Written questions
344 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Crimes of Violence: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers in frontline roles are assigned to violent crime prevention units.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Crimes of Violence: Gangs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of violent crime that is linked to gang activity.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the causes of recent trends in serious violent crime.
22 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of recorded violent crimes resulted in a (a) charge and (b) summons in the last 12 months.
22 Jul 2025 · Attorney General
Attorney General's Office: Remote Working
To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of (a) hybrid and (b) remote working in the Law Officers' Departments on costs to those Departments.
22 Jul 2025 · Attorney General
Attorney General's Office: Remote Working
To ask the Solicitor General, what methods her Department uses to assess the productivity of staff in the Law Officers' Departments when working from home; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of remote working on levels of departmenta
22 Jul 2025 · Attorney General
Attorney General's Office: Remote Working
To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of remote working in the Law Officers’ Department on (a) confidentiality, (b) secure communications and (c) data protection.
22 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Business: Closures
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many businesses have ceased trading since 4 July 2024; and what proportion of these closures were in the (a) hospitality, (b) retail and (c) construction sectors.
22 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have become unemployed in each region of the United Kingdom since 4 July 2024.
21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the proportion of Single Justice Procedure cases where the defendant did not respond to the notice and was convicted in absence.
21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Single Justice Procedure notices are (a) served effectively and (b) received by the intended recipient.
21 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Bail
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report entitled Pre-charge bail and released under investigation: Striking a balance, published on 8 December 2020, what recent discussions she has had with police forces on the
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of large-scale energy grid failure scenarios on the resilience of the UK’s (a) critical infrastructure, (b) public services and
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of dependence on imported energy on national security; and what steps he is taking to mitigate that impact.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to enhance the (a) physical and (b) cyber security of critical energy infrastructure sites that support national defence.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential vulnerability of the UK’s energy infrastructure to attack or sabotage by hostile states or their proxies.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) supermarkets and (b) food producers to mitigate the risk of shortages in key food staples.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to mandate the update the UK Food Security Report annually.
21 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the long-term resilience of food supply chains.
16 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport
Bus Services: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of bus service provision per capita in (a) Solihull Metropolitan Borough, (b) Warwickshire, (c) Worcestershire and (d) Birmingham City Council area
16 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Knives: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the (a) delivery and (b) effectiveness of knife crime prevention training provided by police forces in schools.
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that the training received by combat medical technicians who are not qualified paramedics is recognised by civilian health care employers
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Space Technology: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much additional funding his Department plans to provide for space technology within the remit of the National Armaments Director.
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Space
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 9 of section 7.5 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, published on 2 June 2025, what his planned timetable is for the Cabinet sub-Committee or equivalent Ministerial group to meet.
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of (a) Royal Navy, (b) British Army, and (c) RAF personnel are in frontline roles.
16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the proportion of maintenance downtime is for (a) tanks, (b) armoured fighting vehicles and (c) armed personnel carriers across the armed forces.
14 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Autonomous Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Departments is taking to assess the feasibility of retrofitting existing platforms for autonomous capability.
7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that armed forces GPs (a) maintain up-to-date skills in the delivery of emergency and urgent care and (b) have access to appropriate NHS (i) placements and (ii) train
7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Defence Medical Services: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that all Defence Medical Services medical officers undertaking Foundation Year (a) 1 and (b) 2 training within NHS hospitals receive (i) high-
4 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
National Space Council
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2025 to Question 50701 on National Space Council, if he will make it his policy to reconvene the National Space Council.
Source: official written-questions record.