Written questions

Priti Patel

1,155 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will respond to the results of the survey conducted by the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee on Chagossian views on the UK-Mauritius Treaty.

6 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Civil-Military Coordination Center

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has met with representatives of the Civil Military Coordination Center in Israel.

6 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestine: Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the level of payments made by the Palestinian Authority under 'pay for slay' schemes.

6 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hamas: Arms Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps she is taking to help secure the disarming of Hamas in Gaza.

6 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Hamas

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with international counterparts on the extent of the tunnel network in Gaza used by Hamas; and what support she is providing to help disma

6 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Income Tax: Essex

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of additional people in (a) Witham constituency and (b) Essex who will be earning incomes that will be taxed by surpassing (i) the income tax threshold; and (ii) the higher r

6 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Income Tax: Essex

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the total income tax receipts from income taxpayers in (a) Witham constituency and (b) Essex in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the next five financial years; and the ad

6 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Business Rates: Essex

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the amount of business rates to be paid on hereditaments located in (a) Witham constituency and (b) Essex, in (i) 2025/26 and (ii) 2026/27; and the amount of business rates to be paid b

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Greater Anglia: Income and Passengers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of passenger numbers on Greater Anglia Services in each of the next five years; and what her estimate is of income from fare revenues on Greater Anglia Services in each of the next fi

6 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Centres: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding he is making available to fund neighbourhood health centres in (a) the Witham constituency and (b) Essex, in each of the next ten years.

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Schools: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional costs incurred by (a) each school in the Witham constituency and (b) across Essex, as a result of the increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions in (i)

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Free Schools: Witham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 on Free Schools: Witham, UIN 101355, if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) details and (b) scoring of each school project evaluated; and if she will publish the evi

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagossian Trust Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 December 2025 on Chagossians and the Diego Garcia Base Treaty, HCWS1166, which British Chagossian associations will

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagossians: British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether British Chagossians will be required to hold Mauritian citizenship to be eligible for resettlement.

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has held direct discussions with representatives from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Civil-Military Coordination Center

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has held direct discussions with (a) General Frank, (b) British representatives and (c) representatives from other countries at the Civil Military Coordination Ce

18 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of trucks of aid entering Gaza since the establishment of the Civil Military Coordination Center from (a) the UN and (b) o

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what capital funding he has made available for (a) neighbourhood health services as part of the Ten Year Plan and (b) health and primary care facilities in (i) Witham constituency and (ii) Essex in

18 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Free Schools: Witham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what evidential basis she has indicated that she is minded to cancel the Department's support for the development of the proposed Lodge Farm Primary School, Witham; and what assessment she has made of the po

10 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Great Eastern Main Line: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the (a) number and (b) total value of fare evasion incidents on Greater Anglia services in the latest period for which data is available.

10 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

A12: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the changes in costs for the A12 widening scheme following the decision taken by the Secretary of State to pause that scheme in July 2024.

10 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

A120: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has asked National Highways to update its business case for the A120 dualling scheme.

10 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Essex

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of hereditaments in Essex, broken down by local authority area; and how many have had their rateable values (a) increase and (b) decrease as a result of the latest revaluat

10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Business Rates: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the total estimated yield in non-national domestic rates from commercial properties in each district in Essex in 2025-26 and 2026-27, broken down b