Written questions

2,665 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

National Business Crime Centre: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60645 on Shoplifting: Lancashire, whether the £2 million funding for the National Business Crime Centre will support the development of new training

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

National Business Crime Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60645 on Shoplifting: Lancashire, what role the National Business Crime Centre will play in the implementation of the Safer Streets Mission.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Opal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60645 on Shoplifting: Lancashire, what steps she is taking to (a) monitor and (b) evaluate the effectiveness of Opal in tackling serious organised ac

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Opal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60645 on Shoplifting: Lancashire, how the £5 million allocated to fund Opal will be distributed annually; and what specific metrics will be used to a

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Crime Prevention: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60645 on Shoplifting: Lancashire, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Safer Streets Mission in (a) reducing crime and (b) improv

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Gig Economy: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the (a) selling and (b) renting of user profiles to gig economy platforms is a criminal offence.

25 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Gig Economy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Department is responsible for ensuring that (a) Deliveroo and (b) gig economy platforms monitor users to ensure compliance with usage policies.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Delivery Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of delivery drivers using e-bikes on other road users.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers: Gig Economy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) asylum seekers and (b) irregular migrants without the right to work in the UK working in the gig economy.

25 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of illegally working while awaiting an asylum claim have on the outcome of that claim.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people on universal credit into work in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the child poverty taskforce on levels of child poverty in Fylde constituency.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet with representatives from the Lobular Moonshot Project campaign.

25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider funding the Lobular Moonshot Project for invasive lobular breast cancer.

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to provide financial support to voluntary blood bike charities undertaking urgent medical transport services for the NHS.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heating: Renewable Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of existing regulations relating to the introduction of a renewable liquid heating fuel obligation.

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Bricks

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to encourage the use of swift bricks in newbuild homes in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) in Lancashire.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that Fylde constituency will be affected by the Creative Industries Sector Plan, announced on 23 June 2025.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Creative Foundations Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is planning to take to ensure that the Creative Foundations Fund is allocated (a) efficiently and (b) equitably across regions.

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the uptake of at-home cervical screening tests.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Veterinary Services: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of veterinarian costs on the number of animals being put down.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Veterinary Services: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce veterinary costs.

24 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's news story entitled LGBTQIA+ Legal Guidebook launched in Philippines for Pride Month, published on 23 June 2025, how many similar foreign L

24 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) research, (b) design, (c) publication and (d) distribution of the LGBTQIA+ Legal Guidebook.

24 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many staff hours in his Department were allocated to (a) drafting, (b) reviewing and (c) promoting the LGBTQIA+ Legal Guidebook; and what estimate he has made of the tota

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Graffiti: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider reviewing sentencing guidelines to increase the severity of the punishment for repeat offenders of graffiti.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Postal Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support access to postal services for small businesses in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of climate change on farm animal welfare.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2025 to Question 60563 on Livestock: Death, what resources his Department has made available to the Animal and Plant Health Agency to monitor compliance

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2025 to Question 60563 on Livestock: Death, how many breaches of animal welfare regulations during periods of extreme weather have been recorded by the

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