Written questions
609 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Game: Gun Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a licensing system for grouse shooting in England.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Birds of Prey: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle persecution of birds of prey.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the UK meets its 2030 nature recovery targets.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Birds: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the UK’s declining wild bird populations.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to help support authorities responsible for local nature recovery strategies to (a) facilitate partnership working, (b) collate a pipeline of nature reco
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide guidance to authorities responsible for local nature recovery strategies on the delivery of those strategies.
7 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the delivery of local nature recovery strategies by responsible authorities.
7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to announce further steps to help reduce waiting times for mental health treatment.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the trees burnt at the Drax power station are imported and transported on diesel freighters.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his proposed extension of subsidies for the Drax power station would raise the guaranteed strike price for the company from £100 MW/h to £113 MW/h.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has issued a response to BBC Panorama’s reports that the Drax powerplant has burned wood from primary forest sites.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to stop unabated burning of wood at Drax power station.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Drax Power Station: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to legislate to prevent the Drax power station burning wood from primary forests for producing non-subsidised electricity.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Carbon Emissions: Timber
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing hon. Members to access (a) the KPMG interim report of December 2022 and (b) the full NESO report on the alternatives to b
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Carbon Budgets
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure the Climate Change Committee assesses the upcoming sixth carbon budget plan before it is published.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Pumps and Insulation: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support low-income households with the costs of installing (a) insulation and (b) heat pumps.
2 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he is taking steps (a) reduce and (b) remove policy costs on electricity bills.
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Clean Energy: Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for the Government’s Clean Power 2030 target of limiting the supply of solar and battery storage projects as a result of the 20
31 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of making the adoption and special guardianship support fund permanent.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 38182 on LGBT+ People: Fertility, whether his Department plans to remove the requirement for female same sex couples to self-find prior to access
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Large Goods Vehicles: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to prevent foreign lorries without adequate safety features using UK roads.
27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Personal Injury: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of the compensation tariff for whiplash in line with inflation.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that GPs are able to access their pension information.
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Health and Safety Executive
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of claims made to the Health and Safety Executive that are subsequently referred by the HSE to local authorities for resolution.
27 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the compensation provided to Equitable Life policyholders.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating changes to NHS systems to ensure that it is possible to update the gender marker associated with an NHS number.
24 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Cooperatives
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's policy is on the use of co-operatives in supporting the Government's international development objectives.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Roads: South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) cost-efficiency of pothole repair strategies in South Cambridgeshire constituency.
24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rented Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of strengthening the Decent Homes Standard for all forms of tenure.
24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to provide a legal right to access adequate housing.
Source: official written-questions record.