Written questions
1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.
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, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on private water supply risk assessments to ensure consistency.
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, what information her Department holds on the number of recommendations for improvements to private water supplies have been issued as a result of risk assessments in the last year.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to increase the number of local authorities providing Ministers with results from risk assessments of private water supplies.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Supply: Newton Abbot
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of private water supplies registered in Newton Abbot constituency.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pigs: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to enforce the ban on piglet thumping.
16 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 31604 on Refugees: Ukraine, if she will ensure gov.uk sites are updated to show the correct length of the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce regulations under the Animal (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023 on the domestic (a) sale and (b) advertising of low welfare animal activities takin
16 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Climate Change Convention: Brazil
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister plans to attend COP30 in Brazil.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Secondhand Goods
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals mandating that second hand electric vehicles are sold with (a) conformity and (b) battery health check certificates.
16 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding mandatory software updates to the MOT process for electric cars.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Strategy Advisory Board: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the recent appointments to the Food Strategy Advisory Board on (a) farmers and (b) animal welfare in Devon.
15 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of not giving the COVID vaccine to NHS patients under 75 who are clinically vulnerable.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the average time taken to approve Special Use Airspace applications for Beyond Visual Line of Sight uncrewed air system operations under Civil Air Publication 161
15 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Civil Air Publication 1616 airspace change processes on his Department's ability to (a) test and (b) develop uncrewed air systems.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Unmanned Air Systems: Delivery Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with the Civil Aviation Authority on the effectiveness of its processes in relation to Special Use Airspace applications to use uncrewed air systems for NHS medical logis
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance and Leadership
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve transparency in the (a) governance, (b) financial decision-making and (c) scrutiny of leadership in academy trusts.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that trustees of academy trusts receive the (a) training and (b) support they need to provide effective oversight.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance and Leadership
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure accountability in (a) financial management and (b) strategic leadership in academy trusts.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to academy trusts on executive pay.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has a process for (a) reviewing and (b) approving executive pay rises in multi-academy trusts.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of executive pay in academy trusts where schools (a) are in financial deficit and (b) have made frontline staff redundancies.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to (a) ring-fence and (b) increase funding for school infrastructure where buildings are assessed as structurally unsound.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools that have had to (a) reduce subjects, (b) rely on non-specialist teaching staff and (c) remove extracurricular opportunities due to funding shortfalls.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Academies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support academies with multimillion-pound deficits.
15 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Railways: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will establish a national luggage return scheme for passengers who lose luggage on board a Great British Railways service.
15 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
EU Countries: Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will have discussions with her EU counterparts on exempting UK residents from obtaining a European Travel Information and Authorisation System travel permit before ent
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Children: Corporal Punishment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to section 58 of the Children Act 2004, if she will take legislative steps to remove the defence of reasonable punishment for parents.
14 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support patients with postural tachycardia syndrome in Devon.
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she plans to implement a centralised issuance with decentralised data architecture model for a national digital identity system.
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to fund the access to work programme for the rest of this parliament.
Source: official written-questions record.