Written questions

1,113 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Road Traffic Offences: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how lessons from serious and fatal road traffic collisions are incorporated into national road safety policy.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level the risk of road traffic collisions involving young drivers.

12 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department provide to people affected by fatal road traffic collisions.

12 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support police forces in reducing serious and fatal road traffic collisions.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Roads: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding was allocated to Greater Manchester under national road safety funding schemes in each of the last three years.

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements: South Bolton and Walkden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for joint replacement surgery in South Bolton and Walkden constituency.

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Neighbourhood Health Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of proposed neighbourhood health centres being able to (a) improve musculoskeletal health and (b) treat musculoskeletal health issues

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgical Hubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expedite the roll-out of surgical hubs.

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rheumatology: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is his Department taking to ensure people with suspected autoimmune or inflammatory conditions are referred to rheumatology services within 3 weeks.

28 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Honours: Forfeiture

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to help reduce the (a) number of steps required and (b) time taken to remove (i) honours and (ii) titles.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Merchant Shipping: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions ships' captains were given a direction under the Marine Safety Act 2003 between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2024; and if she will list the (a) date, (b) ship and (c) nature of each dire

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle littering.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Omed Baroshki and Sherwan Sherwani

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the authorities in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq on the cases of (a) Sherwan Sherwani and (b) Omed Baroshki.

11 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Mobile Phones

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of emergency alerts being displayed in the language that the recipient's phone is set to.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Shellfish: Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to amend the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to include decapod crustaceans.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2025 to Question 51054 on Teachers: Workplace Pensions, what progress has been made on reducing the number of teachers waiting for compensation since 30 May 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how she defines mainly by retail in Clause 15 of the Crime and Policing Bill.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Bureaux de Change

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends the offence of assaulting a shop worker to apply to people working in a bureau de change.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 on the (a) stress and (b) injury chances of farmed chickens and t

29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Overseas Territories: Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that all British Overseas Territories have implemented publicly accessible registers for beneficial ownership before the end of the year.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending Northern Ireland’s rules for new drivers to all new drivers across the UK.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Clothing: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a fashion watchdog to help tackle exploitation in the supply chains of clothing manufacturers.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average increase in the cost of running a dental practice in the last 12 months.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding allocated for the NHS in the Spending Review 2025 will be allocated for dental provision in each of the next five years.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Environment Protection and Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Business Human Rights and Environment Bill.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Personal Independence Payment assessments make an adequate assessment of claimants’ (a) physical symptoms and (b) medical evidence and (c) other s

9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Emergency Calls

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make purposely delaying calling emergency services during a medical emergency a crime.

3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement HCWS652 of 22 May 2025, what assessment he has made of adequacy of the Advertising Standards Authority to perform the role of frontline regulator for the upc

3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement UIN HCWS652 of 22 May 2025, what his planned timeline is for regulations on the advertising of HFSS food and drink products.

22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NT-proBNP testing is implemented in Community Diagnostic Centres.

Source: official written-questions record.