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.