Written questions
3,693 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including trade union representatives to the Youth Guarantee Advisory Panel.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Union Recognition: Ballots
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to introduce consultation on the reduction of membership threshold from 10% for statutory union recognition ballots.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Unions: Ballots
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason the introduction of electronic and workplace balloting was moved from April to August 2026.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Unions: Ballots
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to introduce the draft code of practice on electronic and workplace balloting for statutory union ballots.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he plans to launch a consultation on introducing a single status of worker.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he has taken to move towards a single status of worker.
12 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to assess compensation for those living with Fetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Quality Franchise Association
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to Question 101404, what assessment he has made of the Quality Franchise Association's effectiveness at enforcing its Code of Conduct.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
British Franchise Association
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to Question 101404, what assessment he has made of the British Franchise Association's effectiveness at enforcing its Code of Ethics.
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Statement UIN HCWS1044 on 11 November 2025, what specific findings were contained in the 2007 DWP evaluation of the effectiveness of automatic pension forecast letters that were no
12 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Women against State Pension Inequality: Legal Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost of litigation with the WASPI Campaign has been since December 2024.
18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Subversion: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to limit online foreign influence in the UK's democracy.
18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Political Parties: Campaigns
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to introduce a database inclduing all published online political advertisements.
18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Political Parties: Campaigns
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regulations governing online political advertisements.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Child Maintenance Service's hotline in responding to concerns raised.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Child Maintenance Service's response times to MPs' queries.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Child Maintenance Service's stated response time is for MPs' queries.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the response times to queries made to the Child Maintenance Service by service users.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of protections for franchisees from changes to their terms and conditions made by franchisors.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Franchises
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the number of franchises operating in England and Wales between 2015-2024.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Fireworks: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the decibel level of fireworks.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators: Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase access to defibrillators in Ellesmere Port and Bromborough constituency.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve survival rates of out of hospital cardiac arrests in the North West.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cardiovascular Diseases: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure national accountability for equitable provision of palliative care across England.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered plans to fully fund the specialist palliative care, advice and assessment provided by hospices.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that hospices receive the funding required to raise staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospice contracts reflect the cost of the services they provide and the needs of their local populations.
20 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Universities: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he has taken to protect university workers' terms and conditions when they are transferred to a subsidiary company.
20 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Workers: Car Washes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, many car washes found to employ illegal workers have (a) been permanently closed and (b) led to the owners jailed in each year for which information is available.
Source: official written-questions record.