Written questions

1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will enter t

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Cost Benefit Analysis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the RNIB on its report entitled Access to Work - Cost benefit analysis, published on 5 September 2015, in the context of her Department's consultation on its Green Pape

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants who were (a) overpaid and (b) underpaid due to (i) claimant error and (ii) government error in 2024.

19 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Ali Kololo

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Metropolitan Police on the case of Ali Kololo.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Oral Statement of 26 February 2025 on Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 2 Report, Official Report, whether she plans to take steps to enforce personal emergency

27 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Private Rented Housing: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of right to rent checks on non-UK passport holders on (a) the private rental sector and (b) levels of homelessness in Battersea.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

West Bank: Culture and Educational Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterparts on Israeli settler attacks on (a) schools, (b) higher education facilities and (c) cultural institutions in t

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Culture and Educational Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he plans to take to mitigate the impact of the destruction of educational and cultural facilities in Gaza.

26 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions to overseas aid on the levels of resilience to (a) conflict and (b) climate shocks among civilian population

26 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he makes of the potential impact of proposed reductions in official development assistance on future trends in the levels of (a) violence against women and gi

26 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of proposed reductions in official development assistance on future trends in the level of preventable sight loss in

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health and Care Act 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expediting the implementation of section 95 of the Health and Care Act 2022 on the rights of disabled people.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of making the NHS Accessible Information Standard mandatory in all NHS England health and social care settings on the ability of (a) deaf and (b)

13 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help meet (a) climate and (b) nature targets.

13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help prevent fraudulent fire safety certificates.

24 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Battersea

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve pupil attendance at SEND schools in Battersea constituency.

20 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to reduce outcome waiting times for applications to the EU Settlement Scheme.

20 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Disability: Cost of Living

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of the potential impact of increasing cost-of-living support for disabled people on the wider economy.

19 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what further steps he plans to take to encourage the Egyptian authorities to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

13 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police Custody and Stop and Search: Body Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing data on whether illicit objects were found during strip searches (a) in police custody and (b) during police stop and searches by (

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments for children under 19 years were (a) cancelled and (b) missed because the patient did not attend in 2023-24.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to outpatient paediatric ophthalmology of (a) cancelled appointments and (b) appointments missed because the patient did not attend in 2023-24.

10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will require NHS England to publish Referral To Treatment waiting times for (a) glaucoma, (b) macular degeneration and (c) other irreversible sight loss conditions separately from minor and r

9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) assessment of and (b) access to specialist treatments for rare diseases.

6 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eyesight: Rare Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients living with rare inherited retinal diseases receive (a) timely and (b) equitable access to new treatments.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Clapham Junction Station: Northern Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with the Mayor of London on the potential merits of connecting Clapham Junction station to the Northern line.

2 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Body Searches: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to tackle disproportionate use of full strip searches during stop and searches of (a) Black, (b) Asian and (c) other ethnic minority people.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to consult organisations led by disabled people on the reforms set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper.

28 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to consult organisations led by disabled people on an accessibility road map for rail travel.

28 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Arms Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will conduct a further review with Cabinet colleagues into the compatibility of the Government's export licences to Israel with its obligations under international huma

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