Written questions

839 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of NICE’s severity modifier on people with secondary breast cancer.

8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with incurable secondary breast cancer have access to world-leading treatments.

7 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Stocks and Shares: Hong Kong

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation plans to issue updated guidance to asset managers on the risks of holding Hong Kong-listed securities that track sanctioned Chinese parent companies through S

7 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Insurance and Pension Funds: China

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will commission a review of UK (a) pension fund and (b) insurance fund exposure to Chinese corporations sanctioned by allied jurisdictions.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Forced Labour: Xinjiang

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that suppliers (a) linked to forced labour in Xinjiang and (b) named in allied sanctions lists are excluded from public procurement frameworks.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK solar-panel imports sourced from Xinjiang-based polysilicon manufacturers sanctioned by the United States; and whether he plans to introduce

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Funds: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Pensions Regulator has issued guidance to trustees on the (a) financial and (b) reputational risks of holding equities in Hong Kong-listed companies named in overseas sanctions orders for hu

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Xinjiang: Forced Labour

o ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has considered publishing a consolidated UK list of Chinese companies (a) credibly implicated in forced-labour abuses in Xinjiang and (b) linked to the People’s Lib

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Xinjiang: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in the G7 on creating a common investment-ban list for companies credibly implicated in (a) forced labour, (b) genocide a

7 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Xinjiang: Overseas Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has considered secondary sanctions on UK-based financial institutions that continue to (a) underwrite, (b) trade and (c) market securities issued by Xinjiang Produ

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

Coalfields Regeneration Trust: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps she has taken on the capital funding request from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve accessibility for disabled candidates seeking employment in the public sector.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Disability

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of reasonable adjustments in public sector recruitment processes for disabled applicants.

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

Local Government: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of steps that local authorities are taking to help improve the representation of people with (a) a working class background, (b) a mi

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

Local Government: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that local authorities offer adequate reasonable adjustments during recruitment assessments for candidates with declared disabi

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor and (b) help tackle potential civil service recruitment barriers for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the removal of potential bias relating to (a) class, (b) race and (c) disability in civil service recruitment.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) anonymised CVs and (b) name-blind recruitment on diversity outcomes in Government departments.

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the progress of the civil service in increasing the proportion of recruits from (a) lower socio-economic backgrounds, (b) with disabilities and (c) from ethn

7 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent evaluation his Department has made of the adequacy of the Disability Confident scheme’s conversion rate from interview to appointment for disabled applicants across government departments.

3 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hong Kong: Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of maintaining the BN(O) visa scheme with a five-year pathway to indefinite leave to r

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

British National (Overseas): Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to recognise overseas professional qualifications held by British National (Overseas) migrants.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of British National (Overseas) visa holder dependent school pupils who are excluded from home fee status.

2 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Visas: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered granting British National (Overseas) visa holders parity with EU nationals who retain a five-year route to settled status under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Personal Taxation: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the revenue to the public purse from the taxes paid by British National (Overseas) visa holders since 2021.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Students: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of extending the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain for British National (Overseas) visa holders on the number of young people who (a) hold those

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Visas: British National (Overseas)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's planned timetable is for issuing guidance to dependents of BN(O) visa holders who plan to start university in 2026 on whether they will be eligible for home fee status.

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are affected by the Loan Charge that have open pre-2010 enquiries.

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have settled with HMRC to avoid the Loan Charge.

1 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of people impacted by the Loan Charge Scandal.

Source: official written-questions record.