Written questions
1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered creating a national identity card system.
15 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Poverty: Basic Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what lessons she has learnt from international trials on Universal Basic Income on (a) employment rates and (b) poverty levels.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
University of Edinburgh
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupie
11 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Procurement: International Humanitarian Law
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied
11 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Procurement: International Humanitarian Law
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied
11 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Procurement: International Humanitarian Law
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the recent UN report A/HRC/59/23 entitled, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories o
11 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Occupied Territories: Overseas Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the UN report entitled A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
8 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Social Services: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of immigration salary thresholds for staff currently employed in the social care sector.
8 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) nursing staff and (b) allied health professionals will be exempt from planned changes to the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain.
8 Jul 2025 · Home Office
NHS: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether overseas NHS staff on band three Agenda for Change pay will be eligible for visa renewals under current immigration salary requirements.
8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of immigration salary thresholds on the number of overseas NHS staff on band three Agenda for Change pay.
8 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Furniture Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she will take to tackle the impact of furniture poverty on children in low-income families; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of furnished tenan
8 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of introducing furnished tenancies in social housing on costs to the public purse.
8 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the new Decent Homes Standard will include a requirement that at least 10% of social homes are let as furnished.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Police Cadets
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the funding to the Volunteer Police Cadets scheme on (a) police recruitment, (b) youth engagement and (c) community trust
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Police Cadets
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of former Volunteer Police Cadets have gone on to careers in (a) policing, (b) the NHS, (c) the fire and rescue service and (d) youth and community work.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Police Cadets
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Volunteer Police Cadets have joined the police service in each of the last five years for which data is available; and if she will publish a breakdown of the ethnic background of new j
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Police Cadets
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the Volunteer Police Cadets scheme on improving (a) recruitment from underrepresented ethnic groups and (b) diversity within the police workfor
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to help prevent the misuse of ID card data by (a) public authorities and (b) third-party contractors.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential risk of data breaches associated with the centralised storage of ID card information.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the cost to the public purse of (a) implementing and (b) maintaining a national ID card scheme in each of the next ten years.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of ID card systems in other countries on the prevention of (a) crime and (b) terrorism.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards: Privacy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with civil liberties organisations on (a) national security and (b) the right to privacy in relation to Government ID cards.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) reviewed research on the potential impact of mandatory ID card schemes on public trust in (i) the police and (ii) other state authorities.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Identity Cards: Privacy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications of a national ID card scheme on levels of (a) public surveillance and (b) personal privacy.
7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Serco: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts held by Serco were extended or renewed between 2020 and 2025; and whether any of those extensions were granted despite outstanding performance concerns.
7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Serco: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the government has ever issued a formal warning to Serco under the Strategic Supplier Risk Management Policy.
7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Serco: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department maintains a centralised record of contract performance issues relating to Serco.
7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Contracts: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has issued on the steps that should be taken when a strategic supplier fails to meet performance expectations on more than one contract.
7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Serco: Contracts
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Serco’s previous performance is taken into account during procurement evaluations for new contracts.
Source: official written-questions record.