Written questions

3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Home Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

17 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

16 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

16 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

16 Mar 2026 · Treasury

Treasury: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much her Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

16 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on special severance payments in each of the last three years.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuel Oil: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) households and (a) businesses reliant on heating oil in Lincolnshire.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Birds: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect seabirds from offshore energy infrastructure.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: South Holland and the Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in South Holland and the Deepings constituency are in receipt of Pension Credit.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Manufacturing Industries: East Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to promote the manufacturing sector in (1) Lincolnshire and (2) the East Midlands.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hares: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help protect hare populations in Lincolnshire.

12 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

12 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

12 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of serving police officers by nationality for each of the last ten years.

12 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged 17 have applied to join the police in each of the last ten years.

12 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Disabled Facilities Grants: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households in Lincolnshire were successful in applications from the Disabled Facilities Grant in each of the last three years.

12 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Wheelchairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients released from hospital who need a wheelchair get one as soon as possible.

12 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of specialist Parkinson's nurses working in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Research: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much Innovate UK funding has been awarded to organisations based in Lincolnshire in each of the last three financial years.

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has held discussions with the Home Office on the increased use of Virtual Private Networks by criminals following the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2023.

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Libraries: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have (1) closed and (2) opened in Lincolnshire in each of the last ten years.

11 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Legal Systems: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s report entitled The independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales of February 2018, if she will take steps to conduct an assessment into

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether any civil servants hired by his Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

10 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Marriage: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of how many unregistered Islamic marriages there have been in the UK in each of the last ten years.

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Forced Marriage: Islam

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that forced marriages do not take place in Sharia councils in the UK.

10 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regarding trials of puberty blockers.

10 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Puberty Suppressing Hormones: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to block NHS-backed trials of puberty blockers in gender questioning children.

Source: official written-questions record.