Written questions

851 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of how foreign nationals in Northern Ireland prisons, broken down by (a) nationality, (b) sentence status, (d) offence type and (e) immigration status.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Northern Ireland-specific data her Department holds but does not publish on asylum, immigration enforcement, removals and foreign national offenders.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish a Northern Ireland-specific asylum expenditure table covering accommodation, subsistence, healthcare-related support, education-related support, legal support, transport

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been provided to the Executive Office, Department for Communities, Department of Health, Department of Education, councils, charities or contractors in Northern Ireland for asylum

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals in Northern Ireland receive asylum support under section 95, section 98 or section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland are awaiting appeal or further submissions.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers in Northern Ireland are awaiting a decision, broken down by length of wait.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Northern Ireland-specific performance data is collected under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract and AIRE contract.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints, contract failures, service credits or financial penalties have been recorded against asylum accommodation providers in Northern Ireland since 2019.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of asylum accommodation contracts operating in Northern Ireland.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are currently housed in Northern Ireland in hotels, initial accommodation, dispersal accommodation and contingency accommodation.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels in Northern Ireland are currently being used for asylum accommodation, broken down by local government district.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been paid for hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland in each month since January 2020.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been paid to private providers for asylum accommodation in Northern Ireland in each year since 2019-20.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish all Home Office grants, contracts, memoranda of understanding or transfer payments relating to asylum support in Northern Ireland since 2019.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding has been provided to Northern Ireland councils for asylum dispersal, integration, English language support, advice services, community hubs or related services in each year since 2019-20.

27 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Asylum: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to Northern Ireland in each financial year since 2019-20 for asylum accommodation, broken down by scheme, recipient body and local council area.

23 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his timeframe estimation is for the final settling of all outstanding claims within the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, including those with registered intent.

23 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Infected Blood Compensation scheme claimants, with a prognosis of less than 12 months life expectancy, are having their claims and registered intent notifications prioritised.

23 Mar 2026 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority to process claims made in a timely manner.

19 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have, in each of the last five years, (a) moved to roles with pharmaceutical companies or industry-funded bodies and (b) jo

19 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many whistleblowing reports relating to conflicts of interest have been submitted within the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in each of the last five years; and whether the

19 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department has modelled alternative funding structures for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency that would reduce reliance on industry fees; and if it will publish an

19 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Yellow Card Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is taking to improve clinician reporting of myocarditis and pericarditis in the Yellow Card system; and whether the Department has

19 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment was made of the potential merits of including an examination of the evidence base relating to the spike protein and lipid nanoparticles used in Covid-19 mRNA vaccines within the sco

19 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the paper by the Online Safety Act Network entitled Strengthening the Online Safety Act: A Ten-point pl

19 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Policy

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to enable smaller charities to contribute more effectively to public policy development, including through improving access to (a) tenders, (b) grant applicati

19 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestine: Textbooks

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to condition the continuation of UK funding to the Palestinian Authority on the removal of (a) antisemitic content and (b) incitement to violen

17 Mar 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Antisemitism

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the role that small, high-harm online platforms play in hosting antisemitic content that is subsequently amplified by larger platforms.

12 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgical Mesh Implants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have reported adverse outcomes following rectopexy mesh procedures in the last ten years; and whether his Department has considered those cases in determining eligibility for mesh

Source: official written-questions record.