Written questions
3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Jul 2025 · Treasury
National Security: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 63032 on National Security: Expenditure, if she will publish the NATO reporting guidelines.
8 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Public Bodies: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has provided additional funding to government departments to compensate public bodies for the increase in employer National Insurance contributions for each year of the Spending Review 2025.
8 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Equality: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of discontinuing unconscious bias training.
8 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Prime Minister: Staff
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2025 to Question HL7244 on Prime Minister: Staff, when the No10 Implementation Unit was disbanded; and whether it was replaced.
8 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Photographs and Video Recordings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54808 on Civil Service: Photographs and Video Recordings, whether unpublished content can be used by Ministers for party political purposes.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 57394 on Fly-tipping, what discussions his Department had with local authorities prior to the press notice of 29 April 2025.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Arms Length Bodies
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 53535 on Arms Length Bodies, if he will list those delivery options.
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Buildings: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) address and (b) building condition metric of central government buildings.
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Buildings: Concrete
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 62624 on Public Buildings: Concrete, which three Government Property Agency buildings have been found to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Independent Review of the Performance and Culture of the Office for National Statistics
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UK Statistics Authority and Cabinet Office response to the Devereux Review, published on 26 June 2025, what plans he has to publish a response to each recommendation of the Devereux Review.
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
National Security: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference page 26 of the National Security Strategy 2025, CP 1338, published on 24 June 2025, what his Department's planned timetable is the publication of the Cyber Security and R
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Government Communication Service: Reviews
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2025 to Question 25449 on Government Communication Service, what his Department's planned timetable is for publishing its review of the size of the Government Communications
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Arms Length Bodies: Parliamentary Scrutiny
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 57252 on Arms Length Bodies: Parliamentary Scrutiny, whether written Parliamentary Questions on the work of (a) public corporations and (b) private companies ow
4 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Permanent Secretaries: Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many exemptions have been approved for Permanent Secretary remuneration to exceed the band maximum since 4 July 2024.
4 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Royal Mint: Committees
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on who the members are of the Royal Mint (a) sub-committee on the selection of themes and (b) advisory committee.
4 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Defence: Procurement
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to help ensure that SME firms with defence contracts are not de-banked by financial institutions.
4 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Bank Notes: Design
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is (a) (i) represented on and (ii) consulted by and (b) able to veto the decisions of the Bank of England's Banknote Character Advisory Committee.
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the licensing and regulation of animal rescue and rehoming centres.
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the licensing and regulation of animal rescue and rehoming centres.
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the licensing and regulation of animal rescue and rehoming centres.
4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Official Hospitality
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the attendees at the Plan for Change launch event on 5 December 2024 were invited by the Government.
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
National Security Adviser: Meetings
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will require the National Security Adviser to publish details of meetings with external organisations other than senior media executives.
3 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Living Wage and Minimum Wage: Publicity
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62768 on Pay: Publicity, what the aggregate value was of the payments to the six digital influencers; and if he will name those influencers.
3 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Stamp Advisory Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62346 on Postage Stamps, whether his Department hold copies of the (a) agenda (b) minutes and (c) papers of the Royal Mail’s stamp advisory committee.
3 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Loneliness: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the cancellation of the communications campaign entitled, Better Health - Every Mind Matters: Loneliness, on mental health outcomes.
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Bureaucracy
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph 1.24 of the Review Body on Senior Salaries publication Forty-seventh annual report on senior salaries published in May 2025, what steps the Government is taking to reduce excessive (a
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Ministers: Trade Unions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance has been given to Cabinet ministers by the (a) Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards and (b) Cabinet Office on whether Ministers who personally receive donations from trade unions (i) must a
3 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
School Support Staff Negotiating Body: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether appointments to the School Support Staff Negotiating Body will be included in the Public Bodies Order in Council; and whether the chair appointment will be classified as a Significant Appointment.
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
King Charles III: Artworks
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Conclusion of His Majesty The King’s free Portrait Scheme, published on 28 November 2024, what the percentage take-up rate was for (a) UK Government depa
3 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Location
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54760 on Civil Servants: London, whether he plans to require any civil servants based in London to compulsorily relocate as part of the Places for Growth scheme.
Source: official written-questions record.