Written questions

783 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Boarding Schools: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the need for a dedicated senior official to lead on (a) coordination of policy to support state boarding schools, (b) securing sustainable funding for state boarding p

4 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Boarding Schools: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of state boarding schools in supporting the education of children from Armed Forces families and other mobile families as an affordable alternative to indepe

4 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) ensure that medical device manufacturers can verify the General Medical Device Nomenclature categories and associated charges used to calculate their annual registrat

4 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s proposed annual registration fees for medical devices under the Device Online Regist

1 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Proscribed Organisations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of section 12(1A) and 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

27 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Age Addition

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department are taking to review the state pension addition for individuals aged 80 and over; and whether the Department plans to adjust that addition in line with inflation to ensure it p

27 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Personal Pensions: Insolvency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the standard corporate insolvency regime for ensuring the timely and cost-effective transfer of client Self-Invested Personal Pensions; and if she will comm

27 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Personal Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Financial Conduct Authority is taking to (a) enhance its oversight of Self-Invested Personal Pension operators and (b) review the capital adequacy requirements for those holding portfolios containing

25 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Vans: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring police forces to record thefts (a) from and (b) of light commercial vehicles as distinct crime categories to enable accurate nat

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to make changes to the (a) accreditation, (b) certification and (c) guarantee regime of (i) installers and (ii) retrofit coordinators working under (A) ECO4, (B) future Warm

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that homes which have received (a) insulation and (b) internal wall insulation under the ECO4 scheme are independently inspected any sub-standard

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring vision rehabilitation services under the same regulatory and monitoring framework as other adult social care services; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of do

20 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rehabilitation: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to develop national guidelines and quality standards for vision rehabilitation services; and if he will commission the National Institute for Health and Care Exc

20 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Inheritance Tax: Probate

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the current six-month deadline for the payment of Inheritance Tax in cases of administrative delays in the granting of probate.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport

London Airports: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the cumulative impact of multiple concurrent airport expansions at Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow.

18 Nov 2025 · Treasury

Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy of the time taken by HMRC to process inheritance tax queries and (b) potential impact of the time taken on the ability of executors to settle estates without incurrin

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on working with expert stakeholders to review the impact of four-weekly employer pay cycles on Universal Credit payments.

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Artificial Intelligence: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the Curriculum Review to provide algorithm literacy and AI education to help children understand that AI systems can have inaccurate outputs; and what

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that safety-by-design principles are integrated into AI systems from inception rather than as retrospective additions especially given the

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to establish standardised testing frameworks for identifying bias in AI datasets; and whether she will consider introducing requirements for the qual

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the benefits of (a) a duty of candour requiring AI developers and deployers to publicly disclose when biases are discovered in their algorithm

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what transparency conditions are currently required when government departments procure AI systems from private companies; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure public sector bodie

18 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Internet: Misleading Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help tackle misleading advertising online.

17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of restrictions on television and online advertising of products high in fat, salt and sugar on levels of marketing through out

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions her department has had with a) telecoms companies b) consumer groups on unspecified discretionary price rises in consumer telecoms contracts.

17 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of unspecified price increases in fixed-term telecoms contract on consumers; and whether her Department has had discussio

17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support clinical trials for multi-compound cannabis-based medicinal products for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy in children.

17 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Cannabis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to transfer oversight of cannabis-based medicinal products to the Department of Health and Social Care.

17 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children with drug-resistant epilepsy have been prescribed cannabis-based medicinal products through private prescriptions in each of the last three years; and what assessment his Departme

11 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Neurodiversity: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce national waiting-time standards for ADHD and autism assessments for under-18s; and what progress NHS England has made in improving the (a) collection and (b) publicat

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