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.