Written questions
974 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
New Businesses: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the support delivered to underrepresented entrepreneurs through the £500 million investment programme.
11 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
New Businesses: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure the fair regional distribution of funding from the £500 million support package for underrepresented entrepreneurs.
10 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Knives: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with community groups on the knife crime amnesty initiative in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Flood and coastal erosion risk management: an investment plan for 2021 to 2027, published on 29 July 2021, what estimate his De
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the Environment Agency on the prioritisation of flood resilience measures under the national investment programme in Buckingham and Bletchl
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Literacy: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is planning to take to monitor training uptake among early years staff for delivery of the revised phonics-based framework.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Literacy: Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with early years providers on the implementation of the new phonics-inspired framework.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that schemes funded through the flood investment programme are resilient to climate change risk scenarios.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to review the impact of the increased water regulation budget on water company compliance by the end of the regulatory period.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ofwat: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with Ofwat on the use of its increased budget to help improve enforcement activity.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ofwat: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the water regulation budget on Ofwat’s regulatory capacity.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to monitor the timeline of the implementation of private sector investment projects arising from the UK–Japan business summit.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Investment: Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of potential impact of the private sector investment announced at the UK–Japan business summit on businesses in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farmers: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to help support tenant farmers to access the capital grants scheme.
9 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Business: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK's implementation of Pillar Two (a) remains compatible with the future side-by-side system agreed by G7 partners and (b) avoids creating additional compliance
9 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Multinational Companies: Taxation and Trade Competitiveness
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the G7 side-by-side approach on the (a) effective tax rate and (b) competitiveness of UK-headed multinationals.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Investment: Taiwan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) semiconductors, (b) offshore wind and (c) digital infrastructure in further bilateral investment co-operation unde
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Investment: Taiwan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to publish a roadmap for the implementation of the commitments made under the investment pillar of the UK–Taiwan Enhanced Trade Partnership.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Small Businesses: Taiwan
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department will take to encourage (a) awareness and (b) take-up of UK Export Finance products by SMEs planning to trade with Taiwan.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Life Sciences: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department plans to develop to help support life sciences SMEs to prepare evidence dossiers that will be compatible with Innovator Passport standards to enable rapid access to NHS
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Nuclear Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the press release by EDF entitled EDF announces the principle of investment in Sizewell C project with a view to the final investment decision, published on 8 July 2025, wha
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Sizewell C Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of EDF increasing its equity stake in Sizewell?C to on the adequacy of the project's (a) commercial financing model and (b) ris
9 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Carbon Emissions: International Cooperation
To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the discussions on transition credits at the 10th UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue with Strengthened Collaboration in Digital Finance & Innovation a
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Equipment: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to evaluate the potential impact of the Innovator Passport scheme on the average time taken for new health technologies to reach routine NHS use.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Equipment: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has established (a) regulatory oversight and (b) quality assurance processes to ensure that innovations distributed under the Innovator Passport meet (i) safety and (ii) effe
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Trusts: Innovation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for ensuring that all NHS Trusts are digitally interoperable with MedTech Compass, in the context of the operation of the Innovator Passport scheme.
25 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Financial Services: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the discussions on non-bank financial intermediation during the UK–US Financial Regulatory Working Group discussions, in June 2025, on UK financial
25 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Digital Assets: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has established any formal mechanisms with her US counterpart on regulatory coordination for digital asset supervision following the meeting of the UK–US Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting in Jun
25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cervical Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has set specific targets for the number of (a) self-sampling cervical screening tests distributed and (b) samples received from self-sampling cervical screening tests among d
25 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cervical Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of self-sampling on levels of uptake for cervical screening among (a) socioeconomic and (b) ethnic groups.
Source: official written-questions record.