Written questions

5,096 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the next police and fire commissioner elections will take place where existing boundaries are not co-terminus.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 22771 on Schools: Admissions, what proportion of the associated revenue costs of pupils entering the state sector from the independent sector relates to Cam

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding the Government provided for research into idiopathic pulmonary hypertension in the 2023-24 financial year; and which public bodies provided that funding.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with the Regulatory Innovation Office on the AI Opportunities Action Plan since July 2024.

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Border Security Command

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 22767 on Border Security Command, what aspect of system leadership the Border Security Command provides to the police; and with which police force

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Border Security Command

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 22767 on Border Security Command, what aspect of system leadership the Border Security Command provides to Immigration Enforcement.

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Border Security Command

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 22767 on Border Security Command, what aspect of system leadership the Border Security Command provides to the National Crime Agency.

21 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Border Security Command

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 22767 on Border Security Command, what aspect of system leadership the Border Security Command provides to Border Force.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Debts

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's Devolution White Paper (CP 1218), published on 16 December 2024, who will carry existing debt held by local authorities where a local governmen

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Multiple Occupation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the conversion of a single property into a house of multiple occupancy increases the overall number of properties within the Government's housing stock figures.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to block mobile phone signals for contraband mobile phones held by prisoners across the prison estate.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the projected cost to the public purse is of implementing the measures on local government within the the Devolution White Paper (CP 1218), published on 16 December 2024.

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department prepared an impact assessment on the restructuring of local government proposed in the Devolution White Paper (CP 1218), published on 16 December 2024.

21 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK and Mauritius joint statement, 3 October 2024, published on 3 October 2024, from whom will the United States leas

21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the US lease on the Diego Garcia military base expires.

17 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Immunotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to roll out immunotherapy for cancer treatment more widely.

17 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to update the Carr-Hill formula.

17 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Stoma Appliances: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve facilities for men with (a) colostomy bags and (b) stomas.

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, what ethnicity data Baroness Casey's audit will use to examine the eth

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how the new performance management framework for local areas will work

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how overhauled ethnicity data from local areas will differ from expand

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how she plans to overhaul ethnicity data from local areas.

15 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of GDP is the UK's defence spending excluding Trident.

14 Jan 2025 · Leader of the House

Written Questions: Costs

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of answering a written parliamentary question.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide increased access to high-intensity focused ultrasound laser therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the potential impact of local government reorganisation is on Police and Fire Commissioners who are coterminous with an existing combined authority.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Mayors: Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take steps to give Police and Fire Commissioner roles to combined authority mayors.

14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the use of drones for smuggling (a) weapons, (b) drugs and (c) other contraband into prisons.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nursing positions for the provision of care in corridors have been advertised in NHS hospitals since 4 July 2024.

13 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Hawk Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the finite fatigue index is of each remaining Hawk T1 aircraft.

Source: official written-questions record.