Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on joining up NHS records so a patient's vaccination history is recorded all in one place.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what performance improvement targets he has sought from the MHRA on bringing down the licensing backlog of generic and biosimilar medicine applications.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the role of (a) generic, (b) biosimilar and (c) off-patent medicines in addressing medicine shortages.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of vaccination rates for routine childhood immunisations in (a) Birmingham, Edgbaston, (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of vaccination rates among babies and children for tuberculosis in (a) Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency, (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midland

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tuberculosis: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of tuberculosis in (a) Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands.

6 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Pakistani counterpart on (a) the treatment of religious minorities and (b) restrictions on religious expression for Hindu students in

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Household Support Fund.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to reproductive healthcare services.

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

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including (a) the Cane Corso and (b) crossbreeds between a Cane Corso and a Rottweiler under S.1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.

7 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British International Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of British International Investment's new investments were 2X qualified in the last financial year; and what proportion of those had (a) 51% wome

7 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British International Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of British International Investment’s new investments were counted as international climate finance in the last financial year.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the pause in spending on (a) overseas development assistance and (b) humanitarian aid.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterparts on cooperation on (a) overseas development assistance and (b) humanitarian aid.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the pause in USAID spending.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the pause in USAID spending on (a) jointly-funded UK-US programmes and (b) multilateral (i) organisations and (ii) init

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help promote the creation of AI infrastructure including (a) data centres and (b) high-performance computing to support the growth of AI technologies in (i) B

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Commonwealth: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve development cooperation within the Commonwealth.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

EU Aid: International Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve development cooperation with the European Union.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Africa: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to develop an Africa strategy.

28 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) countries and (b) regions he is prioritising for the allocation of official development assistance.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help establish international partnerships in AI research and development.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help promote the development of AI infrastructure including (a) data centres and (b) high-performance computing facilities to support the growth of AI technol

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help improve AI skills in the workforce.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of AI Growth Zones on AI capabilities in the UK.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment has he made of the AI skills gap.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of updating the national mandatory standard for the (a) collection and (b) analysis of ethnicity to include (i) Jewish, (

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services allow patients to identify as (a) Sikh under ethnicity questions and (b) Sikhism as their religion.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Jews

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services allow patients to identify as (a) Jewish under ethnicity questions and (b) Judaism as their religion.

27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Jews

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing recommendation 6 of the NHS Race & Health Observatory's report entitled Review of NHS health communications with (and for) the Je

Source: official written-questions record.