Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has collected post-implementation data on the academic performance or withdrawal rates of students previously supported with specialist assistive software.

3 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any further reductions or restrictions to DSA-funded assistive technology or non-medical support are currently under consideration.

3 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many formal requests for meetings her Department has received from disability sector organisations regarding recent DSA policy changes since October 2025.

3 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has reviewed the findings of the National Association of Disability Practitioners’ December 2025 critique of the Equality Impact Assessment relating to Disabled Students’ Allowance change

29 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Artificial Intelligence: National Police Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will submit details of new AI-enabled IT systems to be procured for the proposed National Police Service for select committee scrutiny.

29 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the mean, medium and mode waiting times are for processing Homes for Ukraine visas; and how many of those visas take more than three weeks to issue.

28 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Immigration: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Skilled Worker route for Indefinite Leave to Remain on people already legally resident in the UK; and whe

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Public Houses: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether pubs that are (a) derelict or (b) under are eligible to access and use the new hospitality support fund.

26 Jan 2026 · Home Office

Police: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process of commercial bidding in IT systems will be required to tender within the new national police service.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Piers: Teignbridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what kinds of heritage and restoration funding can be made available for the repair and protection of Teignbridge pier in Newton Abbot Constituency.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Transport: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to integrate climate change projections and increased storm frequency into long-term planning for transport and coastal defence infrastructure in Newton Abbot constituency.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coastal Erosion: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether coastal resilience funding will be made available for the restoration and protection of Teignmouth pier.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Railways: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will meet with Network Rail to discuss funding for the final phase of the South West Resilience Programme in the context of storm Ingrid.

26 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Storms: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the recent damage to the Dawlish sea wall and related coastal infrastructure in Devon caused by Storm Ingrid and other severe weather events; and what plans her Depart

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust: Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is being provided to (a) Torbay and (b) Exeter NHS Trusts to recruit and retain specialist cancer nurses and the cancer workforce.

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the GP partnership model on delivering continuity of care.

26 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to retain the GP partnership model.

26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on the Code of Practice consultation.

21 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his oral contribution in response to the hon. Member for Newton Abbot during the Oral Statement of 21 January 2026 on Water White Paper, Official Report column 347, i

21 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: ICT and Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria his Department uses to assess requirements to rebuild underlying data analytics architecture, undertake fresh security accreditation and retrain personnel.

21 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Palantir: Software and Databases

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resilience of critical national infrastructure that relies on software or data platforms supplied by Palantir.

21 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Blue Badge Scheme: Reciprocal Arrangements

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 104268 on Blue Badge Scheme: EU Countries, if he will hold discussions with his EU counterparts at the next UK–EU summit on EU recognition of the UK-issued B

20 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Minerals: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) products and (b) geographic areas have been allocated funding as designated critical minerals sites in Devon.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance is issued to Legal Aid providers on the appropriate use of public funds for disputes that do not materially affect housing safety or security.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how the Legal Aid Agency monitors whether legally aided housing cases are being actively resolved.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the Legal Aid Agency was per housing dispute in each of the last five years.

19 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what checks and balances are in place to ensure that Legal Aid funding in housing disputes is used proportionately.

19 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to respond to the Freedom of Information Act request by the hon. Member for Newton Abbot on records of meetings between Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel.

14 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January to Question 103976 on Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel, what searches he conducted to determine whether there is any (a) physical and (b) other form of record of a meeting betwe

14 Jan 2026 · Cabinet Office

Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2026 to Question 103976 on Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel, if he will publish the physical record.

Source: official written-questions record.