Written questions

2,665 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will work with wireless broadband operators to develop technology that is in keeping with local environments where it is installed.

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

Aerials: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local planning authorities on the installation of wireless broadband masts.

13 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to review the Electronic Communications Code on (a) broadband infrastructure and (b) local visual amenity.

13 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps is Ofcom taking to ensure telecommunications providers adhere to the Electronic Communications Code on the visual impact of broadband infrastructure.

13 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has provided guidance to telecommunications companies on addressing community concerns on the visual impact of broadband poles.

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 56537 on Long Covid, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure equitable access to long COVID (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment services

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 56537 on Long Covid, how many long COVID clinics are operational in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire; and he plans to open further clinic

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Young Futures Hubs: Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 55130 on Farmers: Mental Health Services, will the national network of Young Futures hubs include rural-focused outreach to help tackle the challen

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer to Question 55130 on Farmers: Mental Health Services, what steps he is taking to help ensure that rural agricultural communities have equitable access to the 8,500 new mental

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Farmers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 55130 on Farmers: Mental Health Services, what (a) metrics and (b) evaluation frameworks are being used to assess the effectiveness of current men

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

Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that (a) rural and (b) farming communities receive appropriate tailored mental health servi

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

Community Ownership Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many projects received Community Ownership Fund funding in (a) Fylde constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) each NUTS region of the UK.

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

Community Assets: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47125 of 22 April 2025 on Community Assets; Finance, what estimate she has made of the difference in funding availability; and

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

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many projects have benefitted from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Lancashire.

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

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many projects have benefitted from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Fylde constituency.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Degrees

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure bachelors degree courses represent value for money.

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to build more community diagnostic centres.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered the potential merits of reducing the price of a veterans’ railcard to that of an armed forces railcard.

12 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Theft: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle car theft in (a) Fylde and (b) Lancashire.

12 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Mobile Phones: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with police forces on tackling phone theft.

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

Recreation Spaces: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to take steps to help support community groups to (a) maintain and (b) promote local (i) green and (ii) blue spaces in Fylde.

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

Air Pollution: Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support local authorities to (a) monitor and (b) reduce particulate pollution in (i) residential and (ii) agricultural areas in Fylde.

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

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of air pollution in (a) Fylde and (b) other semi-rural areas; and what steps his Department is taking to help mitigate th

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Lancashire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of implementing the policies in the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 29 May 2

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability and Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) health-related and (b) disability benefits in (i) Fylde constituency and (ii) Lancashire from 2025-26 to 2029-30 inclusive.

11 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Holiday Parks: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of jobs at risk in the holiday parks sector as a result of the proposed changes to inheritance tax reliefs.

11 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Agriculture and Business: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the British Holiday & Home Parks Association on proposed changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief.

11 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Holiday Parks: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the proposed changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief on family-run holiday parks in (a) rural and (b) coastal communities.

11 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Holiday Parks: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of proposed changes to Business Property Relief and Agricultural Property Relief on the holiday parks sector.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Northern: Lytham St Annes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increasing service frequency and electrification on the Lytham to Preston line on the local (a) economy and (b) environment.

Source: official written-questions record.