Written questions
150 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the removal of ring-fenced funding for maternity services at Integrated Care Board level, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that maternity safety improvements are main
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase the speed of (a) award decisions and (b) reimbursement payments for the Access to Work scheme.
1 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the review of adult gender services.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s timescale is for the publication of data on incidences of corridor care.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospitals have sufficient capacity for patients.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cleft Palate: Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on (a) dental access and (b) treatment outcomes for people born with a cleft lip and/or palate.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cleft Palate: Dentistry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that dentists have adequate knowledge and training to treat people born with cleft (a) lips and (b) palates.
18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cleft Palate: Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people born with cleft (a) lips and (b) palates have access to appropriate dental care.
12 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that Windrush (a) claimants and (b) claimants' families can ask for their cases to be reviewed if they believe that the level of compensation they have been awarded is
12 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason pensions were not included in the original Windrush Compensation Scheme.
12 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the news story entitled Windrush compensation scheme overhaul to deliver faster justice, published on 24 October 2025, when she expects pension losses to be added to the awards of Wi
12 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Windrush Generation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to exclude Windrush claimants from her proposed changes to the eligibility criteria for (a) Indefinite Leave to Remain and (b) Right of Abode.
22 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Council
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to support the work of the British Council.
20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Diseases: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will take steps to help ensure that health (a) boards and (b) trusts (i) collect and (ii) publish data on the provision of respiratory diagnostics.
20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Diseases: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) increase capacity and (b) reduce inequalities in accessing respiratory diagnosis.
20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement for landlords to apply for at least five parking spaces to qualify for the electric vehicle infrastructure grant.
17 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Home Discount
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Warm Home Discount is provided to eligible claimants who have their bills included in their rent.
13 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending ring-fenced support for (a) nutritious meals and (b) food education to all early years settings.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Domestic Abuse: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help ensure that children are safeguarded in cases where allegations of parental abuse have been made but no formal legal restrictions are yet in place.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Trussell Trust’s Guarantee our Essentials research, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of uplifting Universal Credit to £120 per week.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing single-parent specific work coaches.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department’s review of Universal Credit will consider (a) the potential impact and effectiveness of the conditionality scheme and (b) the necessity of sanctions for lead carers of children.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her criteria are for making the extension of the newly recognised refugee move-on period permanent.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot extending the newly recognised refugee move-on period.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure that changes to the move-on pilot for newly recognised refugees are announced in advance of the end date.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the NHS is sufficiently staffed over summer holiday periods.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle staff shortages in cancer care.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Educational Psychology: Career Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with local authorities to help assistant educational psychologists progress their careers.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Educational Psychology: Student Wastage
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of assistant educational psychologists left the profession before becoming fully qualified educational psychologists in each of the last ten years.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Educational Psychology: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the number of places funded by the Educational Psychology Funded Training scheme on the number of educational psychologist staff.
Source: official written-questions record.