Written questions
2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farms: Domestic Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 62320 on Farm: Domestic Visits, if he will provide an aggregate and anonymised number of farm visits since 4 July 2025.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Senior Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the recruitment process was for her Department's new Permanent Secretary; and whether he plans to publish any declarations of interest.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Genetically Modified Organisms: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the UK–EU reset agreement on the (a) use and (b) sale of precision-bred (i) plants and (ii) animals.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Secondment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is paying the salary of the Second Permanent Secretary while he is on secondment to the Blavatnik School Of Government.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Universities: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to universities on admissions based on the socio-economic background of the applicant.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to page 91 of his Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, published on 15 September 2025, HC 1274, for what reason was facility time increased from £49,777 in 2023-24
23 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities
Travellers: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the style guide entitled Writing about ethnicity, updated in October 2024, for what reason references to travellers were capitalised.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Children's Play: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of play-based (a) learning and (b) teaching as part of the (i) early years and (ii) Key Stage 1 curricula.
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 74666,on Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work, which internship schemes with the security services are white British people eligible to apply to.
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Facilities Agreements
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 75447on Trade Union Officials: Facility Agreements, whether the Cabinet Office guidance on facility time has changed since July 2024; what is the maximum p
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 26 September 2025, to Questions 75632, 74515, 74202, on Civil Service: Unpaid Work, whether the Office for National Statistics classifies the occupations of (a) tool-makers, (b) factor
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Location
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2025 to Question 63340 on Civil Servants: Location, if he will publish the Civil Service relocation policy released by Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act, ref: F
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government: ICT
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he his Department applies nationality criteria to contractors who work on Government IT programmes.
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Appointments: Political Impartiality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 3 September 2025 to Questions (a) 70458 on Government Departments: Directors and (b) 71225 on Public Appointments: Political Impartiality, through which process previous political acti
22 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
National Security Online Information Team
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what is the statutory basis of the work of the National Security and Online Information Team.
22 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Disinformation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on the use of third-party providers to (a) assess, (b) index and (c) identify disinformation.
22 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Government: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what data sources have been used to train the Parlex AI tool on forecasting parliamentary reactions; and whether a data privacy impact assessment has been produced.
22 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Disinformation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department uses third-party providers to (a) assess, (b) index and (c) identify disinformation.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Alan Milburn
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 73327 on Alan Milburn, if he will list which other areas of health policy Mr Milburn has recused himself from.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75037 on NHS: Workplace Pensions, why the 9.4% pension contribution for NHS staff is made by NHS England.
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Department of Health and Social Care: Permanent Secretaries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 63002on Department of Health and Social Care: Permanent Secretaries, for what reason the Permanent Secretary was appointed as a temporary civil servant on a SCS
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to answer of 11 September 2025, to Question 73326, on NHS: Strikes, if he will make it his policy to prohibit NHS employees who undertake strike action to be paid for work by other NHS bod
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Women
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to review his Department's guidance entitled Government Function: People – Continuous Improvement Assessment guidance, in the context of the judgment of the Supreme Court in For Wom
22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Model Contract for Senior Civil Servants.
22 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Diplomatic Service: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 77564 on Lord Mandelson, if she will publish her Department's HR guidance on the process to be followed once a head of m
21 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish the letter of 16 May 2025 from FCDO staff to the former Foreign Secretary on HM Government's Middle East policy.
21 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2025 to Question HL10630, on Lord Mandelson, what role her Department played in the due diligence undertaken prior to the appointment of
21 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
China and North Korea: Inter Mediate
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Inter-Mediate has received funding from the Government for work on (a) China and (b) North Korea.
21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Social Media
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 77545 on Cabinet Office: Social Media, whether the influencers are (i) contracted directly by the New Media Unit or (ii) procured through a third party agenc
21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Police: Working Class
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) the Social Mobility Commission and (b) Office for National Statistics classifies police officers as (i) working class.
Source: official written-questions record.