Written questions
1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not funding the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme beyond 2026 on those places of worship.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will ensure that the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme continues beyond 2026.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities are carrying out their statutory duty to deliver youth services.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reductions in youth service funding on young people.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure long-term sustainable funding for youth services.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Metrics Commission's report entitled Measuring Poverty 2024, published in October 2024, if she will undertake a review of the finding that 47 per cent of families with at le
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Metrics Commission's report entitled Measuring Poverty 2024, published in October 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's pol
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the application window for the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme to three months.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Trussell Trust entitled Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits used a food bank in the last month, published on 7 March 2025, if
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the article by the Trussell Trust entitled Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits u
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will develop a longer term child poverty strategy.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Means-tested Benefits: Take-up
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase the take up of means-tested benefits amongst households with children in poverty.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
National Income: Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of OBR forecasts on the percentage of GDP spent on social security benefits in the next four years.
25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Climate Change and Nature Conservation: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure all planning decisions do not impact the UK’s climate and nature targets.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nature Restoration Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the nature restoration fund on (a) peatlands, (b) ancient woodlands and (c) other irreplaceable habitats.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce dog bites in the UK.
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ukrainians who have (a) jobs, (b) homes and (c) families in the UK will be able to stay once the war has ended.
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support Ukrainians living in the UK on a long-term residency basis.
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme is a humanitarian protection route.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing the lower standard rate of Universal Credit for under 25s.
25 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the identity and nationality documents for the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme applications must be pre-translated.
25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
USA: Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 35454, whether he has made an assessment of the level of defence procurement can be moved to the UK from the US.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 39206 on Personal Independence Payment: Neurodiversity, if she will make it her policy to maintain the level of the Personal Independence Payment for
25 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ukraine: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Oral Statement of 24 February 2025 on Ukraine, Official Report, columns 513 to 515, what diplomatic steps he is taking with his international counterpar
25 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs' Policy paper entitled Alcohol Duty uprating, published on 30 October 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the 3.4% increase in alcohol duties
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Dartmoor
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of agri-environmental scheme investment in Dartmoor National Park since 2015.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to (a) local authorities and (b) schools on (i) annual reviews for EHC plans and (ii) the responsibilities of all parties involved.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of schools being unable to challenge placement decisions made by local authorities on children with special educational needs.
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on local authorities' ability to meet special educational needs because of delays by local authorities in reviewing schools' funding requests for
25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the time spent by schools in requesting assessments for EHC plans on the provision of SEND services.
Source: official written-questions record.