Written questions

814 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Immigration: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an impact assessment into the policy paper on Home Office immigration and nationality fees, due to increase from 8 April 2026, has been conducted.

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the BBC proposals in A BBC For All to pilot audience forums such as citizens assemblies.

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the BBC proposals in, A BBC For All, that all future Non-Executive Director (NED) appointments to the Board should follow a de

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the BBC proposals, A BBC For All, to ensure the BBC’s funding level is subject to effective and transparent scrutiny.

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Royal Charters

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the BBC's document entitled a A BBC For All to remove a fixed expiry date on the BBC’s Royal Charter.

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications Cables

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of alternate infrastructure to replace copper wire ADSL systems.

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fossil Fuels: Dispute Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will adopt negotiating objectives for addressing international legal barriers, particularly those arising from investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), during the First Con

10 Mar 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fossil Fuels: Conferences

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether a representative of his Department will attend the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, hosted by the Colombian and Dutch governments.

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Biometrics: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the safeguards in place to mitigate racial and other bias in the use of retrospective facial recognition technology.

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Biometrics: Police National Database

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is in place relating to the thresholds at which retrospective facial recognition searches of the Police National Database may be operated.

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Idemia facial recognition algorithm for Home Office strategic facial matching will be rolled out across police forces.

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Biometrics: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to determine the number of people who may have been wrongly arrested or questioned by police as a result of incorrect facial recognition matches produced by the Cognitec FaceV

10 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Biometrics: Arrests

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who may have been wrongly arrested or questioned by police as a result of incorrect facial recognition matches produced by the Cognitec FaceVACS-DBSc

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Microplastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to UIN 89500, if she will publish a list of water companies which confirmed the use biobeads.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to UIN 107393, where the Minister responded that "there was not a formal working group for the White Paper", to clarify whether her Department intends to issue a correction to

5 Feb 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether (a) she or (b) any members of her Department met or corresponded with Lord Mandelson on Palantir.

5 Feb 2026 · Home Office

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) she or (b) any members of her Department met or corresponded with Lord Mandelson on Palantir.

5 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) he or (b) any members of his Department met or corresponded with Lord Mandelson on Palantir.

5 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) he or (b) any members of his Department met with or corresponded with Lord Mandelson on Palantir.

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of research by Morgan Stanley for Bloomberg published on 26 January 2026 showing that the UK has experienced 8

21 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled A new vision for water: white paper, published on 20 January 2026, how members of the working groups were selected; which (a) people and (b)

13 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women living in Norwich South constituency.

13 Jan 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Royal Charters

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will consider putting proposals relating to the next BBC Charter to a vote in Parliament.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the Water Sector Reform White Paper.

2 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 97805 on Police: Biometrics, what the (a) planned timescales and (b) terms of reference are for the two HMICFRS reviews referred to.

2 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to UIN 97805 answered on 15 December 2025, whether estimates have been made of the number of potential misidentifications made by police as a result of potential bias in the PND facial search

2 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to UIN 97805 answered on 15 December 2025, when the Home Office first learned of potential bias in the current PND facial search algorithm.

2 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the Spending Review budget allocations for his Department to be finalised and an allocation made to future ringfenced spending on NHS dentistry.

8 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Biometrics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the National Physical Laboratory, published on 4 December 2025, on the use of facial reco

4 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an Equalities Impact Assessment for her proposed earned settlement model.

Source: official written-questions record.