Written questions

64 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Industrial Accidents: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of fatalities that occurred in the workplace and were investigated by the Health and Safety Executive involved inadequate provision of personal protective equipment in the (a) 2022, (b)

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Industrial Accidents: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of fatalities that occurred in the workplace were investigated by the Health and Safety Executive in the (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024 reporting year.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Industrial Accidents: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fatalities occurred in the workplace in the (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024 reporting year.

8 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help ensure the safety of Afghans living in the UK, in the context of the data breach relating to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy in 2022.

5 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of (a) safe, (b) secure and (c) good quality truck parking; and what plans her Department has to reopen the HGV parking and driver welfare grant schem

4 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Freight: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle increasing levels of freight crime; and if she will meet with (a) the Road Haulage Association and (b) other relevant stakeholders to increase awaren

4 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase awareness among healthcare professionals that endometriosis is a (a) long-term and (b) chronic condition, as recommended by the National Confidential Enquiry into

4 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with (a) Endometriosis UK and (b) other relevant stakeholders on the implementation of the 10 Year Health Plan to ensure it supports people with endometriosis.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Periods: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the (a) impact of and (b) implementation of the inclusion of menstrual wellbeing education in the curriculum since September 2020.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide (a) support and (b) resources to schools to help them deliver the revised Relationships and sex education and health education guidance, published on 15 July 2025, in an (i) evidence-based a

4 Sep 2025 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Periods

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) regulations and (b) guidance for the Employment Rights Bill will require relevant employers to consider whether people with menstrual health conditions are adequatel

4 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gynaecology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the amount of theatre time provided to gynaecology in comparison to other specialties; and in what way this has changed since the Covid-19 pandemic.

4 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will consider relocating auxiliary workers to British (a) diplomatic and (b) military operations in Afghanistan for their safety.

4 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Home Country Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the safety of auxiliary workers to British (a) diplomatic and (b) military operations in Afghanistan.

4 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) review endometriosis classification as an acute illness and (b) introduce long-term care plans for endometriosis patients.

4 Sep 2025 · Treasury

Business: Billing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to FOI2024/01172, whether she plans to review payment agreements made with businesses.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Protective Clothing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to coordinate the new Fair Work Agency with the Health and Safety Executive to enforce better-fit PPE standards.

4 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Protective Clothing: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to review regulations and enforcement of PPE standards for sale through online marketplaces.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Alternative Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in the cost of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) since January 2025 on the aviation sector’s (a) competitiveness and (b) progress towards increasing

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Alternative Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to take steps to prevent aviation fuel suppliers from charging compliance risk premiums to mandated volumes of sustainable aviation fuel.

8 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Freight: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has consider the potential merits of introducing a specific offence group classification for thefts involving high value goods from (a) haulage and (b) freight vehicles.

8 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Deposit Return Schemes: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of applying VAT to deposits in the Deposit Return Scheme on (a) return rates and (b) levels of (i) litter and (ii) recycling.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Alternative Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that there (a) are new jobs and (b) is growth of the sustainable aviation fuel industry in Scotland.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Clean Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to repurpose national infrastructure originally used in the fossil fuel sector for new green technology sectors.

12 Jun 2025 · Women and Equalities

Equality

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she expects the Equality and Human Rights Commission to publish the final version of its Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, following the Supreme Court’s judgment of 16 Apri

4 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Russian Military Studies Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to ensure the effective (a) cataloguing and (b) use of the holdings of the Russian Military Studies Centre in national security considerations.

24 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Youth Guarantee: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Youth Guarantee will be delivered in Scotland (a) directly by DWP, (b) in partnership with devolved bodies including councils and (c) directly by devolved bodies.

19 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Energy Supply: Radio Frequencies

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of allocating dedicated radio spectrum access to energy (a) distribution and (b) transmission networks on (i) the resilience an

19 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Infrastructure: Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to engage with the public to explain the (a) need and (b) sources of funding for large infrastructure projects near local communities to grow the economy.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of (a) the report and (b) recommendation 27 of the report by the National Infrastructure Commission enti

Source: official written-questions record.