Written questions
153 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Feb 2026 · Department for Education
Pupils: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the national approach to behaviour and attendance will include specific guidance on reasonable adjustments for pupils with speech and language challenges.
10 Feb 2026 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the funding for the SEND teacher training programme announced on 16 January 2026 will be allocated to training on speech, language and communication needs.
4 Feb 2026 · Treasury
Drugs: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has directed HMRC to review the application of VAT upon medicines supplied free-of-charge via EAMS and other compassionate access schemes.
4 Feb 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Life Sciences: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of (a) VAT and (b) other taxation on the viability of the life sciences sector.
4 Feb 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Drugs: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with the life sciences sector on the application of VAT on medicines supplied free-of-charge via EAMS and other compassionate access schemes.
4 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Life Sciences
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the correspondence from the Minister for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear to the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, dated 30 January 2026, if he w
2 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made on achieving the Government’s objectives for supporting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises participation in public procurement.
2 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of procurement contracts awarded by each Government Department were to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in each of the last five financial years.
2 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government Commercial Agency is taking to help improve access to Government procurement processes for (a) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and (b) other suppliers with expertise in artificial in
2 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department is taking to facilitate public sector access to Artificial Intelligence expertise through procurement; and how the Government Commercial Agency will (a) identify, (b) accredit and (c) e
2 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport
Parking Offences: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the extent to which enforcement authorities, when rejecting challenges to parking contravention notices during the discount period, re-offer the discount for a further 1
12 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish the full legal texts establishing the MFN mitigations with the US.
12 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 10 December 2025 to Question 97685, whether any additional commitments have been made by the UK in relation to UK-US agreement on pharmaceutical in addition to the increased s
12 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2025 to Question 97256, what his planned timeframe is for the further work to finalise underpinning details to be completed.
10 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the UK is (a) excluded from, (b) partially exempted from and (c) otherwise subject to special treatment under the United States’ Most Favoured Nation drug pricing policy.
10 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether it is still her Department’s policy to finalise s61-64 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022, relating to renewal agreements, by the end of 2025
10 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to publish her Department's response to the consultation entitled Draft regulations to commence Sections 61 to 64 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastru
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the US Trade Representative's press release entitled U.S. Government Announces Agreement in Principle with the United Kingdom on Pharmaceutical Pricing, published on 1 December 2025,
5 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the capped VPAG rate referred to in the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal will only apply to pharmaceutical products of US origin.
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms within the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal will ensure that pharmaceutical products launched in the UK with a lower price than in the US will not trigger Most Favoured Nation rebates.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what legal instrument establishes Most Favoured Nation mitigations in the deal with the US on pharmaceuticals.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the mitigations are under the US Most Favoured Nation drug pricing initiative as referred to in the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Drugs: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Department is responsible for monitoring of pharmaceutical provisions within the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal; and whether he plans to update Parliament on those provisions.
4 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, from which Department’s budget the additional NHS medicines spend following the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal will be funded.
4 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 25% net increase in prices for new medicines and the 15% VPAG repayment cap on annual NHS medicines spend.
25 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Digital Service Providers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to increase interoperability and competitiveness in the domestic cloud market following recent widespread outages caused by dominant providers in the industry.
25 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Internet: Outages
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the economy of recent outages of large-scale cloud providers.
25 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Digital Service Providers: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the level of systemic risk from reliance on two dominant cloud providers following recent outages.
25 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Digital Service Providers: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help ease restrictive licensing practices in relation to software by large cloud providers to ensure that there is fair and open competition in the sector.
25 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Digital Service Providers: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help accelerate the process to designate cloud services with Digital Market Unit's Strategic Market Status to prevent anti-competitive practices i
Source: official written-questions record.