Written questions

1,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of paragraph 55(a)(i) of the report by the Competition and Markets Authority entitled Summary of CMA

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of paragraph 43 of the report by the Competition and Markets Authority entitled Summary of CMA marke

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help support local authorities to increase house building.

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Restless Legs Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider asking the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to (a) revise their guidance on and (b) respond to the concerns of (i) patient groups and (ii) other people who are

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average (a) capital and (b) revenue funding that is required to maintain a newly built hospital over the next fifteen years.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her Department's plans for English Devolution on levels of housebuilding.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport supporting the delivery of transport infrastructure through the planning system.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many responses have been received for each of her Department's consultations since 4 July 2024.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of houses in new towns will be sold at market prices.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she has made an assessment of the potential impact of Part O of Schedule 1 of the Building Regulations on her plans to develop beautiful communities.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to consider the lessons learned from the development of previous new towns in its planning for new towns.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

New Towns: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to provide additional funding for infrastructure for local authorities for which new towns are planned.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bedford Hospital and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the level of (a) capital and (b) revenue funding required to maintain (i) Bedford and (ii) Luton and Dunstable hospit

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average amount of capital funding provided by his Department was for each new hospital built in the last five years.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bedford Hospital and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the capital funding required to address maintenance backlogs at (a) Bedford and (b) Luton & Dunstable hospitals.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bedford Hospital and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding will be provided for maintenance at (a) Bedford and (b) Luton & Dunstable hospitals as part of spending commitments made in the Autumn Budget 2024.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press notice entitled GP surgery refurbs to enable over 8 million more appointments, published on 6 May 2025, if he will publish a list of the 1000 GP surgeries r

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled AI doctors’ assistant to speed up appointments a ‘gamechanger’, published on 27 April 2025, what steps he is taking to ensure quality contr

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incinerators: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the UKHSA's guidance entitled Epidemiological evidence review in the UK and EU, following implementation of the Waste Incineration Directive, published on 9 June 2025, what assess

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the role that place-making in new towns could play in reducing demand pressures on the so

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the level of change in demand for at home social care since 2019.

23 Jun 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 and proportion of people who entered the UK on a social care work visa in each of the past ten years who are (a) still in the UK and (b) still working in s

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an impact assessment was carried out on the abolition of NHS England.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of social care reforms on levels of demand for immigration.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of social care workforce demand on levels of immigration in each of the last ten years.

20 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make a further announcement on social care reform.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners with a net worth of over £1 million who are eligible for pension credit.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners with a net worth of over £1 million who will be eligible to receive Winter Fuel Payments.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Income

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the (a) decile, (b) upper quartile, (c) lower quartile and (d) median annual income of pensioners with a net worth of £1 million or above.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Employment: National Landscapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing funding to Natural England’s programme to designate or expand National Landscapes on employment.

Source: official written-questions record.