Written questions

879 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Digital Services Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to retain Digital Services Tax.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate method-of-production welfare labelling for (a) pork, (b) chicken and (c) eggs.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Energy: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of extending VAT energy-saving materials (ESM) relief to all domestic retrofit projects which include ESMs where other works are undertaken as part of

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Construction: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support or incentivise the reuse of building materials reclaimed from previous construction within new build or retrofit projects.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of VAT on the number of domestic retrofits undertaken annually.

10 Oct 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Local Growth Fund: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2025 to Question 76346 on Local Growth Deals: Northern Ireland, whether his Department plans to hold discussions with the (a) voluntary and (b) community sector in

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

Regional Planning and Development: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department allocated to football clubs through the levelling up funds in Northern Ireland.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated to football clubs through the Grassroots Football Facilities Investment Fund in Northern Ireland.

16 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Labour Market Evidence Group: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Labour Market Evidence Group plans to visit Northern Ireland to consult local businesses.

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

Local Growth Fund: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on the Local Growth Fund for Northern Ireland.

9 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the White Paper entitled Restoring Control over the Immigration System of 12 May 2025, what assessment she has made of (a) levels of current migrant staffing and (b) the potential m

9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Homosexuality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and (b) Articles (i) 42 and (ii) 43 of that Act on same-sex, non-married or civil partne

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 10 year plan for the NHS, what steps he plans to take to ensure that equality of access to the NHS is retained for all.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the games publishing industry on the potential impact of remotely disabling and terminating video games on their responsibilities under the Consumer Rights Act 2

9 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of Israeli government plans to confine Palestinians to the Rafah area of Gaza.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadcasting: Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of Ofcom’s proposals to remove the prohibitions on (a) matching rights and (b) bundling.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deposit Return Schemes: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's planned timetable is for publishing the set-up costs for the Deposit Return Scheme.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to take to ensure that local authorities use funding from the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme to improve recycling provision.

1 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to ensure that funding derived from Extended Producer Responsibility fees will be ringfenced to support local authorities to improve their recycling provi

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Journalism: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support mental health services in journalism.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Journalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if will meet with Media Strong.

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the Federation of Small Businesses Northern Ireland's report entitled Windsor Framework realities - barriers to trade in

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits and Welfare Tax Credits: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to uprate (a) inflation-linked benefits and (b) tax credits for the 2026–27 financial year in line with the consumer prices index rate of inflation for September.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the document entitled UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy, CP 1344, published on 19 June 2025, if he will publish the Barnett consequential for Northern Ireland for each new item of funding annou

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the document entitled UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy, CP 1344, published on 19 June 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of childcare provision on the delivery of

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by Maternity Action, entitled Pushed into Poverty, published in May 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the recommendation on £7.99 million model

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of treating Maternity Allowance as earned income for the purposes of calculating Universal Credit.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Parental Pay: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what long-term plans her Department has to increase levels of (a) maternity, (b) paternity and (c) parental pay in line with the National Living Wage.

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Parental Pay: Living Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Maternity Allowance and (c) Shared Parental Pay to 62.5 per cent of the weekly National Living Wage by

10 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Israeli government on the prevention of aid entering Gaza from the sea.

Source: official written-questions record.