Written questions

1,993 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Affordable Housing: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to increase the level of affordable housing in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Manchester Rusholme constituency.

4 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to community safety initiatives in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Manchester Rusholme constituency in the 2024-25 financial year.

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

Housing: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support local authorities to provide infrastructure alongside new housing developments in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Manchester Rusholm

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

Housing: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department has provided for local infrastructure projects related to housing development in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Manchester Rusholme constituency i

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations her Department has received from Manchester City Council on the (a) funding and (b) quality of SEND provision in Greater Manchester in the last five years.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support SEND transport providers in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) nationally.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving responsible access to nature in Greater Manchester.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recreation Spaces: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on improving access to parks and green spaces.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Young People: Manchester Rusholme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to involve young people in the development of the National Youth Strategy in the Manchester Rusholme constituency.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking through (a) recruitment and (b) retention practices to increase the diversity of the maternity healthcare professional workforce.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Strokes: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to allocate capital funding to improve stroke care infrastructure in Greater Manchester.

4 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the (a) availability and (b) eligibility requirements for NHS ADHD medication.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Sickle Cell Diseases: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of levels of research and development funding for sickle cell disorder.

2 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Small Businesses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to support the growth of small and micro businesses in the hospitality sector.

25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle disparities in prostate cancer outcomes for Black men.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure the Warm Homes Plan reaches low-income households.

20 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Safety and Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the benefit of including measures to repair (a) poor-quality and (b) unsafe unsafe existing housing stock in the upcoming housing strategy,.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the graduate route in promoting the UK as an international study destination.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Bicycles: Antidumping Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with representatives from (a) the cycle manufacturing industry and (b) cycle manufacturing industries outside the UK on anti-dumping duties on (i) e-bikes, (ii) bicycles

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Electric Bicycles: Antidumping Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recent European Commission decision to extend anti-dumping duties on e-bikes from China for another five years.

19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Transfusion Services: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to invest in new technologies and innovations to enhance the efficiency and resilience of the UK’s blood supply chain.

19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Transfusion Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has made available to improve the UK's whole blood processing and plasma collection capacities.

19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has conducted a risk assessment on the potential impact of (a) future pandemics and (b) geopolitical disruption to the UK's blood stocks; and what contingency plans are in place for thes

19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Migrants: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of local authorities providing crisis support to families affected by No Recourse to Public Funds conditions.

19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Migrants: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on local authority budgets of providing crisis support to families impacted by No Recourse to Public Funds conditions.

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timetable is for the completion of the migration of casework operations to the new ATLAS system.

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

Deposit Return Schemes: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on aligning the UK-wide bottle return scheme with the planned scheme for Wales.

19 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 make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing extended producer responsibility collection targets for glass bottles to 90%.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

University of Manchester: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the work produced by the University of Manchester’s Unit M initiative.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Curriculum: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to make (a) blood, (b) plasma, (c) platelet, (d) organ, (e) stem cell and (f) tissue donation a mandatory part of the curriculum for primary and secondary school children.

Source: official written-questions record.