Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of SEN information reports for parents and guardians who (a) have and (b) do not have SEND.

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the readability of school SEN Information Reports.

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance she has issued to support schools on writing accessible SEN information reports.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Advanced Research and Invention Agency: Geoengineering

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency on geoengineering proposals that aim to block sunlight.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pesticides: Public Places

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) banning and (b) reducing the use of pesticides in public spaces on (i) the natural environment and (ii) wildlife.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Airports: National Policy Statements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timeline is for publishing a new Airports National Policy Statement.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times the Aviation Futures Forum has met.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Weed Control: Public Places

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support research into natural defences against unwanted vegetation in public places.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Midland Bank: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's policy is on compensating people affected by the clawback feature of the Midland Bank pension scheme.

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Department of Education: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to Answer Question 43980 on Schools: Concrete, tabled on 3 April 2025.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 10 May 2024 to Question 24357 on Prisons: Fires, how many ignition-free safer vape pens have been introduced in each prison.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to next publish an updated version of the Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate enforcement register, published on 26 April 2023.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Twickenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people impacted by long covid in Twickenham constituency.

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Self-employed: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to support self-employed people who were excluded from financial support during the pandemic.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the UK Repair and Reuse Declaration.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in each years since 2015; and how many individual children have accessed support through the Fund in each

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Concrete

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16368 on Schools: Buildings, how many and what proportion of the schools with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete had it permanently removed by 3 April 2

3 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many claimants were awarded compensation by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority by 31 March 2025.

3 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15145 on Teachers: Workplace Pensions, what recent progress she has made on reducing the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value detai

31 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Parental Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29915 on Parental Pay, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory

27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Detention and Training Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2025 to Question 27891 on Detention and Training Orders: Children, how many and what proportion of the children identified as having SEND (a) had and (b) did not have (i) an E

27 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ekrem İmamoğlu

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Turkish counterpart on the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

VE Day: Anniversaries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether Poland's President will be invited to the 80th VE celebrations.

26 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of court hearing records that were (a) lost and (b) not recorded in the last (i) 12 months and (ii) 5 years.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including misogyny and violence against women and girls in Relationships and Sex Education guidance.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish updated Relationships and Sex Education guidance.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of testing water quality under the water framework directive annually instead of every three years.

20 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Learning Disability

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many employees in the civil service have a learning disability.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Frontier Economics' report entitled Modelling the effects of closer UK-EU cooperation and of US tariffs, published on 10 Fe

18 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent the sale of lethal substances promoted by online pro-suicide forums.

Source: official written-questions record.