Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tinnitus: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are on a waiting list for treatment for Tinnitus.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to encourage people on long-term sickness back to work.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to recruit more bus drivers.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on funding bowel cancer research.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Banks: Closures

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many bank closures there were in 2024.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on innovation in nuclear technology.

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts his Department plans to provide to businesses in each of the devolved regions.

5 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Public Transport: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many assaults on transport staff there have been in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuel Oil: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on enabling oil fuelled heating homes in Northern Ireland to transition to gas.

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the level of uptake of the flu vaccine in (a) 2024 and (b) the last five years for which data is available.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of the uptake of Universal Credit in under 21s in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Animal Breeding: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people convicted for offences related to puppy farming in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Analgesics: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of recent trends in the number of people prescribed pain medication in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of electric vehicle purchases in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Small Businesses: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on small businesses sourcing material.

5 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

India: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of reports of freedom of religion or belief violations in India.

5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Soft Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of fizzy drinks on type 2 diabetes.

4 Feb 2025 · Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Members' Staff: Pay

To ask the hon. Member for Warrington North, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing staff salary pay scales so parliamentary advisors

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to provide additional incentives to help encourage people to establish small businesses.

4 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Devolution: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will hold discussions with the devolved Administrations on the adequacy of (a) funding and (b) devolved powers for the provision of public services.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: Public Places

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a national strategy to place defibrillators in high need areas.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidneys: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS is of (a) surgery to transplant a kidney and (b) medication for a year for a kidney transplant recipient.

4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dialysis Machines: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost per patient for (a) in centre and (b) home therapies dialysis treatment was in each of the last three years.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve meals in schools for SEN children.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Asbestos: Industrial Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the financial compensation available to those that have been exposed to asbestos in the workplace.

4 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of rises in employer National Insurance contributions on victims of domestic and sexual violence.

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

Homelessness: Taxis

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on taxi expenses for homeless people in the last 12 months.

4 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

North Korea: Guided Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of recent reports of missile tests in North Korea.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: National Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to prevent higher education institutions from targeted influence from hostile states.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

British Telecom: Directories

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions she with BT on the potential impact of the withdrawal of BT's free (a) online and (b) physical directories on (i) the elderly and (ii) people in digital p

Source: official written-questions record.