Written questions

1,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Public First report entitled From risk to resilience - the case for flood-resilient communities, econ

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning permissions were granted in each of the past five years.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 61255 on Planning: Apprentices, if he will make it his policy to collect data on the number of planners with a Level 7 Chartere

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Green Belt: Maps

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 61248 on Green Belt: Maps, if he will list the local authorities that have received funding.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is his planned timetable for implementing local government re-organisation in Bedfordshire.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2025 to Question 73359 on Visas: Migrant Workers, on how many occasions her Department received such a notification by visa type since 4 July 2024; and how many

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visa applications were rejected by visa type since 4 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how many and what proportion of organisations on the register have received an in-person

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas have been issued to people studying at each university in the 2025-26 academic year.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people whose visa expired since 4 July 2025 who have not (a) renewed their visa and (b) left the UK; and how many and what proportion of those people have

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Skilled Workers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what step her Department is taking to ensure that Skilled Worker visa holders are earning an income above the qualifying threshold for that visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average salary earned by (a) all and (b) skilled worker visa holders.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visa holders her Department holds a UK residential address for.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of organisations on the register who

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have dependent visas associated with a holder of a charity worker visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have a charity worker visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial requirements there are to be granted a work visa related to charity work.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how many organisations on the register are in receipt of public funding; and how many vi

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how often her Department communicates with organisations on the register in relation to

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how often her Department communicates with organisations on the register in relation to

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how often her Department checks whether organisations on the register are still in opera

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial requirements there are to be granted a work visa related to religious work.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have dependent visas associated with a holder of a (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks her Department undertakes to ensure that holders of (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visas are performing religious work.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of UK visa holders on a work visa related to religious work who were granted indefinite leave to remain since 4 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance entitled Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 26 September 2025, how many organisations on the register are eligible to sponsor (a) Religious Worker and

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have a (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have indefinite leave to remain and (b) arrived in the UK on a skilled worker visa who work in an eligible profession.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with indefinite leave to remain status are in full time employment.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of employees in the average workforce of organisations listed on the register of licences sponsors (workers) are visa holders.

Source: official written-questions record.