Written questions

2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish an updated Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Performance Related Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 July 2024 to Question 927 on Civil Servants: Performance Related Pay, if he will publish the performance assessment process guidance on considering delivery against the Diversity and

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2025 to Question 92613 on Digital Technology: Identity Cards, whether Digital ID will be required for Digital Right to Work checks.

29 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Genetically Modified Organisms: Crops

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the proposed dynamic alignment with the EU will prevent the adoption of gene-edited crops under the provisions of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.

29 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the new proposed dynamic alignment with the EU will ban the sale of oatcakes in the UK due to new EU agricultural standards.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Summer Internship Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date the summer internship scheme for 2026 will be open to applicants.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to review recruitment practices in the public sector.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Storyzy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 4 September 2025 to Question 70478 on Disinformation, if he will publish the (a) contract and (b) terms of reference for the Storyzy service.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2025 to Question 92996 on Cabinet Office: ICT, if he will publish the NISTA evaluation from March 2025.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Aviation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 91382 on Prime Minister: Aviation, if he will publish those calculations for G-GBNI for 2024-25.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether departments have been asked to make (a) operational and (b) efficiency savings to fund the new Digital ID programme.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Digital ID on Right to Work checks.

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Official Cars

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2026 to Question 103782 on Ministers: Official Cars, what is the estimated, non-granular aggregate expenditure by the Government Car Service on official cars for civil servan

29 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Official Cars

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2026 to Question 103782 on Ministers: Official Cars, which team within the Government Car Service prepares the financial accounts for vehicles provided to Government Departme

29 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Jean Monnet Action: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government provides funding to Jean Monnet activities.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Languages

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Ministers in his Department have received coaching in a foreign language funded by his Department since July 2024.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Investment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to Question 92580 if he will list the 39 business cases that were approved.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 104163 on Public Appointments: Political Impartiality, which public body holds the data on past political activity held in the Public Appointments Digital Se

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: X Corp

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on X premium, and on which tier, in the last 12 months.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

EU Budget: Contributions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding, updated on 22 December 2025, whether he intends that the Government will make additional financial contributions to t

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Remote Working

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2026 to Question 100885 on Cabinet Office: Remote Working, if he will set out the methodology for the (a) physical and (b) electronic data collation of the Civil Service headq

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Advertising

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2025 to Question 86666 on Government Departments: Advertising, and with reference to paragraph 223 of his Department's publication entitled Guide to Parliamentary Work, updat

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2026 to Question 104805 on Senior Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay, and with reference to deposited paper entitled Permanent secretary model employment contract, DEP2025-0830,

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Migrant Workers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2026 to Question HL13333 on Cabinet Office: Migrant Workers, if he will list the countries of origin of the 39 civil servants with skilled worker visas.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Arms Length Bodies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2026 to Question HL13276 on Arms Length Bodies, what is his timetable for the completion of the review; and how will it report.

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

National School of Government and Public Services

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his speech of 20 January 2026, entitled “Move fast. Fix things”, whether the new National School of Government and Public Services will be part of the Cabinet Office, or a new Arm's Length Body

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his renegotiation of EU agreements, what is his policy on (a) asymmetric or (b) symmetric early termination payments, payable (i) by the United Kingdom if it terminates early and (ii) by the Eu

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Facilities Agreements

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 16 January 2026, to Question 104159, on Trade Unions: Facilities Agreements, if he will place in the Library the names of the individual public sector organisations which were requested

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the new Announcements: Direct Ministerial Appointments portal, and the entry for the Head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and Expert Adviser on Delivery of 6 January 2026, if he will publ

28 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his speech of 20 January 2026, entitled Move fast. Fix things, what the grade and definition is of a top senior civil servant; and who will undertake the assessments that indicators have been m

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