Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Gender: Academic Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with universities to ensure academics with gender-critical views are not treated differently and that their research is allowed to be published.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to include passenger voice in the governance of Great British Railways.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Community Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support she is providing for the (a) provision and (b) enhancement of community transport.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he will take to ensure community groups are central to the delivery of local power plans.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support the growth of community owned energy projects.

12 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is planning to introduce targeted measures to tackle the specific challenges for patients with less survivable cancers through the National Cancer Plan.

12 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Research

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

12 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Clinical Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand patient access to clinical trials for (a) less survivable cancers and (b) pancreatic cancer.

27 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Religious Hatred: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has considered (a) recognising and (b) establishing a definition of anti-Sikh hate.

27 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Hate Crime: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has provided to Sikh community organisations to address hate crimes in each of the last five years.

27 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Religious Hatred: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the findings were of the research undertaken by her Department in 2024 on tackling anti-Sikh hate.

27 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Hate Crime: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has asked the Office for National Statistics to use anonymised person-level data from the 2021 census to help improve the accuracy of data on the (a) ethnicity and (b) religion

27 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Religious Hatred

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of (a) anti-Sikh, (b) anti-Muslim and (c) anti-Jewish hate.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department plans to support the LTA in developing covered (a) tennis, (b) padel and (c) multi-sport facilities to help facilitate (i) year-round and (ii) all-weather participation.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to support the development of (a) affordable and (b) accessible padel courts in (i) Birmingham Edgbaston constituency and (ii) other parts of the UK.

16 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tennis: Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to increase the number of (a) indoor and (b) covered tennis facilities in Birmingham Edgbaston constituency.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freehold: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has received recent representations from relevant stakeholders on the potential impact of (a) rent charge clauses and (b) management company practices on h

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freehold: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help protect freeholders from excessive (a) delays and (b) charges imposed by private management companies during property transactions.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Freehold: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) prevalence and (b) potential impact on freehold property sales of restrictive rent-charge clauses used by developers.

22 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities

Jews and Sikhs: Statistics

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to change its policy that recommends excluding Jews and Sikhs from data collected on ethnicity in its ethnicity harmonised standard.

22 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities

Jews and Sikhs: Statistics

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make representations to the ONS on including (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews in their advice to public bodies on using ethnicity categories.

22 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities

Jews and Sikhs: Statistics

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Office for National Statistics not requiring public bodies to collect data on ethnicity for (a) Jews and (b) Sikhs.

22 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities

Jews and Sikhs: Statistics

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to update the ethnicity harmonised standard to include a tick box option for (a) Jews and (b) Sikhs.

17 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Jews and Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data (a) his Department and (b) NHS England hold on the number of (i) Sikh and (ii) Jewish people with late stage cancer diagnoses.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are enrolled on Pension Credit, by (a) religion and (b) ethnic group.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Greater Birmingham and Solihull: Growth Deal, published on 7 July 2014, how much funding was (a) allocated and (b) provided for the Hagley Road SPRINT project.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Birmingham Edgbaston constituency were enrolled on Pension Credit in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.

17 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices (a) opened and (b) closed in (i) Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, (ii) Birmingham and (iii) the West Midlands between May 2010 and June 2024.

17 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent NHS dentists were employed in (a) Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2024.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme: Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in Birmingham Edgbaston constituency will receive funding from the school rebuilding programme.

Source: official written-questions record.