Written questions

1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if her Department take steps to deliver full fibre to 12,000 premises in North Shropshire following the integration of Building Digital UK into her Department.

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase defibrillator training in schools in North Shropshire constituency.

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of prostate-specific antigen tests among travel insurers.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Project Gigabit: North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many and what proportion of properties have been connected to full fibre under the North Shropshire Project Gigabit contract.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Landfill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce landfill use by 2028.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Naloxone

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase (a) awareness and (b) the availability of Naloxone in public locations.

13 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the press report by the British Retail Consortium entitled 400 of Britain's largest shops at risk, published on12 September 2025, on t

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 vaccinations were available for use in England in winter (a) 2025-6, (b) 2024-5 and (c) 2023-4.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to protect household contacts of the immunosuppressed from covid-19 infection.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Supported Housing: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help young people in supported accommodation in North Shropshire constituency increase their (a) working income and (b) financial security.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Chinook Helicopters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department is providing to the bereaved families of the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Chinook Helicopters: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to assess the potential merits of reviewing the classification of documents on the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994 within this parliamentary term.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neighbourhood Health Centres: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding her Department has allocated for the rollout of neighbourhood health centres (a) in England and (b) for each eligible integrated care board.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring organisations with public use defibrillators to be provided with a log of use.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the system used to alert volunteers when a defibrillator is used.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) training and (b) support provided to volunteers who help maintain public use defibrillators.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the maintenance process of public use defibrillators.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of (a) guidance and (b) other protocols provided to properties with public use defibrillators.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will he take steps to provide an interim pay increase for social care workers in advance of the implementation of fair pay agreement outcomes in 2028.

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in which NHS trusts Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy is available in England .

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of clinical oncology workforce shortages on the adoption of innovative cancer treatments by NHS trusts.

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential for systemic anti-cancer therapies to be delivered via primary care in the community or at home.

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has given to introducing an innovation incentive payment to facilitate the adoption of innovative treatments by NHS trusts.

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage NHS trusts to take part in clinical trials for innovative treatments.

15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of commissioning arrangements for (a) Molecular Radiotherapy, (b) Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy and (c) Systemic Anti-Cancer Therap

5 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Botulism

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the (a) location and (b) number of animals affected by outbreaks of botulism was in each month of 2025.

5 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Botulism: Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help protect livestock from botulism disease in Shropshire.

5 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of tax calculations made through HMRC's Simple Assessment procedure were subsequently found to be incorrect in each of the last five years.

5 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of HMRC's simple assessment procedure.

5 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Rebates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to reduce the time HMRC takes to process tax repayment claims.

Source: official written-questions record.