Written questions

174 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Blue Badge Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities correctly implement national guidance on Blue Badge eligibility.

11 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2025 to Question 74527 on Asylum: Staff, how many asylum decisionmakers were employed on 28 April 2025.

11 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Caravan Sites: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of initiating a formal review of legislation that allows certified exemption of small caravan and motorhome sites from plannin

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support community-based preventative services for older people in Norfolk.

10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the availability of research into less survivable cancers; and what steps his Department is taking to incentivise peo

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paramedical Staff: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ringfencing funding for cycle paramedic services.

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of NHS tie-in periods for newly qualified dentists on access to NHS dental service.

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many payments under the dental recruitment incentive scheme have been allocated to North Norfolk constituency.

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that dental patients in Norfolk will be included in NHS tie-in periods for newly qualified dentists.

8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: East of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has conducted any regional modelling of dental workforce planning in (a) Norfolk and (b) the East of England.

2 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled We’re recruiting Asylum Decision Makers across the UK, published on 28 April 2025, how many asylum decisionmakers have been hired since 28 Apr

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Crayfish: Non-native Species

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered developing an invasive American signal crayfish eradication strategy in (a) England and (b) Norfolk.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences: Glaucoma

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of visual field testing for driving license holders diagnosed with glaucoma in (a) North Norfolk constituency, (b) Norfolk and (c) England.

22 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Sirens

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to her Answer of 21 July 2025 Question 68537 on Emergencies: Sirens, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that communities in (a) coastal areas and (b) that have limited or no phone signal rece

16 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Valuation Office Agency: Standards

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of case backlog at the Valuation Office Agency; and what steps she is taking to reduce this.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Licences: Glaucoma

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the adequacy of the availability of glaucoma testing for driving license renewal in (a) North Norfolk constituency, (b) Norfolk and (c) England.

16 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of HMRC confidentiality rules on the ability of the Child Maintenance Service to (a) suspend and (b) revise liability, where possible fraudulent chil

16 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Sirens

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 66761 on Emergencies: Mobile Phones, what steps she is taking to support communities who have (a) no emergency sirens and (b) had their emergency sirens removed

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

Neighbourhood Plans: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2025 to Question 62866 on Neighbourhood Plans: Finance, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of this policy on levels of council

10 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office

Emergencies: Mobile Phones

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the publication entitled UK Government Resilience Action Plan published on 8 July 2025, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of emergency alert systems in rural areas with

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the funding formula on the viability of small schools in rural areas.

1 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Virgin Islands: Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2025 to Question 36916 on British Overseas Territories: Companies, what discussions he has had with the British Virgin Islands government o

27 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Post Boxes: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her polices of trends in levels of theft of Royal Mail post boxes; and whether she has had recent discussions with Royal Mail on th

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Electricians and Plumbing: Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more young people to undertake vocational training to become (a) plumbers and (b) electricians.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of drop-outs from vocational courses; and what steps she is taking to increase course completion rates.

25 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Neighbourhood Plans: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing funding for the development of neighbourhood plans on parish councils.

16 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the establishment of a dental school at the University of East Anglia.

5 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the minimum income requirements for spousal visas on pensioners who are unable to increase their income.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Waste Management: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing penalties to local government for delays in implementing food waste collections due to (a) market congestion fo

3 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Letter Boxes: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of postbox theft; and what steps her Department is taking to tackle it.

Source: official written-questions record.