Written questions

231 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Brighton Main Line: Dorking and Horley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme on delays and disruption on the Brighton Main Line for passengers using stations in Dorking and Horley cons

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Airports: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment her Department has made of forecourt drop off and pick up charging practices at major international airports, including in the United States and Europe.

2 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Airports: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of increases in business rates at major UK airports on passenger drop off charges.

2 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Airports: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce (a) guidance and (b) regulation to (i) cap and (ii) limit airport forecourt drop off and pick up charges.

18 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Surrey

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the introduction of Tap-In/Tap out on rail users at Surrey stations.

16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will set out the budget to local authorities so they can distribute funding for local Healthwatch services in the 2026/27 financial year.

15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Measure What Matters' report entitled National Testimony Collection, published on 16 October 2025, what steps her Department is taking to address failures by local authorities to comply with g

15 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Capital Investment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for the 10-year health plan of the findings of the report by NHS Providers entitled Investing in the NHS: empowering the sector to drive pr

12 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the lower age limit for adult peak-time rail fares on the families of students who turn 18 during the academic year while remaining in full-tim

12 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the Model Neighbourhood Framework to be published.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to speed up the planning and appeals process in local authorities.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mandating the maximum allowed period of time between a Gypsy Traveller Accommodation Assessment by a local authority.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Travellers: Caravan Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to sections 103 and 104 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a (a) duty to meet assessed needs and (b)

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered increasing funding for planning enforcement.

11 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered making planning enforcement a statutory obligation.

10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of issuing guidance to local authorities to ensure mobile network operators are notified in advance of large-scale residential

10 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of updating the National Planning Policy Framework to include guidance on the importance of telecommunications infrastructur

9 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Horley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Croydon Magistrates' Court's 8 December sentencing of a resident of the Four Points Hotel in Horley, what steps she is taking to end the use of the Four Points Hotel to house asylum

9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many a) neurologists, b) geriatricians and c) nurses in the NHS have specialist training in Parkinson's.

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

IVF: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to support paid leave for fertility appointments.

3 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sri Lanka: Storms

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help rescue Melanie Watters and Janine Reid in Sri Lanka following Cyclone Ditwah.

2 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Offences against Children: Inquiries

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on the national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.

28 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Palestine: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what’s steps her Department is taking to support Palestinian human rights organisations.

18 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Surrey County Council: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for all appeals involving Surrey County Council the number of cases in which the Tribunal issued a) a notice proposing that the local authority be barred from further participation and b) a barring order preventi

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make assessment of the potential impact of companies denying employees (a) continuous service pay rises and (b) other accumulated benefits after being transferred from rolling fixed-term con

12 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Prescription Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce the potential impact of (a) Pharmacy First and (b) pricing of NHS drug tariffs on community pharmacies.

5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to (a) Section 51(2) of the Children and Families Act 2014 and (b) the powers of the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) to issue binding orders following appeal hearings

5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: First-tier Tribunal

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) monitoring and (b) reporting arrangements his Department has put in place to ensure that repeated non-compliance by local authorities in the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)

5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: First-tier Tribunal

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any barring orders have been made by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal under Rule 8 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 20

5 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice

First-tier Tribunal: Rules of Procedure

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many notices of intention under Rule 7(3) have been issued by the First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) by local authority in each of the last three year.

Source: official written-questions record.