Written questions

333 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions: Consumer Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the guidance entitled Pensions dashboards: guidance on connection: the staged timetable, published 25 March 2024, if she will set out a revised timeline for making the connection of oc

29 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the press notice entitled Pension reforms to go further to unlock billions to drive growth and boost working peoples’ pension pots, published on 28 January 2025, what estimate she has made of the p

29 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Digital Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the expected timeframe is for the publication of the final report by the Digitisation Taskforce.

29 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Fiscal Policy: Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Bank of England on encouraging economic growth in relation to its consultation entitled Amendments to the Bank of England’s approach to setting a minimum requirement for own fun

17 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Sanctions: Russia

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation into breaches of Russian sanctions (a) are open and (b) have been undertaken since February 2022.

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Digital Assets: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has had discussions with the Financial Conduct Authority on regulation of digital assets.

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Digital Assets: Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to promote the UK as a place for international investment in digital assets.

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Bus Lanes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's Motorcycles in bus lanes consultation outcome, updated on 21 November 2024, what account her Department took of the outcomes of local authority trials allowing motorcycle acce

20 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Financial Services: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to increase access to EU markets for UK collective Investment in transferable securities schemes; and what steps her Department is taking to help promote UK funds given their clas

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many purchases with a value of less than £500 were made by his Department using an electronic purchasing card solution in October 2024, what the value was of those purchases; and if he wi

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the data on Departmental spending over £500 with an electronic purchasing card solution, when he plans to publish this data for (a) October and (b) November 2024.

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Climate Change Convention

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many gifts were received by Ministers in his Department for travel to COP conferences in the last 12 months.

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many officials in his Department work full-time on COP summits.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Pylons

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with the National Energy System Operator on pylon presumption.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an estimate of the number of unfinanced energy projects in the queue to be connected to the power grid.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

National Energy System Operator: Facsimile Transmission

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many fax machines are in use by the National Energy System Operator; and whether his Department plans to provide funding to digitalise the energy grid.

30 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Fusion: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to paragraph 3.71 of Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, how much funding will be available for fusion energy research in the 2025-26 financial year.

30 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Offshore Industry: North Sea

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the investment allowance on the amount of (a) oil and (b) gas extracted from the North Sea in the next five years.

30 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Great British Energy: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of GB Energy staff will be based at its headquarters in Aberdeen.

29 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Radioactive Waste

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the use of deep boreholes as an alternative to the Geological Disposal Facility for nuclear waste.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that plans to achieve a net zero power grid by 2030 include the development of technologies such as nuclear power requiring (a) longer lead times and (b) sig

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential supply chain barriers to achieving net zero by 2030.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the full system costs of (a) investments in renewable energy, (b) grid infrastructure upgrades, (c) energy storage solutions and (d) other costs associated with a

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Wetlands: Worcester

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to restore the condition of groundwater-dependent wetlands to achieve Local Nature Recovery Targets in Worcester.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Abstraction

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with Severn Water on reviewing the condition of the aquifers it abstracts water from.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the National Energy System Operator’s reforms to the grid connections process on investment in the UK renewables sector.

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the National Energy System Operator’s proposals to prioritise energy projects that are ready and aligned with Clean Power 20

28 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the risk of legal challenge associated with the National Energy System Operator’s proposals to prioritise energy projects in the queue that ar

9 Oct 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

St Lucia: Passports

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what reports his Department has received on the alleged misappropriation of funds through the sale of passports to foreign investors by members of the St Lucian government; a

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Company Obligation: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to retain the social housing obligation in future iterations of the Energy Company Obligation scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.