Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Mar 2025 · Home Office
British Nationality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for naturalisation as a British citizen took longer than the six month service standard in the latest reporting period for which data is available.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Ripple Energy: Consumers
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with (a) Ripple Energy and (b) the administrators of Ripple Energy on protections for the customers of Ripple Energy’s cooperative energy projects.
21 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, whether she plans to publish guidance for parish and town councils on how to engage with her
20 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Great British Energy: Logos
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much his Department spent on redesigning the logo for Great British Energy in 2025.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Business Premises
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of guidance issued by District Valuer Services on the availability of city centre GP premises.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Titanium Salicylate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made any recent assessment of the security of the supply chain of titanium salicylate.
19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Plans: Gardens Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions The Gardens Trust has (a) not provided a timely response to a request for feedback and (b) provided feedback that was in conflict with matters settled in th
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what basis the NHS Business Services Authority decided that expected eligibility to make a choice to revert to legacy scheme benefits under the McCloud remedy should not be considered a disclosu
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has received notification from the NHS Business Services Authority that they will not be able to meet the 31 March 2025 deadline to provide eligible retired members of the NHS Pension Sc
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme who are eligible to make a choice to revert to legacy benefits can present evidence to the NHS Business Services Authority of financial difficulty
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what process the NHS Business Services Authority identifies retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme who are in the greatest financial difficulty for the purposes of inviting them to make an im
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing NHS Pension Scheme members in receipt of pension benefits to choose to revert to legacy scheme benefits if they can evidence financia
14 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Refuges: Bus Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March to Question 36781 on Refuges: Public Transport, what progress she has made on plans she has to explore targeted options for affordable bus travel for (a) women and (b) childre
11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Immunosuppression: Preventive Medicine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to prophylactics for immunocompromised people for whom vaccines are not effective.
11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Domestic Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2024 to Question 404 on Watford Hospital: Construction, whether he plans to visit West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust before 4 July 2025.
11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Primary Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of (a) NHS Capital and (b) District Valuer Services rules in meeting demand for new primary care facilities.
11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Kidney Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the UK becoming a signatory to the World Health Organisation's resolution entitled Reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases through th
11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Watford Hospital: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding has been allocated for the enabling works for Watford General Hospital.
10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 December 2024 to Question 20389 on NHS: Workplace Pensions, how many full time equivalent staff NHSBSA have allocated to administer the remedy implementation for those
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Refuges: Public Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the affordability of public transport for (a) women and (b) children residing in women's refuges.
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Refuges: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has provided funding to children's therapists to support families residing in women's refuges.
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Children: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making tutoring available to children who are temporarily out of school as a result of moving out of area to seek refuge from domestic violence.
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Children: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time was for children fleeing domestic abuse to be allocated a school place in the latest period for which data is available.
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Parking: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to (a) the consultation Managing Pavement Parking, published 31 August 2020 and (b) the update on 29 June 2023 that feedback was being evaluated, whether she plans to publish further information
10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rented Housing: Mould
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of modern dehumidifying technologies can play on tackling damp and mould in the social and private rented housing sectors.
28 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rents: Shared Ownership
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on rent increases for those shared ownership properties not purchased from a registered social lan
28 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of times Capita has made overpayments in relation to (a) tax-free lump sums and (b) regular pension payments for people taking their pension benefits from the
25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surrogacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January to Question 25639 on Surrogacy, whether he plans to respond to the Law Commission’s report on surrogacy in this Parliament.
24 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Elizabeth Emblem
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will launch a consultation on extending the eligibility for the Elizabeth Emblem medal to people who are left severely injured and medically retired in the course of undertaking eligible public service.
24 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 8712 on Animal Welfare, what steps he plans to take to help improve animal welfare.
Source: official written-questions record.