Written questions

1,462 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) police forces, (b) local authorities and (c) animal welfare groups on helping to prevent future dog-on-dog attacks.

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

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 19399 on Dangerous Dogs, what the outcomes were from his discussions on improving data (a) collection and (b) recording on dog at

12 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with (a) police forces and (b) local authorities on the (a) effectiveness of current legislation on and (b) adequacy of resources for encouraging responsible dog own

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

Dogs: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had on the adequacy of the (a) training, (b) registration and (c) regulation of dog (i) trainers and (ii) behaviourists.

7 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Indian Ocean Territory: Marine Environment

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided through the Blue Belt Programme to help protect ocean health in the British Indian Ocean Territories since 2022.

7 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Indian Ocean Territory: Mauritius

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed treaty with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands on the long term sustainability of the Chagos Marine Protected

7 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Indian Ocean Territory: Marine Protected Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the annual cost to the public purse is of maintaining the Chagos Marine Protected Area.

7 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Sovereignty: British Indian Ocean Territory

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on using funding reallocated from the Overseas Development Assistance budget to fund the Chagos settlement.

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

Animal Products: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February to Question 31434 on Animal Products: Labelling, what discussions he has had with (a) statutory bodies and (b) animal welfare campaign groups on i

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 31507 on Pension Credit, whether she is taking steps to ensure that backlogs of work are actioned within directorates that have seconded additional

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 31507 on Pension Credit, from which directorate have the additional staff been deployed to process pension credit applications; and for how long th

6 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Pharmacy England and National Pharmacy Association

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the dates on which (a) he and (b) the Minister of State for Care has met with (i) Community Pharmacy England and (ii) the National Pharmacy Association since 4 July 2024.

5 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 25 February 2025 to Question 31507, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of additional staff on pension credit application processing times.

5 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 25 February 2025 to Question, what performance matrix she is following to monitor the effectiveness of the funding for additional staffing to reducing pension credit applicatio

5 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 25 February 2025 to Question 31507 on Pension Credit, what departmental budget stream is supporting the funding for additional staff to process pension credit applications.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Myasthenia Gravis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) NHS England, (b) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and (c) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the availability of (i

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to increase the (a) offer and (b) size of cadet forces in the context of proposed increases to defence expenditure.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Cadets

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with local cadet forces on increasing the (a) offer and (b) size of those forces.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Fraud: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including pension fraud as part of the Government's forthcoming fraud strategy.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourist Attractions: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase of employer National Insurance on the (a) operational costs and (b) financial profitability of small and medium sized tourist

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of Pension Credit applications rejected by decision makers since September 2024; and what the reasons were for the rejection of those applications.

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

Charities: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of the £233 million funding for homelessness services is expected to be spent on covering increased employer National Insurance contributions.

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

Food: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to respond to the consultation on fairer food labelling.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to seek improvements to the child maintenance system; and what recent discussions she has had with statutory and non statutory bodies to discuss system improvements.

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the opportunities available to improve diagnosis times for autism spectrum disorder.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Hospitality Industry: Policy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Hospitality Sector Council on informing wider government policy towards Pubs and the Hospitality Sector.

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the statistics, published by Sky News, showing that the Care Quality Commission has inspected

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Remedial Service Statements (a) are required in total (b) have been issued to date (c) are calculated and awaiting fulfilment and (d) still outstanding.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Business Services Authority: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 23858 on NHS Business Services Authority: Workplace Pensions, how many remedial pension savings statements (a) were required in total, (b) had

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS appointments were lost due to strike action between July to November (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

Source: official written-questions record.