Written questions · Alex Burghart

2 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Office for Value for Money: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis is for the Office for Value for Money making almost £14 billion of annual efficiency gains by 2028-29 against planned day-to-day budgets for 2025-26.

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 August 2025 to Question 62335 on Senior Civil Service: Training, if he will list the external venues that have been authorised for hire since 4 April 2025; and the cost for each hire

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Service: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 11 July 2025, to Question 64830, on Civil Service: Equality, whether his Department has consulted trade unions in relation to planned updates to the Guidance for Civil Service Staff Net

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Members: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timetable is for updating the webpage entitled Salaries of members of His Majesty's Government on gov.uk.

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.

2 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister has any line management responsibilities for (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers in 10 Downing Street; and whether the (i) responsibilities and (ii) remi

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the planned (a) commencement and (b) implementation dates are for each substantive policy provision of the Employment Rights Bill.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Business Secretary announces new DBT non-executive directors, published on 17 December 2024, if he will publish the correspondence to and from

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2024 to Question 54793 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty, whether his Department's spending on the deal will count towards meeting the (a) 2.5 percent and (b) 3 perce

1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2024 to Question 54793 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty, what is the cash terms, monetary value of the Defence payment towards the Chagos deal in each individual yea

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Sovereignty: Chagos Islands

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2024 to Question 54793 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty, what proportion of the costs will come from the (a) Ministry of Defence and (b) Foreign, Commonwealth and Devel

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has a target for the number of staff it plans to employ over the period of the Spending Review.

26 Jun 2025 · Treasury

National Security: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Minister for the Cabinet Office's Oral Statement of 24 June 2025 on the National Security Strategy, Official Report, columns 974-76, what estimate he has made of the proportion of GDP spent on broa

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Departments will be required to produce internal Outcome Delivery Plans (a) to monitor spending outlines in the Spending Review 2025 and (b) as part of the Mission Board delivery programme.

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what metrics are tracked on his Department's internal dashboards; and if he will make it his policy to publish them on gov.uk.

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Correspondence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the standard template for submissions to (a) Cabinet Office Ministers and (b) the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary.

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ethics and Integrity Commission: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the appointment of the (a) chair and (b) members of the Ethics and Integrity Committee will be (i) a regulated public appointment and (ii) subject to Select Committee pre-appointment scrutiny.

25 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Defence: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to (a) amend and (b) review the definitions of (i) defence and (ii) national security spending, for the purposes of (A) statistical and (B) NATO targets.

20 Jun 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Murder of Patrick Finucane Independent Inquiry: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much funding he has allocated to the Finucane Inquiry.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 57308, on Chagos Islands: Sovereignty, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) calculations and (b) analysis produced by the Government Actuary’s Departme

19 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Chagos Islands: Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister’s oral contribution at Prime Minister's Questions on 4 June 2025, Official Report, column 302, what the evidential basis is for the state