Written questions

299 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role his Department plans for hospices to play in shifting care into the community.

14 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether long-term reform hospice care funding will be included in the NHS 10-year plan.

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BetIndex and Football Index: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 44518 on BetIndex and Football Index, if she will introduce a regulator levy to fund compensation for people who lost money through the collaps

29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Givinostat

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with NHS England on the reason that some NHS Trusts are not yet offering access to givinostat through the Early Access Programme.

29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Givinostat

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all eligible NHS Trusts participate in the Early Access Programme for givinostat.

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cultural Heritage

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to take steps to modernise (a) heritage and (b) community protection schemes to support (i) nightclubs, (ii) grassroots music venues and (iii) other contemporary cult

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Cultural Heritage

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure (a) listing and National Portfolio programmes and (b) other heritage and community protection schemes reflect (i) nightclubs, (ii) music venues and (

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Child Poverty Strategy of Parentkind's report entitled The Missing Chapter, published in March 2025.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the 2025-2026 pay review for NHS staff.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Fruit Juices: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to extend the suspension of customs tariffs on fruit juices after June 2026.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Digital Technology: Subscriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had meetings with providers of digital content subscription services on the potential impact of proposals on cooling-off rights within the new subscription contract regime under the Digi

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Digital Technology: Subscriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help mitigate the potential impact of his Department's proposals for cooling-off rights within the subscription contract regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Con

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Digital Technology: Subscriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has received representations from providers of digital content subscription services on the potential impact of proposals on cooling-off rights within the new subscription contra

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Press: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to consult on reforms to press regulation.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Press: Misconduct

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that people affected by press wrongdoing have access to redress.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to help social media companies implement (a) C2PA Content Credentials and (b) other provenance standards to help (i) tackle disinformation

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to take steps to prevent social media companies from removing (a) C2PA Content Credentials and (b) other provenance metadata from content in order to help (

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BetIndex and Football Index

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a regulator levy to fund compensation for people who lost money through the collapse of Football Index and BetIndex.

4 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Change of Use: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support the conversion of (a) vacant and (b) underused mills into (i) housing and (ii) commercial space in (A) Bury North constituency and

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Horticulture: Peat

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to support the horticultural sector in the peat free transition.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) protect the health of (i) women and (ii) the public generally from chemical pollution and (b) promote (A) research, (B) regulation and (C) pu

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on the Women's Health Strategy in relation to (a) healthy lifestyle choices, (b) breast cancer and (c) women's health generally.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address health inequalities in breast cancer prevention by ensuring that women in disadvantaged areas have (a) safe and (b) affordable access to (i) facilitie

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average amount of money families would receive if the two-child limit was rescinded.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the two-child limit policy on recent trends in the levels of child poverty.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Hearing Impairment: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Early Language Support for Every Child pilot programme on improved outcomes for deaf babies and children.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing Impairment: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) investing in auditory verbal therapy and (b) expanding access to support for deaf children and their families.

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing Impairment: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue guidance to ICBs on providing equality of access to auditory verbal therapy for deaf babies and young children.

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

Glass: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that fees under the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme are sustainable for businesses using glass packaging.

7 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Public Houses: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to encourage (a) investment and (b) growth in the beer and pub sector through reforming business rates.

Source: official written-questions record.