Written questions

1,304 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Universal Credit

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants who have (a) no qualifications, (b) Level 2 qualifications, (c) Level 3 qualifications, (d) Level 4 qualifica

17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the assumptions used to generate the figure of a 5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan re-settlement schemes.

17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2024 to Question 19002 on Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation, how many Afghans are being accommodated on the defence estate.

17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement of 15 July 2025 on Afghanistan, Official Report, column 149-152, whether the £5.5 to 6 billion lifetime cost of the Afghan resettlement schemes includes further family members

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were claiming Universal Credit who were (a) in employment and (b) not in employment and whose immigration status was (i) Common Travel Area - UK, Ireland, Right of Abode, (ii) EU Settlem

14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical school places he expects there to be in each year up to 2031.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Work Experience: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of secondary schools provide two weeks of work experience.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much she plans to spend on the Best Start for Life programme in the (a) 2026-27, (b) 2027-28 and (c) 2028-29 financial years.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the real terms cost to the public purse is of Free School Meals in 2025-26; and what she expects this to be in future years.

14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils she expects to be eligible for Free School Meals (a) this year and (b) in future years.

7 Jul 2025 · Church Commissioners

Church of England: Slavery

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2025 to Question 63010 on Church of England: Slavery, how much has been spent on this project so far.

30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost of the new prison at Gartree in Leicestershire.

30 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industry: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has allocated for the (a) advertising and (b) promotion of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, published 23 June 2025 in the (i) 2025-26 and (ii) 2026-27 financial years;

26 Jun 2025 · Church Commissioners

Church of England: Slavery

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the source of the £100 million fund for healing, repair and justice as part of Project Spire is.

26 Jun 2025 · Church Commissioners

Church of England: Slavery

To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, for what reason the Church Commissioners have spent £5 million on Project Spire prior to approval from the Charity Commission.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

RAF Brize Norton

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is CCTV coverage of the perimeter of RAF Brize Norton.

23 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what projects her Department plans to spend the revenue raised from VAT on independent school fees in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial years; and how much she plans to allocate to each project.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to reinstate two weeks of compulsory work experience in schools.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Plagiarism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of plagiarism in the education sector; and what steps her Department is taking to tackle plagiarism.

19 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in prison for offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) theft offences, (e) criminal damage and arson, (f) drug offences, (g) possession of weapons, (h) pu

22 May 2025 · Department for Education

Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding she plans to provide to (a) the National Careers Service, (b) the Education and Training Foundation, (c) WorldSkills UK and (d) the Careers and Enterprise Company in the 2025-26 academic or fin

9 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antidepressants: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children were prescribed antidepressants in each year since 2007.

7 May 2025 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of looked after children (a) were and (b) were not Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in each year since 2005.

7 May 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's transparency data entitled Breakfast clubs early adopters: schools in the scheme, published on 24 February 2025 and updated on 22 April 2025, for what reason 79 schools are no

2 May 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 28 June 2019 to Question 267249 on Schools: Closures, what the (a) postcode, (b) local authority area and (c) rural and urban classification is of each school that has closed wit

30 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what number and proportion of Level 7 apprenticeship (a) starts and (b) completions were for people aged (i) under 22 and (ii) 22 or over, in each year for which data is available.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the median time taken to register a death was in each (a) integrated care board and (b) local authority area in the most recent six months for which data is available.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled List of schools in the breakfast clubs early adopters scheme, last updated 22 April 2025, for what reason the number of schools participating in the breakfast clubs early

23 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 19000 on Social Services, when the report on the adult social care relative needs formula will be made available on the Adult Social Care Poli

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the (a) postcode, (b) local authority area and (c) rural urban classification for each state school that has closed and not reopened in another form in each year since 2000.

Source: official written-questions record.