Written questions

2,929 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Communication

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 41436 on Government Departments: Communication, if he will publish each substantive programme of advertising, marketing and communications spending above the £1

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Directors

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Directors of Communications for government departments and agencies have left their roles since 4 July 2024.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information the Civil Service HR Secondments Unit holds on the number of secondments (a) into the Civil Service from outside organisations and (b) from the Civil Service to outside organisations.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the Government has issued on diversity network events taking place during work hours.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Military Aircraft: Costs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 66653 on Military Aircraft: Costs, what the annual operating costs are of the Airbus A321-Neo aircraft, registration G-GBNI.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has commissioned (a) research and (b) policy work into compulsory Digital ID.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Hospitality: Wines

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 17 July 2025 to Question 62333 on Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card Solutio and (b) 15 July 2025, to Question 66656 on Government Hospitality: Wines, for what reason wine w

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Office for National Statistics: Offices

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the PCS press release entitled PCS industrial action escalated at ONS, published on 7 August 2025, what steps are being taken by the Office of National Statistics in response to the zero-office attend

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Summer Internship Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is his Department's preferred methodological (a) definition and (b) classification of a working class person.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Buildings

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question HL9068 on Civil Servants: London, if he will list the 11 buildings he plans to close by 2030.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Admiralty House

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) Ministers and (b) Departments utilise the rooms in 26 Whitehall.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the eligibility criteria for the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence Internship on people from disadvantaged white working class backgrounds.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the costs for any contracts with his Department's strategic suppliers have increased following the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions in April 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Policy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 21256 on Government: Policy, what the total cost was for the Plan for Change event on 5 December 2024.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will place in the Library a copy of any correspondence between his Department and the Commissioner for Public Appointments relating to public appointments without open and fair competition since

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

National Income: Statistics

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has made a recent assessment of the Office for Budget Responsibility's GDP deflator forecasts.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Inquiry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's policy paper, Infected Blood Inquiry Additional Report Government Response, published on 30 July 2025, what is the estimated cost of delivering those recommendations.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Bloom Procurement Services

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the award of Contract_17123 for the Test, Learn and Grow Strategic Delivery Partner, what portion of the contract is retained by Bloom Procurement Services Ltd in (a) management fees, (b) commi

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants and Special Advisers: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question HL6565 on Senior Civil Servants and Special Advisers: Pay, what is the (a) salary level and (b) grade of seniority at which there is a policy of public disclos

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release, Internship Scheme To Get More Working Class Students Into Civil Service' published on 1 August 2025, whether the socio-economic background criteria for civil ser

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Gender Recognition

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23677 on Transgender People, whether his Department has completed its revision of the guidance on gender reassignment.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Non-departmental Public Bodies

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2025 to Question 38049 on non-departmental public bodies, if he will list the 249 non-departmental public bodies operating as of September 2025.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 4 July 2025 to Question 63007 on Government Departments: Equality and of 12 June 2025 to Question 54833 on Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Equality, whether he considers the a

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service Muslim Network and Civil Service Race Forum

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Terms of Reference for the (a) Civil Service Muslim Network and (b) Civil Service Race Forum.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Office for National Statistics and UK Statistics Authority: Trade Unions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much facility time is provided to the PCS trade union in (a) ONS and (b) UKSA in (i) monetary terms, (ii) headcount and (iii) as a percentage of paybill; and whether check-off facilities are provided.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Nick Joicey

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2024 to Question 4667 on Nick Joicey, for what reason the internal move was deemed exceptional circumstances.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Unpaid Work

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, how many Civil Service internship schemes the Governme

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

New Media Unit: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37432 on Prime Minister: Communication, how many headcount staff are assigned to work in the New Media Unit; and what the budget cost of the Unit is in 2025-26

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Air Conditioning

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Property Agency plans to install air conditioning in government buildings.

29 Aug 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Marketing

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the Government Communication Service guidance entitled Guidelines for influencer marketing; and whether influencers must declare the source of their government funding.

Source: official written-questions record.