Written questions

531 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

HIV/AIDS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the forthcoming HIV Action Plan will strengthen awareness of HIV risk among women.

24 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Child Maintenance Service: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for Child Maintenance Service appeals that proceed to a Tribunal.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to parliamentary question 78887 answered on 20 October, whether freight traction decarbonisation is within the scope of its long-term infrastructure and rolling stock strategy.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions has he had with organisations that deliver supported accommodation on work for young people living in supported housing.

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cleft Palate: Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to dental care for people with a cleft.

4 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department expects all eligible retired members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme to receive their McCloud remedy payments; and what steps she is taking to expedite payments to retired teachers impacted

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

Housing Ombudsman Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for complaints submitted to the Housing Ombudsman to be (a) processed and (b) resolved.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to Bikeability cycle training for children.

27 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Nurseries: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of providing business rates relief for independent nurseries.

27 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the challenges faced by not-for-profit care homes.

27 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increases in employers' National Insurance contributions on trends in levels of fees for care homes.

27 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to generate public recognition of the (a) contribution and (b) value of workers in the care sector.

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disabled Facilities Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take legislative steps to remove the consideration of Armed Forces compensation from means testing for the Disabled Facilities Grant.

17 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the Armed Forces Covenant Duty across his Departmental responsibilities.

16 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for the introduction of the Armed Forces Covenant into law.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 77729 on Horizon IT System: Compensation, whether his Department has a timeline for when this process will be available to claimants.

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Imitation Firearms: Imports and Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is monitoring the (a) importation and (b) online sale of imitation firearms; and whether she plans to make an assessment of whether the online sale of imitation firearms contrav

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Imitation Firearms: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the online sale of imitation firearms.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to update the NHS Car Parking Guidance 2022 for NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Youth Endowment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Youth Endowment Fund in reducing (a) youth violence and (b) knife crime.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Uber

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of whether the processes used by Uber to deactivate drivers from its platform complies with UK employment law.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing routine (a) blood glucose and (b) ketone testing for children presenting with symptoms consistent with Type 1 diabetes; and

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of school meal debt; and whether she plans to take steps to support families to reduce that debt in the child poverty strategy.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hearing: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS England’s processes for (a) identifying and (b) responding to concerns about the (i) quality and (ii) accuracy of children’s hearing test ser

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Life Sciences: Job Creation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of high-skilled jobs that will be created through the Life Sciences Sector Plan; and what steps he is taking to ensure that these will be distributed across regi

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to promote workplace diversity and inclusion.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Apprentices: Eastleigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of apprenticeship (a) uptake and (b) completion rates among businesses in Eastleigh constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what support his Department is providing to households to access home insulation schemes in Eastleigh constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Crimes of Violence: Eastleigh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in reported violent crime in Eastleigh constituency in the last 12 months.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Eastleigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of ambulance response times in Eastleigh constituency.

Source: official written-questions record.