Written questions

1,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allow patients to access NHS dental care through the NHS App.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of new neighbour

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of housing costs on the recruitment of health staff, in the context of his plans for a Neighbourhood Health Service.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the reasons for the difficulties in the recruitment of health staff in rural areas, in the context of his plans for a Neighbourhood Health Service.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology to help ensure that rural communities with poor (a) broadband and (b) mobile signal can access digital

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, how clinical negligence cases involving mistakes by surgical robots will b

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Wearable Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 15 of the policy paper entitled 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, whether support to purchase wearables will be provided to patie

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

Environmental Delivery Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 44048 on Environmental Delivery Plans, whether measures that require permanent maintenance will be funded from the initial lev

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Germany

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding she plans to allocate to direct rail links between the UK and Germany; and what proportion of that will be allocated in the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Shared Rural Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the reported 95% coverage achieved by the Shared Rural Network will be reviewed using Ofcom’s forthcoming reporting methodology based on a 5 Mbps threshold.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Shared Rural Network

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure mobile network operators cannot invoke the all reasonable efforts clause to avoid penalties under the Shared Rural Network agreement in rem

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Shared Rural Network: Aerials

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the decision to reduce the number of planned masts under the Shared Rural Network programme on (a) rural mobile covera

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

Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to disapply the cap on council tax rises for 2026-27 as part of the fair funding review.

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

Affordable Housing: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the amount of Section 106 funding returned to developers in each of the last five years; and what the most common infrastructure needs that funding

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

Affordable Housing: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 61251 on Affordable Housing: Greater London, what level of affordable housing delivery in London he is targeting; and what prog

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Neighbourhood Policing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of the named, contactable police officer in every neighbourhood in England and Wales.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2025 to Question 62005 on Care Workers: Migrant Workers, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting that information.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigrants found to have been working illegally have been deported since 4 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigrants have been found to be working illegally since 4 July 2024.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of migrants who have arrived illegally in the UK since 4 August 2025.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of visa holders who were granted a visa who did not have basic proficiency in English on entry in each of the last five years.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of workers working in the social care sector who are in the UK on a social care worker visa.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Central Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a Post Office branch in Flitwick.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the press release entitled UK launches global talent drive to attract world-leading researchers and innovators, published on 22 June 2025, if he will publish his Department’s impact a

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Stellantis: Luton

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to page 27 of the Agenda Report entitled The formation of the Vauxhall Luton Taskforce of the Agenda for the Luton Borough Council Executive meeting on 23 June 2025, whether the Governme

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Electric Glass Fiber UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department considered intervening in the closure of Electric Glass Fiber UK, in the context of previous interventions in British Steel.

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

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will publish a list of (a) new settlements and (b) urban extensions planned to contain more than 5,000 homes which have been commenced since 2000; and if her De

9 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of changes to the VAT status of independent schools on the number of children enrolled in state schools in September 2025.

9 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain subsequent to having been convicted of an offence in the UK since 4 July 2024.

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many languages the NHS app will be available in by 2035.

Source: official written-questions record.