Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Tenants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to take steps to ensure support for low-income tenants provides value for money.

24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Department uses non-deterministic systems.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: National Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will allocate funding to research on the (a) reliability and (b) auditability of non-deterministic models of AI used in national security issues.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will take legislative steps to require AI systems used by (a) government and (b) industry to disclose where their data searches are from.

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

ICT: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he has had recent discussions with the Information Commissioner’s Office on the potential risks of using foreign-owned companies to manage cloud-based data systems in the public sect

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered mandating UK-based technology providers for the management of NHS data.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Cross Country Line: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the proportion of Crosscountry rail services that were overcrowded in each of the last 12 months.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Cross Country Trains: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Crosscountry trains on the performance of its services.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Cross Country Trains: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ending cross-country train contracts early.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Period Poverty: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle period poverty through schools in Newton Abbot constituency.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Chemicals: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps bring forward regulations to ban period products which include pesticide residues.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that free period products provided in schools are (a) certified organic single use disposables and (b) additive-free.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Chemicals: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a legal requirement for manufacturers to list (a) the components and (b) any trace toxic chemicals in period products.

20 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Chemicals: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing testing for period products to ensure they are free from toxic chemical residues.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

South West Main Line: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to provide funding for the final phase of the South West Rail Resilience Programme.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle stigma among disabled veterans claiming PIP.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to allow veterans in receipt of the Armed Forces Independence Payment to claim the new health-related Universal Credit support.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support disabled veterans in Devon.

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children from Gaza have been granted visas to the UK for medical treatment since the scheme began.

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

Local Government: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what what steps she is taking to help ensure consistency in standards of (a) ethics, (b) training and (c) reporting in (i) parish, (ii) town and (iii) district councils.

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

Councillors: Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what statutory powers are available to local standards committees to investigate and sanction councillors for breaches of the Nolan Principles.

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

Local Government: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many complaints were referred to local standards committees in the last year; and what proportion of those complaints led to sanctions.

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

Local Government: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the enforcement of the local government code of conduct.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

South West Main Line: Dawlish

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2025 to Question 59834 on South West Main Line: Dawlish, if she will set out a timescale for when a decision on whether Stage Five of the rail resilience programme for Dawlish

19 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2025 to Question 58701 on USA: British Nationals Abroad, if he will make representations to his US counterpart on the potential merits of pr

18 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing Benefit and Universal Credit: Landlords

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what accountability mechanisms exist for private landlords who receive public funds through (a) Housing Benefit and (b) Universal Credit.

18 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increased social housing investment on reducing reliance on private landlords.

18 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department has taken to compare best practice in (a) the UK and (b) other countries on reducing public expenditure on private rents.

17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that AI-generated intelligence products are (a) reproducible, (b) trusted and (c) secure.

17 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of non-deterministic AI behaviour on the validity of (a) training simulations and (b) operational planning exercises.

Source: official written-questions record.