Written questions

988 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Cost of Living: Low Incomes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support (a) low and (b) middle-income households with the cost of living.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Interest

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of widening the definition of a public interest entity in the context of (a) BHS, (b) Bulb and (c) ISG.

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Employment and Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help (a) people seeking asylum and (b) refugees to (i) develop their skills and (ii) increase their employability.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority the statutory power to sanction all company directors.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Sector: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential (a) costs and (b) merits of making internal audit functions a mandatory requirement for all contractors delivering public sector infrastructure projects.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Audit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to require the largest (a) public and (b) private companies to have (i) an Audit Committee and (ii) an internal audit function, in the context of the collapse of ISG.

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Economic Policy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role a) climate and b) nature experts perform in the creation of economic policy in her Department.

10 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Minority Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recent reports of attacks on Alawite communities in Syria.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Galileo System

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of rejoining the Galileo scheme.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines: Repayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of standardising reimbursement for all types of home dialysis.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Kidney Care UK entitled Left Out in the Cold, published on 30 March 2023; and if he will take steps

25 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Oral Statement from the Minister for Development of 28 January 2025 on Gaza: Humanitarian Situation, Official Report, Column 185, what recent assessment

21 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Visas: EU Countries

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to hold discussions with the EU on enabling UK citizens to extend their stay in the Schengen Area for more than 90 days in a 180 day period; and if he has made an assessment of the p

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurofibromatosis: Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase awareness among women with Neurofibromatosis type 1 that they are entitled to breast screening from the age of 40; and whether he has made an assessment of the pot

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurofibromatosis: Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to ensure that women with Neurofibromatosis type 1 are informed of their increased risk of breast cancer at an early age.

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Repossession Orders: Tyne and Wear

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many households received a possession proceedings order after receiving a Section 21 notice in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne and (b) North Tyneside in 2024; and what proportion of those households had to pay court

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Arrears

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving people who have missed a single council tax payment more than seven days to pay before the remaining annual s

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Debt Collection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the level of reasonable costs that local authorities can recover when issuing a liability order for council tax arrears.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her policy that only charities accredited by the Gambling Commission will be eligible for funding under the statutory levy for gambling research, prevention and treatment of gamblin

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Carers: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timeline is for the review of the implementation of unpaid carer's leave.

3 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Special Constables: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of special constables.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Sector: Holiday Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will review the list of people granted the right to take time off work to perform public duties under section 50 of the Employment Right Act 1996.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people on home dialysis who do not receive reimbursement of the energy costs of that dialysis; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to ensure a minimum of 20% of dialysis patients in renal centres receive home dialysis.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of patients receiving dialysis at home.

27 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Elizabeth Tsurkov

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov.

27 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Elizabeth Tsurkov

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Iraqi counterpart on the case of Elizabeth Tsurkov.

23 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Habiba Al Askari

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to (a) humanitarian organisations and (b) his Israeli counterpart on the expedition of Habiba Al Askari's medical evacuation from Gaza.

23 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his (a) Egyptian and (b) Israeli counterparts about the expedition of exit permits for Gazans seeking urgent medical evacuations.

21 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Disposable Income: Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase Real Household Disposable Income per person in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend constituency.

Source: official written-questions record.