Written questions

323 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Antisemitism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to combat antisemitism (a) in secondary schools, (b) in colleges, and (c) on university campuses.

2 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to cease the purchasing of non-essential items, including vapes, for illegal migrants.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tickets: Price Caps

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, (a) if there will be exemptions made to her ticket price cap policy and (b) what criteria is used to judge this.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish a timeline for allocating expenditure of the £400 million capital funding for grassroots sporting facilities.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the use of (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres alongside weight-loss drugs.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Unemployment: Exercise

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding the inclusion of physical activity and exercise-based solutions within programmes aimed at reducing ill he

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres are used to help reduce (i) health and (ii) socioeconomic inequalities.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Leisure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of business or employment tax rises on (a) gyms, (b) swimming pools, and (c) leisure centres.

2 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of recent illegal working arrests, how many have been removed from the United Kingdom.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of foreign nationals claiming welfare benefits.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that the State Pension Benefit will be available under the current conditions to those entering the workforce in the financial year 2025-2026.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Emigration

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the emigration of (a) 18-25, (b) 26-35, (c) 36-49, and (d) 50+ years old on (i) the levels of revenue raised through taxation and (ii) the sustainability of th

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Television: Streaming

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has plans to bring channels which stream online under an Ofcom licence under Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code.

18 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Police Federation of England and Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the Police Federation; and when she next plans to meet the Police Federation.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Betting: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 28 October to question 83432 on Betting: Excise Duties, if she will publish a list of the stakeholders who (a) have responded to the consultation, and (b) have met with Ministers as part of

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling Levy Programme Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 28 October to question 83435, on Gambling: Taxation, if she will set out a timeline for publishing the Terms of Reference for the Levy Board and Advisory Group.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November to question 84964 on Gambling, what steps she is taking to ensure that her department uses (a) impartial, and (b) accurate data, and commissions (i) impartial

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 3 November to question 84965 on Gambling, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of the statistical analysis in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities'

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Betting: Excise Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 5 November to question 85955 on Betting: Excise Duties, if she will list the stakeholders she has met since 4 July 2024.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

First Time Buyers: Greater London

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 17 November to Question 87901 on Individual Savings Accounts, what assessment she has made of (a) the impact of the property price cap on the number of first-time buyers purchasing homes, (

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

David Kogan

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what meetings the Government has had with David Kogan since 4 July 2024.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

David Kogan

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings she has held with David Kogan since 4 July 2024.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Independent Football Regulator: Political Parties

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on political donations made by the Independent Football Regulator Chair since 2019.

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Carbon Monoxide: Alarms

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration his Department has given to the potential merits of mandating carbon monoxide detectors in every home with fixed combustion appliances.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Gambling: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with the Rt hon. Gordon Brown on gambling duties.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Deaflympics

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to take steps to support the Deaflympics.

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the trends in the number of houses in multiple occupation on house prices in each local authority.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the value for money of funding distributed by the Arts Council England.

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Visits Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) local authority leaders, (b) metro-mayors and (c) the Mayor of London on the value for money of foreign visits.

18 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Embassies: Tolls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with Ambassadors to the Court of St James's on the payment of outstanding congestion charge debts by embassies.

Source: official written-questions record.