Written questions

1,690 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reallocating police resources currently spent on cannabis-related enforcement to other public safety priorities.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of legal cannabis regulation on the (a) workload and (b) costs associated with drug-related (i) policing, (ii) courts and (iii) prisons.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had on the regulation of cannabis as a means to improve public health outcomes and reduce the burden on the NHS.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a regulated cannabis market on (a) public health and (b) drug-related harms.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an estimate of the potential annual public spending savings that could be achieved through the legal regulation of cannabis.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a legally regulated cannabis market on tax revenue.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the certificate of sponsorship fee on recruitment in the social care sector.

10 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting the adult social care sector from proposed increases in the certificate of sponsorship fee.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of proposed changes to the level of the certificate of sponsorship fee per worker on the adequacy of the funding settleme

4 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Bricks

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce a statutory requirement for swift bricks.

3 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to introduce additional safe and legal routes, in the context of recent changes to its good character caseworker guidance.

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Africa and Asia: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the conservation projects it funds in (a) Africa and (b) Asia do not lead to (i) forced evictions and (ii) violent abuses of Indigeno

28 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Tanzania

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that its development funding in Tanzania is not implicated in the forced evictions of the Maasai people.

27 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

UK Relations with EU

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21018 on UK Relations with EU, which articles of the (a) EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, (b) Northern Ireland protocol, (c) Windsor Framework and (d) EU-UK Trade

26 Feb 2025 · Women and Equalities

Older People: Advocacy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Commissioner for Older People.

25 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Rents: Inflation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the level of rent inflation on economic growth.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Carr-Hill formula in allocating funding for GP practices in areas with high levels of deprivation.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of the mechanisms in place for ICBs to hold Swift Queue to account for faulty services.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the number of registered GPs not in employment; and whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of unemployed GPs.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in employer National Insurance contributions on GPs.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs have been employed under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the number of haemopoietic stem cell transplants sourced from the UK.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS is of sourcing a haematopoietic stem cell donation from the UK Aligned Stem Cell Registry compared to stem cell donation imports from United States, Germany and Poland; and

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of haemopoietic stem cell transplant performed by the NHS were from UK registered donors between 1 October 2024 to 31 December 24 or the last three months for which data is availabl

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescriptions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason rheumatoid arthritis patients are not entitled to free NHS prescriptions; and if he will take steps to review the eligibility for free prescriptions for those patients.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the safety of female cyclists travelling after dark.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the emissions reduction potential of nuclear energy for the Clean Power 2030 plan.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate the Government has made of the cost of nuclear energy relative to renewable sources of power.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Small Modular Reactors: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Government plans to subsidise the building of small modular reactors.

Source: official written-questions record.