Written questions

429 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog for medical driving licence assessments.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance has been provided to court staff on the treatment of (a) trans and (b) non-binary people, following the update to the Equal Treatment Bench Book.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to protect the (a) safety, (b) dignity and (c) privacy of transgender people participating in the criminal justice process.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Evidence: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to help ensure that transgender people giving evidence in court proceedings can access facilities without being required to disclose their gender identity.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paramedical Staff: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the pathway into paramedicine is accessible to (a) mature students and (b) career changers, in the context of the requirement for new paramedics to hold

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paramedical Staff: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to make second-degree Paramedic Science students eligible for (a) student finance and (b) the NHS Learning Support Fund.

21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paramedical Staff: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial barriers for people studying Paramedic Science as a second undergraduate degree.

18 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered providing self-sampling cervical screening kits to all women.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered allowing dentists qualified in Canada an exemption from the requirement to sit the Overseas Registration Examination before practicing in the UK.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Continuing Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the Continuing Healthcare Assessment for dementia patients.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

World Health Assembly

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2025 to Question 36441 on World Health Assembly, by what date his Department will confirm (a) ministerial attendance at the World Health Assembly 2025 and (b) whe

2 Apr 2025 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Earnings Limits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential revenue raised by removing the 2 percent NI on earnings over the threshold and charging a flat rate of 8 percent.

20 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Supported Housing: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that rent review tribunals have access to sector-specific data on market rents in retirement communities.

19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices.

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Solid Fuels: Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review rules around burning solid fuels in (a) general and (b) smoke control zones.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Arts and Humanities: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support the arts and humanities in the higher education sector.

7 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

World Health Assembly

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) attend the World Health Assembly 2025 and (b) endorse the WHO resolution on Reducing the Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through the Promotion of Kidney Health an

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Presumption of Parental Involvement Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress her Department has made toward publishing the results of the urgent review into the presumption of parental involvement.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the British Medical Association on incentivising hospital consultants to routinely work on weekends.

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

Housing: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a process whereby the formal acceptance of a home purchase offer creates a legally binding co

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

Property: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to (a) prevent and (b) protect victims of title fraud.

22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 10592, whether he has received any further advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the potential merits of extending

10 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Academic Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of (a) revising the school calendar and (b) reducing the length of the school summer holidays.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Social Rented Housing: Boiler Upgrade Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the boiler upgrade scheme to social housing tenants.

5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sodium Valproate: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a redress scheme for victims of the Sodium Valproate scandal in line with recommendations in the Hughes Report.

21 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Cryptocurrencies

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing an investment programme in cryptocurrency.

21 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Co-ownership

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to respond to the call for evidence entitled Jointly owned properties which closed on 7 April 2024.

4 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on delivering specialist mental health professionals in every school.

31 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the (a) statutory and (b) regulatory standards for drilling boreholes in mineral exploration or evaluation to the drilling of boreholes for the

24 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings: Court Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog in the administration of family court orders.

Source: official written-questions record.