Written questions
3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Strike Ballots
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, further to his Department's consultation entitled Make Work Pay: Consultation - Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Balloting for Statutory Union Ballots, published on 19 November 2025,
2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
1 Carlton Gardens: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether council tax at 1 Carlton Gardens is paid by the Government.
2 Jan 2026 · 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, pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 84665 on DEFRA: Secondment, whether a business case was made for seconding the Second Permanent Secretary; and who is undertaking
2 Jan 2026 · Home Office
Political Parties: Conferences
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to consult political parties on the methodology for the allocation of Conference Security Grant for 2026.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Office for Value for Money: Redundancy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any staff (a) have and (b) will be made redundant following the closure of the Office for Value for Money.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Treasury: Official Residences
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 92033 on Ministers: Second Homes, whether her official ministerial residence is classified as a second home.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Married People: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of households who will have (a) Married Couple’s Allowance and (b) marriage allowance reduced as a result of freezing of income tax thresholds.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Income Tax: Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of households who will have child benefit reduced as a result of freezing of income tax thresholds.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Financial Services: Politically Exposed Persons
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how Politically Exposed Persons and their families can complain about unreasonable withdrawal of services by companies which are not financial services institutions and not regulated by the Financial Services Ombuds
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Jeffrey Epstein
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89480 on Jeffery Epstein, whether those records are held in (a) electronic and (b) hard copy format; and whether Ministerial private office records for 2009-10
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Office for Value for Money: Redundancy Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the departing direct ministerial appointments in the Office for Value for Money will receive exit payments.
2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Barts Health NHS Trust: Charities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will investigate NHS Barts Health Trust funding for the Tower Hamlets Muslim Charity Run; and if he will make it his policy to ensure NHS funds are not used to support events which discrimina
2 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Diplomatic Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2025 to Question 92373 on Lord Mandelson, what the normal HR processes are for Heads of Mission.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Ministers: Official Residences
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Ministerial residence is registered with Westminster City council as a primary residence.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Landfill Tax: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer prior to the publication of the consultation on reforms to landfill tax.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on densification in urban homebuilding.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Brownfield Sites: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the viability of brownfield development in London.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Buildings: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Building Safety Regulator will clear the Gateway Two backlog by January 2026.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the feasibility of meeting the target of delivering 1.5 million homes in England by 2029.
10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new homes his Department estimates will be delivered in each year until 2028-29.
8 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Council Tax
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Pursuant to the answer of 13 November 2025, to Question 86773, on Ministers: Council Tax, whether Ministers who occupy a Ministerial residence as a second home are given a permanent key to the property in order
8 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the correspondence from the Permanent Secretary to his Department to the Hon Member for Thirsk & Malton of 24 November 2025.
8 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Diplomatic Service: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish a copy of the model contract for Ambassadors and Heads of Mission.
8 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Allan, Tim
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025, to Question 92612, whether Tim Allan is required to recuse himself from government policy or communications on matters relating to the clients of Strand Partners.
8 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Official Residences: Valuation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85200 on Admiralty House: Valuation, whether a valuation has been undertaken in relation to Downing Street, including the two Downing Street flats.
8 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Pay
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 September 2025 to Question 74947 on Senior Civil Servants: Pay, when he plans to publish a high earner list.
5 Dec 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the written statement of 4 December 2025, HCWS1128, on Devolution Priority Programme, whether the Government consulted t
5 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Prime Minister’s Office was consulted on the terms of the exit agreement for Lord Mandelson.
5 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office
Chequers: Council Tax
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who is responsible for paying the council tax surcharge on Chequers.
5 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Further to the written statement of 4 December 2025, HCWS1128, on Devolution Priority Programme, what is the criteria that he will use to determine whether local council election
Source: official written-questions record.