Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to enable Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB to allow GP to make referrals to adult ADHD assessment waiting lists.
29 Aug 2025 · Treasury
Research: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Research and Development tax relief disclosures have been made in each month since 31 December 2024.
29 Aug 2025 · Treasury
Research: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average time taken from claim to decision was for Research and Development tax relief in (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-25.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Motorcycles: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a minimum age requirement for children to travel on a motorbike as a pillion passenger.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Occupational Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,with reference to the consultation entitled Proposals to extend medicines responsibilities for paramedics, physiotherapists, operating department practitioners and diagnostic radiographers published
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to process the settlement protection ILR applications from Syrian nationals.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Motor Neurone Disease: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to create a standardised pathway for the genetic testing of people with motor neurone disease.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Disabled Facilities Grants: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of waiting times for the processing of Disabled Facilities Grants for people with (a) motor neurone disease and (b) other
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's proposal for pharmacists to be granted additional powers to make minor substitutions to prescribed medica
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Cannabis: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's correspondence entitled ACMD 3-year work programme 2025 to 2028: commissioning letter, published on 2 June 2025, if she will consult families of people reliant on me
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2022-23 on The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Children of Unmarried Women 1949–1976, HC 270, published on 15 July 2022
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Video Games
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of proposals from Stop Killing Games to require video game publishers to (a) permit and (b) facilitate the use of third party online servers
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
British Nationality
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Response to the Pre Action Protocol letter of from Wilson Solicitors LLP of 18 February, whether she intends to amend guidance for Home Office caseworkers on the Good character r
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Ballistic Missile Defence: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK’s ballistic missile defence capability in light of the emerging threat environment.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Flats: Valuation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting shared ownership staircasing valuations to be (a) appealed or (b) negotiated by shared owners, using evidence
29 Aug 2025 · Treasury
Motor Insurance: Complaints
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the scope of the Financial Ombudsman to permit investigation of complaints about motor insurance companies where the claimant is not a direct custo
22 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Conditions of Employment: Women
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to respond to the open letter from Young Women's Trust entitled For the Employment Rights Bill to work for young women and their employers, the Spending Review must increase funding for enforcement of
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Fair Work Agency: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether young women will be represented on the Advisory Board for the Fair Work Agency.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Women's Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Factsheet: The Fair Work Agency, whether the agency will be specifically mandated to uphold the rights of young women in the workplace.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Fair Work Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will include further consultation on the scope of the Fair Work Agency in the roadmap for delivering the Employment Rights Bill.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Conditions of Employment: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the role of a Fair Work Commissioner to ensure the independent enforcement of workers' rights.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power: Business Premises
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an estimate of the amount of non-residential building roof space that is (a) available and (b) suitable for the installation of solar panels.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Innovate UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how unsuccessful applicants to Innovate UK funding streams can seek feedback on their applications.
21 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July to Question 63598 on Immigration: Hong Kong, what the (a) shortest, (b) longest and (c) average waiting time is for a biometric enrolment appointment from the date of
21 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63598 on Immigration: Hong Kong, how many and what proportion of applications to the priority visa service for BNO (British National Overseas) Indefin
21 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Impact Assessments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will carry out sector-specific impact assessments for proposed non-domestic rate multipliers ahead of the Autumn Budget 2025.
21 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Disability Aids: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the guidance entitled Get VAT relief on certain goods if you have a disability, updated on 22 January 2019, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting (a) sports clubs and
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability for patients to message their GP practice using the NHS app for medical and appointment enquiries over lunchtime periods.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of revising the thresholds for determining the interest rate on student loan repayments for people living abroad in the context of local taxation levels.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Glyphosate
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has had recent discussions with Network Rail on the potential merits of (a) reducing and (b) eliminating the use of glyphosate herbicides on railway property.
Source: official written-questions record.