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.