Written questions

356 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Multiple Sclerosis: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department, (b) his Department's agencies and (c) his Department's advisory bodies have made comparative assessments of the efficacy of (i) natalizumab Tysabri and (ii) natalizumab

25 Apr 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 24 April 2025 to Question 46451 on Birmingham City Council: Finance, what the estimated cost of providing central support to that intervention was in (a

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

Birmingham City Council: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 46451 on Birmingham City Council: Finance, whether her Department has made an inexact estimate of the cost of providing centra

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2024 to Question 45320 on Employment: Disability, how many complaints have been made against employers in each year for which figures are available.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

School Support Staff Negotiating Body: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her timetable is for appointing a new Chair of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of remodelling Manchester Oxford Road railway station on rail capacity.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

South Western Railway: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the additional time taken to introduce the South Western Railway Arterio rolling stock fleet.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Steel Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has for the future composition of the Steel Council.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April to Question 40395 on Further Education: Special Educational Needs, whether any ringfenced capital grants have been made to the SEND-specialist further education sector in the

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Jingye Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference of the oral contribution by the Rt hon. Member for North West Essex of 12 April 2025, Official Report, column 846, what estimate his Department made of the potential impact of the propos

17 Apr 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 7 April 2025 to Question 43306 on Birmingham City Council: Finance, whether Birmingham City Council has reimbursed her Department for any costs associat

17 Apr 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 7 April 2025 to Question 43306, on Birmingham City Council: Finance, how many officials in her Department provide support to that intervention on a (a)

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employers have had Disability Confident status rescinded in each of the last five years.

3 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Railways: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42342 on Railways: Public Expenditure, if her Department will make the calculations for each of the last five years for which figures are available.

3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Charcot Marie Tooth Disease: Cannabis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of prescribing medical cannabis to treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome.

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

Birmingham City Council: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of her Department's intervention at Birmingham City Council since October 2023.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made on the appointment of a new Chair of Network Rail.

28 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Railways: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to table 10.10 of her Department's publication entitled Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2024, published on 30 July 2024, if she will publish a version of the regional breakdown of per capita r

28 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report entitled Impact of Changes to the Ukraine Visa Schemes on Ukrainians in the UK, published by the University

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

West Coast Main Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity on the West Coast Main Line north of Birmingham.

26 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Dual Jobholding and Overtime: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports of NHS staff being taxed as a second job for working overtime.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to make Animal Health and Welfare Pathway grants available to pig farmers to install free farrowing systems.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a public consultation this year that would enable the Government to provide the best support to farmers to end the use of pig farrowing crates.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in state-funded schools were educated in special schools in each year from 2010-11.

21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support the SEND-specialist Further Education sector; and what central capital grants have been provided to that sector during the last ten years.

17 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Colombia: Trade Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Colombia on the potential renewal of the UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty.

14 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Transport Focus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Transport Focus last published minutes of meetings of its Board.

13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the 2025-26 NHS Payment Scheme consultation.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Railways: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Office of Rail and Road's letter to Network Rail of 11 February 2025, entitled Management of structures – structures examination and assessment noncompliance, what recent assessment she ha

6 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to develop weightings for trade union (a) access and (b) recognition when (i) awarding public contracts and (ii) determining strategic suppliers.

Source: official written-questions record.