Written questions

1,131 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to table amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to expand checks for illegal working.

4 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful asylum claimants by nationality there were by (a) age and (b) sex in each year since 2020.

4 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the impact of her policies on electric vehicle charging companies’ (a) pricing and (b) subscription models.

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have been granted permission to work in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in each year since 2020.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Undocumented Migrants: National Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many irregular migrants have been given a National Insurance Number in each year since 2020.

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have been given the right to work in each year since 2020.

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of irregular migrants who do not have an up-to-date address registered by her Department.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Motability: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total (a) value and (b) number of payments made by her Department to Motability in each year since 2010.

2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) hospitals, and (b) other buildings in England will be (i) sold, (ii) refurbished, and (iii) demolished between 2025 and 2030.

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Police: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of building new charging infrastructure for police electric vehicles in each year between 2025 and 2030.

2 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Police: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of building new charging infrastructure for police electric vehicles in each year between 2020 and 2025.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in his Department have had with the Health and Safety Executive on its proposed restriction on the acquisition, s

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of restricting the acquisition, storage, and usage of lead shot on elite shooting athletes.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of clay pigeon shooting on (a) business growth and (b) job creation in rural communities.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations his Department has received from shooting organisations on restrictions on the acquisition, storage, and use of lead shot.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Gun Sports: Lead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of exempting elite shooting athletes from the Health and Safety Executive’s proposed restriction on the acquisition, sto

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Domestic Visits: Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many ministerial visits he has made to Suffolk since 4 July 2025; and where those visits took place.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the projected cost for spend on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England by 2030.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on ultra-low carbon measures for NHS buildings in England in each year since 2015.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list (a) the contracts signed by NHS trusts for (a) designing and (b) constructing new NHS buildings that are net zero in operation and (b) the value of each of those contracts.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of benefit claimant households had received welfare payments for (a) five, (b) ten, (c) twenty and (d) more than twenty years in each year since 2010 in the latest period fo

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average amount received in benefits by benefit claimant households in each year since 2010, broken down by local authority.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefits claimant households received (a) Universal Credit, (b) New Style Jobseekers’ Allowance, (c) New Style Employment and Support Allowance, (d) Personal Independence Payment and (e) legacy

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Long Term Unemployed People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimant households included people who have (a) not worked for (i) five, (ii) ten, (iii) twenty and (iv) more than twenty years and (b) never worked in each year since 2010 in the late

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) Officials in his Department have undertaken with the sporting and cultural events sector to discuss proposals for the Care Quality Commission to increase its reg

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the capacity of the Care Quality Commission to regulate sporting and cultural events.

27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sportsgrounds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to consult on the temporary exemption for sporting and cultural events at associated premises to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulati

26 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers arrived in the UK without appropriate documents in in each year since 2020.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school buildings will be (a) sold, (b) refurbished and (c) demolished between 2025 and 2030.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department is projected to spend on ultra-low carbon measures for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools by 2030.

Source: official written-questions record.