Written questions

504 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities

Children in Care: Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that young people with care-experience have equal access to support services promoting wellbeing, opportunity and inclusion.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish data on the number of animals bred for use in laboratories that were not used in scientific procedures in 2024.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Primates

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of importing cynomolgus monkeys born in (a) Africa and (b) Asia for use in scientific procedures on the welfare of those animals.

27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many water bodies are classified as failing to meet good ecological status for which the latest data is available; and what steps she is taking to help improve the quality of water

27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that water companies are penalised for (a) repeated illegal sewage discharges and (b) other repeated breaches of environmental regulations

27 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Employers' Contributions: Stratford-on-Avon

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on SMEs in Stratford-on-Avon constituency.

22 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with (a) local authorities and (b) academy trusts on ensuring a consistent national approach to the admission of summer-born children.

22 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing simplified guidance for (a) parents and (b) schools on how requests for (i) deferred entry and (ii) out-of-cohort progression are handled.

22 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that guidance on the progression of summer-born children from primary to secondary education is applied (a) clearly and (b) consistently across all schools.

15 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled UK government response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) market study into housebuilding, published on 22

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to use (a) secondary and (b) primary legislation to establish a National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism.

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the responses received to the National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism consultation.

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to make a decision on the establishment and format of a National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism; and if she will commit to establishing the National Day in line with recomme

13 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to publish the findings and response to the consultation on the National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism, which closed on 11 June 2025.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Government Departments: Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of extending the armed forces covenant legal duty on resources in Government departments.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to provide adequate (a) staffing and (b) budget to implement the extension of the armed forces covenant legal duty.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cereals

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support grain producers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cereals: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of grain imports produced to standards lower than those required in the UK on domestic producers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of rising input costs on grain producers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cereals: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reduced milling premiums on farmers.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Cereals: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of falling grain prices on domestic producers.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Dogs: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) police forces and (b) local authorities on improving the enforcement of the Highway Code requirement that dogs must be kept on a short lead when on pavements, roa

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending enforcement powers to cover incidents where dogs are not kept under control in public before they become dangero

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that her policies are consistent with the UK's obligations under the Genocide Convention in the context of the findings of the United Natio

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestine

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with international partners on the implementation of the International Court of Justice ruling of January 2024 on the Occupied Palestinian Territo

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Israel Defense Forces: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Israel Defence Forces personnel have received training in the UK in each of the last five years.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Arms Trade: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the end-use of UK arms exports to Israel to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Arms Trade: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for the Government’s arms export licensing regime of the judgment in the recent case concerning the sale of F-35 components to Israel.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Arms Trade: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) standard and (b) open export licences for the export of arms or military equipment to Israel were granted in each of the last five years.

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

Supported Housing: Warwickshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the provision of supported accommodation for (a) young people and (b) adults with special needs and disabilities in (i) Stratford-on-Avon const

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