Written questions

974 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Productivity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce mandatory reporting on productivity improvements linked to capital investment.

3 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Systems: Productivity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken analysis of productivity variation across integrated care systems.

3 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support NHS trusts to increase same-day elective procedure capability.

3 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Outpatients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed the potential effectiveness of digital scheduling tools in improving outpatient capacity.

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to enhance digital access support for Pension Credit applications for older people.

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on local authority engagement with Pension Credit take-up campaigns.

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of potential factors limiting Pension Credit take-up among eligible low-income pensioners in rural areas.

3 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Energy Intensive Industries: Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of reduced electricity costs for employers in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency on employment growth in energy-intensive sectors.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Foreign Investment in UK: Gulf States

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Bank of England on managing potential financial stability risks from increased Gulf investment in UK markets.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Gulf States

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential role of UK sovereign investment vehicles in facilitating co-investment opportunities with Gulf partners.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Financial Services: Gulf States

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen financial sector co-operation between the UK and Gulf economies.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has identified priority regions for investment arising from recent Gulf trade agreements.

29 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Investment and Trade: Gulf States

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to monitor delivery of the £6.4 billion of trade and investment commitments announced during her visit to the Gulf.

29 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of public information campaigns on levels of benefit-related fraud.

29 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that vulnerable pensioners are protected from online benefit scams.

29 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking with law enforcement agencies to help (a) identify and (b) prevent winter fuel payment scams.

29 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of reported incidents of winter fuel payment-related scams in each of the past five years.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to report on the progress of the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions her Department has had with representative groups of the Windrush generation on the compensation process.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent training has been provided to staff administering the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

29 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department has used as a basis for its assessment of the effectiveness changes to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Assistance: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to measure the potential impact of UK leadership in multilateral development fora on global poverty reduction outcomes.

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

World Bank: Technical Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of UK technical assistance to the World Bank’s capacity-building programmes.

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Debts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the role her Department will be in discussions on debt sustainability and restructuring under the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable.

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that UK-funded multilateral programmes align with the Sustainable Development Goals review cycle to 2030.

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has identified priority sectors for future UK-backed multilateral development funding following the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund 20

29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Assistance: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international partners since the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund 2025 Annual Meetings on the alignment of development finan

28 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Further Education: Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his letter to the joint chief executives of Skills England entitled Skills England priorities for 2025 to 2026, dated 27 October 2025, what estimate he has made of the number of learne

27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Buckinghamshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with (i) Buckinghamshire Council and (ii) the Environment Agency regarding the implementation of the proposed common-sense approach to environmental regula

27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Housing: Buckinghamshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what monitoring arrangements will her Department put in place to ensure that environmental protections in Buckinghamshire are maintained following the introduction of the new permittin

Source: official written-questions record.