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.