Written questions
1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for urgent NHS operations in cases where patients are waiting significantly beyond the clinically recommended timeframe.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department collects data on (a) errors and (b) false positives arising from algorithmic fraud detection tools.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit decisions made using (a) automated and (b) AI-assisted systems have been overturned on appeal since 2020.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in its use of AI systems in public services.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether benefit claimants are informed when their claims are assessed using algorithmic tools.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any of the algorithmic systems used by her Department are subject to independent oversight.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of its use of algorithmic decision-making tools on levels of risk of (a) bias and (b) discrimination.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to eradicate destitution by 2035.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by The Big Issue entitled Poverty Zero, published in June 2025.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing cyclical target-setting for poverty reduction.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce levels of severe poverty.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a judicial-review mechanism to hold the Government accountable for meeting statutory poverty reduction targets.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce legally-binding national targets to help reduce levels of child poverty.
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Government’s immigration policies on trends in the level of recruitment of internationally educated nurses into (a) the NHS and (b) soci
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a working time council to explore the wider implementation of a four-day working across the economy.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses transitioning to a four-day working week.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of AI on working hours across sectors.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Productivity
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential for AI-driven productivity gains to support reduced working hours without loss of pay.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Working Hours: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to support a structured forum for businesses to share learning on reduced-hour models.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Working Hours: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the productivity outcomes of the latest four-day week pilot facilitated by the 4 Day Week Foundation.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Working Hours: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the four-day week pilot facilitated by the 4 Day Week Foundation.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, whether he will provide a breakdown of the top 10 countries travelled to by the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, what the ethnic breakdown is of the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel; and what this is as a proportion of (a) total defe
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of routinely publishing data on (a) blood donations and (b) donation deferrals.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if he will publish the ethnic and gender breakdown of the 4,493 donors deferred due to travel as a proportion of (a) total
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if he will publish the combined ethnic and gender breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proporti
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 63048 on Blood: Donors, if she will provide the ethnic breakdown of the 173,574 donors deferred due to Haemoglobin as a proportion of (a) total def
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Work and Pensions and NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Ofcom's decision to allow Royal Mail to cut Saturday deliveries and move to an alternating weekday model for second class letters on t
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Crisis and Resilience Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Crisis and Resilience Fund will include funding for furniture.
15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of applying the Decent Homes Standard to affordable housing.
Source: official written-questions record.