Written questions

687 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Litter: Fast Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a (a) voluntary and (b) compulsory scheme to require drive through fast food outlets to print car registration details on purch

3 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Liability

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to review the use of automatism as a legal defence.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to (a) reform and (b) enhance the (i) powers, (ii) financial responsibility and (iii) wider responsibilities of parish councils through the process of local go

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Aircraft: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to protect the UK's aviation industry from intellectual property theft by Chinese companies.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Aircraft: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has met with Britten-Norman to discuss the Chinese Company Yitong UAV Systme Co's newly designed model based on the British Islander design.

25 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Choirs: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of changing the eligibility criteria for the Orchestral Tax Relief to include standalone choirs without the accompanying orchestra.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has plans to introduce minimum community compensation funding for communities impacted by (a) Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project solar developments and (b) solar develop

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to introduce community benefit measures for solar developments as part of the Plan for Change.

13 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Veterans: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many meetings he has had with veterans who have served in Northern Ireland since taking his post.

6 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications of the Budapest Memorandum for his policies.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders convicted of actual bodily harm and sentenced to under four years in prison have been released early from prison since 5 July 2024.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will call in the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China following reporting of cash offered by the Chinese Embassy for information on Hong Kong activists living i

24 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential implications for his policies of the decision by the Australian government to ban DeepSeek from all government devices and systems.

24 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Sovereign Grant: Reviews

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to reform the Sovereign Grant at the next review.

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

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on public surveys using vouchers as incentives.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle the shortage of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy drugs.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of delaying the requirement to replace gas boilers with heat pumps whilst the minimum EPC rating is being increased.

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 19 of her Department's Guidance on planning propriety: planning casework decisions, published in December 2021, if she will place in the Library a cop

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 19 of her Department's Guidance on planning propriety: planning casework decisions, published in December 2021, if she will place in the Library a cop

21 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Republika Srpska and Serbia: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2025 to Question 24486 on Republika Srpska and Serbia: Politics and Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of th

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to re-open the Access for All fund.

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

Deer: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department issues guidance on the management of large wild deer populations.

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

Deer: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish the results of the consultation for the Environment Improvement Plan 2023 with specific reference to a national deer management strategy for England.

12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Almshouses: Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reclassifying Almhouses as social housing and allowing them to apply for S106 funding.

12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the ??English Devolution White Paper?, published on 16 December 2024, whether local authorities may submit more than one proposed model of suggested re-organisa

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any offenders who were convicted of actual bodily harm have been released early from prison since 5 July 2024.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Children's Play: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will meet representatives from the indoor play sector to discuss business rates reform.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Almshouse Association

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Almshouse Association is eligible for support through (a) Section 106 agreements and (b) the Community Infrastructure Levy.

10 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Electronic Travel Authorisations: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the introduction of Electronic Travel Authorisation on British National (Overseas) Passport holders without UK visas.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2025 to Question 25333 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: China, whether those checks have revealed attempts by organi

Source: official written-questions record.