Written questions

2,568 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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

Local Government Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department collates local authority-level data on service usage by foreign nationals.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to schools of translating materials for parents with limited English in the last 12 months.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether benefit fraud statistics are disaggregated by (a) nationality and (b) immigration status.

22 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Child Benefit: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK nationals have accessed child benefit in the last five years.

22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of treating patients who are in the UK unlawfully in the last 12 months.

22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of maternity services were accessed by foreign nationals in each of the last five years.

22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Practice Lists: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of NHS GP registrations that were for non-UK nationals in the past five years.

17 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Home Office: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Festivals and Special Occasions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.

17 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment (a) of the potential merits of cancelling all foreign aid to Pakistan and (b) with the Secretary of State for the Home Department of the potenti

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42061 on Visas, if she will make it her policy to record the means by which a person becomes liable to removal when their visa expires.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the Environment Agency’s 2024 Event Duration Monitoring dataset, published in March 2025.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the planning system in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on chalk streams protection.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing legal aid for people who entered the UK illegally.

8 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the immigration appeal backlog including (a) housing, (b) legal aid and (c) public services for people awaiting outcomes.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated annual cost is of operating the immigration tribunal system, by (a) legal aid, (b) judges and (c) administrative support.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Asylum and Deportation: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of tribunal appeals that are submitted by people with previous failed asylum or deportation claims.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have more than one active appeal within the immigration tribunal system.

Source: official written-questions record.