Written questions
1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Hazardous Substances: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to develop a list of hazardous medicinal products and require safety data sheets for finished medicines.
17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Hazardous Substances
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of nurses and other healthcare professionals currently exposed to hazardous medicinal products.
14 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme: Housing and Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the answer received to question 87406 on the 11th November 2025 on Legal Aid Scheme: Housing and Immigration, whether the uplift will be backdated, once the system is back up and running, to a date wh
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Firewood: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce further restrictions on domestic wood burning in urban areas with poor air quality.
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential public health impact of excess nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel vehicles fitted with defeat devices since 2015.
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Roads: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to provide (a) additional funding and (b) guidance to local authorities to support the expansion of School Streets schemes across England.
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Roads: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of School Streets schemes on (a) reducing air pollution and (b) improving child health outcomes.
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to ensure that vehicles fitted with illegal emissions defeat devices are (a) recalled and (b) rectified at no cost to the vehicle owner.
12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of diesel vehicles in the UK that are fitted with illegal defeat devices.
12 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the £40 million Trust Fund for Chagossians under the agreement with Mauritius forms part of the £40 million support package for Chagossians pledged in 2016.
11 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Airlines: Passports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with airline companies to ensure passengers are informed of any potential passport validity issues prior to their trip.
11 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Passports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of travellers denied travel due to passport validity issues.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of sickle cell disease amongst the Latin American and Latinx community.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has discussions with NHS Blood and Transplant on the potential merits of including Latin American as a monitored ethnicity at the Brixton donation centre.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sickle Cell Diseases: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase diagnosis of sickle cell amongst patients of Latin American descent.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason 'Latin American' is not listed as an ethnicity option on blood donation forms.
11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase blood donations among Latin American people in (a) Lambeth and (b) the rest of the UK.
10 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Cannabis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies have a licence to grow cannabis in the UK.
10 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Cannabis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many legal cannabis farms there are in the UK.
10 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Military Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary (i) expenditure and (ii) other commitments to international humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations in each year since 2015-16.
10 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Caribbean: Hurricanes and Tornadoes
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions the has had with the Royal Navy on the role of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in the humanitarian aid and disaster relief operation in the Caribbean in the wake of Hurricane Melissa.
10 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Almshouses: Tenants' Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to bring almshouse residents’ rights in line with tenants' rights.
10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Cuba
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting a formal bilateral exchange of medical expertise between Cuba and the United Kingdom to promote health equity.
10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Genetics and Public Health: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of collaboration between UK and Cuban research institutions on (a) public health and (b) genetic medicine.
10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of international cooperation in healthcare.
10 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cuba: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of steps taken by the US to discourage third countries from engaging with (a) the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade and (b) oth
5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cuba: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) economic and (b) diplomatic merits of ratifying the UK–Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement.
5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cuba: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what is the planned timetable for the ratification of the UK–Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement.
5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cuba: Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress she has made on concluding the inter-departmental consultation process on the UK–Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement.
5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Cuba: Maternity Services and Sickle Cell Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on potential scientific exchange programmes with Cuba on (a) maternal health and (b) si
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