Written questions

2,665 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Ultrasonics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with medical researchers on the development of histotripsy treatments.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ultrasonics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of histotripsy treatment in the NHS.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ultrasonics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of histotripsy treatment on the NHS.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Uniforms

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that families are able to afford school uniforms in Lancashire.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the average time to resolve a school complaint in (a) England, (b) Lancashire and (c) Fylde constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help improve GCSE outcomes in (a) English and (b) maths for white working-class children.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were eligible for free school meals in Fylde constituency in each of the last five years.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Transport to provide effective (a) oversight and (b) enforcement of road adoption processes in new housing developments.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of new housing developments had a Section 38 agreement in place at the start of construction in each of the last five years; and what enforcement measures are in place for developer

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that housing developers comply with statutory obligations to complete roads to an adoptable standard.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Unadopted Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of unadopted roads on new housing developments due to developers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take through the benefit system to incentivise young people to work additional hours in Lancashire.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

First Time Buyers: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average house price for first time buyers in Lancashire.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the trend in the number of reports of suspected number plate (a) cloning and (b) misidentification.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has made of whether there are (a) regional and (b) other geographic trends in the number of suspected cloned number plate reports between 2020 and 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to ensure that victims are (a) informed and (b) consulted about offenders who partake in chemical suppression programmes.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons in the North West the expanded pilot for the use of medication to manage problematic sexual arousal for sex offenders will operate in; what criteria he will use to select those prisons; and how m

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September, what his planned timeline is for completion of each

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September 2025, if he publish the full data and methodology us

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Ports: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria her Department is using to decide which coastal ports or dry docks will receive UK SHORE funding.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the £448 million public investment announced under the UK SHORE programme will be allocated to (a) Fylde and (b) other coastal constituencies in Lancashire.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations will receive additional funding to improve CCTV in Fylde constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hen Harriers: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made a recent estimate of the population of Hen Harriers in Lancashire.

16 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Private Rented Housing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a property tax on landlords on the availability of rental properties in the private sector.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has conducted any assessments on the implications of replacing council tax with a property-based tax payable by property owners rather than occupiers.

16 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will take steps to require online platforms to verify contact details for companies on their platforms.

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on the balance of academic and practical training in nurse education programmes.

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available for NHS mental health staff who are injured at work or absent due to work-related stress.

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of staffing shortages on patient and staff safety in psychiatric wards in Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

The Harbour: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure safe staffing levels at The Harbour mental health facility in Blackpool.

Source: official written-questions record.