Written questions

1,408 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Industry: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what (a) funding and (b) retraining support is available for oil and gas workers in England impacted by the transition to renewable energy.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Offshore Industry: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of net zero policies on employment in the oil and gas sector in England.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the feasibility of rolling out a national prostate cancer screening initiative.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of introducing a universal screening programme for prostate cancer on long-term NHS costs.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Health Education and Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) raise awareness of prostate cancer symptoms and (b) encourage men to come forward for testing.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of disparities in access to prostate cancer testing among different socioeconomic groups.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ensure that men in areas with higher incidence rates of prostate cancer have targeted access to early screening.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a universal prostate cancer screening programme.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to prostate cancer screening services.

1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding he is providing for defence innovation partnerships with (a) universities and (b) SMEs.

1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Urgent Treatment Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to urgent care services in areas where there is no A&E department within 10 miles.

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of teacher recruitment and retention incentives on teacher recruitment and retention in areas of high deprivation in the (a) North East and (b) England.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Airguns: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered reviewing controls on the (a) purchase and (b) possession of air weapons, in the context of recent trends in attacks on animals.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Animals: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with animal welfare organisations on tackling the misuse of air weapons against pets.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Animals: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in air weapon attacks on domestic animals; what steps he is taking to improve data collection of these incidents.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available for people with coeliac disease in areas where gluten-free prescriptions have been reduced or withdrawn.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) Coeliac UK and (b) other patient representative groups on access to gluten-free staple products in England.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to share best practice between (a) Integrated Care Boards that continue to provide gluten-free staple foods on prescription and (b) those that do not.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps eh has taken to ensure that Integrated Care Boards comply with national guidance on prescribing gluten-free products to patients with coeliac disease.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor the affordability of gluten-free staple foods for people with coeliac disease.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increases to the cost-of-living on the ability of people with coeliac disease to maintain a medically required gluten-free diet.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Integrated Care Boards on the provision of gluten-free bread and flour mixes for patients diagnosed with coeliac disease.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Integrated Care Board decisions to reduce or withdraw gluten-free prescribing on patient health outcomes for people with coeliac disease.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people diagnosed with coeliac disease have equitable regional access to gluten-free staple foods.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of pensioners (a) have no private (i) pension and (ii) savings and (b) rely solely on the state pension.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on ensuring that pensioners with no other income do not pay income tax on the state pension.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Pensioners: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a separate personal allowance for pensioners.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the additional annual revenue received from taxing state pensions from April 2026.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) the withdrawal of winter fuel payments, (b) frozen tax thresholds and (c) state pension taxation on pensioner households.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Pensioners: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners brought into paying income tax in the next financial year as a result of the state pension exceeding the personal allowance.

Source: official written-questions record.