Written questions
248 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Glioblastoma: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the MHRA on the potential impact of regulatory reform on the time taken to develop glioblastoma treatments.
11 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Glioblastoma: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with industry on the expansion of manufacturing sites for glioblastoma treatment development.
11 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Glioblastoma: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what funding the Government has allocated to support new or expanded manufacturing facilities for advanced glioblastoma treatments.
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on supporting schools with falling pupil numbers.
4 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2025, published on 26 November, HC 1492, on what evidential basis she estimated the saving arising from the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners and re-organising local gov
4 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Road Traffic
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of traffic congestion on the economy.
26 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
New Towns
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2024 to Question 90424 on New Towns, in which sections of the New Towns Taskforce: Report to government and the Initial government response
25 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his Department's policy is on local authorities who do not wish to engage in local government reorganisation.
17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care: Broxbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of palliative care services in Broxbourne constituency.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2024 to Question 88403 on Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals and with reference to the Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 12 June 2025, publishe
14 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to make it easier for local planning authorities to decline repeat applications for development that has already been refused.
12 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
New Towns
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is his Department's policy that neighbouring local authorities will be consulted before new towns are built.
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
English Language: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been provided to schools to support pupils for whom English is an additional language in each of the last three years.
5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Asylum: Community Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of offering publicly funded (a) services and (b) activities to asylum seekers on local community cohesion.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) illegal waste dumping and (b) fly-tipping on rural communities.
5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released early under automatic release provisions have subsequently been reconvicted.
5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data his Department holds on the number of newly built homes purchased by non-UK nationals in each of the last five years.
5 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Social Security Benefits and Taxation: Immigration
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department holds data on (a) taxes paid and (b) the cost of public services used by migrants who have arrived in the UK within the last 10 years.
5 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on benefit payments to foreign nationals in the 2024-2025 financial year.
5 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Migration: Economic Situation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the projected fiscal impact of net migration on public spending over the next five years.
5 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of providing healthcare to (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees in the last financial year.
5 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of individuals working without the legal right to do so in each of the last five years.
5 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences involved individuals with pending asylum applications in the last 12 months.
5 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Asylum: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish more detailed statistics on criminal convictions among people with pending asylum claims.
31 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Motor Neurone Disease: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the Neurology Transformation Programme.
29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Multiple Myeloma: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 77757 on Multiple Myeloma: Diagnosis, when the NHS will fully implement non-specific symptom pathways for the purpose of earlier diagnosis of b
14 Oct 2025 · Scotland Office
Offshore Industry: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of net zero policies on Scotland's oil and gas sector.
10 Oct 2025 · Treasury
Hospitals and Schools: Solar Power
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will set out the the policy of the Valuation Office Agency on amending the valuation of (a) schools and (b) hospitals following the installation of rooftop solar panels.
10 Oct 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30146 on Business Rates, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reducing relative to the 2024-25 scheme the value of the retail, hospitality an
10 Oct 2025 · Treasury
Garages and Petrol Stations and Public Houses: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 20 of the Valuation Office Agency's document entitled Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, published on 17 July 2025, if she will set out the changes to the methodology for valuing (a) petrol f
Source: official written-questions record.