Written questions

692 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much money has been spent in overseas aid on roads in each of the last five years.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of claims have been submitted to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for (a) fatalities and (b) illnesses for Covid 19 vaccines.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has received the final post-authorisation safety study report for the BNT162b2 covid-19 vaccine.

1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primodos

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason Primodos was not within the terms of reference of the Hughes Report: options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh, published on 7 February 2024.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority case rulings with reference (a) AUTH/3815/8/23 and (b) 3886/3/24 on Moderna’s NextCOVE trial in children, if he will make an

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.7 of the minutes of the Covid-19 Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group held on 18 November 2020, if he will publish the risk-based evaluation for the Pfizer/BioNTe

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.19 of the minutes of the Covid-19 Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group held on 18 November 2020, if he will publish the communications undertaken to inform recipi

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on the number of public sector projects contracted by his Department that have had cost overruns due to mandatory net zero requirements since 5 July 2024

3 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Procurement

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many procurement contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been terminated due to non-performance.

3 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Procurement

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many procurement contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded without competitive tendering.

3 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Contracts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded to companies with offshore tax arrangements.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of public contracts awarded by his Department since 5 July 2024 have been awarded to (a) British SMEs and (b) companies based abroad.

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to increase the powers of the Child Maintenance Service to obtain accurate data on self-employed parents.

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the information on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) claim process, published by the NHS Business Services Authority, if he will publish the past tribunal decisions and cas

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of (a) how often family court proceedings are delayed on the day of the hearing and (b) the reason for those delays.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's Office press release entitled Over two million extra NHS appointments delivered early as trusts handed £40 million to go further and faster, published on 16 F

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23741 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, if he will publish (a) the questions posed to Pfizer/BioNTech and (b) the answers received that do not relat

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Tatton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many residential properties have been purchased in preparation for HS2 Phase 2b; and what proportion of these have been vacant for longer than six months in Tatton Constituency.

20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23741 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, for what reason the MHRA has temporarily withdrawn the collection of minutes from the Commission on Human Me

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

Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department provides guidance to chief executives of local authorities on attending meetings with Rt hon. and hon. Members.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22602 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, for what reason the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency does not intend to publish this info

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure biodiversity net gain is not used to override protections afforded to Local Wildlife Sites and other designated nature sites.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of planning protections afforded to Local Wildlife Sites in the in the update to the National Planning Policy Framework.

8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 3.6 of the minutes of the Covid-19 Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group held on 18 November 2020, if he will publish (a) the 36 questions posed by the Medicines and

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the transition to net zero on energy security.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential risks that the transition to net zero poses to (a) households and (b) businesses.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average wait time is for hospital patients to be provided with medications at discharge.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to make the hospital discharge process more efficient.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the efficiency of supplying medication at hospital discharge to ensure faster discharge.

13 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the (a) effectiveness of the processes put in place by HMRC to register private schools for VAT and (b) adequacy of the time taken for those schools to receive a VAT number.

Source: official written-questions record.