Written questions
9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using Functional Electrical Stimulation devices to support people with Parkinson's disease.
1 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability: Further Education and Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support young disabled people into further (a) training and (b) education.
1 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Disability: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help reduce inequalities for young disabled people in the labour market.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cholera
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many confirmed cases of cholera there have been in the UK in the last 10 years.
1 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nigeria: Humanitarian Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Nigeria.
1 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the annual cost of fraud to the economy; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of that cost on departmental funding decisions.
1 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Fraud: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the effectiveness of fraud (a) prevention and (b) detection by public sector bodies.
1 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Companies House
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what resources he is providing to Companies House to (a) detect and (b) prevent the use of fraudulent corporate structures for criminal activity.
1 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Economic Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase (a) funding and (b) staffing for public agencies responsible for investigating (i) fraud and (ii) economic crime.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Benefits Rules: Supported Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of benefit rules on the risk of supported housing residents who increase their working hours being in rent arrears.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Drugs: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of harm reduction policies on levels of drug-related crime.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Civil Society
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to build partnerships with (a) charities, (b) community organisations and (c) people with lived experience of cancer.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework to help pharmacists deliver on their expanded roles under the 10-Year Health Plan.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the expanded Independent Prescribing and clinical services granted to community pharmacists in the 10-year health plan will be funded.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan will be published; and what support he plans to provide to the community pharmacy workforce to deliver this plan.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gastrointestinal System: Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) increase clinical and public awareness of small bacterial overgrowth symptoms and (b) ensure that patients with digestive problems receive the proper diagnosis and tr
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Glaucoma: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) improve early diagnosis of glaucoma and (b) monitoring of deterioration of the condition in patients.
22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Houthis: Red Sea
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help improve the protection of cargo ships in the Red Sea from Houthi missile and drone attacks.
22 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Job Creation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase job creation in the UK.
21 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Turki al-Jasser
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Saudi counterpart on the case of Turki al-Jasser.
21 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Saudi Arabia: Detainees and Travel Restrictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made recent representations to his counterpart in Saudi Arabia on (a) releasing people detained and (b) lifting travel bans imposed on people for participating
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that the upcoming national cancer plan prioritises improving (a) patient experience and (b) quality of life.
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Illnesses: Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what step his Department plans to take to build neighbourhood health services in partnership with (a) Macmillan and (b) other charities that have experience in (i) designing and (ii) delivering com
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to integrate the 10 Year Health Plan for England with the upcoming national cancer plan.
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neighbourhood Health Centres: Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that work undertaken by community pharmacists is not unnecessarily duplicated in neighbourhood health centres.
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Phlebotomy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide community pharmacists full access to phlebotomy pathways to help enable them to deliver their expanded roles as outlined in the 10 Year Health Plan for England.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport
Southend Airport: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's polices on air travel safety of the plane crash at Southend airport in July 2025.
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Measles: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for trends in the number of reported cases of measles in children; and what advice his Department has provided to parents whose children contr
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring NHS England to establish an agreement in principle with pharmaceutical companies that commercial flexibility may be granted for a
21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Diseases: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS commercial framework for new medicines, updated on 29 January 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the requirement to provide value at or below the
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