Written questions
2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Royal Mail: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has held discussions with Royal Mail on the adequacy of their response times to hon. Members raising casework matters about local postal services.
11 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the contribution by the hon. Member for St Albans on 9 July 2025, Official Report, column 325WH, whether she plans to make alternative funding available to Lond
9 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Revenue and Customs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an independent watchdog to monitor the effectiveness of HMRC Customer Compliance Group.
9 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Tax Evasion
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has issued guidance that the (a) Customer Compliance Group and (b) Risk and Intelligence Service (Compliance, Operational Insight and Risking) Group should only investigate cases of alleged tax evasion
30 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Gaming Machines
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to grant local authorities stronger powers to reject license applications for slot machin
30 Jun 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing additional resource to the priority service for processing Indefinite Leave to Remain applications on the BNO route for Hong Kongers.
24 Jun 2025 · Home Office
Mobile Phones: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the resale of stolen mobile phones.
23 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish the eligibility criteria for repatriation flights from Israel.
18 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has considered the potential merits of conducting a review into the Transport for London zoning of (a) Watford Junction, (b) Watford High Street, (c) Bushey railway station and (d) Watford Undergroun
18 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Israel and Occupied Territories: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of facilitating repatriation flights for UK nationals in (a) Israel and (b) the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in the c
18 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter of 9 June 2026 from the Minister of State for Health to the Hon Member of St Albans (ref PO-1608258), when the remediable service statement will be issued.
18 Jun 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 9 June 2025 to Question 56880 on Health Professions: Regulation, whether the consultation expected by the end of this year will be open to submissions from Members of Parl
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Quarrying: Hatfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Planning Inspectorate case number APP/M1900/W/24/3346607, what her planned timetable is for determining the appeal by Brett Aggregates Limited to develop a quar
16 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what date he expects the Infected Blood Compensation Authority to begin inviting relatives of the deceased to submit their claims for compensation.
16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 51941 on Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis, how many laboratories in England provide testing for KLHL11 antibodies.
13 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work applications were (a) submitted and (b) rejected in (i) part and (ii) full in the 2024-25 financial year; and how many and what proportion of applications that were rejected were
13 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) longest, (b) shortest and (c) average time taken was from the date an Access to Work application was submitted to the date a decision was made in the 2024-25 financial year.
3 Jun 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 18 February 2025 to Question 29926 on Health Professions: Regulation, what recent progress he has made on setting a timetable for announcing his priorities in relation to
2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Continuing Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Continuing Health Care services remain uninterrupted for patients when the services are being transitioned from Integrated Care Boards.
22 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Luton Airport: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44560 on Luton Airport and with reference to the expiration of the period for applications for judicial review, if she will publish the modelling that underpi
22 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Street Works (Penalties for Utility Companies) Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing the measures set out in the Street Works (Penalties for Utility Companies) Bill.
21 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of response times to enquiries from hon. Members from Integrated Care Boards.
21 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Luton Airport: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44558 on Luton Airport, whether her Department sought legal advice on the compatibility of its decision to expand Luton Airport with commitments under the 201
20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May to Question 51941 on Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis, whether the NHS routinely sends blood samples to the US for analysis when testing for Paraneoplast
20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2025 to Question 51941 on Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis: Diagnosis, how many laboratories provide blood testing for Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis.
16 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing inspectors to carry out sanitary and phytosanitary checks at border control points after 5pm.
15 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plants: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on an agreement on (a) sanitary and phytosanitary measures (b) plant health.
14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
UK Trade with EU: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the UK/EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement to improve the ability of businesses to trade in EU countries.
14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his Department's (a) collection and (b) packaging reforms on levels of private sector investment in advanced recycling infrastr
14 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Food: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include food and drinks manufacturers in the development of the forthcoming industrial strategy.
Source: official written-questions record.