Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Corporation Tax and VAT: Registration

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of the average processing times for (a) VAT and (b) Corporation Tax registration by (i) HMRC and (ii) other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Corporation Tax and VAT: Registration

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) digitising and (b) streamlining the HMRC process for issuing (i) VAT registration numbers and (ii) corporation tax authentication codes.

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Companies House and Revenue and Customs: ICT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment she has made of the effectiveness of IT systems used by (a) Companies House and (b) HMRC.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to improve the MP hotlines for Members staff.

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Nuclear Weapons: Decommissioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual cost is of the warhead dismantlement programme across Atomic Weapons Establishment sites; and what protocols are in place for the secure (a) handling, (b) storage and (c) disposal of radioactive m

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Rosyth Dockyard: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of planned infrastructure upgrades at Rosyth Dockyard; whether those upgrades include the (a) removal and (b) treatment of legacy radioactive materials; and how many redundan

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Devonport Dockyard: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of infrastructure improvement works at HMNB Devonport; and whether those works involve the (a) removal, (b) containment and (c) replacement of equipment identifie

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Clyde Naval Base: Radioactive Materials

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Establishment Management Plan at HMNB Clyde includes actions to monitor and manage any potential discharges of radioactive material into surrounding environments.

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Nuclear Weapons: Decommissioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much plutonium has been recovered as part of the Mk4A Trident warhead dismantlement programme; what proportion has been re-used in current warhead systems; where remaining material is stored; and what the tot

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Devonport Dockyard and Rosyth Dockyard: Submarines

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of dismantling the pressurised water reactors from redundant submarines at (a) Devonport Dockyard and (b) Rosyth Dockyard; and what ongoing collaboration

22 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to extend the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Government Departments: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what guidance his Department provides to departments using suppliers who operate (a) Foundry, (b) Gotham and (c) other cross-sector data platforms on the risk of cross-domain data use.

22 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Palantir: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she did not provide a substantive response to the Freedom of Information Act request with reference number 359A/25 on her Department's use of services provided by Palantir Technologies

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

South West Main Line: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 66340 on the South West Rail Resilience Programme, whether her Department has received the assessments completed by Network Rail in 2024 on the outline design

21 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palantir: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of contracts held by Palantir Technologies in (a) strategic competitor and (b) other countries on (i) hi

18 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department plans to respond to correspondence of 13 June 2025 from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot.

18 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) issued guidance to and (b) held discussions with local authorities on the estimated end date of the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hornets: Pest Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any dedicated Asian hornet rapid response teams have been (a) disbanded and (b) downsized since 2023.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hornets: Pest Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether allocated funding to the Animal and Plant Health Agency for Asian hornet response operations has changed since 2023.

17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hornets: Pest Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff were assigned to the (a) identification and (b) removal of yellow-legged Asian hornet nests in (i) 2025, (ii) 2023 and (iii) 2022.

16 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in Ukrainian Visa Extension Schemes applications on Ukrainians in the Newton Abbot constituency.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot of 9 June 2025.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot of 3 June 2025.

16 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme is due to end.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to ensure that (a) access logs and (b) permissions related to NHS data processed on Palantir platforms are independently auditable.

15 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Palantir: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the compliance of Palantir Technologies Ltd with transparency obligations under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 prior to 2021.

15 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Palantir: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of (a) call-off contracts, (b) contract values and (c) delivery milestones awarded to Palantir Technologies under Crown Commercial Service frameworks since 2020.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS trusts have opted out of participating in the Federated Data Platform; and what steps NHS England is taking to monitor trust participation.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS trusts have received (a) financial support and (b) incentive payments to enable uptake of the Federated Data Platform.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the contract for the Federated Data Platform will require Palantir to publish an open standard data schema to enable interoperability with alternative platforms.

Source: official written-questions record.