Written questions

670 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Southern Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her planned timetable is for (a) reviewing and (b) publishing her assessment of Southern Water’s Water Resources Management Plan 24.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of working with comparator countries to understand causal factors in trends of mental health disorders in children and young people.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the trend of mental health disorders in children and young people in England in relation to the trend in poor mental health in adults.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the trends of mental health disorders in children and young people in England compared to other comparator countries.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and Responsible Technology Adoption Unit: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many full time equivalent staff there were at each grade (a) in the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation at the end of the 2022-23 financial year, (b) in the Responsible Technology

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and Responsible Technology Adoption Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the differences are in the (a) remit and (b) functions of the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit and its predecessor body the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which functions of the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit have transferred to (a) the Government Digital Service, (b) other parts of his Department and (c) any other government depart

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Hampshire and Isle of Wight

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of pharmacy provision in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight area.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of claimants who receive payments (a) monthly, (b) weekly, (c) fortnightly and (d) at any other frequency for each benefit administered by his Depa

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Agency Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total staff remuneration through bank staff arrangements paid otherwise than through NHS Professionals Bank staff contracts in the last 12 months.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the average number of patients typically cared for per nurse for stepdown care for patients in (a) Pathway 1 - home care and (b) Pathway 2 - community hospital

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of seasonality patterns in the numbers of people leaving hospital on (a) discharge pathway 0 (b) discharge pathway 1 (c) discharge pathway 2 and (d) discharge pathway 3

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Hospitals: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the seasonality of demand patterns for community hospital beds for elderly people in the last three years.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average cost per night of care (a) in an acute hospital, (b) in a community hospital and (c) at home with visiting nursing support (i) for NHS England, (ii) in the

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of incidence of hospital-acquired deconditioning among elderly patients in (a) acute hospitals and (b) community hospitals.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Seasonal Workers: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of varying the reference period for the guaranteed-hours provisions in the Employment Rights Bill for sectors with particularly high degrees of sea

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Professionals: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total staff remuneration paid through NHS Professionals Bank staff contracts in the last 12 months.

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the guaranteed-hours provisions in the Employment Rights Bill on (a) levels of self-employment (b) the ratio of fixed-term contracts to permanent co

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS Pensions on the increase in the length of processing time when pensioners are able to start receiving their award.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the number of cohorts has been reduced in the Future High Potential Initial Teacher Training Programme contract.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the indicative total contract value for the Future High Potential Initial Teacher Training Programme contract has reduced from £150 million in April 2025 to £89 million in September 2025.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

CityFibre: East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when CityFibre will install fibre to in-scope postcodes in East Hampshire constituency; and whether this has been delayed.

3 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

CityFibre: East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which postcodes are in scope in the Hampshire CityFibre contract in East Hampshire constituency.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Answer of 16 July 2025 to Question 66144 on Mental Health: Children and Young People, in designing future waves of the Mental Health: Children and Young People statistics coll

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

National Security Online Information Team

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what are the key differences between the National Security Online Information Team and its predecessor, the Counter-Disinformation Unit.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Online Safety Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what is the proposed timetable for the Post Implementation Review of the Online Safety Act.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the average waiting times were for discharge pathways (a) 0, (b) 1, (c) 2 and (d) 3 in (i) England, (ii) Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ICB area and (iii)

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in each Integrated Care Board area, (a) what the resident population is and (b) how many full-time equivalent clinical staff are employed in (i) community hospital in-patient care and (ii) home-bas

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the ratio of community hospital beds to acute hospital beds is in (a) England (b) Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and (c) the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust area.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department issues guidance on a target ratio of step-down beds to acute beds in an acute hospital’s catchment area.

Source: official written-questions record.