Written questions
1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
National Parks: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of funding to national park authorities in England.
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Railway Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposals to introduce an automatic approval assumption for developments near train stations on (a) levels and (b) location
18 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Funerals: Pre-payment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints of mis-selling of prepayment funeral plans have been made for each year from 2015 to date.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Police: Forensic Science
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of police force forensic analysis capacity and completion times in England.
18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Lost Property
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many government (a) mobile phones (b) laptops (c) tablets were reported lost or stolen for each year from 2015 to date.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains were cancelled due to staff shortages in each year since 2015; and whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of those cancellations.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Buildings: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) plumbers, (b) electricians, (c) joiners, (d) bricklayers and (e) plasterers are forecast to leave and join the labour market in each year to 2030.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Mobile Phones: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mobile phones were stolen in the most recent year for which data is available; and how many of those were recovered.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have been seized by the DVLA for not having valid vehicle excise duty in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Oldham by vehicle class in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Tools: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of tool thefts in England have been made in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Tools: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of tool thefts on lost working days to the economy.
18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Gambling
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times gambling websites were visited by government system users in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Social Media
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on advertisements and subscriptions with (a) X, (b) Meta, (c) Tiktok and (d) Alphabet Inc. Google in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Furniture
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government spent on office furniture in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Breakfast Clubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the nutritional value of food and drinks available to school breakfast clubs in England.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Deprivation Indicators
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of community pharmacies in England relative to indices of multiple deprivation.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the value for money of management and service charges paid by academy and free schools to related parties in England.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
GP Surgeries: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the value for money of management and service charges paid by GP surgeries to related parties in England.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Offensive Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many knives and other weapons were confiscated in schools in England in the most recent year for which data is available.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Workers: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal working enforcement visits have been undertaken in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Oldham in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospital Wards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital wards are not in active use in England; and what the patient capacity is of those wards.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Social Media: Arrests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) hate crime and (b) non hate crime arrests have taken place for social media posts, messages and interactions in England in each year since 2015.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicle registration numbers are held on expired retention certificates; and what the estimated value of those registration numbers is.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Media: Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with TV and film production companies who receive public funding or tax incentives on the inclusion of English regional dialects in their programmes.
18 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Employee Ownership
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of effectiveness of the tax incentives available to increase the formation of Employee Ownership Trusts.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many fly-tipping incidents were reported and how many prosecutions were secured for each year from 2015 to date.
17 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Income Tax: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of personal allowance threshold freezes on people in each income decile for each year from 2015 to date.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Motorways: Road Signs and Markings
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of inoperable active lane signage were recorded on smart motorways in each year since 2015.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Motorways: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal accidents, (b) serious accidents, (c) minor accidents and (d) near misses were recorded on smart motorways for each year from 2015 to date.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles (a) are taxed, (b) have Statutory Off Road Notifications, (c) are untaxed and (d) are undeclared as having Statutory Off Road Notifications by nation and region.
Source: official written-questions record.