Written questions

338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help support businesses to take up digital technologies.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Business: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support businesses to invest in skills and training.

7 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Act 2025 on small and medium sized businesses.

7 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Retail Trade: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act on small high-street businesses.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Retail Trade: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support high street businesses.

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

Leasehold: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing residential leaseholds.

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

Planning: Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to protect nature through the planning process.

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

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to ensure that new housing developments have adequate access to infrastructure.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage farmers to farm sustainably.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Land Use

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans he has to assess land use changes in applications for new energy infrastructure.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to safeguard critical energy infrastructure against the extreme summer temperatures.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Renewable Energy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to provide funding for renewable energy sources.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce energy bills.

4 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will respond to Question 59924 on aplastic anaemia tabled on 13 June 2025.

1 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that integrated care boards (a) commission children’s palliative care and (b) fund children’s hospices in (i) an equitable and (ii) a sustainable way.

1 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to (a) continue to provide financial support for children's hospices and (b) increase the level of funding in line with (i) inflation and (ii) rises in costs.

13 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaemia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that aplastic anaemia is (a) recognised and (b) included on the NHS England website; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing accessibl

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

Horse Passports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to implement a mandatory Digital Equine ID system.

10 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support routes into vocational education pathways for people over the age of 22.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the backlog in Access to Work claims.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to verify the ethical integrity of supply chains in solar energy developments.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) the Sunnica scheme and (b) other solar energy projects do not use components linked to (i) forced and (ii) slave labour in their supply chains.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the merits of applying the same ethical sourcing requirements that apply to Great British Energy to private sector solar developers operating in the UK.

30 May 2025 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on recruiting a Permanent Prevent Commissioner.

8 May 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure sustainable energy use in AI growth zones.

8 May 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Research: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing spending on research and development.

8 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase access to rail links in rural communities.

8 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of passenger rail performance.

8 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to make rail fares more affordable.

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicles: Concrete

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the maximum weight of volumetric concrete mixers on the number of lorry drivers required.

Source: official written-questions record.