Written questions
68 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to instruct the Data Standards Authority to recognise OpenActive as an official government data standard for physical activity information.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of integrating OpenActive data standards into NHS clinical care pathways.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to incorporate OpenActive data into the NHS app to help patients find local physical activity opportunities relevant to health conditions.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Exercise and Sports: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of OpenActive on (a) Sport England's uniting the movement strategy and (b) reducing physical inactivity.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Exercise and Sports: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to mandate the OpenActive data standard for publicly-funded (a) leisure facilities and (b) activity providers.
21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Homicide: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 64314 on Homicide: Parents, on what date her Department plans for the commencement of Section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Electric Bicycles: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing legal duties on online marketplaces to (a) verify sellers of e-bikes and (b) remove unsafe e-bike listings.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Electric Bicycles: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to implement (a) the proposed PAS 7250 specification and (b) other safety standards for e-bikes.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Electric Bicycles: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to introduce a national e-bike safety kitemark scheme to distinguish (a) legally compliant and (b) fire-tested products.
8 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to ban the sale of (a) e-bikes and (b) scooters that are not legally allowed to be used on roads.
1 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Homicide: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to automatically limit a surviving parent's parental responsibility over their child in cases where one parent has unlawfully killed the other.
27 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events: Public Service Broadcasting
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to paragraph 7.17 of the Ofcom consultation paper entitled Listed events: Implementing the Media Act, published on 13 June 2025, whether she plans to take steps to help support pub
27 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events: Streaming
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to paragraph 7.17 of the Ofcom consultation paper entitled Listed events: Implementing the Media Act, published on 13 June 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential imp
10 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Zoos: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to improve the access of zoos to European Conservation Breeding Programmes as part of negotiations with the European Union on veterinary (a) sanitary and (b) phyt
5 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Bicycles: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support small and medium-sized bicycle manufacturers.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent sudden and unexplained deaths in children.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing recommendation 6 of the National Child Mortality Data's report entitled Sudden and unexpected deaths in infancy and childhood, pu
30 May 2025 · Home Office
Ketamine: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to receive advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on the classification of ketamine.
30 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of selling (a) on-demand and (b) linear rights together for each event listed in the Listed Events regime.
30 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 44127 on Listed Events, when she plans to set out her Department's position on the inclusion of on-demand rights in the Listed Events regime.
19 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Public Participation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of free-to-air sports broadcasting on levels of (a) physical activity and (b) participation in grassroots sports.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the outcome of his Department's closed consultation entitled The licensing of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England, which closed on 28 October 2023.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events: Streaming
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she has taken to consult the public on whether the scope of the listed events regime should be extended to include (a) digital and (b) on-demand content.
3 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changing viewing habits on the relevance of the Listed Events regime as a means of ensuring (a) the wide and (b) free availability of key n
3 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the listed events regime on levels of participation in grassroots sport.
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Active Travel: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Transport on the potential impact of safe walking and cycling routes on rates of economic inactivity.
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of active travel on levels of physical inactivity; and if he will take steps to publish a physical activity strategy.
18 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Terrorism: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of (a) the potential merits of establishing a National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism in the UK and (b) the length of time it would take to establish such a
6 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 4 November 2024 on Olympic and Paralympic Games: Team GB, HL Deb, c1307, what her Department's timetable i
21 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Events
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish the results of the November 2022 Listed Events: Digital Rights Review.
Source: official written-questions record.