Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and his counterparts in Northern Ireland on the closure of major post offices and how this impacts unemployment across the

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Education: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more young men into education.

25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the rising legal costs of clinical negligence.

25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to update healthcare professional regulation.

24 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nepal: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with international partners on the violent crackdown on protestors in Nepal.

24 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps are being taken to improve housing provision for ex servicemen personnel.

24 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Consumers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in National Insurance contributions on costs to consumers.

24 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Investment and Pension Funds: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to require large investors and pension funds to publish net zero transition plans.

24 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Opening Hours

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration has been given to extending customer service opening hours for HMRC.

24 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pensioners: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps are being taken to promote social inclusion for pensioners in rural areas.

24 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Mothers: Homicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to help reduce instances of matricide.

24 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Internet: Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to ensure police officers are trained to identify and help tackle instances of online abuse.

24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve workplace catering and break facilities for healthcare workers.

19 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Deaths

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths in hospital.

19 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce regional inequalities in the (a) access to and (b) quality of palliative and end of life care.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP appointments are offered in England each week.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mesothelioma: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are currently being treated for Mesothelioma.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many diagnoses have been made for diabetes so far in 2025.

18 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are being taken to ensure reports of domestic abuse are taken seriously and not missed by the system.

18 Nov 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Airports: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Windsor Framework on local airports.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she expects HMRC to bring processing times for A1 forms back within service standards.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance: Overseas Workers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) online and (b) postal CA8421 certificate applications are currently overdue for processing and how long the backlog for applicants is for each.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) online and (b) postal A1 form applications are currently overdue for processing and how long the backlog for applicants is for each.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is meeting its service standards for the processing and issuing of A1 forms.

18 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Forced Labour

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her Pakistani counterparts on the ongoing bonded labour of religious minorities in brick kilns.

18 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Falun Gong

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of reports concerning ongoing forced organ harvesting of the Falun Gong in China; and what steps the Government is taking to ensure the cessation

18 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Political Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in China on ensuring that opposition candidates are not (a) unfairly imprisoned and (b) at risk of violence.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help tackle rising food costs.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ban the use of smart phones in schools.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been admitted to hospital for self injecting botox in the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.