Written questions
495 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the impact of energy price volatility on business insolvency rates.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the average saving per business under current energy support packages.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Hospitality Industry: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on extending energy cost support for hospitality businesses.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Bills Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many businesses have received support under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme since its inception.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Small Businesses: Energy Bills Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Energy Bills Discount Scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Industry: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the cumulative impact of network charges on industrial energy users.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Glass: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the glass manufacturing industry with gas energy prices.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Exports: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on the energy-related costs of UK exporters.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Intensive Industries: Energy Bills Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to reopen the Energy Bills Discount Scheme for energy and trade intensive industries.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Ceramics: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings and discussions his Department has had with the ceramics industry regarding energy cost relief.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Manufacturing Industries: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of energy costs on the retention of manufacturing jobs in the West Midlands.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Chemicals: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support is available to the chemical manufacturing sector to mitigate the cost of industrial gas.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Ceramics: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support is available to the ceramics manufacturing sector to mitigate the cost of industrial gas.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Energy Intensive Industries: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the value of exemptions from green levies provided to energy-intensive industries in 2025-26.
20 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Energy Intensive Industries: Electricity
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the British Industry Supercharger scheme.
26 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling and Video Games: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Financial Risk Assessments on tax revenues from the regulated betting and gaming sector.
26 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gambling: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Financial Risk Assessments on consumer migration to the unregulated gambling market.
19 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Defence: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of increased industrial energy prices on his Department's ability to deliver the Defence Industrial Strategy.
19 Mar 2026 · Treasury
Energy Intensive Industries: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on additional funding for extending the UK Supercharger Scheme.
19 Mar 2026 · Treasury
Energy: Prices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of industrial energy prices on economic growth.
19 Mar 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Natural Gas: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the price of wholesale gas on the viability of energy intensive industries.
19 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Aerials: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department’s consultation entitled Reforming planning rules to accelerate deployment of digital infrastructure will consider increasing permitted width upgrades to existing
20 Feb 2026 · Department for Education
Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is available for schools wanting to transition into co-operative academies.
2 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central of 24 November 2025 with case reference GS06761.
26 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Gambling: Gibraltar
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with her Gibraltarian counterpart on the potential impact of the new Remote Betting Duty on the Gibraltarian economy.
26 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Kashmir: Self-determination of States
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether it is her Department's policy that people in Kashmir have the right to self determination.
19 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Investment: Economic Situation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support investment into the UK's economic security.
16 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Roads: Nitrous Oxide
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the time taken for her Department to make a decision on Stoke-on-Trent's proposal to reduce Nitrous Oxide levels at the A500/Etruria R
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Air Pollution: Stoke On Trent
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she can name a date by which her department will have made a decision on Stoke-on-Trent City Council's proposals to reduce Nitrous Oxide levels at the A500/Etruria Road junctio
10 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Cider: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of cider production is eligible for draught relief.
Source: official written-questions record.