Written questions

476 written questions tabled, most recent first.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Child Maintenance Service's arrears department is (i) office based and (ii) staffed through home working; how many people work for that team; what their response time is; and whether that re

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to prevent fraud relating to Universal Credit recipients claiming for properties they no longer occupy.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to women's State Pension age on retirement insurance schemes for vulnerable individuals.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastic Bags: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the plastic bag levy at lowering use; and whether she plans to introduce further measures to reduce the use of single-us

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Childcare: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the £100,000 earnings threshold for free childcare on incentives to work.

26 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Students: Loans

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of student loan repayment thresholds, tax thresholds and fiscal drag on incentives to work for people with plan 2 student loans.

13 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Management Companies: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to enable leaseholders to hold management companies to account for service charges.

13 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Management Companies: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to enable homeowners to challenge increases in fees from management companies.

12 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

M5: Gloucestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the importance of the upgrade to junction 10 of the M5 to the Cheltenham Tewkesbury and Gloucester Strategic Local Plan.

6 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of its policies on the right to work for irregular migrants on levels of irregular migration.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Slavery: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many working-age people are on the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract through the National Referral Mechanism.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department collects on how migrant survivors of trafficking in the National Referral Mechanism entered the UK.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings she has had with expert stakeholders on reviewing the Overseas Domestic Worker visa.

5 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the Fair Work Agency will assist migrant domestic workers experiencing abuse in private households.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of domestic workers who renew their visas each year.

5 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Migrant Workers: Domestic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of overseas domestic workers who have been able to enforce their rights to fair pay and working conditions through an employment tribunal over the last decade.

5 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Slavery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Kalaayan’s entitled 12 Years of Modern Slavery, published on 14 June 2024.

17 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: South Korea

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish a schedule of differences between the trade deal with South Korea announced on 15 December 2025 and the previous trade deal with South Korea which applied when the UK was a Member St

17 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential cumulative impact of the UK's trade agreements with South Korea, India and the United States on GDP in the next ten years.

10 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the police's ability to meet current levels of demand from crime.

10 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Standard of Living

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the Carnegie UK report entitled Life in the UK 2025.

10 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether future police force boundaries will be aligned with regional mayoral boundaries.

9 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the number of serving police officers taking their own lives is recorded.

9 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of allowing an exemption from Selective Licensing Schemes to be granted to leaseholders whose properties are withi

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his department has plans to implement the recommendations in Turn2us's report entitled From stigma to support, published in October 2025.

9 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his department is taking to ensure that members of the armed forces are not penalised in child maintenance claims where they are unable to meet contact night thresholds due to the obligations

9 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Marriage: Humanism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his department has made of the potential merits of recognising humanist marriages using existing powers.

9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which department is responsible for making decisions and research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) as part of the Final Delivery Plan.

9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered guarantees on specialist care provision for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and very severe ME.

9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Connect: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are his department taking to ensure the that upcoming GP Connect requirements support confidentiality and data integrity.

Source: official written-questions record.