Written questions

355 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Rape: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing additional safeguards to protect victims of rape, including the bail conditions of those charged with rape.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help increase the uptake of Pension Credit among eligible pensioners.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is he taking to simplify the pension credit application process.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Older People: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support elderly people with the cost of care.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the palliative care workforce is able to cope with growing demand for end of life care.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Deaths

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of deaths in hospital.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce emergency hospital admissions involving people who are in the last 12 months of life.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the early identification of palliative care needs.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce variations in the approaches of commissioners in meeting local population need for palliative and end of life care services.

18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce regional inequalities in (a) access to and (b) quality of palliative and end of life care.

14 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to tackle the sale of illegally modified e-bikes.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the Warm Homes Plan will include (a) independent inspections of retrofit work, (b) requirements for training for installers and (c) protections for residents.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Company Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) homes retrofitted under the Eco4 scheme are inspected and (b) any (i) substandard and (ii) unsafe work is fully remediated.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Crimes of Violence: Public Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of assaults on public transport staff.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a criminal offence of assaulting a public transport worker.

12 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment she has made of (a) reforming the G20 Common Framework for debt relief and (b) a new UN-led system for debt relief.

24 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Hygiene

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take legislative steps to ensure that food outlets must display their Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating.

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that egg production in the UK comes from cage-free systems.

14 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to appoint an independent commissioner who would be responsible for outstanding losses from the Equitable Life scandal.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help the Metropolitan Police restore public confidence among women and ethnic minorities.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Metropolitan Police leaders on the use of metrics to assess the efficacy of cultural reform programmes introduced following the Casey Review.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Metropolitan Police leaders on safeguards to protect whistleblowers who report (a) misogyny and (b) racism.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Gender Based Violence: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that women have confidence that they will be believed when reporting (a) assault, (b) abuse and (c) rape to the Metropolitan Police.

14 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Metropolitan Police: Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to strengthen the national framework for the Metropolitan Police’s vetting processes to (a) identify and (b) exclude applicants with discriminatory attitudes on the basis of cha

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Grammar Schools: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children from lower-income backgrounds are not disadvantaged in access to grammar school places.

14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Grammar Schools: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the practice of state grammar schools charging fees for familiarisation tests ahead of 11-plus entrance exams.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the average time taken to diagnose postural tachycardia syndrome.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps is she taking to ensure the safety of citizens’ personal data through the proposed digital ID scheme.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the projected cost is for introducing a national digital ID system.

13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gynaecology: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the measures outlined in the document entitled Reforming elective care for patients, published on 6 January 2025, on waiting lists for gynaeco

Source: official written-questions record.