Written questions

422 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coastal Areas: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Marine Management Organisation is taking to ensure that cumulative impacts of offshore developments are properly assessed in relation to fisheries.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Southern Water: Thames Estuary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will conduct a review of Southern Water’s stakeholder engagement with local fisheries on (a) pollution and discharge events and (b) development in Thames Estuary.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle illegal shellfish harvesting in English coastal waters.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Shellfish

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of levels of illegal shellfish harvesting in (a) English coastal waters and (b) Whitstable.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Marine Management organisation is taking to ensure fair and proportionate enforcement across domestic and foreign flagged vessels operating in UK inshore waters.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review conflict of interest rules within the IFCA framework to ensure the industry appointed members can meaningfully contribute to decisions whilst maintaining tra

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure full and transparent consultation with the under 14m fishing fleet before mandating Remote Electronic Monitoring as a licence condition.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of forthcoming legislation relating to IVMS licensing on small-scale shellfish fisheries.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Marine Management Organisation is taking to ensure (a) adequate support and (b) fair enforcement of the IVMS license condition for under 12m vessels.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ministry of Defence: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with the Ministry of Defence to deliver the target to protect and manage 30 per cent of the land and sea for nature by 2030.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fossil Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to end the (a) exploration, (b) extraction, (c) export and (d) import of fossil fuels by the United Kingdom.

17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Nature Conservation: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her Department's policy that all planning decisions should adhere to the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that the country’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions minimises damage to ecosystems.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Climate and Nature Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to take forward the spirit and substance of the Climate and Nature Bill.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Health: Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of equity of access for children to healthcare checks in independent schools in the UK.

16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role neighbourhood mental health centre pilot schemes will play in improving (a) care and (b) support for people living with bipolar; and whether these centres will provide specialist support

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Wombs: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of including wombs on the list of routine organ donations included for transplant by the NHS on women's health.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pregnancy: Immunosuppression

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of taking immunosuppressant drugs in cases of pregnancy after organ transplant on babies in utero.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will mandate the compulsory listing of health risks on adverts placed by the NHS and fertility clinics which seek egg donors.

18 Mar 2025 · Women and Equalities

Government Departments: Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will meet representatives of the Sex Equality and Equity Networks.

18 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Canterbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the sale of his Department's Old Park and Chequers Wood site in Canterbury on levels of biodiversity.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the NHS review of adult gender dysphoria clinics to report its findings.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what services his Department and the NHS offer to people choosing to detransition.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on which (a) cognitive behavioural therapy, (b) family therapy, (c) exploratory therapy and (d) other non-medical treatments are offered to young people by NHS

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hormone Treatments: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of new prescriptions issued by NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Services for (a) oestrogen and (b) testosterone to young people aged 16-18

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surrogacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet representatives of women and children's rights groups to discuss proposals announced by the Law Commission on 29 March 2023 in relation to surrogacy.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria is being used to select the body administering funding from the statutory gambling levy.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Zoonoses: Furs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the publication entitled Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential,

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Drax Power: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the finding by Ofgem that Drax had misreported data in relation to their annual profiling submission between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, published on 29 August 2024, whe

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Drax Power Station: Timber

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the KPMG interim investigation of December 2022 into Drax Power Station’s claims for government subsidy.

Source: official written-questions record.