Written questions
301 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing legislation similar to that introduced in France to reduce commercial food waste.
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to (a) support food redistribution and (b) reduce commercial food waste.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Trandolapril
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2025 to Question 58827 on Trandolapril, for what reason does Trandolapril continue to be unavailable to patients.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken to issue Remediable Service Statements to veterans under the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 2015 Remedy; and whether the deadline for non-complex cases re
10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports that Israeli naval units intercepted vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza given in
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexual Offences: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of funding rape and sexual abuse support services.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
First Aid: Emergency Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the provision of emergency co-responders in (a) rural and (b) coastal areas.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Emergency Services: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support the provision of emergency co-responders in (a) rural and (b) coastal areas.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children and Families Act 2014 section 37, whether her Department has sought legal advice on the legal right to special educational provision.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department undertook stress testing in relation to the delivery schedule for the New Hospital Programme Schemes under the New Hospital Programme Review, published on 20 January 2025.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what methodology his Department used to determine the banding of New Hospital Programme schemes under the New Hospital Programme Review, published on 20 January 2025.
15 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of virtual-reality based training programmes for armed forces personnel.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for additional pharmacies were declined following a pharmaceutical needs assessment that identified a lack of need in each of the last five years.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment, his Department has made of the accuracy of pharmaceutical needs assessments undertaken by local health and wellbeing boards.
10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the NHS plans to provide to help support patients who are victims of sexual violence in the 2025-26 financial year, excluding funding provided by the Ministry of Justice.
10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of sexual violence were referred to the NHS by (a) charities and (b) local support organisations in 2024.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Supply: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the National Energy System Operator on the proposed publication date for the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Renewable Energy: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to page 13 of the Report by the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee entitled Gridlock or growth? Avoiding energy planning chaos HC868, published on 7 July 2025, whether he p
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit: Supported Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of claiming both Universal Credit and Housing Benefit on working young people in supported accommodation; and what steps she is taking to
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Import Duties: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on small and medium sized businesses of the suspension of the $800 minimum threshold for imports into the United States which is due to c
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability Aids: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the rates of re-use or recycling of crutches, frames and other walking aids issued by NHS Trusts in England.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Assured Tenancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of abolishing fixed-term assured tenancies in England on the housing market.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pet Travel Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on developing a new Pet Passport scheme between the UK and the European Union.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Drinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to regulate levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Fisheries: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to include the Skilled Worker Visa occupation code SOC 9119 under the Temporary Shortage Occupation List.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Processed Food: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to include the Skilled Worker Visa occupation code SOC 5433 under the Temporary Shortage Occupation List.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government plans to publish (a) Keeling Schedules and (b) implementation dates for the changes that have not had immediate effect made by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Miscarriage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Compassionate Clinical Care Kits distributed by the Dignity Care Network.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Funds: Fossil Fuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to issue guidance to pension funds on reducing the proportion of their funds invested in the fossil fuel industry.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning Obligations
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the policy paper entitled Planning Reform Working paper: Reforming Site Thresholds, published on 28 May 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the pot
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