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Arms Trade 18 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many arms export licences in respect to Israel have been reviewed over the past 12 months, and of those reviewed, how many have been revoked or suspended/part suspended.
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Home Office
Asylum: South Ribble 14 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding asylum applications there are for people living in South Ribble constituency.
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Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions 21 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking in response to the Government Internal Audit Agency’s finding of Limited Assurance for the Armed Forces Pension Scheme in FY 2024–25, particularly in relation to (a) internal control, (b) timeliness and…
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Ministry of Justice
Road Traffic Offences: Speed Limits 21 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance her Department has issued on whether Magistrates Courts in England and Wales can revert back to a conditional offer of £100 Fine and 3 Penalty Points rather than using the Sentencing Guidelines (Speeding Offences) when (a) mitigation is…
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Northern Ireland Office
Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery 5 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many cases the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information is investigating that relate to deaths of (a) armed forces personnel and (b) police officers.
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