Written questions
106 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Creosote: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the consultation by the Health and Safety Executive entitled GB Biocidal Products Regulation (GB BPR) - creosote assessment for renewal, closed on 24 November 2024, whether he plans to
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of booked practical driving tests were attended by learner drivers in each month in the last ten years.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his timetable is for the payment of compensation to people approved for a second interim payment for estates under the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
School Meals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the quality of school lunchtime provision on the wellbeing of children.
16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Defibrillators: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with owners of defibrillators on encouraging them to register the defibrillators on The Circuit.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Defibrillators
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on rolling out defibrillators to state-funded schools in England.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding investment in mental health support and screening within PCOS treatment plans.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered prioritising the integration of PCOS care into Women's Health Hubs.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will (a) collect and (b) publish data on the (i) prevalence, (ii) diagnosis and (iii) treatment of PCOS in England.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diagnosis: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that new NICE guidelines on PCOS are embedded in a nationally commissioned diagnostic pathway to reduce diagnostic delays.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the long-term (a) financial and (b) operational sustainability of community pharmacies.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients have timely access to pharmacy services in areas where community pharmacies have closed.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the rate of community pharmacy closures in England.
3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Drinking Water: Safety and Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve public awareness of drinking water (a) safety and (b) quality standards.
3 Sep 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 recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination in drinking water in England.
3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewers: Contamination
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to support national expansion of the Yellowfish campaign to reduce drain contamination.
3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Disposable Wipes: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure clear consumer labelling on wet wipes marketed as flushable.
3 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Disposable Wipes: Plastics
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for banning wet wipes containing plastic.
2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the potential impact on carers is taken into account in NICE’s health technology appraisal decisions.
2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the manner in which NICE considers carer-related quality of life in its assessments of treatments for (a) rare, (b) progressive and (c) paediatric diseases.
2 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that NICE appraisal decisions for (a) progressive and (b) degenerative diseases are taken in a timely manner. .
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on how many and what proportion of driving test bookings involved the initial driving licence number on the booking form being subsequently changed, in each month since January 20
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Fund: Annual Reports
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24 Social Fund Annual Reports.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
School Meals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the finding on p.22 of the report by the Food Standards Agency entitled School Food Standards Compliance Pilot: Discover
7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Heart Diseases: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of funding research on using AI based on the knowledge of expert cardiologists to help interpret ECGs for the diagnosis of yo
24 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Public Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the Green Book rules on North West Leicestershire constituency.
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Brain: Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on ensuring that (a) patients and (b) families affected by brain aneurysms receive adequate (i) screening, (ii) treatment, (iii) care, (iv) long-term monitoring and
24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Brain: Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that brain aneurysms are (a) recognised and (b) dealt with (i) in the NHS ten-year plan and (ii) by his Department.
20 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Natural History: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Natural History GCSE will be made available to students.
20 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to Local Planning Authorities on allocating reserve sites in their local housing site plans that would only become operational when first-
Source: official written-questions record.