Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) offline and (b) paper-based alternatives will be available for citizens without (i) digital access and (ii) smartphones under the proposed digital ID system.

22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will publish all consultation responses on the proposed digital ID scheme prior to the introduction of legislation.

22 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in Israel on the potential impact of drone activity in international waters on establishing new aid flotillas.

22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has undertaken an equality impact assessment in relation to linking its proposed digital ID scheme with right-to-work checks.

22 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

BBC: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current method of funding the BBC.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to take steps to prevent commercial entities acting as digital ID verifiers from using verification data for (a) marketing, (b) analytics and (c) employment profiling.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing people using the UK digital ID system to have the right to view an access log showing (a) which and (b) organisations checked their identity.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take to ensure that any AI-assisted (a) decision and (b) image recognition within the digital ID system is (i) explainable, (ii) human-reviewed before adverse action, and (iii) subject to

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Palantir Technologies (b) other analytics contractors and (c) external data warehouses are being considered to support cross-departmental data matching under the digital ID initiative.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what types of cross-system data matching he is planning under the proposed digital ID system.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his digital ID proposals will use (a) biometric and (b) facial-recognition technology for age verification.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether proposals for digital ID include a centralised audit log of verification events.

21 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what process the he is planning for (a) employers and (b) landlords to verify digital ID credentials; and whether that process will require personal data to be transmitted to a (i) central record and (ii) broker

21 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help tackle homelessness in Newton Abbot constituency.

21 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what cost-benefit analysis her Department has undertaken to assess the potential impact of the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax programme on taxpayers.

21 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will publish a breakdown of the (a) public consultation and (b) testing processes used to assess the readiness of small businesses for the rollout of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.

21 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) feasibility and (b) effectiveness of implementing Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, in the context of discontinuing Making Tax Digital for Corporation Tax.

21 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Making Tax Digital programme on (a) compliance costs and (b) administrative requirements for (i) self-employed people, (ii) small businesses and

21 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Taxation: Electronic Government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what evidential basis the (a) Making Tax Digital for Income Tax and (b) other remaining parts of the Making Tax Digital programme will deliver adequate levels of benefits to justify the administration for (i) sma

21 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes to the Access to Work scheme have been made during this parliamentary session.

20 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making the qualification of Certificate in Local Council Administration (a) mandatory and (b) included in train

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Myeloma: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve the diagnosis rate for myeloma cancer in Devon.

20 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help reduce health inequalities in Newton Abbot constituency.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Fireworks: Noise

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the permissible noise limits of fireworks used for (a) public and (b) private functions.

20 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot sent on 18 September 2025 with case ref MW01823.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to correspondence from the Hon. Member for Newton Abbot sent on 19 August 2025, case ref MW09609.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Crimes against the Person

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of assaults on public transport in Devon.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Crimes against the Person

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support transport workers who have been assaulted while at work.

16 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities

Office for Equality and Opportunity: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to respond to Question 74810 on Members: Correspondence, tabled on 3 September 2025.

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

Water Supply: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require private water supplies to be registered with a local authority who can (a) test them and (b) risk assess them.

Source: official written-questions record.