Written questions
1,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Sep 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Beer and Public Houses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans reforms to encourage (a) investment and (b) growth in the (i) beer and (ii) pub sector.
2 Sep 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Beer and Public Houses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the long-term economic benefits of permanently reducing the business rates multiplier for the (a) beer and (b) pub sectors.
2 Sep 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that business rates reform supports regional economic growth in (a) rural and (b) coastal areas.
1 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of open access rail operators on (a) connectivity, (b) passenger choice and (c) service quality.
1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
New Towns: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to (a) the public purse and (b) private developers of constructing 12 new towns.
1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Authorities: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of qualified planners in local government.
1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 26699 on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to all
1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Integrated Care Boards: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her proposals for English devolution could require the further re-organisation of (a) NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board and (b) other integr
1 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who breached the terms of their visa were subsequently granted indefinite leave to remain since 4 July 2024.
1 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Fire and Rescue Services: Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of funding for Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
1 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her French counterpart on intercepting small boats in shallow waters.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of medical students who graduated at the end of the 2024-25 academic year who will begin work in the NHS in the 2025-26 academic year.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Graduates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of medical students who graduated in each of the past five years were working in the NHS on 1 September 2025.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical students started university in each of the past five years.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of medical students starting university in autumn 2025.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help improve access to life-extending (a) treatments and (b) medicines for patients with incurable secondary breast cancer in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's funding for children’s hospices.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Neurological Diseases: Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve access to NHS Continuing Healthcare for people with (a) Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and (b) Corticobasal Degeneration in Mid-Bedforshire constituency.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Nurses: Dementia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether access to dementia specialist nurses will be available through his Department's planned Neighbourhood Health Services.
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled Managing healthcare easy as online banking with revamped NHS App, published on 3 July 2025, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people wh
1 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Care: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods, published on 2 July 2025, how his Department plans to define neighbourhoods in rural are
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Transport: Capital Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Audit Office's report entitled Lessons learned: Governance and decision-making on mega-projects, published on 12 March 2025, whether her Department plans to implement the recommen
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press release Full steam ahead: young people take the drivers seat to improve train services and unlock jobs of 7 May 2025, if she will publish an evaluation of the impact of this policy w
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Buses: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to extend the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate to coaches.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to defer the ban on the sale of new (a) petrol and (b) diesel vehicles indefinitely; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of such a deferment on the price of
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Motor Vehicles: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to defer the ban on the sale of new (a) petrol and (b) diesel vehicles indefinitely; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of such a deferment on UK-based
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 82 of the NHS Ten Year Plan, whether ICBs undergoing re-organisation will be further re-organised if their boundaries are not coterminous with new strategic authorities.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled World-first AI system to warn of NHS patient safety concerns of 30 June 2025, whether this will (a) augment and (b) replace human oversight.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled Landmark plan to rebuild NHS in working-class communities of 25 June 2025, what definition his Department plans to use for working-class communities.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Hospitals: Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the press release entitled UK partnership brings new 250-bed Islamabad hospital closer to opening of 24 June 2025, if he will make an estimate of the net impact on the public purse.
Source: official written-questions record.