Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether UK Government Investments has made a request to Post Office Limited to (a) proceed with moving all directly managed branches to a fully franchised model and (b) expedite the shift of directly m

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Franchises

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made representations with the Post Office to (a) proceed with moving all directly managed branches to a fully franchised model and (b) expedite the shift of directly managed

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 26600 on Parking: Databases, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) retaining the National Parking Platform in the pub

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

Public Lavatories: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require the provision of sanitary waste bins in men's bathrooms.

3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had recent discussions with (a) mortgage lenders and (b) insurers on their approach to (i) mortgages and (ii) building insurance policies relating to buildings th

31 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Testosterone Isocaproate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) adequacy of access to and (b) reliability of the supply of Sustanon in the UK.

31 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many funding applications the National Institute of Health and Care Research received for brain tumour research on (a) diagnosis and screening and (b) drugs and treatment therapies in each of t

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trapping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 10820 on Trapping, what his timetable is for banning the use of snares.

30 Jan 2025 · Treasury

National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority: Public Appointments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority will retain independent commissioners.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish her planned timetable for rolling out the National Parking Platform across England.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Drinking Water: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to re-open water testing Laboratories that are Regulation 31 certified.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployed People: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing assistance for costs to unemployed jobseekers for travelling to in-person interviews for temporary jobs on minimum pay.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Army Cadet Force: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter on UIN 11295 from the Minister for Veterans and People to the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, dated 19 November 2024, and pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Q

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time to answer a customer telephone call was in each year since 2015.

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times has HMRC disconnected a customer who has waited for longer than 70 minutes to speak to an advisor on their customer telephone service in each year since 2015.

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what HMRC's budget has been for a customer telephone service in each year since 2015.

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent staff have been re-employed on HMRC’s customer telephone service in each year since 2015.

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of customers have made a complaint about the customer telephone service in each year since 2015.

22 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23431 on Local Government: Employers' Contributions, whether she made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of th

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Home Office case reference MPAM/1253692/25, what steps is taking to expedite the resolution of a technical error on her Department's systems which is preventing the processing of ski

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Concussion

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the (a) adequacy of adoption by (i) professional and (ii) grass roots sports organisations and (b) effectiveness of the UK-wide Concussion Guidelines for Grassro

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Sports: Concussion

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to encourage schools to adopt the recommendations on (a) preventing and (b) treating concussion in the UK-wide Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots Sport, updated in November 2024.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Brain: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to publish guidance on the risks to children of acquired brain injuries in (a) schools and (b) sports clubs.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system in supporting children with acquired brain injuries.

15 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of social security benefits for people unable to work because of an acquired brain injury.

15 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an estimate of how many people with acquired brain injury are experiencing (a) homelessness and (b) rough sleeping.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the publication entitled Explanatory note on the National Insurance Contribution compensation 2025 to 2026, published 18 December 2024, for what reason the allo

6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated for the public consultation on a new NHS 10-year-plan.

6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s cancer strategy will include (a) a prostate cancer screening programme and (b) alternative measures to improve prostate cancer diagnosis for people at higher risk.

6 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department’s policy to notify successful applicants that they have been issued with an eVisa.

Source: official written-questions record.