Written questions

854 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Counter-terrorism and Money Laundering

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will publish its response to its consultation on Reforming anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing supervision, published on 30 June 2023.

6 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Financial Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will hold a summit of international financial centres.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies House

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many requests were made to Companies House to (a) remove and (b) change director details in each year between 2020 and 2024.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies House: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Companies House has key performance indicators to measure the quality of information on the registry.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many requests were made by Companies House to query information (a) sent for acceptance to and (b) already published on the register using the new enforcement powers introduced in March 2024.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies House

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) high-end, (b) trade-based and (c) cash-based money laundering incidents were identified by Companies House in each year between 2020 and 2024.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies House

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason the launch of the service to register Companies House authorised agents has been delayed.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Transport: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date bids for the next wave of City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement funding should be submitted to her Department.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has asked HS2 Limited to make an assessment of the potential impact of the provision of funding for a railway station at East Birmingham on the regeneration of that area.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Minimum Wage: Birmingham and Solihull

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who will be affected by the increase in the national minimum wage in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham an

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Birmingham and Solihull

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are in receipt of the State Pension in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull; and what estimate she has made of the cost to

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by how much funding allocations for breakfast clubs in schools will increase in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull in each year for which data is ava

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Birmingham and Solihull

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what annual forecast she has made of the number of new social homes to be built in Birmingham and Solihull.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance: Birmingham and Solihull

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the planned funding allocations for (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) Solihull Borough Council are in each year for which figures are available.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Birmingham and Solihull: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned funding allocations for Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB are in each year for which figures are available.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries and Schools: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out planned funding allocations for (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools in Birmingham and Solihull broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency

16 Jan 2025 · Treasury

National Wealth Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system on universal basic capital based on the universal roll-out of sidecar accounts into which is paid a one off dividend from the National W

18 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Economic Growth and Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role her Department’s Enterprise and Growth Unit will have in supporting (a) the Government’s Growth Mission and (b) the Spending Review next year.

18 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Growth Mission Board

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role the Growth Mission Board will have in the Spending Review.

18 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Employment

To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, if she will publish the forecasts of the size of the UK labour force broken down by the net migration forecast by (a) the Office of Budget Responsibility and (b) other bodies for the forecast period used by that Of

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Economic Growth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the impact on economic growth of the measures announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many economically inactive people will rejoin the workforce as a result of the measures announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper.

16 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Research: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned £20.4 billion of research and development spending on (a) economic growth, (b) the national investment rate and (c) crowding in of private investme

16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of defence spending on (a) economic growth and (b) regional growth in each of the next five years.

16 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference paragraph 4.51 of the Autumn Budget 2024, what his Department's priorities are for the planned £20 billion spending with UK industry in 2025-26.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Capture and Storage and Hydrogen: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of private investment that will be raised for carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects by the £3.9 billion of public funding announ

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Capture and Storage and Hydrogen: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department plan to take to ensure value for money from the £3.9 billion of funding allocated for carbon capture and storage and green hydrogen in 2025-26.

16 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office

Foreign Investment in UK: National Security

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the written statement of 18 April 2024 on Economic Security, HCWS415, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of targeted exemptions from the mandatory notification requirements o

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with refence to section 1.3 2. of his policy paper entitled The Atlantic Declaration, updated on 21 June 2023, what progress he has made on establishing an outbound investment mechanism.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department plans to take to maximise the value for money from public funding for the steel industry over the next five years.

Source: official written-questions record.