Written questions
1,066 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon IT System: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Horizon Shortfall Scheme payments are 1) exempt from tax and 2) subject to tax, and whether these taxation rules apply to all historical payments already paid out.
3 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Alaa Abd El-Fattah
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress her Department has made in ensuring British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd El-Fattah's safe travel to the UK.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data she holds on the use of Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices by train operating companies.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support the development of a railway-wide Withdrawal of Implied Permission notice.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the sanction of a Withdrawal of Implied Permission notice by one Train Operating Company is confined to the services of the train operating company applying that sanction.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train companies contracted to her Department utilise Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices.
1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance she has given to train companies contracted to her Department on the usage of Withdrawal of Implied Permission notices.
28 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Poverty Strategy will end the two-child limit on Universal Credit.
28 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to allow for an adequate level of parliamentary scrutiny of the delivery of the planned child poverty strategy.
28 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include targets on reducing child poverty within the planned child poverty strategy.
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Overseas Companies: Palestine
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with businesses on the steps they are taking to (a) identify and (b) prevent forms of support that help to maintain unlawful occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territori
10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestine
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) identify and (b) prevent forms of support that help to maintain unlawful occupation in the occupied Palestinian territ
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Building Regulations: Street Numbers
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating building (a) requirements and (b) regulations to make it mandatory to display a street building number on the outs
10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: Palestine
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations for UN member states in the UN Human Rights Council Conference Room Paper
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Alaa Abd El-Fattah
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what further steps she plans to take to encourage the Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Alaa Abd El-Fattah
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international allies on the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Alaa Abd El-Fattah
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she next expects to discuss the case of detained British national Alaa Abd el-Fattah with her Egyptian counterpart.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Journalism: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education on students from different social and economic bac
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Journalism: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the decision to end Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Journalism: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending the Strategic Priorities Grant funding for journalism courses in higher education on their future financial viability.
27 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Journalism and Press Freedom: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department plans to provide to (a) the Media Freedom Coalition and (b) other country-specific programmes to promote (i) media freedom and (ii) the protec
27 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Journalism and Press Freedom: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his Departmental spending plans on the work of the (a) Media Freedom Coalition and (b) other country-specific programme
27 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Journalism and Press Freedom: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) the global Media Freedom Coalition and (b) other country-specific programmes to support (i) media freedom and (ii) the pr
27 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Employment: Sexual Harassment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions were brought for workplace sexual harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in each of the last five years.
27 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Health and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which enforcement body is responsible for ensuring that employers are in compliance with Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999; and what steps her Department has t
27 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Sexual Harassment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to help tackle incidents of workplace sexual harassment; and what procedures it follows to identify workplace sexual harassment during workplace insp
27 Jun 2025 · Home Office
Visas: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, whether it is her policy to maintain the original terms of the British
30 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Infrastructure: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Infrastructure Commission’s 2024 Cost Drivers report, published in October 2024, what steps she is taking to tackle the cost drivers for major UK infrastructure projects.
Source: official written-questions record.