Written questions

629 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Methanol: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has reviewed the effectiveness of warnings on methanol poisoning on its website; and what steps he is taking to ensure those warnings reach young trave

4 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Methanol: Poisoning

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to implement a public awareness campaign on the risks of methanol poisoning for British nationals travelling abroad.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Greater Manchester: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help NHS Greater Manchester achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Greater Manchester: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of NHS Greater Manchester's financial deficit on (a) patient care and (b) service delivery.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care System and (b) other NHS bodies with (i) financial deficits and (ii) cash flow.

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eye Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available to help patients with metastatic ocular melanoma cope with the psychological impact of limited NHS treatment options.

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) potential implications for his policies of the proportion of individual funding request applications for chemosat treatment that are rejected and (b) adequa

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eye Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on the adequacy of funding for metastatic ocular melanoma patients in each nation.

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce barriers to NHS funding for (a) Chemosat and (b) other cancer treatments classified as medical devices.

28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Liver Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Chemosat is made available on the NHS following its recommendation by NICE in 2021.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Arts: Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the competitiveness of the UK creative industry.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with AI developers on remuneration models for creatives' whose work is used to train AI models.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replicating the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to take steps to support workers in the creative industries whose work opportunities may be potentially impacted by generative AI technologies.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of Generative AI on employment in the creative industries.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that consumers can differentiate between AI-generated and human-created content in creative industries.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to introduce a mandatory labelling or watermarking system to identify AI-generated creative content.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require generative AI developers to (a) document and (b) disclose their use of copyrighted materials.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a licensing framework to ensure creators are compensated when their works are used in the development of gener

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that generative AI developers obtain authorisation from copyright holders before using their creative works for training AI models.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the recommendations in the Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen's report entitled Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for P

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK aid in supporting Christian communities facing persecution.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Embassies: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to ensure that UK (a) embassies and (b) high commissions report on violations of freedom of religion or belief.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Christianity: Oppression

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) respond to Christian persecution globally.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that staff in his Department receive training on freedom of religion or belief.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions in the international development budget on his Department's programmes supporting persecuted Christians over

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Occupied Territories: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the situation of Christians in (a) Gaza and (b) the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and whether he has made representations on that is

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support his Department is providing to help protect Christians facing persecution in Nigeria.

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Nigeria: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Nigerian counterpart on the protection of Christian communities in Nigeria in light of reports of ongoing violence and persecution

27 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Democratic Republic of Congo: Christianity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of reports of targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including th

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