Written questions

174 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with local authorities going through Local Government Reorganisation to ensure that food waste collections align with new boundaries.

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security and Child Support Tribunal: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards are in place to ensure that parties appearing before the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal are informed of any material change in the nature of allegations made against them dur

22 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish documents relating to his decision to postpone Norfolk county council elections.

22 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what dates his Department had discussions with Norfolk County Council on the cancellation of 2026 elections; and and if he will publish the minutes from those meetings.

19 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of capital funding provided to local authorities for the implementation of domestic food waste collections to meet the costs of depot expan

19 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of inflation and supply chain pressures on capital costs for local authorities delivering domestic food waste collection

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave and Parental Pay: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to introduce interim mitigations for families potentially affected by the outcome of the Parental Leave and Pay Review.

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of his Departments policies relating to Maternity Allowance on women in rural and coastal labour markets in the context of the prevalence of sea

7 Jan 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Maternity Allowance: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of treating Maternity Allowance as unearned income for the purposes of Universal Credit on working mothers who are not eligible for Statut

6 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Financial Services: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the recent BankConfidential report entitled "Hidden Credit Lines – The Largest Fraud Anywhere Ever", and what steps she plans to take as a result.

16 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Floods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking is to ensure that new homes are built to be flood resilient.

15 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the workforce modelling used as the basis for the 10 Year Workforce Plan will be independent; and whether the results of that modelling will be independently assessed and tested.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Buses: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending The Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information) Regulations 2023 to apply to vehicles which have 16 or more seats, rather than carry 16 or m

27 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost incurred by children and young people from North Norfolk for attending their cancer treatment in the nearest specialist treatment centre in Cambrid

27 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the current statutory thresholds at which a local authority is required to declare an Air Quality Management Area.

27 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when they will set out a timescale for their review of agricultural permitted development rights.

19 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has attended meetings with the Secretary of State for Education on the allocation of new dental school places since 1 January 2025.

19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Affordable Housing: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of rural exception site policy in securing affordable rented housing in perpetuity for local people in rural and coastal towns.

11 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Economic Crime: British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2025 to Question 88046 on Economic Crime: British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, if she will make it her policy to collect data on the use of Exchan

5 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Economic Crime: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of registers of beneficial ownership in the Overseas Territories on the effective prosecution of fraud and economic crime.

4 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Economic Crime: British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times exchange of notes arrangements have been used in investigations relating to economic crime to share beneficial ownership information between the UK on the one hand and the Crown Depende

27 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Jhoots Pharmacy: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many skilled worker visas were sponsored by Jhoots Group before their removal from the register of licensed sponsors on 24 October 2025.

22 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Assessments: Stress

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) help reduce exam stress and (b) support pupils with exam stress.

20 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to consult (a) disabled children and their (i) parents and (ii) carers and (b) organisations representing those people before the publication of the Government’s (A) interim and (B)

15 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent the closure of convalescence facilities in Norfolk.

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

Coastal Erosion and Flood Control: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the flood and coastal erosion risk management funding policy takes account of the cultural value of areas.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child maintenance service provides (a) oversight and (b) review mechanisms to help ensure (i) consistency and (ii) accountability in the application of caseworker discretion to arrears repay

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are taken by the Child Maintenance Service to assess the impact on the welfare of children when arrears repayment schedules are extended beyond the two-year debt steer principle.

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes the Child Maintenance Service has in place to verify claims of financial hardship made by paying parents when arrears repayment schedules are extended beyond the two-year debt steer princ

13 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service adheres to its debt steer principle that arrears should be repaid within a maximum of two years.

Source: official written-questions record.