Written questions

112 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce fly tipping in rural areas.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock Worrying: Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce livestock crime.

10 Apr 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps she is taking to help support the end of the civil war in Sudan.

10 Apr 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of ending the NHS' Federated Data Platform contract with Palantir.

10 Apr 2026 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of delaying the Business Rates revaluation for hospitality businesses.

10 Apr 2026 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of increasing the Business Rates discount to twenty percent for hospitality venues.

10 Apr 2026 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to financially support hospitality businesses that are dealing with the loss of business rates relief and an increase in their rateable value at the same time.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether additional funding for the Targeted Plus group will be ring fenced.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the educational rights of the Targeted Plus group will be enforced where those children do not have EHCPs.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how Specialist Resource Provisions fit within new school bases proposed in SEND reforms.

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether proposed SEND reforms include provision for education other than in school.

10 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Immigration: Turkey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many ECAA Indefinite Leave to Remain applications are pending.

10 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Immigration: Turkey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many ECAA Indefinite Leave to Remain applications have been decided in the last four months.

17 Mar 2026 · Home Office

Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help support refugee integration.

16 Mar 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps are being taken to provide funding to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

16 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of alternative electoral systems to the single member district system used to elect MPs.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Strategy Advisory Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure that members of the Food Strategy Advisory Board do not have conflicts of interest.

20 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of compensation for HMRC staff due to the late award of the Flexibility Payment.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock Industry: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of ending temporary concessionary visas for sheep shearers on sheep welfare.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sheep: Livestock Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps with British Wool to help increase the supply of British-trained sheep shearers.

20 Feb 2026 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Livestock Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of ending temporary concessionary visas for sheep shearers on the total labour supply of sheep shearers for the farming sector.

20 Feb 2026 · Treasury

Air Passenger Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase the number of private jet passengers paying the higher rate of Air Passenger Duty.

11 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office

Royal Mail: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide an update on the status of the Royal Mail Statutory Scheme Pension deficit.

4 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Regulatory Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce.

4 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office

Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928: Anniversaries

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what commemorations are being planned to mark the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1928.

12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve early interventions in cases of childhood neglect.

4 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to establish a timeline of when the new private rented sector database will be implemented.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

William Harvey Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase support for the delivery of emergency care at the William Harvey Hospital.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that child maintenance calculations reflect the needs of children in the paying parent's home.

10 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will meet with representatives from the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium to discuss their report entitled Lost Childhoods: The consequences of flawed age assessments at the UK bor

Source: official written-questions record.