Written questions

2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Health Services: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2025, to Question 73484, on Health Services: Equality, whether the Office for National Statistics has a definition of “working class communities”.

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2025, to Question 74211, on Prime Minister: Recruitment, if he will list the information requested for appointments below SCS2.

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Summer Internship Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 September 2025, to Question 74202, Civil Service: Unpaid Work, how will the Cabinet Office determine the social class of an applicant to the intern scheme if their parents have divor

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Summer Internship Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 26 September 2025, to Question 74202, Civil Service: Unpaid Work, how will the Cabinet Office determine the social class of an applicant to the intern scheme if they had two working par

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Facilities Agreements

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 30 October 2025, to Question 84251, on Government Departments: Facilities Agreements, whether government departments are required to inform the Cabinet Office if they permit trade union

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Media and Public Speaking

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2025, to Question 70524, on Civil Servants: media and public speaking, whether the guidance on civil servants speaking in public has been released, in whole or in part, in re

21 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average processing time was for (a) Counter Terrorist Check, (b) Security Check, (c) Developed Vetting and (d) Developed Vetting renewal clearances in the most recent month for which data is available.

21 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Ministers: Official Cars

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on the provision of official cars to Ministers outside the Government Car Service by (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) private contractors.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Devolution

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ask government departments not to use the phrase devolved nations when referring to devolved administrations or legislatures.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

United Kingdom Security Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Stabilisation Programme for UK Security Vetting has concluded; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of that programme on clearance times.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Aviation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 73729 on Ministers: Aviation, which journeys contributed to those emissions.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated cost is of The Ministers’ Etc. Pension Scheme (Amendment) 2025, dated 6 November 2025.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Data Protection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 5 November 2025, to Question 85506, on Cabinet Office: Data Protection, how many people had their personal data compromised.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Developed Vetting renewals have been completed within 95 days in each of the past six months, and what steps are being taken to improve performance.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the NISTA Annual Report 2024–25 dashboard, whether an evaluation has been completed for the project entitled Falcon Programme in the Cabinet Office.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Electronic Government: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the National Cyber Security Centre has made an assessment of the adequacy of information security of the One Login system since July 2024.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Disaster Relief and Emergencies: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Risk Vulnerability Tool.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the NISTA Annual Report 2024–25 dashboard, whether an evaluation has been completed for the project entitled Transforming Public Procurement in the Cabinet Office.

20 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

UK Integrated Security Fund

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Figure 4 of the Integrated Security Fund Annual Report 2024–25, of 30 October 2025, for what reason £778.9 million of Integrated Security Fund expenditure was allocated to the Foreign, Commonwe

20 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Honours

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding: accessing HMRC information to assist honours committees in making ?recommendations????? about awarding honours to individuals, published on 19 October 2023, whether

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Compensation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to page 24 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, if he will break down the compensation offers by category of claimant; and what proportion have been accept

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Departmental Expenditure Limits

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 16 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what proportion of the underspend in Departmental Expenditure Limit spending has been (a) returned t

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Arms Length Bodies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the guidance entitled the approvals process for the creation of new arm's-length bodies, published on 15 March 2018, whether the Cabinet Office Public Bodies Team assessed the National Centre o

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Revenue and Customs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Memorandum of Understanding between HMRC and the Cabinet Office on the exchange of information for honours probity checks, dated 21 March 2017, remains in force following the expiry period set out at

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, with reference to the target to reduce the cost of regulation by 25% on page 7, what the Government’s

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Consultants

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on achieving a 25 per cent reduction in the cost of regulation and a £550 million reduction in consultancy costs.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 125 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, whether the £30 million Capital AME bid by the Government Property Agency that recorded a zero outt

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Official Residences: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 139 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what (a) works were undertaken and (b) items were purchased as part of the refurbishment of the Dow

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Revenue and Customs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the document entitled Memorandum of Understanding: accessing HMRC information to assist honours committees in making ?recommendations????? about awarding honours to individuals, published on 19

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 16 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what proportion of the downward revision of the Resource AME was due to a recalculation of the Infec

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