Written questions

994 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Jan 2025 · Leader of the House

Written Questions: Government Responses

To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 21347 on Conditions of Employment, if she will ensure that answers to written parliamentary questions provide relevant hyperlinks.

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Special Advisers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 8425 on Prime Minister: Special Advisers and with reference to the Freedom of Information Act request with reference FOI2024/14571, for what reason the reque

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Business Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the letter from the Deputy Prime Minister to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments dated 2 May 2024, whether he plans to exempt (a) media appearances, (b) books and (c) journalism rol

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Internet

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21396 on Government Departments: Internet, if he will publish the inclusion list of websites for programmatic advertising that meet the acceptable standards.

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Reviews

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22191 on Public Bodies: Reviews, which reviews (a) are in progress and (b) have been paused; and what the status is of reviews in the 2024-25 financial year.

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers: Aviation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22200 on Ministers: Aviation, what quantity of carbon emissions have been offset since 5 July 2024; and what the cost to the public purse has been of this of

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22360 on Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work, which internship schemes for (a) MI5 and (b) MI6 were open to people from white British backgrounds in 2025.

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Advertising

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government Communication Service's SAFE framework, how many instances of campaign-specific flexibility have been approved in the last 12 months.

22 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Ministers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 18204 on Ministers: convictions, what role the (a) Cabinet Secretary and (b) Director General of the Proprietary and Constitution Group has in the provision

22 Jan 2025 · Home Office

48 Group: Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme will apply to the 48 Group.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18216 on Senior Civil Servants: Training, where the two SCS Leadership Conferences took place; and what the cost was of each event.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Prime Minister: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17545 on Prime Minister: Public Appointments, what the (a) bodies and (b) offices are.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

9 Downing Street: Media

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 13808 on 9 Downing Street: Media, what (a) alterations and (b) other works have taken place in the media room since November 2024; what the cost of those wo

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Michael Ellam

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Second Permanent Secretary, European Union and International Economic Affairs has made a declaration of political activity; and if he publish the declared interests of the Second Permanent Secretary.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2024, to Question 15236, on Cabinet Office: Staff, how many individuals are registered with the Skills Match Hub; what grades those individuals hold; what the average time i

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Freedom of Information

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 18402 on Freedom of Information, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent FOI Round Robin list, redacting the personal names of any request

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Places for Growth Programme

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what oversight his Department provides towards the Government's progress on the Places for Growth targets; and whether his Department produces RAG ratings for each Department based on their performance in meetin

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Communication Service

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to reduce the size of the Government Communications Service as part of the Spending Review Phase 2.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Fujitsu

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 8803 on Cabinet Office: Software, whether additional work under existing contracts has been awarded to Fujitsu since 4 July 2024.

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Propriety and Constitution Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the (a) efficiency and (b) effectiveness of the propriety and ethics team.

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wylfa Power Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to make an assessment of the potential impact of the purchase of the Wylfa power station site by Great British Nuclear on the public sector c

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether public appointment competitions under the Governance Code for Public Appointments can be (a) extended before the public deadline for the closure of applications and (b) re-opened to new applicants after

21 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

48 Group

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2025 to Question 22184 on Cabinet Office: 48 Group, if he will make it his policy to provide guidance to (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants on engagem

16 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farm visits he has made since his appointment; and where those farms were located.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff are employed in the Policy Profession Unit; what the headcount allocation for that Unit is; what grades each civil servant who works in the Unit is; and how many of these are (a) policy professio

8 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether guidance has been issued to Government Departments on the difference between (a) positive action and (b) positive discrimination in recruitment processes.

7 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Treasury: Ministers' Private Offices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2024 to Question 9057 on Treasury: Minister’s Private Offices, what was spent on each item.

7 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Domicil: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to the non-domiciled tax regime on the number of non-domiciled people who will relocate to other European countries.

7 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Ministers: Official Cars

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 11 December 2024, to Question 17676, on Ministers: Official Cars, if the Chancellor’s car travel arrangements are at public expense.

7 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Communication

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 13 November 2024 to Question HL2210 on Government Departments: Communication, which communications campaigns have been (a) downsized and (b) ended following the review.

Source: official written-questions record.