Written questions

Mike Wood

2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 2.43 of the Spring Statement 2025, CP 1298, published on 26 March 2025, how many civil servants have left through the employee exit scheme.

13 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Information Officers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the interests of the new Executive Director of Communications in 10 Downing Street.

13 Oct 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, how much was spent by each Department by (a) platform and (b) programme or activity.

13 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

List of Ministerial Responsibilities

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish an updated list of Ministerial responsibilities.

13 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Baroness Shafik

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 17 September 2025 to Question HL10221 on Baroness Shafik, what Baroness Shafik's remuneration is.

16 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Budgets

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list (a) the members of the Budget Board and (b) its terms of reference.

16 Sep 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, whether more detailed guidance has been provided by (a) NHS England and (b) his Department on this matter.

16 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2025, to Question 70477, on Cabinet Office: Marketing, how much has been spent on digital influencers by the New Media Unit since its establishment.

16 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Trade Unions: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his Department's policy is on allowing trade union activities to be funded from trade union facility time at public expense.

16 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Political Parties: Conferences

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any civil servants in his Department have been granted authorisation to attend the (a) Labour, (b) Conservative, (c) Liberal Democrat, (d) Scottish National Party and (e) Reform party conference in a pri

16 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Authority (Accountability) Bill

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of clause 3(2)(a) of the Public Authority (Accountability) Bill on freedom of speech.

16 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Paul Ovenden

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date 10 Downing Street became aware of the text messages that led to the resignation of the Prime Minister's Director of Strategy on 15 September 2025.

15 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

RBS Sempra Commodities: JP Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any Ministers from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills were involved in the disposal of RBS Sempra Commodities to JP Morgan in the 2009-10 financial year.

15 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister was informed of the content of the files obtained by Bloomberg relating to Lord Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein.

12 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Political Impartiality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish guidance for civil servants on conduct in the pre-election period prior to (a) UK parliamentary and (b) devolved legislature by-elections.

12 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Arms Length Bodies: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, published on 30 May 2025, whether his Department holds data on arm’s length bodies expenditure authorised

9 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison and Probation Service: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff by headcount are employed by HM Prison and Probation Service to work on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI); at what grades they are employed; and how many of these are standalone EDI roles.

9 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Parole Board and Sentencing Council for England and Wales: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the proposed new socio-economic duty will apply to the (a) Sentencing Council and (b) Parole Board.

9 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Orgreave

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Statement of 21 July 2025, on Events at Orgreave, HCWS855, by what mechanism the panel of independent experts will be (a) selected and (b) appointed; whether they will be paid;

9 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Summer Internship Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government press release entitled Internship Scheme To Get More Working Class Students Into Civil Service, published on 1 August 2025, whether children of police officers will be eligible t

9 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Cryptoassets

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the aggregate value of crypto-assets held by (a) her Department and (b) police forces.