Written questions

84 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Resident Doctors: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that adequate training places are available for junior doctors.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help protect consumers whose radio teleswitch service meters are not switched to smart meters by 30 June 2025.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on the number of households that needed to switch from Radio Teleswitch Service meters to smart meters in Glasgow West constituency on 30 May 2025.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department plans to take to protect consumers if their Radio Teleswitch Service meters are not switched to smart meters by 30 June 2025.

30 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Meters

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress his Department has made on switching consumers from Radio Teleswitch Service to smart meters.

15 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions Ombudsman: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Pensions Ombudsman on the adequacy of the time taken for complaints to be resolved.

15 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions Ombudsman: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Pensions Ombudsman on the adequacy of the time taken for a complaint to be allocated to an adjudicator.

6 May 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Christmas Island: Royal Fleet Auxiliary

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether members of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service present at the nuclear test on Christmas Island are entitled to a pension of compensation.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether each person impacted by the Grenfell Tower fire has been permanently rehoused.

8 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Syria: Minority Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assistance his Department has provided to Alawite civilians living in Syria.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Absent Voting: Email

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will consider amending legislation to allow overseas voters to receive ballots for elections by secure email.

8 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Public Expenditure: Scotland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding the Scottish Government will receive through Barnett consequentials as a result of highway maintenance funding being provided to England and Wales.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the time taken for Access to Work applications to be allocated to a case manager; and what steps she is taking to help reduce this waiting time.

18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Infected Blood Compensation Authority on the proposed timetable for payments to family members of those affected.

18 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the time taken for cases to be allocated to a case manager.

11 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Democratic Republic of Congo: Minerals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the risk of conflict minerals from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (a) being traded on the London Bullion Market and (b) appeari

11 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Democratic Republic of Congo: Minerals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of (a) trends in the level of (i) gold, (ii) coltan and (iii) other conflict minerals being exported from eastern Democratic Republic of Con

22 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Travel: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will (a) review and (b) update the Overseas Scale Rates.

3 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance her Department will issue to non-agricultural businesses on the changes to Inheritance Tax announced in the Autumn Budget 2024.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has issued on people requiring emergency assistance while they wait for a benefit claim to be assessed.

6 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will facilitate the issuing of visas to (a) Gazan and (b) other academics whose supporting paperwork has been lost during the conflict in the Middle East.

6 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Council for At-risk Academics

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to support the work of the Council for At-Risk Academics.

4 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

F-35 Aircraft: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he takes to ensure UK components supplied to the F-35 programme can be subjected to (a) a product recall and (b) an air accident investigation process .

4 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

F-35 Aircraft: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he takes to trace the end user of UK components delivered to the F-35 programme.

Source: official written-questions record.