Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Supply: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 82811 on Water Supply: Standards, whether she has assessed the adequacy of issuing non-mandatory guidance for private water supply

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

Disabled Facilities Grants: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a formal fast-track process for Disabled Facilities Grant applications for people with progressive and termin

28 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Slavery: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support victims of modern slavery in Devon.

28 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Slavery: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle modern slavery in Devon.

28 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways Bill: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the letter of 26 November 2025 from We Own It to the Transport Committee, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the reported 6120 missing responses from

28 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government intends to ensure that no local authority sees a cash reduction in its core spending power as a result of upcoming funding changes during local government

28 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans the Department has to provide transitional protection for rural local authorities expected to experience the largest funding reductions under the proposed local govern

28 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes his Department has in place for people to escalate complaints where no response has been received after the standard timeframe for people contacting Access to Work during application and

28 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to consult with (a) service users and (b) providers when changing (a) hours and (b) hourly rates for Access to Work grants after an application.

27 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support patients with overlapping conditions such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Long Covid, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, Postura

27 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Fuel Oil: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to support people with oil heated homes in Devon.

27 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with a terminal illness who are in poverty.

27 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to support people suffering with a terminal illness with their energy bills.

26 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including automatic voter registration for overseas voters in the upcoming Elections Bill.

26 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what are the current wait times for mandatory reconsideration claims over PIP decisions in Devon.

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

Local Government Finance: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Department plans to review the Area Cost Adjustment.

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

Local Government Finance: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the additional costs of delivering local government services in rural areas, and how these costs will be reflected in the Fair Funding

19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Public Lavatories

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make public toilet provision a statutory duty for local authorities.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Avian Influenza: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what investigations her Department has made into alternative to the culling of healthy flocks of caged birds in areas of wider avian flu outbreak.

17 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant of the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 58761; how will the government support unparished areas in Devon like a) Exeter and b) Torbay in the Local Government Re-organi

14 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Educational Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer received on 14 November 2025 to written question 88030, as part of the formation of GBR will the government look to create a specific scheme for schools.

14 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Mortgages: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her department holds on the number of complaints about the Financial Conduct Authority's regulations for commercial mortgages from a) Brokers and b) Commercial Mortgage holders.

14 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Credit: Licensing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-introducing a consumer credit license.

14 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Financial Conduct Authority: Accountability

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to increase the accountability of the Financial Conduct Authority with the finance industry.

14 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Mortgages: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of changing the Financial Conduct Authority's commercial mortgage regulations to only apply when a problem is observed and a complaint raised.

14 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Mortgages: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Financial Conduct Authority regulations on commercial mortgages.

13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pulmonary Fibrosis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to improve preventative measures for pulmonary fibrosis.

13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pulmonary Fibrosis: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase research funding for pulmonary fibrosis.

13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pulmonary Fibrosis: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase funding for research for pulmonary fibrosis.

13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to move funding away from being centered in the London and the Home Counties and towards research projects in (a) Devon and (b) other areas of the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.