Written questions

1,840 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Export Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish details of all active export licences.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37398 on Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, will if she will respond to the email from the hon. Member for Newton Abbot on the Adoption and Speci

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance and Maternity Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the change in the weekly rate of Statuary Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance from April 2025 on child poverty in Devon.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance and Maternity Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to increase (a) Statutory Maternity Pay and (b) Maternity Allowance beyond the rate of inflation over the next four years.

19 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Beer and Public Houses: Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) beer and (b) pub sector.

19 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Beer and Public Houses: Economic Situation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate her Department has made of the contribution of the (a) brewery, (b) distillery and (b) pub sector to the UK economy in the 2024-25 financial year.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Beer and Public Houses: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help protect the (a) brewery, (b) distillery and (c) pub sector from US tariffs.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Beer and Public Houses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of the (a) brewery and distillery and (b) pub sector to (i) economic growth and (ii) job creation.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Beer and Public Houses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) beer and (b) pub sector to increase (i) economic growth and (ii) business investment in the context of his industrial strategy.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are adequacy supported through the benefits assessment process.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Parks: Dartmoor

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to his Department's policy paper, Government response to the independent review of protected site management on Dartmoor: full report, published 11 April 2024, if he will incre

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on determining the level of funding allocated for each EHC plan.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued on the use of third-party consultants by local authorities to (a) assess and (b) re-assess EHC plans.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Consumers

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to enable Ofcom to regulate poor customer service.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Devon and Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with (a) Connecting Devon and Somerset and (b) Airband on (i) resuming full-scale operations and (ii) the effectiveness of communications between the three p

19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

USA: Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what equipment his Department has procured from the United States for the armed forces since 1 January 2024.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Overseas Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Q95 of the oral evidence given by the Chief of Policy of the Confederation of British Business to the Business and Trade

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the role of the Personal Independence Payment in enabling work.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of tightening the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment on the ability of disabled people to afford their costs.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether anyone in receipt of Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity benefits will receive reduced levels of payments following the reforms announced in her Oral Ministerial Statement on 1

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

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 34688 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will list (a) the names of organisations from the private parking industry with whom (

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Tribunals statistics quarterly; October to December 2024 report, published 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of PIP appeals overturned in favour

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) adults with (i) ADHD and (ii) autism and (b) other neurodivergent adults.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to reform the Personal Independence Payment on (a) disabled parents and (b) parents of disabled children.

18 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Music Venues: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the Music Venue Trust entitled Annual Report 2024, published on 24 January 2025, on the potential impact

18 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Music Venues: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing Business Rate Relief from 75% to 40% on Grassroots Music Venues.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) time taken and (b) effectiveness of treatment

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prostate Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will take steps to provide (a) faster and (b) wider availability for prostate-specific antigen t

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Carers and Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to amend the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment for (a) carers and (b) children.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fisheries: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2025 to Question 34339 on Fisheries: civil servants, if he will assign civil servants to work on trade and co-operation agreements with the fishing in

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