Written questions

3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people eligible for automatic release from prison after serving 75 per cent of their sentence were convicted of carrying a knife or blade.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of overseas aid is distributed via GiveDirectly.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the overseas aid budget is delivered in the form of direct (a) cash and (b) bank payments to individuals.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Malawi: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how overseas aid intended to alleviate climate change in Malawi is spent.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of of cancer patients have had their 3 monthly scans (a) delayed and (b) cancelled in the last 12 months.

30 May 2025 · Home Office

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps with the police to review procedures to help ensure that serving officers do not face punitive disciplinary proceedings for raising concerns about operational risks

21 May 2025 · House of Commons Commission

House of Commons: Women

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what discussions he has had with the House of Commons authorities on the use of women-only spaces in its buildings by transgender women following the Supre

20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-US trade agreement on levels of investment in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: India

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-India free trade agreement on levels of investment in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

20 May 2025 · Treasury

Infrastructure: Lincolnshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Infrastructure Strategy will support infrastructure enhancements in Lincolnshire.

20 May 2025 · Home Office

Road Traffic Offences: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to increase visible policing in areas in Lincolnshire with high rates of road traffic offences.

20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fractures: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve fracture liaison services for people aged over 50 in Lincolnshire.

20 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Pylons: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Grimsby to Walpole pylon project on (a) farm and (b) wild animals on the route.

20 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the average bus punctuality rates for Lincolnshire in each year since 2015.

20 May 2025 · Home Office

Fentanyl: Drug Seizures

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much Fentanyl by (a) volume and (b) value has been seized in the UK in the last 12 months.

19 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: South Holland and the Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in South Holland and the Deepings constituency are claiming PIP and not in work.

19 May 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding she plans to provide to schools in Lincolnshire in 2026-27.

19 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the potential cost to the public purse of proposed agreements with third countries to take failed asylum seekers from the

19 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries her Department has had discussions with on temporarily taking failed asylum seekers from the UK.

16 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the male estate prison capacity in 2028.

16 May 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to delay the implementation of changes to Inheritance Tax for farmers by 12 months.

16 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Strokes: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve stroke care in Lincolnshire.

16 May 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that people on (a) family and (b) student visas do not claim asylum when there has not been a material change in circumstances in their country of origin.

16 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve diabetes care.

16 May 2025 · Department for Education

Grammar Schools: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to support grammar schools in Lincolnshire.

14 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who applied to register a non-GB driving licence were rejected in each of the last three years.

14 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people exchanged a non-GB driving licence for a valid UK licence in each of the last three years.

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed 10-year pathway to settlement on people nearing their five-year eligibility.

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the proposed 10-year pathway to settlement will apply retrospectively to migrants already legally residing in the UK.

14 May 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Age

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which scientific methods will be used to strengthen the age verification process of asylum applicants.

Source: official written-questions record.