Written questions

519 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the ability of motor finance lenders to adhere to the forthcoming redress scheme.

15 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Financial Services: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Financial Conduct Authority and (b) Financial Ombudsman Service’s recent changes to compensatory interest.

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) incomplete and (b) missing lender records dating back to 2007 on the ability of consumers to be (i) identified and (ii) compensated under the car finance r

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sanctions are currently available to the Financial Conduct Authority if lenders fail to meet their obligations under the motor finance redress scheme; and whether the Treasury plans to review the adequacy of th

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) people with mental health difficulties, (b) caring responsibilities, (c) financial hardship and (d) other vulnerable consumers are not disproportionately affected during t

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Credit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential challenges of a motor finance redress scheme which does not fully reflect consumers’ actual financial losses.

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tour Operators and Travel Agents: Economic Growth

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help support economic growth for (a) travel agents and (b) tour operators.

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourism

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the forthcoming National Visitor Economy Strategy will include consideration of the role and growth potential of the UK outbound travel industry.

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourism

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help (a) recognise and (b) support the outbound travel industry.

8 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Glioblastoma: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to promote research into treatments for glioblastoma.

8 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glioblastoma: Diagnosis and Mortality Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on a) diagnosis and b) survival rates for glioblastoma.

1 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Education Cannot Wait and Global Partnership for Education: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of maintaining investment in the Global Partnership for Education and Education Cannot Wait in advance of their 2026 replenishments.

17 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Post Offices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans she has to facilitate discussions between Post Office and the major banks on expanding in-person banking services at post offices.

17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a data-driven system to (a) identify and (b) address disparities in the early diagnosis of cancer.

17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Cancer: Diagnosis and Monitoring

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to improve early identification and monitoring of precursor conditions for blood cancer, such as MGUS and smoldering myeloma.

17 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Child Nutrition Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the Child Nutrition Fund to ensure safe and nutritious diets are accessible to more women and children.

17 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Child Nutrition Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much she has (a) committed and (b) disbursed to the Child Nutrition Fund.

17 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the results-based target for improving nutrition for women and children is measurable and time-bound.

17 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to increase research funding into new (a) tools and (b) other technologies for the earlier diagnosis of (i) pancreatic, (ii) lung, (iii) liver, (iv) stomach, (v) brain,

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to launch a consultation on the new Local Authority Designated Officer handbook.

22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Motor Neurone Disease: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to innovative treatments for people with SOD1 motor neurone disease.

19 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment her Department has mad

19 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 10 of Young Lives vs Cancer’s report entitled The cost of waiting, published in March 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of average time from diagnosis

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the distances travelled and (b) costs incurred by children and young people travelling to principle treatment centres in London; and what assessment h

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Young Lives vs Cancer's report entitled A young cancer patient travel fund, published in February 2024, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) trends in levels of tr

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the crown court backlog.

28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce variations in access to treatments approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for advanced and complex Parkinson’s Disease.

28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that Parkinson’s Disease services across England are supported to provide the full range of NICE-approved treatment options to eligible patients in

28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking within current NHS workforce planning to improve uptake of digital consultations for Parkinson’s patients as a mechanism to reduce neurology waiting times and re

28 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help tackle shortages across the Parkinson’s disease specialist workforce and (b) assess how current workforce shortages are impacting the delivery of mul

Source: official written-questions record.