Written questions
385 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish waiting times for ADHD assessment by region; and what steps he is taking to help Integrated Care Boards with the longest waits reduce those waiting times.
12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in waiting times for ADHD assessments in (a) children and (b) adults in the last five years; and what steps he is taking to reduce these delays.
12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pancreatic Cancer: Orphan Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Orphan Drug Regulations in stimulating innovation in treatments for pancreatic cancer.
12 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the higher education admissions system takes into account the frequent relocations of military service children.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Public Libraries: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that every child has access to a library in areas of high disadvantage.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pets: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to require platform providers to collect proof of (a) qualifications, (b) insurance and (c) local authority licenses from people offering pet (i) boar
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Grooming: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of trends in the level of compliance among individuals offering pet services via online platforms with the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Ac
11 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Public Sector Debt: Inflation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential cost to the public purse of not insuring Government debt repayments against inflation.
11 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department holds data on the tax gap disaggregated by (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency.
11 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the tax gap.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Home Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the update was of the Warm Home Discount Scheme in 2024 in each region.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure prompt payment of the Winter Fuel Payment for pensioners in Wiltshire.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Wiltshire will receive the Winter Fuel Payment under the new income threshold.
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Wiltshire were eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in winter 2024-25 but did not receive it.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish the findings of the 2025 Dentistry Cost Survey.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to give dental (a) hygienists and (b) therapists NHS performer numbers in workforce (i) retention and (ii) access strategies.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the implementation plan for the upcoming 10-year health plan will include steps to reform NHS dental contracts.
11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Radiology: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of levels of (a) recruitment and (b) retention of radiologists within the NHS.
9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the minimum unit of dental activity value to £35; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on in
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Supply: South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of long-term water supply resilience in (a) the South West of England and (b) Wiltshire.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to support pig farmers in transitioning away from farrowing crates to free-farrowing systems.
9 Jun 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 launch a public consultation on the future use of farrowing crates in the UK.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of sows in the UK kept in farrowing crates in each of the last five years.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average time taken is between suspected incidents of animal cruelty and the receipt of those reports by the Animal and Plant Health Agency in the last 12 months.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal and Plant Health Agency: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure timely reporting of suspected animal cruelty incidents to the Animal and Plant Health Agency; and whether guidance is issued to (a) indust
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications have been received under the 2025 round of animal health and welfare grants; and what proportion of these applications have been approved in Wiltshire.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the regional distribution of ineligible applicants for teacher training bursaries based on degree classification; and how many ineligible applicants there were i
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the completion of a Subject Knowledge Enhancement course is considered as part of the eligibility criteria for postgraduate teacher training bursaries.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of using degree classification as an eligibility criterion for teacher training bursaries in shortage subjects.
5 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Radiology: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the (a) physical and (b) workforce capacity of radiology departments for (i) CT and (ii) MRI scanners.
Source: official written-questions record.