Written questions
2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Management
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the terms of reference of the Cabinet Office Staff Board.
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Media
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish current Civil Service guidance on speaking to the media.
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Josh Simons
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 31 March 2026 to Question 113783 on Cabinet Office: Reviews, whether the Propriety and Ethics Team took a preliminary view on whether the Ministerial Code was broken before the ma
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Matt Hancock
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has had discussions with Matthew Hancock on the copyright and ownership of electronic messages held on non-corporate devices relating to official government business from his time as Healt
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Vetting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the revised terms of reference are for the review into security vetting led by Sir Adrian Fulford; who will he report to; and whether the review will be made public.
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Vetting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what are the terms of reference of the review into the FCDO and UKSC vetting process; and who it will report to.
18 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Public Expenditure
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office Freedom of Information Act response, reference FOI2026/04975 dated 13 April 2026, on Downing Street expenditure, if he will list the suppliers for the (a) goods and (b) servi
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
9 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 116506 on 9 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance, if he will place in the Library a copy of the OCS invoice dated 6 November 2025 relating to the work
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Secretary's objectives 2026-27 published on 7 April 2026, what steps the Cabinet Secretary plans to take to deliver her 2026-27 objective that the civil service retains the confiden
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Secretary's objectives 2026-27, published on 7 April 2026, how the new Cabinet Secretary's objectives differ from those set for (a) Simon Case and (b) Chris Wormald.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Security
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Cabinet Office has spent on safes since July 2024.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Subject Access Requests
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Cabinet Office Subject Access Request (SAR) Manual.
14 May 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Private Investigators: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which department is the lead for the regulation of the private intelligence industry.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2026 to Question 122723 on Inter Mediate: Contracts, whether his Department has provided guidance on (a) the difference between (i) commercial contracts and (ii) grants a
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office and Prime Minister: Email
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) his Department and (b) 10 Downing Street Freedom of Information determine Government emails held on tape backups to be information held by the public authority.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Departmental Records
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2026 to Question 120843 on Government Departments: Communication, if he will publish the most recent version of his Department's (a) information and records management po
14 May 2026 · Women and Equalities
Council of Europe: LGBT+ People
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the transparency data entitled Expenditure Over £25,000 - February 2026 (Cabinet Office Core), published on 26 March 2026, what activities will be funded through the LGBT programme to the Cou
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Josh Simons
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2026 to Question 122152 on Josh Simons, whether the Independent Adviser had access to the APCO Worldwide report commissioned by Labour Together.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Business Rates: Canary Wharf
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) Prime Minister and (b) Prime Minister's Chief Secretary has had discussions with JP Morgan on business rate discounts on offices in Canary Wharf.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Permanent Secretaries: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what plans he has to consult (a) permanent secretaries and (b) the First Division Asso
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
9 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 124839 on 9 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the OCS invoice for the works in the data for November 2025 is transaction (a) HZ820722, (b)
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Peers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 18 March 2026 to Question 118531 on Peers, whether the Governance Code on Public Appointments applies to the appointment of peers to the House of Lords.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Aviation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Deposited Paper DEP2025-0353, committed on 6 June 2025, what the cost to the public purse was of the Prime Minister's domestic flights in 2025.
14 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Ministers' Private Offices
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to (a) review and (b) update his Department's document entitled Guidance for the management of Private Office information and records, following Lord Mandelson’s appointment.
14 May 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 16 January 2026 to Question 98104 on DWP: Public Appointments, whether any of those appointments made declarations of political activity.
14 May 2026 · Department for Education
Department for Education: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 31 October 2025 to Question 77988 on Department for Education: Social Media, how much has been spent on influencers in aggregate since 4 July 2024; and on which campaigns and pro
14 May 2026 · Department for Education
Opportunity Mission Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates the Break Down Barriers to Opportunity Mission Board has met since November 2025.
13 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 8 September 2025 to Question 73331 on Home Office: Redundancy Pay, whether the £30,000 tax-free redundancy allowance also applied to the severance payment to the outgoing Cabinet
13 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Public Consultation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, whether his Department compiles statistics on the number of open consultations across
13 May 2026 · Cabinet Office
UK Relations with EU
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the EU press release entitled EU-UK relations: Council greenlights talks on electricity and cohesion deals, published on 30 March 2026, what the planned timetable is for (a) completion of the n
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