Written questions
2,665 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the Cunliffe Review of the water regulatory system.
20 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Standards: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with Trading Standards on the enforcement of rules pertaining to misleading use of certification logos, accreditations and compliance labels.
20 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of regulations governing the use of Microgeneration Certification Scheme certification branding in subcontracted solar PV installations.
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Management Companies: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning property management companies from charging disproportionate fees for homeowners to obtain documentation relating
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
UK Defence Innovation: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the £400 million allocated to UK Defence Innovation in 2025-26 will be available to firms outside the designated factory locations, including in the North West.
19 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89705 on Child Benefit, how many of the 23,500 enquiries excluded from the PAYE check were found to be eligible for reinstatement after the checks were complete
19 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89705 on Child Benefit, what steps HMRC will take to ensure that customers affected by the suspension of Child Benefit payments are formally notified of the apo
19 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89703 on Child Benefit, if she can advise what is the most localised level for which data is available.
19 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2025 to Question 89705 on Child Benefit, whether HMRC plans to publish a report on a) the circumstances of the error and b) lessons learned from the review into suspended Child
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Defence: North West
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling existing defence-manufacturing clusters in the North West, including aerospace and advanced materials firms, to contribute to the planned ‘always on
19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Weapons: Factories
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he used to determine the potential sites for the new munitions and energetics factories; and if he will publish the assessment methodology.
19 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure school closures due to extreme weather do not affect educational outcomes.
19 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on support for schools in cases of (a) snow and (b) other extreme weather.
19 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Self-employed: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that contractors have the same right to (a) settlement and (b) negotiated concession of their tax bills that are provided to large companies.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Borders: Personal Records
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the government uses its Initial Status Analysis system to monitor the departure of British citizens from the UK, as well as non-citizens.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Revenue and Customs: Information Sharing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what basis her Department re-personalised passenger name record data to share it with HMRC under the Data Usage Agreement: customer left UK data share pilot, published on 5 September 2024.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Borders: Personal Records
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) HMRC and (b) the Department for Work and Pension on the use of passenger name records.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Assessments: Dyslexia
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of exam support for students with dyslexia.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients are not adversely affected by strike action.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that UK medical graduates are prioritised for training posts in the National Health Service.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on overseas doctors competing for UK training posts.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Doctors: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the number of medical graduates who have been unable to secure training scheme posts in the last three years.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many applications for air-to-air heat pump grants have been received since the expansion of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
18 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the value for money of expanding the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to include air-to-air heat pumps and heat batteries compared to other low-carbon heating options.
18 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Revenue and Customs: Information Sharing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the passenger entry and exit data referred to in the Data Usage Agreement the Home Office made with HMRC for the customer left UK data share pilot.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the length of NHS waiting lists in (i) Fylde and (ii) Lancashire.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Public Houses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her budget on the pubs and brewing sector.
17 Nov 2025 · Treasury
Business rates: Beer and Public Houses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she has make an assessment of the potential impact of reforming business rates on small pubs and breweries.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles were (a) seized and (b) crushed for fly-tipping offences in (i) Fylde, (ii) Lancashire, and (iii) England in the last 12 months.
17 Nov 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delaying publishing provisional funding allocations will have any impact on schools’ and local authorities’ budget planning for 2026-27.
Source: official written-questions record.