Written questions
322 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish the Farming Profitability Review.
14 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of all the instances between 4 July 2024 and 14 October 2025 when 100 or more migrants have crossed the Channel in a single small boat, including (a) the date of the crossin
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of enforcement powers available to local authorities in respect of developers who fail to comply with planning conditions
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Roads: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will issue guidance on the steps steps a local authority can take to compel a developer to comply with the conditions of their original planning consent relatin
16 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Spring Statement 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the funding of the Farming and Countryside Programme on the net number of
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what annual percentage increases in healthcare demand is the 10 Year Heath Plan based.
16 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 33002 on Asylum: Finance, how many top-up payments have been made to Asylum Support Enablement Cards since 4 July 2024, broken down by week.
19 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pollution Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency is taking steps to (a) control and (b) report on the potential risk of toxic contamination from the use of (i) recycled Energy Recovery Facilities incine
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Meadowgate Academy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available from her Department for repairs to the heating system at Meadowgate Academy.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) filled and (b) unfilled full-time equivalent roles there were in each of the NHS regional teams in (i) 2023-24, (ii) 2024-25 and (iii) 2025-26.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospital Beds: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to discontinue the electronic Bed and Capacity Management Systems initiative on (a) A&E waits and (b) patient transfers.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the expected in-year cost of redundancy payments in (a) DHSC and (b) NHS England is in (i) 2025-26, (ii) 2026-27 and (iii) 2027-28.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue further guidance to the NHS organisations on ending the recruitment of dedicated equality, diversity and inclusion staff.
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Motor Neurone Disease: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2025 to Question 48901 on Motor Neurone Disease: Research, by what date he expects the total allocated to motor neurone disease research since the start of 2022-23
30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Reservoirs: Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timeline for for the proposed Fens Reservoir is for the (a) submission of a development consent order application to the Planning Inspectorate, (b) final decision on t
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to new innovations for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) diagnostic equipment and (b) other services for inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle inequalities in (a) waiting times and (b) access to treatment for cardiovascular disease patients in East England.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure there is adequate infrastructure to offer access to treatment for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in the East of England.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in East England are currently awaiting treatment for inherited cardiac conditions; and if he will make a comparative estimate of the length of waiting times with the rest of the UK.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Out of Area Treatment: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who do not meet the criteria to reside were inpatients in (a) Hinchingbrooke Hospital, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn and (c) Peterborough City Hospital on 21 April 2025.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Virtual Wards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date he expects the NHS to have a virtual ward capacity of 40 beds per 100,000 people.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Motor Neurone Disease: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for motor neurone disease research in 2025.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Career Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help improve the career progression of (a) nurses from Agenda for Change Band Five to Band Six and (b) other nurses in the context of plans not to introdu
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the impact of providing a one per cent increase in pay to all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts in the 2025-26 financial year on (a) total costs, (b) pension c
17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
County Councils: Debts
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what national formula will be applied in calculating national distribution of the debt from county councils that are disbanded; and by what date that will be published.
8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Internal Drainage Boards: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to explore alternative funding models of Internal Drainage Boards.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Internal Drainage Boards: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 5 February 2025, HCWS417 on the Flood Investment Announcement, whether he plans to provide additional support to local authorities impa
7 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Deportation: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 14 February 2025 to Question 30619 on Deportation and (b) 25 February 2025 to Question 33426, how many appeals against deportation orders have sought to rely on rights un
5 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Meadowgate Academy: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish her Department's advice issued to Cambridgeshire County Council in relation to plans to expand the number of places at Meadowgate Academy in Wisbech.
Source: official written-questions record.