Written questions
1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to inform local authorities of changes to (a) neighbourhood planning support and (b) associated funding.
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support her Department plans to provide local authorities for the examination of neighbourhood plans.
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has informed Locality that the Government will not be commissioning new neighbourhood planning support services in the current financial year.
17 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many families subject to No Recourse to Public Funds are (a) in receipt of Healthy Start and (b) have had their application for Healthy Start rejected.
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58289 on Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services, what data her Department holds on the accessibility to banking and postal ser
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58289 on Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services, how her Department monitors whether planning decisions have adequately pr
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58289 on Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local planning authori
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many homes occupied by families from (a) RAF Shawbury, (b) RAF Cosford and (c) Clive Barracks do not have up to date electrical safety certificates.
17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many homes occupied by families from (a) RAF Shawbury, (b) RAF Cosford and (c) Clive Barracks do not have up to date gas safety certificates.
16 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made on rural bus accessibility to identify communities underserved by public transport in North Shropshire constituency.
16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tomography: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 58291 on Tomography: Waiting Lists, whether his Department has set a target date by which all patients referred for diagnostic scans in North Shropshi
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will publish a breakdown of the sources of the funding increase for social care in 2028-29.
16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of the increased funding for social care in 2028-29 will come from council tax increases.
16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials in his Department are assigned to work on the social care review.
16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, how the savings in the NHS were calculated.
13 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to amend reforms to (a) agricultural property relief and (b) business property relief announced at the Autumn Budget 2024.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58292 on Bus Services: North Shropshire, what metrics will be used to evaluate whether the £4.5 million allocated to Shropshire Council for financial year 2025/202
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58292 on Bus Services: North Shropshire, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the £4.5 million allocated to Shropshire Council for financial
12 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Banking Hubs: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58290 on Banking Hubs: Market Towns, if her Department will commission an independent review of LINK’s access to cash assessment frameworks adequacy to serve rural
12 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Banking Hubs: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58290 on Banking Hubs: Market Towns, whether her Department plans to review LINK’s public transport travel time and cost criteria to account for the availability of
12 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Banking Hubs: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 58290 on Banking Hubs: Market Towns, what steps is her Department taking to ensure LINK’s criteria sufficiently reflect the banking needs of (a) digitally excluded,
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she received representations from medical professionals before reducing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department undertook a risk assessment before reducing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support high street businesses whose shipping imports from Asia have to be re-routed around Africa.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Market Towns
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made a recent assessment with the Secretary of State for Transport of the potential impact of public transport services in rural areas on the viability of high street businesses operatin
12 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Market Towns
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the impact of increased business rates on the viability of high street businesses in market towns.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street businesses in North Shropshire.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reductions to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund's fair access limit on the financial stability of adoptive families.
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Kerslake Commission on Armed Forces Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has produced a timeline to implement the recommendations of the Kerslake Review.
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 8912 on Armed Forces: Housing, how much of the funding for (a) maintaining and (b) improving Service Family Accommodation in 2024-25 will be spent in North Sh
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