Written questions

499 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which official documents can be used to prove a person's sex to participate in single sex sports.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to review funding criteria for sports organisations that do not comply with the legal definition of sex as biological under the Equality Act 2010.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance her Department plans to provide to sports governing bodies on maintaining female-only categories for biological women following the Supreme Court ruling of the definition of sex in

17 Apr 2025 · Women and Equalities

Women: Human Rights

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what guidance her Department issues to employers on the rights of biological women under the Equality Act 2010.

17 Apr 2025 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Women

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to support employers in providing single-sex workplace facilities for biological women.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the rights of biological women are protected in female prisons.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological men are in female prisons.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the provision of female-only health services.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Wards: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that biological women can access single-sex healthcare provision in NHS hospital wards.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to provide to schools on ensuring that biological girls have access to female-only (a) spaces, (b) sports and (c) facilities.

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to update guidance to public bodies on the lawful provision of single-sex services for biological women.

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Women

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the (a) safety and (b) privacy of biological women in single-sex spaces.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of uncollected rubbish on the risk of fire in Birmingham.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Measles

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential correlation between (a) age, (b) sex, (c) vaccine status, (d) ethnicity and (e) upper tier local authority area and trends in the level of (i) all peopl

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Measles

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy for all patients with suspected measles to be sent an oral fluid kit.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Measles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the uptake of measles vaccination.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Waste Disposal: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what meetings (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have had to discuss the potential spread of leptospirosis, in the context of the bin strikes in Birmingham.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Leptospirosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent meetings (a) he has had and (b) other Ministers in his Department have had on leptospirosis.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent meetings (a) he has had and (b) Ministers in his Department have had on the prevention of tuberculosis.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase public awareness of the risks of tuberculosis infection.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) vaccination status, (b) ethnicity, (c) travel history, (d) source of infection and (d) eligibility for NHS vaccine before infection diagnosed of chi

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of cases of tuberculosis in Non-UK born individuals (a) visiting and (b) migrating to the UK.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of tuberculosis cases show evidence of (a) multi drug resistance and (b) rifampicin resistance.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to the meet the World Health Organisation's target to end tuberculosis by 2035.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to extend opt out (a) HIV, (b) Hepatitis B and (c) Hepatitis C testing to all patients requiring a blood test in all NHS accident and emergency departments that do not currently o

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the NHS accident and emergency departments currently not offering an opt out of (a) HIV, (b) Hepatitis B and (c) Hepatitis C testing to all patients requiring a blood test.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the NHS accident and emergency departments currently offering an opt out of (a) HIV, (b) Hepatitis B and (c) Hepatitis C testing to all patients requiring a blood test.

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Vetting: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an estimate of the (a) number and (b) proportion of Disclosure and Barring Service certificates provided to employers which are (i) fake and (ii) falsified.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 41472 on Childcare: Fees and Charges whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the £100k cut off for free childcare provision on (a) overa

8 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Passports: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a person's passport can be used to prove their (a) biological sex, (b) genetic sex, (c) sex at birth and (d) sex as legally defined.

Source: official written-questions record.