Written questions

2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to question 95074 of 2 December 2025, how many of the businesses classified as hotels etc in the Valuation Office Agency draft 2026 rating lists have had their rateable value i) decrease ii) s

4 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to question 95074 of 2 December 2025, how many of the businesses classified as restaurants and cafes in the Valuation Office Agency draft 2026 rating lists have had their rateable value i) dec

4 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to question 95074, how many of the 52,080 businesses classified as pubs and wine bars in the VAO draft 2026 rating lists have seen their rateable value i) decrease, ii) stay the same and iii)

3 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 84239 tabled on 22 October 2025 by the Hon Member for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire.

2 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of officials at each Senior Civil Service grade completed the One Big Thing 2024 Innovation Masterclass from each Department and executive agency; and if he will provide this informa

2 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken for Developed Vetting renewals.

2 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Audit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2025, to Question 70464, on Government Communication Service: Audit, what is the timetable for the completion of the current annual data collection.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment they have made of the impact of vetting delays on (a) recruitment and (b) project delivery across government departments and national security agencies.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Communications

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is the most recent estimate of (a) the headcount size of the Government Communication Service and (b) staff who work in communications functions in the Civil Service who are not GCS.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department's press release entitled Civil Service staff networks to only meet outside working hours and have all events signed off by senior managers, published on 23 September 2025 if he will pl

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Inflation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has made an assessment of the adequacy of GDP deflation forecasts.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ensure that direct ministerial appointments publish a declaration of interests on gov.uk.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Advertising

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 23 September 2025 to Question 75722 on Government Departments: Advertising, if he will publish equivalent data for spending on (a) hard copy advertising, (b) public relations and (c) ma

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

United Kingdom Security Vetting: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are employed by UK Security Vetting by (a) permanent civil servants, (b) fixed-term appointees and (c) contingent labour.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 September 2025 to Question 69278 Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution, if he will itemise the £7,395 spent.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: OCS Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2025 to Question 73728 on Cabinet Office: OCS Group, whether the Social Value Outcome and Diversity reports produced by OCS are retained by his Department.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Facilities Agreements

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has issued guidance on civil servants claiming trade union facility time and diversity network time.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Department for Education: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2025, to Question 70509, on Government Departments: Buildings, what is the current ownership and freehold, leasehold or rental status, of the Department for Education buildi

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Permanent Secretaries: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Permanent Secretary model contract released under FOI reference FOI2025/09712 of September 2025.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on severance payments to outgoing Cabinet Secretaries and Permanent Secretaries not provided for in the model contract.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Redundancy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 24 October 2025 to Question 82675 on Civil Service: Redundancy, which public body collated and provided that data to the National Audit Office.

1 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Official Residences: Empty Property

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the answer of 28 October 2025 to Question HL10808 on Official Residences, how long the other residences have been unoccupied.

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any offshore subcontractor resources associated with his Department’s Central Digital Platform contract (a) are located in and (b) have supply-chain links to jurisdictions designated by the National Cybe

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 74665 on Civil Service: Workplace Pensions, whether civil servants who are members of Classic, Classic Plus and Premium are able to (a) claim those pension

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Assets

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Departmental Strategic Asset Management Plan Executive Summaries 2025 - 2026, published on 30 October 2025, when the summaries for all departments will be published.

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the notice entitled Provision of Support and Maintenance for the Central Digital Platform, for what reason the variation was designated as negotiated procedure without a prior call for competit

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the UK Security Vetting is currently meeting its key performance indicators for vetting timeliness.

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Counter Terrorist Checks (CTC) and Security Checks (SC) have been completed within 25 days in each of the past six months.

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Official Cars

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2025, to Question 82339, on Ministers: Official Cars, what was the total expenditure on Ministerial cars across government in July 2025.

27 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2025, to Question 84247, on Public Appointments: Political Impartiality, what communications has the Cabinet Office had with the Commissioner for Public Appointments in relat

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