Written questions

333 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Hazardous Substances

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare professionals exposed to hazardous medicinal products.

16 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she considers that further legislation is required to help tackle threats of terrorism by (a) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and (b) other state bodies.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Subversion: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to create a new power of proscription to cover state threats.

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestine: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department’s policy paper entitled UK-Occupied Palestinian Territories development partnership summary July 2023, published on 17 July 2023, whether the

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2024 to Question 69090 on Challenger Tanks: Supply Chains, what proportion of the (a) UK Challenger 3 work will be in the tier 2 supply chain and (b) lead consortium work will be

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the time taken to award compensation payments to victims of the Horizon Scandal.

29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the contracts for the (a) Ajax, (b) Challenger 3 and (c) Boxer programmes included targets in relation to generating social value in the (a) UK and (b) North East.

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what components of the Challenger 3 will have been manufactured in the UK; and what other industrial processes associated with the programme will have taken place in the UK during its (a) demonstration and (b) ma

18 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ajax Vehicles: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Ajax programme supply chain is based in the North East.

18 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Boxer Vehicles: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the supply chain for the Boxer programme is based in the (a) UK and (b) North East.

18 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Challenger Tanks: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the supply chain for the Challenger 3 programme is based in the (a) UK and (b) North East.

15 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tibet: Buddhism

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterparts on the right of the Tibetan Buddhist authorities to select the successor to the Dalai Lama without interference.

8 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hamas: Hostage Taking

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken with international partners to encourage international humanitarian access to Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

18 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Overseas Companies: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of public complaint records from the Hong Kong Ombudsman Office’s online archive on UK businesses operating in that country.

15 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on whether the Myanmar military is violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 2417 in (a) Rakhine State and (b) other places.

15 May 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Germany: Guided Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for developing the deep precision strike capability with Germany.

8 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure UK aid to Myanmar (a) reaches people impacted by the recent earthquake and (b) is not intercepted by the military regime.

8 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether a proportion of UK aid to Myanmar will be ringfenced for healthcare provision.

6 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

National Security

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to publish guidance to the public on action to take in the days following an armed attack on the UK by another state.

6 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Defence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when homeland defence plans were last reviewed.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she expects to receive the final report of the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Development: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing mission critical neighbourhoods, as defined by the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods, on the effecti

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Vetting

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what demographic information is held about the subjects of DBS checks in England and Wales.

31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the population of England and Wales has a criminal record.

19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Australia: Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Ministers next plan to meet their Australian counterparts.

19 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the policy paper entitled Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) 2024: joint statement, published on 17 December 2024, what progress he has made on exploring enhanced collaboration on L

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Technology: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the level of the UK’s reliance on Chinese technology in (a) solar panels, (b) wind power generation and (c) batte

6 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Palestine Action: Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the adequacy of legislation related to the policing of the operations of (a) Palestine Action and (b) other direct action groups.

6 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Palestine Action

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to help stop (a) Palestine Action’s direct action training days and (b) the spread of violent direct action training materials.

6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Palestine Action

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of direct action taken by Palestine Action on the (a) defence sector and (b) adequacy of the supply of assets to the Armed Forces.

Source: official written-questions record.