Written questions

3,273 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chinese Embassy: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Question 347 to 349 of Foreign Affairs Committee, Oral evidence: Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, HC 385, 3 November 2025, if he w

24 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

China: Embassies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on the proposed (a) Embassy and (b) residence redevelopment in Beijing, and whether formal state consents are still needed.

24 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 85827 on Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House, for what reason the second homes council tax premium was billed in July 2025.

24 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Media: Dispute Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the current operational status of the IPSO Arbitration Scheme, including whether arbitrators are presently being appointed to claims, and what evaluation she has m

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Digital Technology: Identity Cards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 85830 on Digital Technology: Identity Cards, whether the House of Commons will be required to undertake digital right to work checks on newly elected hon. M

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Digital Technology: Identity Cards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2025 to Question 85830 on Digital Technology: Identity Cards, whether people will be subject to any sanction if they do not enrol in the digital ID scheme.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Admiralty House: Valuation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85200 on Admiralty House: Valuation, if he will place the valuation report in the Library.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: John Lewis Partnership

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2025 to Question 85829 on Cabinet Office: John Lewis Partnership, if he will list each item purchased from John Lewis since 4 July 2024.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Deputy Prime Minister: Admiralty House

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department informed Westminster City Council that the Ministerial residence in Admiralty House occupied by the then Deputy Prime Minister should be billed for the second homes council tax premium.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Digital Technology: Identity Cards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 10 November 2025, to Question 85830, on Digital Technology: Identity Cards, how will employers undertake digital right to work checks if individual employees have not enrolled in Digita

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Tim Allan

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Tim Allan has met with representatives of Strand Partners since his appointment as a Special Adviser.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

National Security Adviser

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser has had with representatives of the Russian Federation since his appointment.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Special Advisers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the presentations given at the cross-Government special advisers meeting in November 2025.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Football Regulator

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has responded to the Commissioner for Public Appointment's decision notice on the Independent Football Regulator appointment of November 2025.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards: Football

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will set out the full terms of his recusal on football matters agreed with the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 85202 on Sports: Women, what guidance (a) her Department and (b) the Charity Commission have issued to (i) local authorities and (ii) chariti

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Controlled Burning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2025 to Question 85821 on Controlled Burning, what discussions she has had with the Natural Environment Research Council on the publication of its

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Controlled Burning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2025 to Question 85203 on Peatlands: Fires, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the response by the Nati

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the timetable for his department and NHS England to (a) open and (b) close applications for voluntary exit following the merger of the two; and whether there are plans for a compulsory redu

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Low Alcohol Drinks: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 28 July 2025, to Question 66478, on Innovation: Beer and Public Houses, whether the Government intends to involve amend the Licensing Act 2003 to prohibit the sale of alco

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alan Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 15 September 2025, to Question 73327, on Alan Milburn, what other (a) NHS, (b) social care and (c) other matters Alan Milburn has recused himself from.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Low Alcohol Drinks: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 28 July 2025, to Question 66478, on Innovation: Beer and Public Houses, on what evidential basis no- and low-alcohol drinks can cause harm to 16 and 17 year olds.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Houses: Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Licensing Taskforce were consulted on the proposed ban on vaping inside pubs.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving under Influence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 85831 on Public Houses, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the drink drive micrograms levels in England, Wales and North

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84950, on Local Government: Elections, if he will list the dates on when political parties were (a) individually or (b) coll

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84208 and 84626 on Chinese Embassy, if he will publish the requested information.

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Devolution: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to para 3.1 of the Greater Essex devolution consultation, updated July 2025, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities on whether levying a ma

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register: Absent Voting

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 84201 on Absent Voting, if he will make it his policy to amend legislation to ensure that political parties and elected repr

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Official Residences

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a second homes council tax premium has been paid for her Ministerial residence since 1 April 2025.

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Hospitality Industry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many hospitality businesses have (a) opened and (b) closed since July 2024 according to records held by the Office for National Statistics.

Source: official written-questions record.