Written questions

609 written questions tabled, most recent first.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Funds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to ensure that reform of regulations for accessing surplus in defined benefit pension schemes help improve economic growth.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Distribution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of electricity distribution networks, in the context of meeting the Government's net zero targets.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Distribution

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to increase the capacity of electricity distribution networks.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Industry: Electrification

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support industrial electrification.

13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Continuing Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of continuing care assessments resulted in eligibility in (a) the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board and (b) England in the most recent year for whic

13 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his Department's timetable is for publishing submissions to the consultation entitled Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, opened in December 2020; and what plans he has to publish new m

13 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will publish the research paper entitled UK:EU Ecofin Regulatory Divergence Study of minimum energy efficiency performance standards (MEPS) for water pumps, vacuum cleaners and tumble d

13 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Billing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his department will make an assessment on the potential merits of the heating-as-a-service (HaaS) business model as a solution to tackle high energy bills in the private rented sector.

12 Feb 2025 · Women and Equalities

Gender

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s proposed revisions to its Code of Practice on the Equality Act in relation to single-

12 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Research: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to improve the effectiveness of the initial assessment process for research and development tax relief claims.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help ensure that companies cannot commit fraud by changing their company name.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason advice on the potential merits of installing (a) loft, (b) wall and (c) roof insulation has been removed from his Department's pages entitled Energy efficient home on gov.uk.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what schemes the Warm Homes Fund will cover to ensure that households can access subsidies for transitioning to heat pump technologies.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Boiler Upgrade Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to extend the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to (a) hybrid heat pump technologies and (b) other multi technology solutions.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

School Libraries: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to monitor the adequacy of library provision in primary schools.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage reading in schools.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Nurses: Mileage Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the decrease to the Agenda For Change mileage payments for community nurses that will come in July 2025.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase day care outpatient provision for the treatment of (a) children, (b) young people and (c) adults with eating disorders.

10 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) GP referral for assessment, (b) assessment and (c) treatment for patients with eating disorders.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on improving accessibility of railways; and (a) when and (b) how new projects will be identified under the Access for All funding scheme.

10 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 25004 on Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis, what steps he is taking to improve the application process for compensation (a) in general and (b) fo

6 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 25004 on Infected Blood Compensation Scheme: Hepatitis, what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of funding for compensation for the affected families

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Travel: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she has taken to review the effectiveness of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme for facilitating the travel of wheelchair users to education and work.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Cycling: Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the condition of the UK cycling industry.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Bicycles: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support businesses which export bicycles.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Child Maintenance Service to (a) increase protections for the victims of domestic abuse and (b) to prevent the withholding or arti

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what reforms to disability benefits she plans to introduce in 2025; when each reform will be implemented; and whether she plans to publish any further consultations on planned reforms.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of a third runway at Heathrow on the UK's carbon budget.

30 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Northern Rock: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing compensation for small shareholders for the loss of shares in Northern Rock Plc.

30 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for providing national coverage for fracture liaison services.

Source: official written-questions record.