Written questions
314 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to concentrate the responsibility for tackling illegal meat imports into fewer bodies.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to produce a digital tool for travellers to identify what they can bring into Great Britain.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has considered compelling airports to display information communicating (a) the emergency ban on personal imports and (b) biosecurity threats from illegal import
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to establish a permanent personal import policy for goods entering Great Britain from the EU.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU on (a) biosecurity arrangements and (b) the illegal importation of food products.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: Publicity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department has provided for (a) biosecurity and (b) food importation public awareness campaigns in each of the last 10 calendar years.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Origin Marking
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the sale of foreign meat labelled as being of British origin.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to tackle illegal meat imports through passenger routes.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to establish a taskforce for illegal imports of products of animal origin.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help increase rates of prosecution for smuggling meat into Great Britain.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Meat: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to estimate the amount of illegal meat that enters Great Britain.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bluetongue Disease: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the cost of bluetongue vaccinations for farmers.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bluetongue Disease: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase the uptake of bluetongue vaccinations.
15 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport
Roads: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking through the Road Safety Strategy to reduce fatalities on rural roads.
15 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Skilled Workers visa route on recruitment in (a) the biological sciences research sector, (b) universitie
15 Sep 2025 · Treasury
Life Sciences: Research
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Treasury is taking to support the biological sciences research sector through the 10 Year UK Infrastructure strategy, published in June 2025.
15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Avian Influenza: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the readiness of (a) her Department and (b) the Animal and Plant Health Agency for any potential increase in the number of Avian Influenza cases in the
15 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Cultural Heritage: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the financial cost of heritage crime in each of the last 10 years.
15 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office
Political Parties: Taxation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she has considered taking legislative steps to ensure that leaders of UK political parties publish their tax returns.
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Mandatory Provident Fund: British National (Overseas)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of holding an inquiry with HSBC and Standard Chartered on the withholding of the Mandatory Provident Fund from Hong Kong BNO
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British National (Overseas): Mandatory Provident Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help secure the release of Mandatory Provident Fund saving being withheld from Hong Kong BNO visa holders.
15 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hong Kong: Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the Hong Kong BNO immigration pathway on diplomatic relations with (a) China, (b) NATO allies and (c) Ukrai
15 Sep 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries: Anti-social Behaviour
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle antisocial behaviour in libraries.
15 Sep 2025 · Department for Education
Young People: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of young people classed as NEET in South Norfolk constituency.
2 Sep 2025 · Home Office
UK Border Force: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force staff have been allocated to fast parcels in each of the last 10 financial years.
2 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has considered increasing funding for the Capital Grants scheme, in the context of levels of demand.
2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Norfolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps her Department has taken to help reduce levels of reoffending in (a) South Norfolk constituency and (b) Norfolk.
2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Criminals to face football, travel, club and pub bans, published on 23 August 2025, what impact her Department estimates these measures will have on (a) r
2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Young Offender Institutions: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on (a) children and (b) staff have occurred in Young Offenders Institutions in each of the last 10 years.
2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much staff time, in hours, was lost to sick leave in (a) the open estate, (b) the secure estate and (c) Young Offenders Institutions in each of the last 10 years.
Source: official written-questions record.