Written questions

3,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

HM Coastguard: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36365 on HM Coastguard: North West, if she will take steps to distribute copies of the (a) assessments and (b) consequent service level changes to relevant st

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Death and Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce road (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries among young people.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the number of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging points per hundred thousand people in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, and (d) Northern Ireland on 1 December 2

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the maritime decarbonisation plan on the UK economy by 2029.

13 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Politically Exposed Persons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Financial Conduct Authority will publish revised guidance on politically exposed persons under the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

12 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Charities: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of tax reliefs provided to charities who work in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, but are physically based in Northern Ireland and constituted in the Irish

12 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value was of (a) exports and (b) imports between the UK and Ireland in (i) 2019 and (ii) 2024.

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23268 on State Retirement Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of people who are (a) eligible for the Category D pension pa

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount paid per week is to people who have started claiming Pension Credit since the changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment were announced.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

HM Coastguard: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she made an assessment of the potential impact of relocating HM Coastguard's mud rescue capability from Coleraine to Bangor on the (a) North Coast and (b) North West.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22254 on Pension Credit, how many new applications for Pension Credit were (a) made and (b) approved between 10 September 2024 and 10 February 2025.

3 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Terrorism: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he plans to amend the monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements system for dealing with people who have been convicted of terror-related offences after their release from prison.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Investment: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32942 on Northern Ireland: Investment, what estimate he has made of the private sector investment in addition to the fund.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

NATO: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025 to Question 29418 on NATO: Finance, if he will have discussions with his NATO counterparts on the role of non-NATO countries with land borders with NATO countries in dea

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the BBC Board on the airing of the documentary entitled Gaza - How to survive a warzone.

25 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Electronic Travel Authorisations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETA) were issued and (b) persons were identified as having visited the UK without a valid ETA between 8 January and 8 February 2025.

24 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts: Children

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 30044 on Individual Savings Accounts: Children, if she will change the rules on eligibility for ISAs to permit grandparents to take out ISAs for grandchildren w

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Northern Ireland: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February to Question 29416 on Investment: Northern Ireland, how much of the funding already deployed is from the private sector; and over what period he expects the total a

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Myopia: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making atropine eye drops available on the NHS for pre-myopic children.

11 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changing cash ISA's to UK-based stocks and shares ISA's on the economy.

11 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

World Bank: Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with refence to the Answer of 1 May 2024 to Question 23837 on World Bank: Climate Change, whether he expects all new financial flows to be aligned with the Paris Agreement by

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to fund a financial incentives scheme to help pregnant women to stop smoking during this Parliament.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts: Children

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will review eligibility rules to allow grandparents to take out share based ISAs for grandchildren.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of occupational and state pension payments on eligibility for Carer's Allowance.

6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

NATO: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his NATO counterparts on the potential merits of seeking financial contributions from non-NATO countries who are advantaged by their immediate proximity to NATO countries.

6 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hamas: Hostage Taking

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with funding bodies on the potential implications for their policies of reports of a recently released hostage having been held in UNRWA premises.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Investment Fund for Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland since it was established.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC Media Action: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has funded the BBC Media Action charity in each of the last five years.

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of future trends in the level of prostate cancer rates up to May 2028.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Life Sciences: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what outcomes there were through Innovate UK's Launchpad initiative in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Source: official written-questions record.