Written questions
629 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Emergency Services: Medals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on the introduction of medals for emergency service personnel injured in the line of duty.
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Methanol
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department holds information on the demographic breakdown of people who engaged with the Travel Aware methanol poisoning campaign between November 2024 and March
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Methanol
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) the ABTA and (b) other Travel Aware industry partners in increasing methanol poisoning awareness.
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Methanol
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of British nationals affected by methanol poisoning abroad in each of the last 10 years.
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Methanol
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to target (a) gap year students and (b) backpackers as part of methanol poisoning awareness efforts.
22 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British Nationals Abroad: Methanol
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Student Brand Ambassadors on raising awareness of methanol poisoning among young travellers.
18 Jul 2025 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
General Election 2024
To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of trends in the level of racism faced by hon. Members during the 2024 election.
18 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to tackle the lack of advertised nursing vacancies through the 10 Year Plan.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of disallowing mainstream school students from being given EHCPs on (a) autistic children in mainstream schools and (b) their families.
18 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Universal Credit Bill on (a) people with ME and (b) other fluctuating conditions; and whether the forthcoming ME delivery plan will consider t
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthwatch England: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that any outstanding complaints are thoroughly investigated by the organisations that take over the responsibilities of Healthwatch England and the 150 local Healt
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthwatch England: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of abolishing Healthwatch England on outstanding complaints against these organisations.
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Election Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Electoral Conduct, published in 2013; and
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that practicing nurses are able to find NHS employment and remain on the nursing register.
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contracts his Department has awarded to private nursing companies to supplement NHS nurses in hospitals; and what the cost to his Department is of those contracts.
16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tomography
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many MRI scans have to be repeated because of errors made in the initial scan each year; and what the cost to the NHS is of each MRI scan performed.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many and what proportion of telecommunications have been buried underground since the introduction of the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 20
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to assess the effectiveness of part (a) 11 and (b) 12 of the Electronic Communications Code for ensuring that infrastructure developments for new mob
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Telecommunications: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Part 11 of the Electronic Communications Code in providing flexibility to improve the network.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43317 on Prescriptions: Fees and Charges, what other exceptional reasons have resulted in the NHS Business Services Authority cancelling a penalty
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption: Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to provide additional support to adoptee children in schools with learning disabilities.
14 Jul 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 impact of reducing the individual limit for the Adoption Support Fund for therapy on (a) adoptees and (b) their families.
14 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing additional support to autistic children with no other learning disabilities in mainstream schools.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training is provided to health professionals to ensure culturally sensitive dementia care.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce (a) digital, (b) language and (c) other barriers to South Asian communities accessing GPs for dementia care.
14 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide culturally appropriate dementia services for (a) South Asian and (b) other ethnic minority groups.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: ME/CFS
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Universal Credit Bill on young people under 22 with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Accountability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) transparency and (b) accountability in early years provision.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Accidents and Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department records and publishes statistics on the (a) number and (b) nature of serious safeguarding incidents and child deaths in early years settings.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to review lessons learned from child deaths and serious incidents in early years settings.
Source: official written-questions record.