Written questions

323 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry and Leisure: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) pubs, (b) hotels, (c) restaurants, (d) indoor leisure facilities and (e) night clubs that will have their business rates bill (i) increase, (ii) remain the same, and (

8 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance her Department has issued to UK Businesses on the potential impact of the (a) removal of business rates relief and (b) business rates revaluation on high street businesses.

3 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Cultural Heritage and Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to require local authorities to collect and publish baseline data on current (a) sports facilities and (b) heritage landscapes.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data relating to local sports infrastructure her Department holds; and whether she holds datasets on local authority breakdowns.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture and Leisure: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding allocations have been made to local authorities for the protection and improvement of (a) sports pitches and (b) heritage landscapes since 4 July 2024; and if she will publish a brea

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Recreation Spaces: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) registered parks, (b) gardens and (c) designed landscapes are currently classed as at risk in each local authority.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Recreation Spaces

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the most recent data held by her Department on the number of registered parks and gardens within each local authority area.

3 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sports: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of planning applications affecting sports pitches over the last five years by local authority.

3 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sports: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports pitches by local authorities.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data her Department holds on the (i) number, (ii) type, and (ii) condition of publicly accessible sports pitches in each local authority area in England; and if she will publish that data.

3 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sovereignty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international counterparts on protecting the right of nations to self-determination.

3 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will set out a timeline for bringing section 102 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 into force.

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Exercise: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business tax rises on physical activity levels.

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Exercise: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business tax rises on the physical activity sector.

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Tourism: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the cumulative effect of (a) increasing betting duties on seaside arcades, (b) a nightly levy on hotel stays, (c) the abolition of Favoured Tax Regime for Furnished Holiday Lets, (d)

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Betting: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October to Question 77717 on Betting: Excise Duties, if she will list relevant engagements with ministers.

3 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Proceeds of Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will have discussions with the police to establish a National Police Trust funded from money seized from the proceeds of crime.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Horse Racing: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2025 to Question 78837 on Rural Areas: Economic Situation, what assessment she has made of the difference between the increase in costs for horseracing due to

3 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Demonstrations: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2025 to Question 84932 on Business and Tourism: Greater London, if she will make an assessment of the potential economic impact of organised protests on tourism an

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Delivery Services: Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November, to Question 87899 on Delivery Services: Driving Licences, if she will (a) publish the letter referred to from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transpor

3 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Leisure: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue was generated in 2023/2024 from business rates on hereditaments that are being used for the provision of (a) sport, leisure and facilities to visiting members of the public and (b) casinos, gambling

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the causes of the increase in Universal Credit claimants who are not required to work; and what steps he is taking to reduce the number of Universal Credit claimants who a

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Football Regulator: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide a breakdown of the costs incurred by her Department, from 4 July 2024 to date, in the establishment of the Independent Football Regulator.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Visitor Levy

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 27 November to question 92601 on Tourism: Taxation, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Visitor Levies in other jurisdictions on the hospitality sector.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Visitor Levy: Greater London

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to hypothecate revenue raised from a Visitor Levy in London to support the visitor economy in London.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Visitor Levy: Greater London

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to split revenue raised from a Visitor Levy in London between the Mayor of London and London boroughs.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact miles driven abroad will have on the calculation of the amount of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty payable per vehicle.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

David Kogan

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 24 November to question 92054 on Independent Football Regulator: Political Parties, if she will publish the data on the additional political donations made by David Koga

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Lotteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the Problem Gambling Severity Index score for players of (a) The National Lottery, (b) Society Lotteries, and (c) instant win scratch cards.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Lotteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to Minister's statement to the House on 26 June 2025, what assessment she has made of the merits of comparing identical time frames.

Source: official written-questions record.