Written questions

5,096 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Nov 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to extend funding for the Smart Infrastructure Pilots Programme beyond March 2025.

27 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ajax Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15669 on Ajax Vehicles, what the planned future operational establishment is for an infantry battalion structured around the Boxer platform.

27 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Cambridgeshire Constabulary will benefit from the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee.

27 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Youth Guarantee: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Oral Statement of 26 November 2026 on “Get Britain Working” White Paper, Official Report, column 656, what additional funding for the Government's Youth Guarantee will be allocated

27 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Office for Veterans' Affairs: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants from his Department are assigned to work directly for the Office for Veterans' Affairs.

26 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Official Cars

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which vehicle makes comprise the fleet of Government cars.

26 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) special constables are planned to be recruited between 1 December 2024 and 31 March 2025.

26 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Floods: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which agency leads the multi-agency response to flooding in Cambridgeshire.

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what Cambridgeshire's allocation under the flood funding formula is for 2024-25.

25 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) warranted police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) special constables have been recruited since February 2023.

25 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 901341 on Drugs: Safety, what the outcome was of the recent ministerial roundtable.

22 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ajax Vehicles: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to equip infantry battalions with the Ares armoured personnel carrier.

20 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on recruitment of (a) warranted police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) Special Constables.

20 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Written Statement of 19 November 2024 on Police Reform, HCWS232, what her definition of a community is.

20 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Police: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Written Statement of 19 November 2024 on Police Reform, HCWS232, how the increase in the core grant for police forces will be divided up.

20 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he first discussed changes to (a) agricultural and (b) business property relief with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Global Combat Air Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on the procurement for the Royal Air Force's future fast-jet trainer for the Global Combat Air Programme.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been allocated from his Department's budget to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for (a) 2023/24, (b) 2024/25 and (c) 2025/26.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Army

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the new operational establishment is for a heavy mechanised infantry battalion.

18 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what definition of farm her Department used to estimate the number of farms affected by changes to agricultural property relief.

18 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) enforced, (b) voluntary and (c) port returns have taken place each month since July 2024.

14 Nov 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Drugs: Safety

What discussions he has had with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on how to accelerate the acceptance of data generated in non-animal methods for drug safety decision making.

11 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of the Continuity of Education Allowance in the latest period for which data is available; and what recent estimate his Department has made of the impact of making independent

11 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how he determined the level of funding to be provided to the Reducing Veterans Homelessness Programme in 2026.

30 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Police: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 4.20 of Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, by how much the core government grant for police forces will be increased for Cambridgeshire Constabulary.

23 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Veterans: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2024 to Question 6842 on Veterans: Homelessness, how many veterans have been denied allocation of social housing owing to not passing local co

23 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Energy: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for the publication of her Department's response to the consultation on the Future Homes Standard.

23 Oct 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that community benefit funds provide adequate compensation to communities affected by nationally significant infrastructure projects.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Incinerators: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) current and (b) future planned incineration waste capacity is used in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough.

22 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing mobile dental services in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough.

Source: official written-questions record.