Written questions

1,462 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to formulate the National Youth Strategy.

25 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) the National Police Chiefs Council and (b) Leicestershire Police on a rural crime strategy.

25 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Flexible Working

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with HMRC on the potential impact of flexible working arrangements on (a) length of call wait times, (b) stability of phone and WiFi connections, (c) privacy and (d) ease of call escalat

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with his officials on the potential merits of transferring the British Coal Superannuation Scheme to its members.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35774 on Pension Credit: Staff, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of using (a) external providers and (b) external recruitm

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35774 on Pension Credit: Staff, what steps she is taking to ensure that the work previously undertaken by internal redeployed staff is continued.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Music: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory bodies her Department has consulted on opportunities for grassroots music collaboration as part of the national youth strategy.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to use external consultants to support the transfer of NHS England responsibilities to his Department.

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Playing Fields: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the contribution of statutory planning consultees in protecting the role of playing fields for sports and exercise.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Speech and Language Therapy: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of speech and language therapists.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Speech and Language Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to speech and language therapy.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to community pharmacies of the proposed increase in employer National Insurance contributions from April 2025.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to community pharmacies of the proposed increase in the National Living Wage from April 2025.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 3 March 2025 on the Outcome of the 25-26 GP Contract consultation, HCWS486, which 32 targets will his Department remove from GPs.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Consultants and General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the minimum tapered annual allowance on trends in the levels of extra work taken on by (a) GPs and (b) consultants.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Consultants and General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the annual allowance threshold on trends in the levels of extra work taken on by (a) GPs and (b) consultants.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the retention of GPs.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 33084 on Pharmacy: Finance, when he plans to publish the independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of staff being made redundant from NHS England.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the abolition of NHS England.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish modelling outlining the estimated cost of staff being made redundant from NHS England.

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 21 March 2025 to Question 38389 on NHS England and Question 38390 on NHS England: Redundancy Pay, if he will publish modelling outlining (a) how the short-term upfront co

24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 21 March 2025 to Question 38389 on NHS England and Question 38390 on NHS England: Redundancy Pay, what the short-term upfront costs of integrating NHS England and his Dep

21 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his interview with BBC Radio 5 Live on 28 February 2025, if he will publish the data showing that 900 new GPs have been employed since July 2024.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of (a) importance of the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund to families with adopted children and (b) funding provided to families out of the Fund in the last r

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure the continuance of the funding for the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund after March 2025.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she is having with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the future of the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund.

14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of the redundancy package for staff being made redundant from NHS England.

14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the abolition of NHS England.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2025 to Question 36448 on Pension Credit, how many staff were seconded from the Child Maintenance Services and Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt to process pension cr

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