Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Parental Leave: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has considered the potential merits of providing enhanced Shared Parental Pay relief to schools funded from the public purse to cover the cost to schools when Shared Parental Leave is taken
3 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February to Question 108284 on Energy: Databases, whether the continuing assessment with respect to NEED and other datasets comprising household spending on energy
2 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 December 2025 to Question 100476 on Brain: Tumours, what plans the National Institute for Health and Care Research has to undertake horizon scanning of the pharmaceutic
27 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Powers of Attorney
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will instruct the Office of the Public Guardian to publish guidance on the point at which a signed Deed of Revocation of a Last Power of Attorney is revoked.
26 Jan 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Fourth Special Report of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee of Session 2024-26 on Tackling the energy crisis: Government Response, HC1624, published on 21 Januar
26 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public houses in England and Wales did the Valuation Office Agency request trading figures from for the purposes of calculating their Fair Maintainable Turnover for the 2026 ratings list.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Powers of Attorney: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the (a) shortest, (b) median and (b) longest time taken by the Office of the Public Guardian to process a cancellation request for an existing Lasting Power of Attorney in 2025.
26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Powers of Attorney: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to introduce targets for the time taken by the Office of the Public Guardian to process and register (a) amendments and (b) cancellations to existing Lasting Powers of Attorney.
26 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Business Rates: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January to Question 105303 on Business Rates: Valuation, with reference to the oral evidence from Jonathan Russell and John-Paul Marks to the Treasury Select Committee of 13 January 2026
21 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Business Rates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend Business Rates reimbursements to Community Pharmacies.
20 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Educational Psychology: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase the number of places available for educational psychology courses at universities in England.
20 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Educational Psychology: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many training places were available for educational psychologists at universities in England in each of the last five years.
16 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the letter from the Leader of the House of Commons of 15 January 2026, reference AC/MP1190, on what date her Department plans to respond to hon. Member for St Albans.
13 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Business Rates: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 90360 on Business Rates, when the Valuation Office Agency provided the draft valuations for the 2026 Rating List to her Department.
7 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Section 51 of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025, when he will lay regulations to delegate the power to set fees for planning applications to local planni
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Ophthalmology: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national register of opticians licensed to carry out DVLA eyesight tests.
16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October to Question 77603 on Brain: Tumours, what steps he plans to take to incentivise pharmaceutical companies involved in developing vaccines for brain tumours to ap
16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how organisations providing mental health services to children and young people can engage with the Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.
16 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Green Belt
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Draft National Planning Policy Framework, published on 16 December 2025, whether it is his policy that green belt land between villages should not be consid
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment how social media platforms could use in-built AI to detect and protect children against (a) cyberbullying and (b) online grooming.
15 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Electronic Commerce: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will expedite a consultation into proposals to require online marketplace sellers to collect VAT from overseas sellers.
15 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Amazon: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her department has had with Amazon on its proposal to support the collection of £700 million in VAT receipts from online marketplace sellers operating overseas.
15 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December to Question 97661 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, what proportion of the ratepayers who will see their bills reduced are listed as a hereditament that has been assessed as qu
15 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December to Question 97661 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, how many and what proportion of the ratepayers who will see no increases were eligible for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure r
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December to Question 96304 on St Albans City Station: CCTV whether bike thefts will be included in the assessment of railway stations with the highest crime levels when prioritising
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December to Question 96304 on St Albans City Station: CCTV, if Network Rail will publish a list of railway stations to be prioritised for CCTV integration.
10 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse is of reducing the retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier by the maximum permitted by the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act 2025.
10 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Govia Thameslink Railway: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will hold discussions with Thameslink on taking steps to reduce reliance on rest-day working to operate timetabled passenger rail services.
9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to improve (a) awareness, (b) diagnosis and (c) treatment for, pulmonary hypertension.
9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Children's Play
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department are taking steps to support the use of the Play Well Toolkit in NHS healthcare settings.
Source: official written-questions record.