Written questions

356 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) working-age, (b) 18-24 year olds and (c) all Personal Independence Payment recipients that are in work scored less than four points in all daily living activities by

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) working-age, (b) 18 to 24 year old and (c) all Personal Independence Payment recipients are in work by (i) local authority, (ii) parliamentary constituency and (iii)

11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what sensitivity NHS BMI assessments allow for persons of mixed (a) South Asian and (b) non-South Asian heritage.

11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Boards: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints have been made in the last five years to (a) Birmingham and Solihull ICB, (b) all ICBs and (c) NHS England that allege (i) failure to make reasonable adjustments and (ii) disabi

11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Sector: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism for improving compliance with the Equality Act at CQC registered practice

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Kings Norton Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 5.83 of the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, CP 1336, whether Kings Norton station will be upgraded as part of the next stage of Midlands Rail Hub West.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 5.83 of the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, how much funding has been allocated to progress the next stage of Midlands Rail Hub West.

11 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Orchestras: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average processing time was for claims for Orchestra Tax Relief in each of the last five years.

10 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dyspraxia

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to raise public awareness of dyspraxia.

10 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to progress Sustainable Development Goal 4.

10 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is able to produce statistics on PIP recipients broken down by (a) Output Areas and (b) lower layer Super Output Areas.

9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Pension Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities are able to prevent new employees from joining the Local Government Pension Scheme.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Over half a million more children to get free school meals, published on 4 June 2025, if she will make an estimate of how many additional children will

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Disability: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce the barriers for disabled people accessing cultural events.

20 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Personal Independence Payment recipients are in work in (a) Birmingham Northfield constituency, (b) Birmingham local authority area and (c) the West Midlands.

13 May 2025 · Department for Education

George Dixon Primary School

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her spokesperson's comments in the Birmingham Mail article entitled The reason staff at a Birmingham school decided a last resort strike, published on 7 March 2025, whether she plans to make a

13 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2025 to Question 50727 on Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority: Standards, what proportion of the respondents to that paper survey selected (a) very good, (b) good, (c) averag

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Information Sharing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce barriers to the sharing of medical records between NHS trusts in cases when those trusts are treating the same patients.

12 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Birmingham City Council: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 07 April 2025 to Question 43306 on Birmingham City Council: Finance, when the transparency publication referred to in that Answer will next be updated.

12 May 2025 · Department for Transport

High Speed Two

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to item 5.4.4 of the minutes of HS2 Limited's Board meeting of 25 September 2024, what the (a) membership and (b) remit is of the Tripartite Cooperation Board.

12 May 2025 · Department for Transport

HS2 Ministerial Task Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Ministers have been members of the HS2 Ministerial Taskforce since its creation; and on which dates each Minister (a) joined and (b) left the taskforce.

12 May 2025 · Department for Transport

HS2 Ministerial Task Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what dates the HS2 ministerial taskforce has met since 25 October 2022.

12 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) process and (b) timetable will be for recruiting a new Chief Executive of Network Rail.

8 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Government Departments: Documents

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of National Archives documents misplaced while on loan to Departments.

8 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to item 24/132 of Network Rail's Board minutes of 05 December 2024, what the proposed (a) resourcing and (b) functions were of the Shadow Great British Railways Delivery Unit; and for what reason

8 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Train Operators' Revenue Protection Practices Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press notice entitled Transport Secretary launches review of train company revenue protection practices, published on 13 November 2024, what progress the Office of Rail and Ro

7 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Table 9, on page 19 of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority's Annual Report and Accounts, published on 24 July 2024, what the wording of the question that measured overall satisfaction w

1 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Community Wealth Funds

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress her Department has made on the establishment of the community wealth fund.

30 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Life Sciences: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the (a) total and (b) per capita public expenditure on life sciences was in each of the last five years by region.

29 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Enterprise Zones

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the process is for amending an enterprise zone's boundaries.

Source: official written-questions record.