Written questions
656 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has allocated a lead negotiator to negotiate a potential UK-US free trade agreement.
4 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Emigration
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many UK nationals emigrated from the UK for long-term purposes in the (a) third and (b) fourth quarter of 2024.
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Business Growth Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 857, how many staff in his Department have been allocated t
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business Growth Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 857, what progress his Department has made on creating the
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business Growth Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 857, what his Department's timetable is for launching the b
28 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 857, whether his Department plans to undertake public consu
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Public Transport: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of public transport procurement projects contracted by her Department have included net zero requirements since 5 July 2024; and what estimate she has made of the cost of those requirements.
26 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many public contracts awarded by the Crown Commercial Service since 5 July 2024 have included mandatory commitments to publish suppliers’ (a) gender and (b) ethnicity pay gaps.
26 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Training
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of procurement training for staff in his Department since 5 July 2024 has been delivered by organisations affiliated with trade unions.
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Department for Transport: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many infrastructure contracts awarded by her Department since 5 July 2024 have included mandatory collective bargaining clauses.
26 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many public contracts awarded by his Department since 5 July 2024 have required suppliers to recognise trade unions as a condition of contract award.
25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fertility: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to fertility treatments.
25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fertility: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22722 on Fertility: Medical Treatments, whether he will make it his policy to collect these data centrally.
25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fertility
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22721 on Fertility, whether he will make it his policy to collect these data centrally.
13 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to respond to the letter of 20 December 2024 from the hon. Members for Arundel and South Downs, East Surrey and Wyre Forest.
13 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any staff in his Department have been allocated to negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States.
13 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to change the number of staff in his Department working on new free trade agreements.
13 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to Question 25350 on Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Paternity Leave, tabled on 21 January 2025.
12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
HM Land Registry: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what HM Land Registry's average response time is on requests to merge title deeds.
4 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 19 December 2024 from the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs.
4 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 26598 on Rules of Origin, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the economic impact on the UK of joining the Pan-E
4 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, on what date the Incorporated Companies in the UK statistical release for October to December 2024 will be published.
3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to section 180 of the Health and Social Care Act 2022, whether he plans to create a licensing regime for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.
3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press notice of 2 September 2023 entitled Consultation launched into unregulated cosmetic procedures, if he will publish the response to the consultation.
3 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Tools: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of tool theft on (a) tradespeople and (b) small businesses.
3 Feb 2025 · Home Office
Tools: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on reducing tool theft.
30 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Public and Commercial Services Union: Industrial Disputes
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Public and Commercial Services trade union on the proposed industrial action by workers in his Department.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Promotion
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what has been the cost of the UK Trade Envoy programme since its inception; and what was the cost of the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy programme in each of the last 5 years in which it operated.
27 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Rules of Origin
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had discussions with representatives from the European Union on the Pan-Euro-Mediterranian Convention on Rules o
27 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Rules of Origin
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Pan-Euro-Mediterranian Convention on Rules of Origin.
Source: official written-questions record.