Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing full funding for specialist palliative (a) care, (b) advice and (c) assessment provided by hospices.

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide adequate funding to hospices to increase staff pay in line with agreed NHS pay rises.

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that hospice contracts reflect the cost of (a) the services they provide and (b) the needs of their local populations.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Human Rights: Palestine

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by the UN entitled A/HRC/59/23 - From economy of occupation to economy of genocide

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of students who no longer have access to assistive software following the removal of non-specialist spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allo

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with students on the potential impact of the removal of non-specialist spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowance funding.

29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to identify potential UK links to the business interests of the (a) Rapid Support Forces and (b) Sudanese Armed Forces.

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

Livestock: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of processes for transferring animals between the EU and UK for breeding conservation programmes.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of suspending the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement, in the context of the human rights situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support victims of sexual (a) violence and (b) torture in Sudan.

29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with international partners to end the conflict in Sudan.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Israeli Settlements

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that the Charity Commission requires that charities do not invest in illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Artificial Intelligence: Media

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help tackle the impact of artificial intelligence on the (a) sustainability and (b) accuracy of news media.

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish Universal Credit sanction statistics broken down by (a) ethnic sub-group, (b) whether a respondent meets the definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010, (c) whether the res

9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the completion rate for the Universal Credit optional equality questions on the (a) ethnic sub-group, (b) whether the respondent meets the definition of disabili

26 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions she has had with Homes England on building accessible homes.

26 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to open the technical consultation on the M4(2) requirement in building regulations.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Media: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve community access to media literacy education.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Media: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to improve media literacy education in schools.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of learning through play in early years education.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to roll out family hubs in Battersea constituency.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on energy affordability for disabled people.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to respond to her Department's consultation entitled Pavement parking: options for change, that closed on 22 November 2020.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2025 to Question 52657 on Immigration: EU Nationals, whether her Department collects any data on the ethnicity of applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60089 on Artificial Intelligence: Copyright, when he plans to publish a response to his Department's consultation on Copyright and Art

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he has taken to protect creatives from copyright infringements by Artificial Intelligence developers.

16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Israel Defence Forces: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of suspending military training to members of the Israeli Defence Forces.

3 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Women

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps Government Departments have taken to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of black girls participating in sport.

2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Homes England allocate appropriate funding for developments that provide new wheelchair accessible homes.

Source: official written-questions record.