Written questions

Mr Richard Holden

3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Construction: Audit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help resolve issues around the administration of ISG; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring construction firms awarded major public infrastru

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

ISG Limited: Audit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions his Department had with ISG on its internal audit functions prior to that company going into administration; and what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of (a) audit and (b) gov

13 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take legislative steps to authorise the police to inform youth clubs when people (a) attending and (b) running them have received a police caution for sexual offences.

13 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason international students from countries with Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results above the UK’s own in English are required to take additional English tests whe

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 24256 on Electronic Cigarettes: Young People, whether the Tobacco and Vapes Bill will restrict the size of vape tanks.

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Locums

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a table of the number of (a) doctors, (b) registered nurses and (c) medical scientists were employed as locums in each (i) month and (ii) year since 2021 and what the total cost

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a table of the total amount spent on (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) tertiary and (d) community care in the NHS in each of the last 5 financial years.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her regulatory policies of the use of category C gaming tablets by high street casinos, in the context of regulations on combined nu

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on establishing a permanent secretariat for the CPTPP in the UK

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials in (a) his Department and (b) predecessors to his Department have worked in roles relating to international trade in each of the last 27 years.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Trade Commissioners programme since it was established.

10 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2024 to Question 4669 on Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment, whether his policy on collation of data for Senior Civil Service appointments has changed since July 2024.

10 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Vetting

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of ending the vetting transformation programme on (a) national security and (b) staff recruitment delays.

10 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to amend paragraph 8.13 of the Ministerial Code, published on 6 November 2024, to provide guidance on whether meetings with social media organisations should be published on a quarterly bas

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Official Hospitality

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to UK Music’s blog post entitled UK Music & Tik Tok Party at Labour Conference 2024, published in 2024, whether her attendance at the UK Music and Tik Tok party will be declared in

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Homelessness and Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) improve cross-Departmental working and (b) provide funding for multi-agency teams to help support (i) early interventions and (ii) other programmes for yo

10 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence: Young Futures Hubs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking through (a) Young Futures Hubs and (b) Young Futures Prevention Partnerships to help tackle violence against women and girls.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many large technology firms she has met since her appointment; and how many times she has met (a) small companies and (b) groups representing small challenger technology firms.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 26566 on Special Educational Needs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of lockdown restrictions during the covid-19 pandemic on the (a)

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Academic Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recourse (a) academics and (b) other people will have who believe that they have had their free speech curtailed, in the context of her proposals for the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of