Written questions

839 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on meeting the 18-week treatment targets in the Elective Reform Plan.

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce elective care waiting times (a) in general and (b) for joint replacement surgery.

5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service do not send arrears letters to people who pay on time.

5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce Child Maintenance Service (a) response and (b) decision times.

5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Child Maintenance Service provides proof, if requested, of calculations of collection fees.

5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Crisis and Resilience Fund: Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make and assessment of the adequacy of funding for the voluntary sector through the Crisis Resilience Fund.

5 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Tongue-tie: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) research the causes of ankyloglossia and (b) improve early diagnosis of that condition.

5 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a national strategy for (a) palliative and (b) end of life care.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for the specialist (a) care, (b) advice and (c) assessment provided by hospices.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospice contracts reflect the (a) cost of the services they provide and (b) needs of their local populations.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Clean Energy: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that transition plan requirements to clean energy are (a) proportionate and (b) flexible for SMEs.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Business: Carbon Emissions and Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether transition plans will be integrated within the UK’s Sustainability Reporting Standards framework.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Companies: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of aligning UK transition plan requirements with international sustainability standards.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Companies: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential for transition plan disclosure to help promote private investment into the UK’s net zero transition.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Companies: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to establish a clear (a) pathway and (b) timetable for transition plan disclosure to become mandatory for large UK companies.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Companies: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he his planned timetable is for publication of the Government’s plan for implementing mandatory transition plan disclosure for in-scope companies.

30 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of funding provided to nurseries to deliver the extended free childcare hours without financial shortfall.

27 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK will contribute £1 billion to the Eighth Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what resources her Department has allocated to the enforcement of heavy goods vehicle operator licensing standards; and what plans her Department has to strengthen enforcement in this area.

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what enforcement measures her Department has to ensure heavy goods vehicles operators hold the correct license; and how many prosecutions have been brought in the last three years for operators that did not.

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department are taking to help ensure that national HGV operators hold the correct license.

14 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve sanction processes for private parking companies that repeatedly (a) generate upheld complaints and (b) lose appeals.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on investigating private car park operators in instances of repeated disputes over charges where appeals

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has allocated funding for the Government response to the Hughes Report.

14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution in response to the question from the Hon. Member for Rushcliffe of 5 February 2025, Official report, column 751, what progress he has made o

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider how people with life-long disabilities caused by receiving sodium valproate in utero will be affected by welfare reforms when planning those reforms.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Performance Certificates: Holiday Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of new Energy Performance Certificate regulations on (a) holiday lets and (b) the tourism sector.

13 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Climate Change: International Cooperation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered joining The Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce set up at COP28.

13 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an estimate of the amount of potential revenue that could be raised from taxing sport utility vehicles in line with France.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthwatch

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch a public consultation before introducing legislation to abolish the statutory functions of local Healthwatch.

Source: official written-questions record.