Written questions

3,630 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Pylons: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Households near new pylons to save hundreds on energy bills, published on 10 March 2025, whether the Grimsby to Walpole Grid Upgrade

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of trends in the levels of academic attainment from children in schools that (a) have and (b) have not banned smartphones in the last 12 months.

21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Lincolnshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support young people to get onto the housing ladder in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps she has taken to raise awareness of apprenticeships in (a) rural and (b) remote areas.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Project Gigabit: South Holland and the Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his department has made on the rollout of Project Gigabit in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes have been made to the government’s assessment of future skills needs following the announcement on February 25 that defence spending would increase to 2.6% of GDP by 2027.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether training in the workplace will be a condition of support under the growth and skills levy.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, following the abolition of NHS England, where ultimate commissioning accountability will sit for (a) Cystic Fibrosis and (b) other specialised NHS services.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Regulator of Community Interest Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.

21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British Army full-time personnel (a) retired and (b) left the profession for other reasons in each of the last ten years.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the growth and skills levy will be reserved for apprenticeship training.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used to determine how the new growth and skills levy may be spent; and whether a criteria will be published.

18 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Handguns

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent blank guns being converted to weapons which can fire live rounds.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industrial Strategy Council: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria he used to appoint members of the Industrial Strategy Council.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industrial Strategy Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Industrial Strategy Council has met.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Skills England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for establishing Skills England on a statutory basis.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sausages: Origin Marking

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting protected geographical status for Lincolnshire sausages.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was raised by fines from the clandestine entrant civil penalty scheme in the last ten years.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were fined under the clandestine entrant civil penalty scheme in each of the last ten years.

17 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cryptoassets: Proceeds of Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cryptoassets were seized from criminals in the last year.

17 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.

17 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Cryptocurrencies: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the amount of money lost by people in the UK to cryptocurrency fraud since 2019.

17 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Cryptocurrencies: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to tackle cryptocurrency fraud.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Road Traffic Act 1988 to require drivers to stop and report accidents involving cats.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ban the use of DeepSeek by her Department.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve care pathways for young people with ADHD in Lincolnshire.

14 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.

14 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has banned the use of DeepSeek.

14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on savings to the public purse.

Source: official written-questions record.