Written questions

64 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in how many instances his Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.

9 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in how many instances his Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.

9 Jul 2026 · Treasury

Treasury: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many instances her Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.

9 Jul 2026 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, in how many instances his Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Accountancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many meetings his Department held with the Federation of Small Businesses that related to the changes to accounts for small companies and micro-entities between January and June 2026.

9 Jul 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Accountancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which stakeholders his Department consulted on changes to accounts for small companies and micro-entities.

9 Jul 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to establish a central online register for conflicts of interest across government.

9 Jul 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Conflict of Interests

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to implement the recommendations of the NAO’s 2024 report on conflict of interest management in government.

30 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support veterans in South Dorset constituency.

17 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is the total number of unique individuals registered as Persons of Significant Control on Companies House.

10 Jun 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tax Evasion

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take steps to include tackling international tax abuse in the Illicit Finance Summit.

8 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Companies: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many individual Persons of Significant Control are registered on Companies House.

2 Jun 2026 · Treasury

Business: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many large business tax disputes have been submitted to international arbitration in the last 5 years.

21 May 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to assess the impact of benefit overpayments on the public purse.

15 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of conducting a public consultation and review of whistleblowing law as part of the measures announced in the UK anti-corruption strategy 2025.

14 Apr 2026 · Home Office

Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences will be completed and published.

26 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: South Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of GP services in South Dorset constituency.

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farmers received payments under the Sustainable Farming Incentive for buffer strip actions in the previous scheme year.

11 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts.

4 Mar 2026 · Treasury

Taxation: Advisory Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure the accuracy of information provided by tax advisers.

5 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Weymouth Station: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve Weymouth train station.

4 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: South Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help support offshore wind supply chains in South Dorset constituency.

26 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Labour Turnover

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to please provide staff turnover figures for the Wealthy Team in HMRC for each financial year 2017/18 to 2024/25.

26 Jan 2026 · Attorney General

Serious Fraud Office: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Solicitor General, whether the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has any formal policies or guidance aimed at preventing potential retaliation against whistleblowers who report wrongdoing to the SFO; and whether consideration has been given to develop

23 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Recruitment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC plans to take to increase the recruitment of compliance and debt management staff.

23 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Revenue and Customs: Recruitment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional HMRC debt management staff she plans to recruit in each of the next five years.

23 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Wealth: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total compliance yield generated by HMRC’s Wealthy Team was in each financial year between 2017-18 and 2024-25.

23 Jan 2026 · Treasury

Wealth: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of the wealthy tax gap HMRC attributes to (a) Capital Gains Tax and (b) Inheritance Tax for each financial year from 2017-18 to 2024-25.

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Stone: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of low-cost imported stone on the competitiveness of UK natural stone producers; and what steps he is taking to help support the na

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to expand the Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025 to apply to all recreational water users.

Source: official written-questions record.