Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

F-35 Aircraft: Components

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of steps taken by his Department to (a) track the final destination of F-35 components and (b) ensure F-35 components are not used by the Israeli military.

30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment in the her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Suppor

30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce child poverty in Battersea constituency.

30 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Genocide

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made any (a) formal or (b) informal assessment of the potential risk of genocide in Gaza.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the autologous serum eyedrop service will continue following the abolition of NHS England.

15 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Border Force collects data on the ethnicity of people (a) held or (b) delayed in excess of 30 minutes at the UK border.

15 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department collects data on the ethnicity of applicants for (a) settled and (b) pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

15 May 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what quality controls her Department has put in place to help ensure that people accessing their digital immigration status receive accurate information.

14 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of medical equipment shortages on (a) hospital discharges and (b) patients in community care settings.

14 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will have discussions with the Israeli government on the bombing of the European Hospital in Khan Younis on 13 May 2025.

30 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Agnes Wanjiru

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help ensure accountability for the killing of Agnes Wanjiru.

30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will consult with blind and partially sighted patients on potential accessibility improvements to the NHS App.

30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help tackle barriers to the safe use of medical devices for the management of diabetes among partially sighted and blind people.

30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in reviewing (a) guidance and (b) regulations for the (i) licen

29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 32209 on Health and Care Act 2022, when he expects the Accessible Information Standard to (a) be published and (b) become mandatory.

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

Housing: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support leaseholders living in buildings under 11 meters with cladding remediation works.

24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

West Bank: Culture and Educational Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34309, what steps his Department has taken to promote accountability for attacks on schools in the Occupied Palestinian Territo

24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Educational Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34309, when he last raised the destruction of (a) schools and (b) higher education facilities in Gaza with his Israeli counterp

23 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Disabled

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the cross-government Health Mission Board plans to take to help tackle the impact of poverty on the health of disabled people.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of state primary schools with an onsite library.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of adding data collection on libraries in schools to the school census.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage children to read for pleasure.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Disability Confident scheme employers employing at least one disabled person.

3 Apr 2025 · Women and Equalities

Disability: Employment

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of assessing employers' compliance with the (a) recruitment and (b) employment of disabled people duties of the Equality Act 2010.

3 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Correspondence

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of including information on the Access to Work scheme in correspondence from HMRC to employers.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

National Careers Service: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including specific provision for blind and partially sighted young people in the National Careers Service.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Voluntary Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of helping blind and partially sighted people by extending the Access to Work scheme to formal volunteering placements.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Visual Impairment: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing sight loss training for (a) Access to Work advisors and (b) Jobcentre Plus staff.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to enforce minimum Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he makes of the effectiveness of safeguards to protect tenants from (a) rent increases and (b) evictions following upgrades to Energy Performance ratings by landlords.

Source: official written-questions record.