Written questions

2,222 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) social enterprises and (b) cooperatives providing (i) NHS and (ii) social care services.

11 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Northwick Park Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of Northwick Park Hospital on cancer in the last five years.

11 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will encourage local authorities to set aside land for (a) community land trusts and (b) housing cooperatives.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Cooperatives

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she made of the potential impact of agricultural cooperatives on the rural economy.

11 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Cooperatives

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the Law Commission’s proposals on reforming cooperative law.

10 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Credit Unions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the number of credit unions there are with more than (a) 500,000, (b) one million and (c) two million members.

10 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Credit Unions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a central finance facility for credit unions.

21 May 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Detainees

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, with reference to the Answer of 24 December 2018 to Question 203351 on British Nationals Abroad: Detainees, how many referrals have been made to the pro bono legal panel in each of the last 12 months.

17 Apr 2024 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU: Exports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with her relevant EU counterparts on the potential impact of the European Commission’s customs reform proposal of 17 May 2023 on exporters.

17 Apr 2024 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic impact of the European Commission’s proposals on EU customs reform of 17 May 2023 on Northern Ireland, in the context of the Windsor Framework.

17 Apr 2024 · Treasury

UK Trade with EU: Exports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential economic impact of the European Commission’s customs reform proposals of 17 May 2023 on exporters to the EU.

17 Apr 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when people whose cases had been on hold as part of the Review of applications by Tier 1 (General) migrants refused under paragraph 322(5) of the Immigration Rules and where time spent in the UK as su

17 Apr 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the applications from Tier 1 (General) migrants which were refused under paragraph 322(5) that were subject to review have been decided following the completion of the

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Chambers of Commerce: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department allocated to the (a) Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce, (b) British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, (c) British Chamber of Commerce in Brazil

23 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 31 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Harrow West on the funding of the Inter Faith Network.

22 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Friendly Societies Act 1992

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Commissioners have been appointed for the Law Commission Review of the Friendly Societies Act 1992; and what the planned timetable is for that review .

8 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Tractors: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she will make an assessment of the potential impact of tariffs on battery electric truck tractors on net zero targets.

5 Feb 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Import Duties: South America

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Appendix 1, Section B, Subsection 1, A, 2 of the Annex Modifications to Annex 1 to the UK-Andean Trade Agreement, signed in Quito on 15 May 2019, CP 122, what the (a) timing and (b) p

5 Feb 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of how many schools who have incurred a financial cost to manage asbestos on their premises in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Medical Council and Health and Care Professions Council: Charter for Families Bereaved through Public Tragedy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with the (a) General Medical Council and (b) Health and Care Professions Council on signing the Hillsborough Charter.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Charter for Families Bereaved through Public Tragedy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether organisations within the NHS are required to sign the Hillsborough Charter.

5 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Charter for Families Bereaved through Public Tragedy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public bodies have signed the Hillsborough Charter.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Postal Services: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the number of prosecutions involving potential Printed Postage Impressions fraud in the last 15 years; and what estimate she has made of the number of cases alleging wrong

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Postal Services: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department had discussions with the Royal Mail on the Printed Postage Impressions system prior to 2013.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Tractors: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answers of 14 and 18 December 2023 to Questions 6067, 6068 and 6383 and the Answer of 10 January 2024 to Question 7471 on Tractors: Batteries, if she will make an assessment of the pote

17 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade during the debate on UK Export Performance of 18 September 2023, Official Report, column 120

15 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

British Shipbuilders: Pension Funds

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people who paid into the British Shipbuilders pension fund were not receiving pension payments on 15 January 2024.

19 Dec 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Tractors: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answers of 14 and 18 December 2023 to Questions 6067, 6068 and 6383 on Tractors: Batteries, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of maintaining rules of origin import ta

14 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Religious Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data his Department holds on the number of people with a temporary work religious worker visa who overstayed their visa in each of the last three years.

14 Dec 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Religious Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in his Department are involved in processing applications for temporary work religious worker visas as of 14 December 2023.

Source: official written-questions record.