Written questions
2,665 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the potential economic impact of decisions businesses have made on the basis of the announcement of compulsory digital ID on 26 September 2025 and 13 January 2026.
14 Jan 2026 · Home Office
Police Raids: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation is available to people whose property is damaged as a result of policing operations at neighbouring properties; or properties where suspects are not the legal owners.
14 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants in each of the last five years have completed unpaid work as part of a sentence later overturned on appeal.
14 Jan 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Wind Power: Irish Sea
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the ability of vulnerable groups to participate in consultations on the Morgan and Morecambe offshore windfarm cabling route.
14 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the ability of vulnerable groups to access planning consultations.
14 Jan 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Wind Power: Irish Sea
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether an Equality Impact Assessment was carried out for the Application by Morgan Offshore Wind Limited and Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Limited for an Order Granting Development Consent for
14 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the workloads of prison officers in the North West.
14 Jan 2026 · Home Office
Voice over Internet Protocol: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the powers of law enforcement agencies to identify and investigate criminal activity conducted using VoIP services.
14 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Nuisance Calls: Voice over Internet Protocol
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help prevent the misuse of VoIP services for scam and nuisance calls.
14 Jan 2026 · Home Office
Voice over Internet Protocol: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded offences involving the use of VoIP services there have been in each of the last five years.
14 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Voice over Internet Protocol: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the regulatory framework governing VoIP services.
14 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit: Maladministration
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date (i) HMRC and (ii) ministers in her Department were notified of child benefit claimants incorrectly having benefits stopped due to data sharing with the Home Office.
13 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 103948 on Child Benefit: Fraud, when she estimates the c 23,500 cohort will have been fully reviewed.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Preston
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help increase the availability of driving tests at Preston test centre.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme: Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of current blue badge policy for people with Crohn's and Colitis.
13 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the press release entitled Child Benefit action to save £350 million from claimants abroad, published on 22 August 2025, and to the correspondence from the Chief Executive and First Permanent Secre
13 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme are awaiting retirement quotations or commencement of pension payments beyond expected timescales.
13 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 103948 on Child Benefit: Fraud, if she will make an estimate of the cost to her Department of time spent reviewing old cases.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Social Media: Death and Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has had recent discussions with social media companies on the rapid removal of graphic or traumatic content depicting serious injury or death.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Broadcasting: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of regulations on the broadcast or online circulation of footage from fatal accident scenes.
13 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Accidents: Privacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to help protect the privacy of people affected by fatal or serious accidents.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport
Driving: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) elderly people and (b) people without access to the internet are able to access their consultation on mandatory eye testing for older drivers.
12 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to ensure that monies raised in a geographic are ringfenced for spending in that area in the event of local government reorganisation.
12 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sri Lanka: Storms
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the recovery of Sri Lanka from Cyclone Ditwah.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Academies: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how frequently academy trusts will be inspected; and whether inspection frequency will vary according to previous performance.
8 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to answer 98955 of 16 December 2025 on Child Benefit, how many of the 7,781 enquiries which remained open have since been addressed; and what the outcomes were.
8 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the average length of time of a GP appointment.
7 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office
Home Office and Revenue and Customs: Information Sharing
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what correspondence the Government has had with the Information Commissioner's Office on the data sharing pilot between HMRC and the Home Office.
7 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Child Benefit: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new enquiries were opened into child benefit claims which were suspended from claimants as a result of data-sharing between HMRC and the Home Office in the period 1 to 31 December 2025.
7 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Inland Waterways: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Canal and River Trust’s grant settlement for maintaining the safety and integrity of inland waterways in England.
Source: official written-questions record.