Written questions

1,408 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to encourage business confidence.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Hospitality Industry: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the hospitality sector.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on business rates.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to reduce regulation for businesses.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help safeguard jobs in the UK automotive supply chain.

12 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Post Office closures on local communities.

11 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to use technology to improve its productivity.

11 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of youth unemployment since 2010.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of women in employment since 2010.

9 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Poverty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of poverty.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Rights Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the employment rate.

9 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Unemployment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of unemployment.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Pension Credit awareness campaign.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on trends in the level of pensioners living in (a) relative and (b) absolute

5 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Sales: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending deemed reseller rules to cover UK-established sellers.

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Transport: Tees Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it remains Government policy to provide £978 million funding for transport projects in Tees Valley.

2 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Regeneration: Stockton on Tees

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what funding Thornaby on Tees will receive from the (a) Town Deal programme and (b) long-term plan for towns.

22 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that police officers have confidence in their ability to (a) appropriately use force and (b) use other powers available to them for community policing.

26 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Personal Care Services: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support his Department provides to help (a) hair and (b) beauty businesses with VAT rates.

6 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Electric Vehicles: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the luxury vehicles tax threshold for electric vehicles.

6 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Philips Trust Corporation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to support people who lost (a) money and (b) assets due to the collapse of the Philips Trust Corporation.

22 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what she is taking to help ensure that new parents are able to take the (a) maternity and (b) paternity leave that they are entitled to in the context of the rising cost of living.

22 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Girls

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase participation of young girls in competitive sports (a) at and (b) outside school.

22 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Universities: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that students from the UK have access to places at UK universities.

17 Jan 2024 · Home Office

Batley Grammar School: Harassment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will have discussions with West Yorkshire police on the steps being taken to (a) provide support to and (b) respond to threats made against the suspended teacher from Batley Grammar school.

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the time taken for clinically-proven drugs to be considered for use on the NHS once they are off-patent.

13 Nov 2023 · Department for Education

Educational Psychology: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of part-funding the training of educational psychologists; and whether she is taking steps to increase the number of educational psychologists.

10 Nov 2023 · Home Office

Fast Food: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of assaults in fast-food outlets at (a) night and (b) other times.

8 Nov 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedgehogs: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the existence of hedgehogs through (a) local nature recovery strategies, (b) biodiversity net gain measures and (c) future farm subsidy p

8 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to introduce the cap on care costs.

Source: official written-questions record.