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.