Written questions

3,708 written questions tabled, most recent first.

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any staff in his Department are seconded from the London Borough of Camden.

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many all-staff calls have been held in his Department since 4 July 2024; and how many staff attended each of those calls.

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Communication and Marketing

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated spending on Government (a) communications and (b) marketing is in 2024-25 (a) before and (b) after the Autumn Budget 2024.

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards: Email

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the email address is for correspondence from hon. Members to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards.

31 Jan 2025 · Leader of the House

Government Departments: Written Questions

To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 24243 on Government Departments: Written Questions, if she will publish that letter.

31 Jan 2025 · Leader of the House

Government Bills: Impact Assessments

To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 23890 on Government Bills: Impact Assessments, whether her letter to Cabinet colleagues made reference to the publication of impact assessments before the First Reading

31 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Unpaid Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 22359 on DEFRA: Unpaid Work, what Environment Agency summer internship opportunities for 2025 are open to (a) male, (b) white, (c)

31 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Lord Mandelson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23476 on USA: Diplomatic Service, if he will instruct Lord Mandelson to recuse himself from discussions on matters relat

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Shops

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23475 on 10 Downing Street: Shops, which items were manufactured in China; if he will provide a description of each item; and what the retail price is of eac

31 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Flags

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to fly the Cross of St George from 10 Downing Street on Saint Crispin’s Day in 2025.

31 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology on the potential merits of expanding the provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 to help tack

31 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence: Youth Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential contribution of youth services to the prevention of violence against women and girls.

30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Marriage: Relatives

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to tackle first cousin marriage.

30 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments and Special Advisers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 26089 on Ministers and Public Appointments, whether that legal advice was sought.

28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new prison places were built between (a) May 1997-May 2010 and (b) May 2010 and July 2024.

28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the (a) maximum amount of possible court time and (b) actual court time used for each Crown Court in each of the last 12 months.

28 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Trials

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were awaiting a crown court date on (a) 4 July 2024 and (b) 28 January 2025.

28 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Pension Funds: Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she is taking steps to encourage pension funds to invest into (a) venture capital and (b) growth equity funds.

28 Jan 2025 · Treasury

British Patient Capital: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will increase the funding available to British Patient Capital's Future Fund: Breakthrough.

28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of Child Death Overview Panels cited consanguinity as the (a) primary and (b) secondary cause of death of children in each of the last 30 years.

28 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support closed loop recycling schemes; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to protect those schemes through regulations.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods Resilience Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times the Flood Resilience Taskforce has met since 4 July 2024.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of school children have required additional support due to special educational needs in each of the last ten years; and if she will make an assessment of the reasons for the trend i

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a table of the proportion of requests for EHCP assessment met within the correct timeframe by local authorities.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Medicine: Universities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds at Education Questions on 27 January 2025, which medical schools are offering (a) voluntary and (b) compulsory redundancy to clinic

23 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments and Special Advisers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has received legal advice on the compatibility of (a) Ministerial and (b) special adviser appointments with section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.

20 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Cash Dispensing and Payment Methods

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department is taking steps to help promote (a) payment choice and (b) access to cash.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) approved families looking to adopt and (b) children ready for adoption there were in each of the last 30 years.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will continue a national approach to recruiting adopters similar to the national recruitment campaign in 2020-21.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish a revised Adoption Strategy.

Source: official written-questions record.