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.