Written questions
1,705 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Peng Shuai
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the location of Peng Shuai.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applicants for (a) asylum or (b) refugee status who have had their application refused have been granted humanitarian leave to remain in the last 2 years.
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Climate Change: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which countries were the top 5 recipients of international climate finance from the UK in each of the last 3 years; and how much each of these countries received.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Climate Change: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what was his Departments total spend on international climate finance in each of the last 3 years.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides on the assessments used to decide whether to return a dangerous dog to its owner after it has been seized.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance his Department provides on the assessments used to decide whether to return a dangerous dog to its owner after it has been seized.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Public Houses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support pubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help tackle dog on dog attacks.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if the Government will make an assessment
29 Aug 2025 · Treasury
Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if she will consider the effectiveness of the Family Farm Tax policy.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Business: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, what assessment he has made of trends in
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what region Afghans resettled through the Afghanistan Response Route have been located.
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will publish a list of projects focusing on improving equality, diversity and inclusion abroad that have received UK (a) foreign aid and (b) international d
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much the UK has spent in (a) foreign aid or (b) international development funding on projects on improving equality, diversity and inclusion overseas in the last two year
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of releasing the location of asylum seeker accommodation at the local authority level.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria the Government has when choosing appropriate hotels for asylum seeker accommodation.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of the repurposing of hotels as asylum accommodation on the number of jobs in the accommodation sector in each of the last three years.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Counter-terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the number of people who were (a) referred to the Prevent programme for an initial assessment and (b) did not live in the UK (i) 3 and (ii) 5 years ago in the late
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of illegal cross-Channel migration on the safety of women and girls living in the UK.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent irregular migrants who are living in hotels from being able to go out into the community freely.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Detention Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to house irregular migrants only in secure detention centres.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tuberculosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of tuberculosis have been recorded in each of the last 10 years.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infectious Diseases: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67468 on Diseases: Undocumented Migrants, what information her Department holds on the number of irregular migrants who were found to have an infe
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67468 on Diseases: Undocumented Migrants, what the cost to the public purse was for initial health assessments for irregular migrants in each of t
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department allocated the extra money returned to the Government by local authorities from fines for taking children out of school in each of the last three financial years.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Endometriosis: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) education about and (b) awareness of endometriosis.
21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Recreation Spaces and Wildlife
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on (a) levels of access to green spaces and (b) wildlife.
21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on the effectiveness of procedures for opposing local development.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pesticides: Wildlife
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to introduce a public awareness campaign on the impact of domestic pesticide usage on wildlife.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Trapping: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to enforce the ban on glue traps.
Source: official written-questions record.