Written questions
1,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Parking: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to introduce a ban on pavement parking in non-metropolitan areas.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2025 to Question 29563 on General Practitioners: Finance, what his planned timetable is for confirming funding for GP surgery projects.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2025 to Question 29563 on General Practitioners: Finance, what his planned timetable is for confirming the allocations for integrated care boards.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Suicide: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of call waiting times for emergency support for suicidal people in Bedfordshire.
19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Sport England
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published o
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Theatre
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the economic contribution of live theatre to the creative industry.
19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Arts: Theatres Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published o
19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Arts: Theatres Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published o
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate support for people with postural tachycardia syndrome in Bedfordshire.
18 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of waiting times for visas on (a) the super priority service and (b) other processes.
18 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Passports: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of fast-tracked passport applications taking longer than one week.
18 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Passports: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of passport applications taking longer than three weeks.
18 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Passports
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of waiting times at the Passport Office.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Planning: Apprenticeship Levy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of apprenticeship levy reforms on Chartered Town Planner Level 7 Apprenticeships.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Private Education: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 27313 on Private Education: Special Educational Needs, if she will make a separate assessment for SEN pupils.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of teachers employed in state schools in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of SEN children fined for school absences in the last academic year.
18 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Thameslink Line: Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of planned housing developments in Bedfordshire on Thameslink services.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2025 to Question 24312 on Health Services: Pensioners, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of holding that data centrally.
17 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Universities: Capital Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to support university-partnered venture capital investment companies outside the Oxford, Cambridge and London triangle; and whether Ministers in his Department h
17 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Bank Hubs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29957 on Bank Services and Banking Hubs, if her Department will direct the Financial Conduct Authority to require the creation of banking hubs in new towns with
17 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Hospitality Industry: Employment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29193 on Hospitality Industry: Employment, whether her Department has done a sector specific analysis of the projected impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on emplo
17 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Public Sector: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2025 to Question 28608 on Employers' Contributions: Public Sector, whether the funding provided will offset the full impact.
17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Development: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of green space maintenance standards by developers after the construction of new housing developments.
17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Theatres Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published on 10 March 2025, what assessment her Depart
17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Sport England
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published on 10 March 2025, what assessment her Depart
17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission: Garden Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published on 10 March 2025, whether there will be a de
17 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Bureaucratic burden lifted to speed up building in growth agenda, published on 10 March 2025, which statutory consultees
14 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Electricity Generation: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to provide guidance to forestry authorities on prioritising energy generation in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
14 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Electricity Generation: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of hectares of forestry land that will be made available for energy generation, in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Source: official written-questions record.