Written questions

773 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15445 on Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure, if she will set out which capital programmes have been identified as having fle

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Water Abstraction

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the establishment of additional Agricultural Water Abstractor groups.

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Abstraction: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to expand the use of dynamic abstraction licensing to support water resource management across catchments.

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Reservoirs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of extending permitted development rights for agricultural reservoirs.

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has for future rounds of the Water Management Grant.

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms: Water Abstraction

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the duration of abstraction licences for farms.

13 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support increased on-farm water storage capacity to capture high winter flows for use during periods of lower water availability.

8 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

CJD: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research to identify a cure for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

8 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Landfill: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department holds data or evidence indicating that Section 43 (5) of the Finance Act 1996 causes compliance issues or unintended outcomes.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she intends to consult on phasing out the use of farrowing crates for sows.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of farrowing crates on piglet mortality rates.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her department has made on the effectiveness of farrowing crates for sows in rearing piglets.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support will be available for pig producers to transition to free farrowing systems.

8 Jul 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the comparative costs of transitioning from farrowing crates to (a) temporary crating systems and (b) free farrowing systems, and if she will ask the An

8 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs plan to issue retailer-facing guidance on their requirements under the vaping products duty stamp scheme.

8 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contingency measures HM Revenue and Customs has developed in the event that the digital duty stamp system for vaping products is not fully operational by 1 October 2026.

8 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of HM Revenue and Custom’s readiness to implement the vaping products duty stamp scheme on schedule.

7 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing Enhertu for use in the NHS.

7 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with AstraZeneca and Diiachi Sankyo on making Enhertu breast cancer drugs viable for introduction to the NHS.

7 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to make Enhertu breast cancer drugs available to the NHS.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Waste Disposal

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the surplus market capacity within non-landfill treatment sites for the processing of additional Air Pollution Control Residues.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Waste Disposal

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues used as a stabiliser to dehydrate dredgings under Section 43 (5) of the Finance Act 1996.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Waste Disposal

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues committed to non- landfill treatments in the most recent year for which data is available.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Landfill

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues committed to landfill in the most recent year for which data is available.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Renewable Energy: Waste

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what projection she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues arising from energy from waste plants by 2030.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Renewable Energy: Waste

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the annual tonnage of Air Pollution Control Residues arising from energy from waste plants.

7 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Landfill: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration she has given to amending Section 43 (5) of the Finance Act 1996 such that materials added for the purposes of dehydrating dredgings are subject to the lower rate of landfill tax.

2 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to correspondence from the hon Member for North West Norfolk of 10 June 2026.

2 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Defence Investment Plan Funding Explainer published on 30 June 2026, which projects will be affected by the reduction in his department’s capital budget in (I) 2026-27 (II) 2027-28

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the level of the Age Addition of 25p per week payable for the State Pensions from 80th birthday to pensioners.

Source: official written-questions record.