Written questions
5,096 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) branch and (b) unit of the armed forces will direct entry cyber military recruits fall under.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how a direct entry for cyber military recruits will (a) operate and (b) differentiate to the regular entry route to the Army.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Private Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to monitor the potential impact of removing the VAT exemption on independent school fees on service families in receipt of the Continuity of Education Allowance.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on (a) the number of schoolchildren in Huntingdon constituency who receive local authority-provided school transport and (b) the annual cost of such transport in that constituency
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with an education, health and care plan in Huntingdon constituency have a place in (a) primary and (b) secondary school; and how many such children in that constituency do not have a school pl
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding per pupil she plans to allocate to implement free breakfast clubs in primary schools.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees on funding for state schools.
4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for spending on mental health support in schools; and if he will provide a breakdown of projected spending by (a) local authority area and (b) spending type.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the introduction of VAT on independent school fees on the number of staff in support roles in such schools.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Private Education: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will support the independent sector to maintain places for (a) vulnerable and (b) disadvantaged children who have difficulties settling in large state schools.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional SEN provision will be provided in state schools in Huntingdon constituency following the introduction of VAT on independent school fees.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children leaving the independent sector in areas with no state school availability are safeguarded.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Private Education: VAT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children leaving the independent sector are able to access state education within commutable distance.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will publish a detailed timeline of the steps he intends to take to phase-out animal testing.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking with international partners to change International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use policy to allow results
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to progress the approval of existing unapproved non-animal methods of pharmaceutical testing via the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to secure external funding for the further development of non-animal methods of pharmaceutical testing.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he is taking steps to ensure that the (a) end-to-end process and (b) regulatory landscape for pre-clinical animal testing is better understood by the public.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to implement the Non-Animal Methods strategy.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring franchising plans to guarantee the consideration during the planning phase of bus services to villages that do not receive any.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many settlements in Huntingdon constituency do not have a daily bus service.
4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Clinical Waste: Incinerators
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tonnes of medical waste are incinerated annually by the NHS in the East of England.
4 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Border Security Command: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional staff will be required in (a) Government Departments and (b) Border Security Command for that organisation to reach full operational (i) readiness and (ii) effectiveness.
4 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Border Security Command: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the in-year budget for the Border Security Command is for 2024-25.
4 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what year is the population data used to calculate the police allocation formula.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing council tax bands.
4 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when she plans to announce changes to business rates.
4 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Choirs: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing tax relief for (a) singing groups and (b) choirs.
4 Oct 2024 · Treasury
Banking Hubs: Cambridgeshire
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2024 to Question 4779 on Banking Hubs, what the timeline is for the roll-out of the new banking hubs; and whether (a) Cash Access UK and (b) LINK are considering St Ives in Cam
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sugar Beet: Neonicotinoids
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting a further derogation for the use of (a) Cruiser and (b) other neonicotinoids on sugar-beet crops in 2025.
Source: official written-questions record.