Written questions

243 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Listed Buildings: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the requirements of listed building status do not delay the uptake of (a) EV charging and (b) household batteries.

30 Jun 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to Ofcom's advice on how to set the minimum standards of accuracy for the Technology Notice regime under the Online Safety Act, what assessment she has made of the effect

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling stand alone batteries (without solar PV) to contribute towards a properties EPC rating.

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the value of stand-alone batteries in the Warm Homes: Local Grant scheme for homes where solar PV is not present and may not be suitable.

1 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Hitchin

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for responses to people with PIP enquiries in Hitchin constituency.

29 May 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps is he taking to include stand-alone batteries in the Warm Homes: Local Grant scheme.

13 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to (a) make the pharmacy contract more sustainable and (b) reform the price concession mechanism.

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help reduce the average waiting time for a decision from the Housing Ombudsman Service.

19 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

Railways: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the reliability of train services in the East of England.

18 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the uptake of the Play Well toolkit, as laid out in Action 8 for Children and Young People with Cancer, in the National Cancer Plan 2026.

2 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Craniocervical Instability: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to develop a national diagnostic and treatment pathway for craniocervical instability.

13 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Babies: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the outcomes for children in the critical 1,001 days in (a) areas with Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies and (b) areas without Best Start Family

13 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Parents: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of national implementation models of online parenting support in Australia.

12 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antibiotics: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Chief Medical Officer’s publication entitled Annual report 2025: infections, published on 4 December 2025, if he will set out how the proposed regional infection groups will d

12 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antibiotics: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Chief Medical Officer’s publication entitled Annual report 2025: infections, published on 4 December 2025, what steps he is taking to embed antimicrobial stewardship as a prof

14 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address the shortage of the drug pancrelipase for pancreatic exocrine insufficiency patients.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Digital Technology and Media: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she will take to support children’s media and digital literacy education before 2028.

29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hydrocortisone: Addison's Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the availability of hydrocortisone for people with adrenal insufficiency.

29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve NHS staff (a) training and (b) understanding of tracheobronchomalacia.

28 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Speech and Language Therapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on ensuring that NHS speech and language therapy services use evidence-based intervention dosages for children with moderate to severe speech sound diso

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all brain tumour patients are routinely informed of opportunities to take part in (a) research and (b) clinical trials.

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hyoscine Hydrobromide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the supply of Hyoscine hydrobromide 1.5mg patches.

12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palforzia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had on increasing access to Palforzia treatment.

12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Adrenaline Auto-injectors: Public Places

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered locating anaphylaxis kits in (a) schools, (b) supermarkets and (c) other public places.

4 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Divorce Courts: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to account for the consequences of coercive control in divorce court (a) proceedings and (b) decisions.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising issues of sexual consent in sexual health education.

16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tomography: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of widening the deployment of play therapy in supporting paediatric MRI scans on costs.

15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the merits of including low cost effective property flood resilience measures in (a) the Future Homes Standard and (b) building regulations.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewers: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of producing standards on implementing sustainable urban drainage for (a) landowners, (b) local authorities

30 May 2025 · Home Office

Police: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reviewing the current police widow(er)s’ pension regulations.

Source: official written-questions record.