Written questions

56 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure a widespread adoption of minimum energy efficiency standards.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a national energy advice service for businesses and homeowners.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the cost of electricity.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps Ofcom is taking to prevent children from accessing regulated platforms while under the minimum age limits in those companies’ terms of service.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media companies effectively enforce their terms of service to prevent children below the required minimum age from accessing them.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Fourth Report of Session 2021–22 of the Health and Social Care Committee, The safety of maternity services in England, HC 19, published on 6 July 2021, whether he plans to imp

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mosquitos: Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of clinical education programmes to support healthcare professionals to identify potential cases of mosquito-borne diseases in the UK

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to standardise the provision of travel health services in the UK.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mosquitos: Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of adding (a) chikungunya, (b) dengue, (c) zika and (d) other mosquito-borne diseases onto the list of notifiable diseases published

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase levels of mental health (a) support and (b) assessments for fathers during perinatal periods.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce initiatives to include expectant and new fathers in mental health checks as part of routine antenatal and postnatal care.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that NHS services (a) engage with new fathers and (b) record their details alongside mothers in their baby's health records.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Construction: Scotland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much consequential funding the Scottish Government receives for Home Building Funds and the Land and Infrastructure Funds, broken down by spending type.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with the British Business Bank on eligibility of the Enable Build programme; and whether its origination criteria that a substantial majority of t

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the origination criteria of the British Business Bank’s Enable Build scheme permits lending to all small and medium sized home builders whose operations and development a

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Paternity Leave: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of improving paternity leave provisions on health disparities in lower-income families.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Parental Leave: Take-up

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of uptake of Shared Parental Leave.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Paternity Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential lessons learned from the parental leave policies of other countries in the OECD.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Paternity Leave: Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the potential impact of extending the statutory minimum paternity leave on (a) early childhood development and (b) relian

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Paternity Leave: Economic Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the statutory minimum level of paternity leave on the economy.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has had discussions with the Scottish Government on (a) facilitating and (b) improving delivery of the Warm Homes Plan across Scotland.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of taking steps to use the energy efficiency SME supply chain to deliver the Warm Homes Plan.

13 Nov 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with private messaging platforms on (a) ensuring compliance with the Online Safety Act 2023 and (b) tackling (i) grooming of children and (ii) sharing of chi

12 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Audit: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to reform the audit sector; what his planned timetable is for (a) introducing the Draft Audit and Corporate Governance Reform Bill and (b) establishing a new audit r

12 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Clinical Priorities Advisory Group: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the funding allocation from NHS England for the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group was in (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.

12 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in Scotland were supported by specialised services provided by NHS England in the last 12 months.

Source: official written-questions record.