Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer of 23 December 2025 to Question 100077 on Telecommunications: Innovation, whether she plans to connect all populated areas with (a) high and (b) very high connect

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Cross Country Trains: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will transfer stored class 221 voyager units to Crosscountry.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Opinion: Consumers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review the regulation of estate planning and trust-selling practices to ensure consumers are given clear and comprehensible information about risks and long-term consequences.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Profession: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether changes have been made to legal services regulation since the collapse of McClure Solicitors to ensure that widespread consumer detriment is identified and addressed at an earlier stage.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Profession: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the complaints system through the Legal Ombudsman in cases where large numbers of consumers are affected by the collapse of a single legal firm.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Profession: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what regulatory requirements apply to successor firms handling client files following the collapse of a regulated legal practice, and how compliance with those requirements is monitored.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Opinion: Consumers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures are currently in place to protect vulnerable and elderly consumers from being sold complex legal products, including family protection trusts, and whether changes have been made since 2021.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

McClure Solicitors: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what specific warning signs relating to McClure Solicitors were identified by legal services regulators prior to the firm’s collapse, and when those warning signs were first identified.

2 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Justice

McClure Solicitors: Insolvency

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority to meet representatives of former clients of McClure Solicitors who have requested direct engagement with the regulator.

16 Dec 2025 · Leader of the House

Written Questions: Government Responses

To ask the Leader of the House, what steps hon. Members can take to seek additional information from the Government in instances where a response to a written parliamentary question is considered incomplete or unclear.

16 Dec 2025 · Leader of the House

Written Questions: Government Responses

To ask the Leader of the House, what mechanisms are available to hon. Members to seek clarification or further information when a Department or public body is considered not to have provided a full or clear response to a Written Parliamentary Question.

16 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Boris Johnson

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance was guidance in place in August 2019 on keeping a written record of meetings between the Prime Minister and external individuals where public policy, procurement, or government contracts were discu

16 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 98184, whether meetings held by the Prime Minister with external individuals are routinely assigned a subject classification for record-keeping purposes.

16 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Boris Johnson and Peter Thiel

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department holds any digital records in relation to the meeting held on 28 August 2019 between the then Prime Minister and Mr Peter Thiel.

16 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Rape: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) discontinuement and (b) funding freeze of the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund on waiting lists.

16 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Rape: Victim Support Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when her department plans to confirm allocations for the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund for 2026/27.

16 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Digital Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of app-only banking policies on older and digitally excluded customers; and whether she will require banks operating in the UK to provide non-digital routes for account ope

16 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Digital Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority regarding the absence of explicit rules governing app-only banking; and what steps are being taken to ensure that banks continue to provid

16 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Digital Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to publish guidance or minimum service standards to help tackle financial exclusion arising from digital-only banking models.

16 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Broadband: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of aligning the regulatory standard and the consumer information standard for 5G and 4G mobile coverage.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Academies: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what oversight exists when academy trusts increase executive pay in years where frontline teaching posts are reduced.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Academies: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What benchmarks her Department uses to assess whether academy trust executive pay represents value for money when trusts are making redundancies.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Academies: Curriculum and Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the relationship between academy trust executive pay levels and reductions in curriculum offer or staffing.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

5G

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on ensuring the reporting of statistics on where the full allocation of 5G is not being used.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

5G

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps with Ofcom to ensure that all full 5G eligible sites offer full 5G.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Aerials: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many telecoms sites remain on the (a) pre-2017 Electronic Communications Code and (b) pre-2022 Product security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act framework in Newton Abbot c

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to foster innovation in the Telecoms market.

15 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans does the department have for future equivalent Shared Prosperity Funding for Devon.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when her Department plans to publish the results of the Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) scheme: indexation changes consultation.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when remaining mobile sites will be moved away from legacy frameworks and onto the new frameworks of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code and 2022 Product Security and Telecommunicat

Source: official written-questions record.