Written questions

6,533 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken with relevant authorities to improve safeguarding policies in state primary schools.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken with relevant authorities to improve safeguarding policies in state secondary schools.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce instances of peer-on-peer physical violence in state secondary schools.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Secondary Education: Vocational Guidance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the (a) availability and (b) quality of careers advice in secondary schools.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce youth unemployment.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Mould

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken with (a) headteachers, (b) local authorities to reduce (a) mould and (b) damp in educational buildings.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving under Influence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to lower the drink drive limit in England.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Instruction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to mandate a defined minimum learning period before learner drivers can take their test.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Instruction: Motorways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to mandate that learner drivers have practiced driving on motorways prior to taking a driving test.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving under Influence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to work with relevant authorities to reduce drug or alcohol linked fatalities on roads in (a) England and (b) Romford constituency.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to work with relevant authorities to improve the safety of domestic air travel.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to work with the devolved Administrations to increase transport connectivity between the four Home Nations.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to work with relevant authorities to reduce fatalities involving young drivers in (a) England and (b) Romford constituency.

9 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of the decrease in tobacco duty as set out in HMRC's annual tax receipts bulletin with the ONS smoking prevalence data in (a) 2023 to 2024 and (b) 2024-2025.

4 Jun 2025 · Church Commissioners

Additional Curates Society: Finance

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Commissioners have received reports of financial impropriety at the Additional Curates Society.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made towards Smokefree 2030.

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of (a) HMRC tobacco duty receipts with (b) ONS smoking prevalence data in (i) 2023-2024 and (ii) 2024-2025

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to re-issue guidance to local authorities on requests from owners who have exempted their XL Bully dogs to keep their pets in social housing.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena has a Public Service Commission to advise the Governor when making appointments to the public service.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Bank Services and Financial Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to provide (a) financial and (b) technical support to enable the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena to deliver (i) financial and (

21 May 2025 · Department for Transport

London North Eastern Railway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) she and (b) officials in her Department had discussions with LNER on the (i) commissioning and (ii) publication of the report entitled “Impact of Open Access Operations on LNER – at stations with di

21 May 2025 · Department for Transport

London North Eastern Railway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much LNER paid for the report commissioned from Jacobs consultancy entitled Impact of Open Access Operations on LNER – at stations with direct LNER services, published on 10 April 2025.

20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Governor of Saint Helena decides which positions in the police service are filled by Technical Cooperation Officers.

20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2025 to Question 49725 on Saint Helena: Public Finance, what initiatives other than the Tourism Development Fund his Department supports to im

20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2025 to Question 49901 on Saint Helena: Aviation, whether the weather causing delayed flights includes wind shear; and whether this was ident

20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Helena: Police

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2025 to Question 49724 on Saint Helena: Police, whether the national average salary for locally recruited police constables includes the salar

16 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 22583 on Government Departments: Procurement, what further discussions he has had with the Institution of Civil Engineers on releasing a new edition of the C

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many regularisation of unauthorised building work applications the Building Safety Regulator rejected in each month between October 2023 and April 2025 under regulation 47 pa

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many regularisation of unauthorised building work applications the Building Safety Regulator approved in each month between October 2023 and April 2025 under regulation 47 pa

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many regularisation of unauthorised building work applications received by the Building Safety Regulator were withdrawn at the applicant’s request in each month between Octob

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