Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Public Speaking

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has had correspondence with Wandsworth Council on external-speaker sessions in local schools on (a) migration and (b) asylum since January 2024.

24 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued guidance to schools on ensuring that classroom discussions involving people who have entered the UK illegally do not (a) compromise safeguarding standards and (b) expose pupils

23 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Academy: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) audit and (b) traceability checks are conducted to verify halal (i) certification and (ii) segregation in the Defence Academy catering supply chain; and how often compliance is reviewed.

23 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Academy: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) animal welfare and (b) assurance standards are required of halal-certified meat supplied at the Defence Academy; whether stunning is mandated; and which certification bodies are recognised.

23 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Academy: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on (a) the unit price (b) the supply chain and (c) wastage of supplying halal-certified meat by default at the Defence Academy.

23 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Academy: Catering

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the labelling requirements that apply at point-of-sale in Defence Academy catering outlets to identify halal-certified meat; and whether customers are informed when certification involves speci

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Quality First Education Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with the Quality First Education Trust regarding (a) classroom sessions and (b) external speaker events addressing (i) migration and (ii) asylum issues in the 2024/25 aca

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Multi-academy Trusts: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what oversight her Department exercises over academy trusts that invite external speakers to address pupils on politically sensitive issues.

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Undocumented Migrants: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to schools on obtaining parental consent before children participate in classroom sessions involving external speakers discussing their personal experiences of (a) irregula

23 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has made available to local authorities for (a) housing (b) other support to Gazan evacuees.

23 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which local authorities have (a) received and (b) are housing (i) individuals and (ii) families evacuated from Gaza.

23 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October to Question 81590 on Medical Treatments: Gaza, whether routes for (a) extension and (b) variation of leave have been specified under the Immigration Rules.

23 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people who have entered the UK under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme have recourse to non-medical public funds.

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

Public Spaces Protection Orders: Harrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department holds information on the amount spent by Harrow Council on (a) No spitting signage and (b) related Public Space Protection Order enforcement campaigns sinc

23 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data the DLVA records on where a driver passed their driving test when exchanging a non-UK licence for a UK licence.

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

Food: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether officials in her Department have had (a) meetings and (b) correspondence with (i) the Carbon Trust, (ii) MyEmissions, (iii) Raynor Foods Ltd. and (iv) UK food retailers on the

23 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a cross-party commission to progress the public inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse.

23 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Census

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to (a) initiate and (b) publish the findings of an emergency census in 2026.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Genetics: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS staff there are whose responsibilities include addressing genetic disorders associated with consanguinity.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of Safe Surgeries held by GPs in each of the last five years.

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

Social Rented Housing: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will assess the potential merits of barring non-UK nationals from (a) being the lead tenant for social housing (b) living in social housing.

22 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people that entered the UK under the Gaza medical evacuation scheme have applied for asylum.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has been the cost to the public purse of the Gaza medical evacuation scheme for children.

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

Social Rented Housing: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information the Department holds on the number of Somali citizens living in social housing as a proportion of the Somali population living in the UK for which the latest dat

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

Social Rented Housing: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the total cost of (a) translation and (b) interpretation for services related to social housing in each of the last ten financial years.

22 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Oral Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how questions were provided to the Prime Minister in advance of Prime Minister's questions since 5 July 2025, broken down by party.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October to Question 81590 on Medical Treatments: Gaza, what wraparound support is offered through the Gaza injured children scheme.

22 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 81590 on Medical Treatments: Gaza, how many (a) children and (b) dependants have entered the UK under that scheme.

22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Abortion: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on abortion rates for (a) male and (b) female babies after 20 weeks by ethnicity.

22 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Prevent learning review, whether her Department plans to change to the definition Islamic terrorism to international terrorism.

Source: official written-questions record.