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Jo Plat is one of the 190 Labour women MPs - making up the largest cohort of women MPs ever.

Heart Diseases: Women

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what action the Department is taking to [a] raise awareness, [b] improve support, and [c] tackle women's heart health.

Heart Diseases: Women

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of including cardiovascular disease in the Government's Women's Health...

Empty Property: Shops

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking the tackle the number of vacant properties on high streets.

School SEND Provision

Jo Platt made a speech in the House of Commons

Families in Leigh and Atherton are exhausted from constantly fighting for the SEND support their children need, so I welcome the White Paper’s proposals, including individual support plans...

School SEND Provision

Jo Platt made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps she is taking to improve SEND provision in schools.

Housing: VAT

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of disapplying VAT for the conversion of non-residential buildings into accommodation.

Question

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve support housing-with-care for older people.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in response to Question tabled on 15 December 2025, UIN 99871, if the Government can outline what steps are being taken to ensure the...

Tourette's Syndrome

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will consider Tourette's in its Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism.

NHS: Training

Department of Health and Social Care

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Department can outline the length and mechanism for delivery of the new mandatory safeguarding learning programme for the NHS...

Injuries: Compensation

Department for Work and Pensions

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making injury-related pension enhancement and compensation elements...

Long Covid

Department for Work and Pensions

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will consider recognising Long Covid as an occupational disease.

Police: Recruitment

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of consolidating the specific grant for the Police Uplift Programme into the...

Police: Finance

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the police funding formula before the next comprehensive spending review.

Hospitality Sector

Business and Trade

Jo Platt made a speech in the House of Commons

A lot of the hospitality small and medium-sized enterprises in my constituency start out as market traders. As we know, our markets are a vital part of our identity and central to our local...

Divorce Settlements: Armed Forces

Ministry of Justice

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to prevent (a) AFPS 05 injury enhancements and (b) other injury related Armed Forces payments from being treated as...

ADHD Diagnosis

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz. I rise to speak as chair of the APPG on ADHD. As someone from a neurodiverse—or, as we call it, neuro-spicy—household, I...

Armed Forces: Divorce Settlements

Ministry of Defence

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the treatment of injury related Armed Forces payments, including the AFPS 05 injury enhancement, in divorce and financial remedy...

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

Jo Platt received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the definition of assault of a retail worker to include workers in...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Last week I visited Howe Bridge leisure centre to meet sensei Billy Higgins and watch one of his much-loved karate sessions. There are too many accolades to list...