Written questions

385 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, published on 23 June 2025, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that investment in advanced manufacturing is allocated to rural communitie

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor progress on the delivery plan for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) UK Research and Innovation and (b) National Institute for Health and Care Research funding for biomedical research into (i) myalgic encepha

24 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the delivery plan for ME/CFS will include a strategic framework to support research into treatment development.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding has been allocated to GP practices in Wiltshire in each of the last three years; and how many bids for premises improvement funding were (a) submitted and (b) approved.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of GP premises in Wiltshire; and what recent estimate he has made of the number of practices operating in buildings considered unfit for purp

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of GP practices operating in premises not fit for purpose; and what steps his Department is taking to increase funding to address this issue.

23 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of GP funding relative to the proportion of NHS patient contact delivered in primary care.

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Consumers: Bereavement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to conduct a cross-sector review of business practices in supporting recently bereaved customers.

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

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to monitor compliance with consumer protection legislation by private parking companies.

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

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on the operation of private parking management and appeals systems.

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

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to establish a regulator for private parking operators.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Supermarkets: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that fair dealing improvements under Grocery Supply Code of Practice are extended to upstream suppliers who are not covered by the Code.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator: Groceries Code Adjudicator

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of consolidating the functions of the Grocery Code Adjudicator and the Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator to create a unified regulator with

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Droughts: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to allocate additional resources to help rural and farming communities adapt to increased drought risk.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support farmers in Wiltshire to (a) retain soil moisture and (b) protect (i) crops and (ii) livestock from high temperatures.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of extreme heat and drought on harvest forecasts for summer 2025.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) school and (b) college funding per pupil in Wiltshire in 2024–25.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase (a) school and (b) college funding per pupil above the rate of inflation in each financial year until 2029.

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent data her Department holds on the prevalence of intimate partner violence among young people aged 16 to 19.

19 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the incidence of domestic abuse among 16 to 19 year-olds.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to make Relationship and Sex Education mandatory in post-16 education settings.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of provision of Relationship and Sex Education for young people aged 16 to19 in post-16 education settings.

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

Perinatal Mortality: Burial

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department holds data on how many local authorities have complete and accessible records of historic stillbirth burials.

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

Perinatal Mortality: Cemeteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support his Department is providing to local authorities and families wishing to install memorials or markers on sites of historic communal graves of stillborn babies.

17 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise public awareness of cholangiocarcinoma (a) symptoms and (b) risk factors.

17 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research funding has been allocated to cholangiocarcinoma through (a) UK Research and Innovation and (b) the National Institute for Health and Care Research in the last five years.

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Floods: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of flooding incidents reported in Wiltshire (a) since 2020 and (b) each of the previous five-year periods.

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the £2.65 billion allocated under the Government’s flood defence investment programme is being directed to flood mitigation schemes in Wiltshire.

17 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Cryptocurrencies: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cryptocurrency-related suspicious activity reports were filed with the National Crime Agency in each of the last three years.

Source: official written-questions record.