Written questions
514 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the information Lord Mandelson provided as part of the vetting process for his appointment to UK Ambassador to the United States impacted his dismissal from that role.
12 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether Lord Mandelson was investigated for misconduct under the Civil Servant Code.
12 Mar 2026 · Treasury
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to pages 106 and 107 of the Part of a Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 4 February 2026 relating to the appointment of Lord Mandelson as HM Ambassador to Washington, Volume 1,
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Codes of Practice
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has provided guidance to Cabinet colleagues on recording overlay advice to Ministers.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his statement on Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address Motion of 11 March 2026, Official Report, Column 360, which document had a limited redaction.
12 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, further to the Part of a Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 4 February 2026 relating to the appointment of Lord Mandelson as HM Ambassador to W
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lobbying
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Ethics and Integrity Commission plans to undertake a public consultation on the review into lobbying, disclosure and access to government.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who was interviewed by the General Counsel to the Prime Minister in his fact-finding exercise in the context of the return to the Humble Address; and how many people were interviewed.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he considers papers relating to Global Counsel to be in scope of the response to the Humble Address of 4 February 2026.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Propriety and Ethics Team who produced the due diligence on Lord Mandelson were involved in the substantive response to the Humble Address motion of 4 February 2026.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Peers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2026 to Question 116167 on Peers, whether a sitting peer removed from the Roll of the Peerage is eligible to be receive a Writ of Summons from the Lord Chancellor to Parliament.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Welfare State
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to extend Universal Basic Services across government.
12 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
10 Downing Street: Libraries
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Prime Minister to reinstate the conventions on the Prime Minister's Library and the policy of acquisitions from current and former members of the Cabinet.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Propriety and Constitution Group: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025 to Question 94697, whether the temporary promotion to the Director General position was made via full and open competition.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the consultation entitled Making public services work for you with your digital identity, of 10 March 2026, CP1498, whether there are circumstances in which private companies would have access
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been for the recruitment and deployment of reconciliation teams from other Departments to assist Capita in managing the backlog of pension queries; and whether this cost wil
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many documents due to be disclosed in the Government’s response to the Humble Address will not be disclosed until after the legal proceedings being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.
11 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) sale and (b) marketing of meat-branded products that do not contain meat will be permitted under the proposed sanitary and phytosanitary deal with the EU; and whether o
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 17 of the Civil Service Recruitment Framework, updated 2022, whether the appointment of a Senior Civil Servant SCS3 (a) on temporary promotion and (b) without open and fair competitio
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the consultation paper on Digital ID, published on 10 March 2026, CP1498, which company will be administering the People’s Panel for Digital ID; and what cost the cost will be.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Intelligence and Security Committee has authority to publish unredacted information from the Government response to the Humble Address if it disagrees with the Government’s proposed redactions.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine proposed (a) national security and (b) international relation redactions in the context of the Government’s response to the humble Address laid before the H
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the Cabinet Office consultation paper on Digital ID, 10 March 2026, CP1498, whether the People’s Panel for Digital ID participants will be paid; what is the minimum page to participate on the panel; a
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2025, to Question 22450, on Cabinet Office: Senior Civil Servants, what is the maximum amount of time that a Senior Civil Servant can remain in post on a temporary promotion.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2026, to Question 111183, on Prime Minister: Correspondence, and the associated reply of 13 February 2026, what is the timetable for the Government responding to the formal
11 Mar 2026 · Treasury
Bank Notes: Design
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has had discussions with the Bank of England on the potential impact of the removal of historic British figures from the new series of banknotes on British national identity.
11 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Lord Mandelson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister was advised of the letter sent by Lord Glasman to Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden on the appointment of Lord Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States.
10 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office
Ian Horobin
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 March 2026, to Question 115872, on Peerages, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the removal of Sir Ian Horobin from the peerage in 1962.
25 Feb 2026 · Home Office
Jeffrey Epstein
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of whether Jeffery Epstein was (a) passing information to the Russian Government and (b) was otherwise compromised by Russian hostile actors.
25 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Life Peers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling announced life peerages to be withdrawn before Letters Patent.
Source: official written-questions record.