Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support the innovation and development of second and third generation sustainable aviation fuel.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

River Crane and River Thames: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage discharges there have been into the (a) River Thames and (b) River Crane in the last five years.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Agency: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Environment Agency's decision to introduce charge funded regulation.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions has the Environment Agency brought on illegal sewage spills by water companies in each year from 2000.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to stop operator self monitoring of the water industry.

27 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage works suffered a structural malfunction resulting in sewage discharge in each of the last five years.

27 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Water: Sewage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died from illness caused by exposure to sewage spills in rivers and seas by NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years.

26 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Twickenham of 17 November 2025 on the Teddington Direct River Abstraction.

26 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dolphins and Whales: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of taking steps to help protect animals from the grindadrap.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Boats: Renewable Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring boat owners using canals and rivers to generate their own renewable energy power.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Houseboats: Inland Waterways

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the position paper by the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities entitled The challenges around t

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Airports: National Policy Statements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what external organisations are feeding into the review of the Airports National Policy Statement.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the economic review of Heathrow expansion is seeking input from external experts.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Airports: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish the (a) Aviation Night Noise Effects study and (b) Aviation Noise Attitudes Survey before the review of the Airports National Policy Statement is completed.

24 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including the weight of the vehicle in the review of Vehicle Excise Duty.

23 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Women and Young People

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the rise in Employer's National Insurance Contributions on businesses hiring women and young people.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to respond to the hon. Member for Twickenham's correspondence, reference MC2024-00009674.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled, Review of the Airports National Policy Statement engagement update, updated on 18 February 2026, on what date it made the requests to Heathrow Airport Ltd, and what

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out the requirements councils must meet to be eligible for the write-off of 90% of their historic SEND-related deficits.

10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce diagnostic waiting times for endometriosis in (a) England and (b) Twickenham constituency.

10 Feb 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she plans to respond to the letter sent on 12 December 2025 by the hon. Member for Twickenham.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what powers does she have to help ensure schools comply with (a) paragraph 6.81 of the SEN Code of Practice and (b) Equality Act 2010.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing written guidance to schools on how to write accessible SEN Information Reports.

6 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has she taken to help ensure schools comply with (a) paragraph 6.81 of the SEN Code of Practice and (b) Equality Act 2010.

5 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Air Navigation: Community Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to promote community engagement on the new Air Navigation Guidance.

5 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will set up a meeting between the Aviation Minister and the Hon. Members for Twickenham and Richmond Park following his correspondence referenced MC 00050628.

3 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to improve accessibility for SMEs to the research and development tax credit system.

29 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Police: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the Metropolitan Police of the proposals set out in her Department's policy paper entitled From local to national: a new model for policing publishe

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Free Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was originally made available for the provision of the planned 92 new special and AP free schools that were commissioned by the previous Government and were subject to a value for money review

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much alternative funding has been provided to the local authorities who have decided to not proceed with the building of the proposed special and AP free schools, following the review of planned special and

Source: official written-questions record.