Written questions

495 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Energy: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT from the energy bills of ceramic manufacturers.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will introduce an energy price cap for (a) the ceramics industry and (b) other energy intensive industries.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36726, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for accessing the British Energy Supercharge scheme for sectors that a

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36729, if he will give an example of a cost effective solution to decarbonise for the ceramics sector.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36726 on Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics, whether he has undertaken a sectoral assessment.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36729 on UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics, whether he has made a sectoral assessment of the potential merits of exempting ceramics fro

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Intensive Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with energy companies on reducing prices for (a) UK ceramic manufacturers and (b) other energy intensive industries.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Supply: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of GB Energy on UK ceramic manufacturers.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Alternative Fuels: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the capability of UK ceramics manufacturers to transition to lower-carbon fuels.

12 Mar 2025 · 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 reintroduce an energy bills discount scheme for energy and trade intensive industries.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme on employment levels in ceramic manufacturers.

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to prioritise financial support for the energy costs of ceramic manufacturers.

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Ceramics: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the long-term viability of the UK ceramics sector.

11 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Ceramics: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of not including imported ceramics in the scope of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism from 1 January 2027 on UK ceramics manufacturers .

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Imports: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with (a) Ceramics UK, (b) the Secretary State for Business and Trade and (c) the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the exclusion of imported ceramics from the scop

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Hydrogen: Energy Intensive Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with ceramics manufacturers on the viability of hydrogen as a fuel for energy intensive industries.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Ceramics: Task Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will convene a ceramics taskforce, chaired by a Minister.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of being temporarily exempted from the UK emission trading scheme on UK ceramic manufacturers.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the zonal electricity pricing consultation on UK ceramic manufacturers.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of removing the business-level test from the Energy Intensive industry scheme eligibility requirements for UK ceramic manufacturers.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy Intensive Industries: Ceramics

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of opening the Energy Intensive Industry Exemption scheme to all ceramics manufacturers.

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to include provisions in the English Devolution Bill on improving the provision of support to low-income households to access public services.

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Waste

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of mandatory food waste reporting on (a) access to healthy foods, (b) sustainability targets, (c) expenditure

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average programme funding is for 16 to 19 year olds studying T levels and other Level 3 qualifications.

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

T-levels

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students are studying an applied general qualification of 720 guided learning hours or more in a T level route.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Australia and New Zealand

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with which relevant stakeholders it plans to consult when preparing its biannual monitoring reports on the (a) UK-Australia and (b) UK-New Zealand free trade agreements.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Australia and New Zealand

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what aspects of the (a) UK-Australia and (b) UK-New Zealand free trade agreements will be assessed as part of the biannual monitoring reports that will be published on those treaties.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's Statutory guidance for local authorities’ youth provision, published on 27 September 2023, what progress local authorities have made on conducting Needs assessm

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities that have been issued a section 114 notice with the provision of youth work.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allergies: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of recorded deaths due to anaphylaxis in the last 10 years.

Source: official written-questions record.