Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of identified benefit fraud cases in which the claimant was a non-UK national in the last five years.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the value of benefit expenditure paid to non-UK nationals in the last financial year by benefit type.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-UK nationals are in receipt of (a) Universal Credit, (b) legacy working-age benefits and (c) child-related benefits by nationality.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of savings from halving levels of benefit fraud and error by 2030.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department were employed in tackling benefit fraud in (a) 2025 and (b) 2020.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were terminated in the last 12 months as a result of fraud investigations; and what the estimated value of those claims was.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of benefit expenditure was lost to (a) claimant fraud, (b) official error and (c) customer error in each of the last five years.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much benefit expenditure was lost to fraud and error in the most recent year for which figures are available by benefit type.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Foreign Nationals and Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Universal Credit was paid to (a) foreign nationals and (b) households with refugee status in October 2025.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the value of outstanding Dartford Crossing fines for foreign HGV drivers.

19 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Large Goods Vehicles: Speed Limits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of sharing information between Border Force and Kent Police on HGV drivers that repeatedly break the speed limit.

19 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data the Police National Computer holds on the number of offences committed in the last 12 months, by where the offender was born.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many telephone operators work on the Universal Credit helpline by the nationality of those operators.

19 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC employers general enquiries line by the nationality of those operators.

19 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC self-assessment line by the nationality of those operators.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2025 to question 91631 on Motor Vehicles: Insurance, if she will make it the Department’s policy to collect data on (i) the number and proportion of collisions involving un

19 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to question 81592 Medical Treatments: Gaza, for the total number of accompanying adults that have entered the UK under the Gaza Injured Children Scheme.

19 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2025 to question 81592 on Medical Treatments: Gaza, what the estimated total cost of the programme will be to the public purse.

19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Government Departments: Injunctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many super-injunctions relating to the Government are in place.

19 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants within the Government Communications Service are engaged in identifying, categorising, or responding to social media content critical of government migration policy.

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service collects, stores, or processes data from social media accounts under the RESIST framework.

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service uses automated tools, AI systems, or external contractors to scrape social media data relating to criticism of migration.

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Communications Service maintains a database, spreadsheet, internal dashboard, or record of accounts or individuals who post content about migrants, asylum seekers, or community housing pre

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Finance and Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for the total budget and number of staff of the Government Communication Service.

18 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service: Social Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been monitored by the Government Communications Service in the previous year.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Personation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking with police forces to detect and prosecute organised fraud rings involved in impersonation during driving tests.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish annual statistics on the number of impersonation and fraud attempts in driving tests.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Proof of Identity

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing new technologies including biometric checks and digital verification to strengthen identity checks at driving test centres.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) collisions and (b) offences that have later been linked to drivers found to have obtained licences fraudulently in the last five years.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the potential risk posed to road safety by illegitimate licences being issued through fraudulent tests.

Source: official written-questions record.