Written questions

629 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Embassies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to reopen the British Embassy in Damascus.

28 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on ensuring that members of the previous Syrian Government are held accountable for (a) the use of chemical we

28 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Civil Society

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding he plans to provide for civil society organisations in Syria in the 2027-28 financial year.

28 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of consulting with Syrian civil society organisations on the steps required to ease sanctions.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many consolatory payments for gross inconvenience resulting from official error were made in each of the last five years; and what the (a) shortest and (b) average length of time for such a payment

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has she made of the number of vehicles with a SORN certificate that are still being driven on the public highway.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of vehicle accidents resulting in death or serious injury involved a vehicle without valid vehicle excise duty; and how many and what proportion of these untaxed vehicles were (a) d

24 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an exemption for Council Tax on properties that are temporarily unoccupied due to probate.

24 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to take steps to help (a) improve transparency within the umbrella company sector and (b) ensure workers are not subject to (i) excessive fees and (ii) improper tax arrangements.

24 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Tax Avoidance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that umbrella companies in the temporary labour market comply with tax legislation on (a) the proper (i) deduction and (ii) reporting of (A) income tax and (B) Nati

24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international partners to ensure that free and fair elections are held in Syria.

24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Media

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the targeting of media workers in Gaza on global (a) press freedom and (b) journalist safety.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changes to personal independence payments on blind and partially blind people.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Competition and Markets Authority: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the appointment of the interim chair of the Competition Markets Authority on the regulation of (a) technology and (b) other large corporations.

24 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a national strategy on the efficiency and effectiveness of community equipment services.

24 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding for clinical homecare.

24 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for the 10-year Health Plan of the report by the National Clinical Homecare Association entitled Best Kept Secret: The Value Of Clinical

24 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Standards

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of trends in levels of (a) customer service and (b) phone call response times across Government departments on people seeking to engage with

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Networks: Stockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Stockport District Heat Network on energy costs for households in fuel poverty.

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Council Tax: Valuation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often the Valuation Office Agency compared different types of properties in order to assess a request from a resident to change a council tax banding in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions the

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Flats: Council Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times the Valuation Office Agency has refused a request to change the council tax banding of a flat where the resident has compared their home to a lower council tax banded house of greater value, in each o

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) increasing funding for and (b) taking steps to help increase the profile of futsal.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Football

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the Football Association on increasing funding for Futsal to pre-pandemic levels.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Unpaid Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of closing the Internships Work project on (a) local authorities, (b) employment agencies and (c) young people.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Unpaid Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will (a) re-establish and (b) extend funding for the Internships Work project.

17 Apr 2025 · Women and Equalities

Sanitary Products: Health Hazards

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting public education campaigns to raise awareness of (a) the presence of toxic substances in period products and (b) safer alternativ

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

Sanitary Products: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of funding further research into the long-term health impacts of chemicals in period products.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Sanitary Products: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislation that mandates full ingredient disclosure for all menstrual products.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a (a) consistent and (b) sustainable funding framework for community equipment provision across local authorities and NHS bodies.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the use of digital cognitive assessments to improve early diagnosis of dementia.

Source: official written-questions record.