Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Leisure and Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of retail, hospitality and leisure businesses will be eligible to receive transitionary relief for business rates in 2026-27.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

St Albans City Station: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the letter from the Minister of State for Rail to the hon. Member for St Albans of 28 November 2025, reference MC/00054165 whether she has received representations from Govia Thameslink Railwa

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November to Question 92922 on Fly-tipping, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a single responsible body to receive and investiga

1 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October to Question 77605 on Health Professions: Regulation, on what date he will publish a consultation on secondary legislation to modernise the General Medical Counc

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Budgets

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the proportion of text redacted in statements provided to hon. Members from opposition parties in advance of the Chancellor’s statement on each Budget day since 1997.

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Budgets

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish copies of the redacted statements provided to opposition MPs each budget day in advance of the Chancellor’s statement to the House of Commons in each year since 1997.

1 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she provides guidance to Train Operating Companies on the declassification of first class portions of services during periods of high demand.

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2025 to Question 92918 on Business Rates, how many business premises (a) have been brought into paying business rates for the first time and (b) will pay more per year in busine

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the RHL multiplier by 20p on the (a) public purse and (b) long term viability of the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure sectors.

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction of the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure multiplier and the withdrawal of the capped Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Relief scheme on multiple reta

1 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Impact Assessments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2025 to Question 69409 on Business Rates: Impact Assessments, if she publish sector-specific impact assessments for (a) hospitality, (b) retail and (c) leisure businesses with r

28 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a financial protection scheme for users of home learning providers which become insolvent.

24 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions DWP staff have failed to call Universal Credit customers or their appointees at the agreed appointment time in each month of the last 12 months.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has received any representations from (a) farmers, (b) other rural landowners and (c) other interested parties calling for a single responsible body to receive and investiga

19 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November to Question 90360 on Business Rates, how many business premises (a) have been brought into paying business rates for the first time and (b) will pay more per year in business ra

14 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Summertime

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing double summer time.

14 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest processing times for a decision on an in-country parent visa application.

12 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Business rates: forward look, updated on 11 September 2025, on what date the Valuation Office Agency will publish a full list of updated rateable values for a

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward the statutory review of the Jet Zero strategy.

12 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Quarrying: Hatfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will reject plans to establish a quarry at the former Hatfield Aerodrome.

4 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: CPR and Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding is available for schools to purchase (a) defibrillators and (b) CPR training equipment.

4 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: CPR

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to issue guidance to schools on how to access training resources to help deliver the CPR Smart programme.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment as part of the New Hospital Programme of the adequacy of the number of helipads available for air ambulance use.

29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 77609 on Medical Treatments: Cost Effectiveness, what percentage of completed NICE appraisals for brain tumour medications have led to approval

29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 77609 on Medical Treatments: Cost Effectiveness, if he will instruct NICE to review the adequacy of the Quality-Adjusted Life Year threshold fo

29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vorasidenib

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had discussions with (a) NICE and (b) Servier on the barriers to approving Vorasidenib for use by the NHS for the treatment of low glade glioma.

29 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increased use of VPNs on the level of (a) data and (b) national security risks since the introduction of the

24 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: St Albans

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests in St Albans.

24 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when her Department plans to publish the (a) findings of and (b) next steps from its consultation entitled Improving car driving test booking rules, published on 28 May 2025.

24 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to set National Highways key performance indicators for cleaning up litter.

Source: official written-questions record.