Written questions

Esther McVey

692 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 32918 on Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax, if she will publish the full modelling her Department has carried out on that issue.

22 May 2025 · Home Office

Non-crime Hate Incidents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of abolishing non-crime hate incidents.

21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in response to the Rt hon. Member for Tatton at Health Questions on 6 May 2025, when

20 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Knutsford Town Council: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant of the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 45609 on Knutsford Town Council: Finance, how much of this grant was received by Knutsford Town Council.

20 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Knutsford Town Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding was awarded to Knutsford Town Council via the Shared Prosperity Fund.

20 May 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications Cables: Copper

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what investigations his Department has carried out on the condition of copper telecommunications cabling in rural areas.

20 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times were drugs were found in (a) men's and (b) women's prisons in each year between 2015 and 2024.

20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total expenditure by his Department is on overseas (a) road repairs, (b) waterways, (c) bridges, (d) highways and (e) canals in each of the last five years.

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 35647 on Coronavirus: Research, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority ca

16 May 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the penalty is for foreign national offenders who breach the conditions of their tag.

16 May 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders have breached the conditions of their tag in each of the last five years.

16 May 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders have been tagged in each of the last five years.

13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increase in National Insurance Contributions on the (a) financial viability and (b) capacity of the third sector in the health sector.

13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Mind

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings the Minister for Mental Health has had with the Chief Executive of Mind since her appointment; and what the dates were of those meetings.

13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings the Minister for Mental Health has had with external bodies since her appointment.

13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of government health expenditure that will be spent on mental health in each year of this parliament.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Cheshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fingerprints, (b) photos and (c) DNA samples have been collected from illegal immigrants housed in Cheshire in each of the last five years.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Identification of Criminals: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fingerprints, (b) photos and (c) DNA samples have been collected from illegal immigrants arriving in the UK in each of the last five years.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Electronic Tagging

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses to determine which illegal immigrants will be tagged.

6 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to UKHSA FOI Request Ref: 617 H5 Influenza Vaccine, whether one tender response was received; and what steps he has taken to encourage more responses.

6 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to FOI2025/00320, for what reason the Adjuvanted Zoonotic Influenza Vaccine was authorised via UK Regulation 56.

30 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

HMP/YOI Styal: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug incidents were recorded in HMP/YOI Styal in each of the last five years.