Written questions

1,705 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure adequate provision of apprenticeships in Ashfield constituency.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Cybercrime: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the level of preparedness in the event of a coordinated cyber-attack on public service infrastructure.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Cybercrime: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential risk of a coordinated cyber-attack on public service infrastructure.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure the safety of women and girls on public transport.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the bus fare cap to £2.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Academic Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57348 on Universities: Freedom of Expression, what steps she plans to take in response to breaches of those regulations.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Academic Freedom: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57348 on Universities: Freedom of Expression, what steps she has taken to ensure enforcement of those regulations.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory prison sentences for people operating unregulated care homes for children.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure all wrongly (a) accused and (b) convicted sub-post masters are offered compensation.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure fair and timely compensation payments for wrongly (a) accused and (b) convicted sub-postmasters.

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

Anti-social Behaviour: Multiple Occupation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to strengthen (a) regulatory and (b) enforcement measures on anti-social behaviour in Houses of Multiple Occupancy.

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

Multiple Occupation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce legislation to mandate a national licensing scheme for all Houses of Multiple Occupancy.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to children with dyslexia.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

GCSE: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with dyslexia achieved a grade five or above in (a) English and (b) Maths GCSE in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.

26 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Assessments: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve exam results for children with dyslexia.

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

Housing Estates: Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the average time is for roads in newbuild housing estates to be adopted after their construction.

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

Housing Estates: Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of housing estates built since 2010 that still have unadopted roads in (a) Ashfield, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midland

26 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of notifying residents when asylum seekers are housed in their vicinity.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Chinese funding on universities.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to make more medical school places available for students born in the UK.

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

Housing: Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of immigration on the availability of (a) social housing and (b) private rental housing stock over the next Parliam

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of the Police and Crime Commissioner roles.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Police and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the roles of Police and Crime Commissioner.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) health and (b) economic impact of trained healthcare workers leaving their home country to work in the UK on nations in (i) Eastern Euro

25 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Probation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Probation Service takes to liaise with local residents when convicted paedophiles leave prison and move to local communities.

25 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offences against Children: Probation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Probation Service will introduce a ban on convicted paedophiles living within a five-mile radius of (a) schools and (b) nurseries.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of informing residents when convicted paedophiles move into local communities.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Universities: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Qatari funding on British universities.

23 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the reasons for the Office for Budget Responsibility's projected fall in tobacco revenue between (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24; and if she will review the tobacco excise model.

23 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the (a) reasons for trends in and (b) potential impact of smoking rates on the level of duty paid on tobacco sales in the 2023-24 financial year.

Source: official written-questions record.