Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will meet with (a) the hon. Member for Newton Abbot and (b) members of the business community to discuss expanding the duties of company directors.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Directors

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will amend section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 to require company directors to balance the duty to promote the success of the company with duties to (a) employees and (b) the enviro

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29262 on Insulation: Housing, if he will take legislative steps to ensure access to mortgage facilities for people purchasing homes with

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29262 on Insulation: Housing, if he will offer support for homes with faulty spray foam installed.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29262 on Insulation: Housing, if he will publish data on the number of homes using the warm homes grant to date.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 29262 on Insulation: Housing, if he will launch an investigation into homes that had spray foam installed under the Green Grant Scheme.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Newton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to increase the number of full time equivalent examiners at the Newton Abbot Driving Test Centre in the 2025-26 financial year.

11 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Young People: Newton Abbot

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the change in population of the 17-19 year old age group in Newton Abbot Constituency in the last five years.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Membership

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to encourage greater diversity in parish and town council membership.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether future funding settlements for parish and town councils will account for (a) increasing service delivery responsibilities and (b) variations in local need.

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

Local Government: Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has considered including new standards in public life clauses in the English Devolution Bill.

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

Local Government: Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to include provisions in the English Devolution Bill to standardise ethical conduct and behaviour in (a) parish councils, (b) town councils and (c) other levels

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

Local Government Finance: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to create delineated funding mechanisms for different tiers of local government in the proposed English Devolution Bill.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce new funding streams for (a) parish and (b) town councils.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the English Devolution Bill will include measures to tackle financial disparities between parish and town councils in the same region.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take through the English Devolution Bill to involve parish and town councils in restructuring decisions at local government level.

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

Parish and Town Councils: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the establishment of new unitary authorities on levels of (a) effectiveness and (b) autonomy of parish and town coun

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

Parish and Town Councils: Devolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the forthcoming English Devolution Bill will include provisions to recognise the role of parish and town councils in local service delivery.

10 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

USA: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the his US counterpart on UK citizens with a green card data.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for enacting the due diligence regulations of the Environment Act 2021, in the context of UK efforts to tackle deforestation.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure UK food supply chains do not (a) contribute to the destruction of high-biodiversity forests and (b) undermine international food security.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of voluntary corporate commitments in preventing deforestation in UK supply chains.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to (a) review and (b) strengthen deforestation-related regulations after their initial implementation under the Environment Act 2021.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Commodities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of setting high-risk thresholds and monitoring requirements to ensure an effective due diligence for forest risk commodi

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: International Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential environmental impact of levels of UK consumption of (a) palm oil, (b) soy, (c) beef and (d) cocoa on global deforestation rates.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Commodities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to bring forward secondary legislation to establish a due diligence regime for forest risk commodities ahead of COP30.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Commodities

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Department is taking to implement the due diligence on forest risk commodities provisions in the Environment Act 2021.

9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will amend section 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to ensure victims of rape and sexual violence do not have their past disclosures used as evidence to drop their case.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing peak time pricing on rail fares to and from Devon.

6 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Supermarkets: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to prevent consumers who do not opt in to supermarket loyalty schemes from being charged higher prices.

Source: official written-questions record.