Written questions

147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Bereavement Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals for statutory paid bereavement leave (a) for people grieving the loss of a loved one to suicide and (b) in general.

11 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that families bereaved by suicide have access to local, specialist postvention support.

11 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate funding for grassroots organisations delivering peer support to people bereaved by suicide.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to develop a cross-government strategy for the future of school-aged childcare funding after 2026.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Extended Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a (a) cross-industry and (b) cross-departmental taskforce to review long-term strategy for the wraparound childcare sector.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Extended Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of sustained funding for school-aged wraparound childcare.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Extended Services and Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to renew the (a) Wraparound Childcare Programme and (b) Holiday Activities and Food Programme in 2026.

11 Sep 2025 · Department for Education

Extended Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to produce a strategy on widening the availability of wraparound childcare.

21 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Mortgages: Change of Use

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure mortgage availability for people wishing to purchase residential properties that were converted from office space.

15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Signal Blocking Devices

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her department is taking to increase the use of phone blocking (a) techniques and (b) technologies in prisons.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Audit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the (a) accessibility and (b) affordability of audit requirements for small and mid-sized quoted companies.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

London Stock Exchange

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent companies de-listing in London.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of small and mid-sized quoted companies to the Government's growth mission.

19 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

British Business Bank

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a quoted portfolio in the British Business Bank.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to incentivise investment in small and mid-sized companies.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Economic Situation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to recognise the economic contributions of small and mid-sized quoted companies.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Investment: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to implement regulation that increases risk appetite among investors.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase liquidity for small and mid-sized companies.

19 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to increase public and investor confidence in small and mid-sized quoted companies listed in the UK.

17 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Heat Batteries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the consultation entitled Boiler Upgrade Scheme and certification requirements for clean heat schemes, published on 30 April 2025, whether her Department plans to update the list of Energy Saving M

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Batteries: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the potential role of heat batteries in homes that are unsuitable for a heat pump.

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Special Guardianship Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve coordination between public services and local authorities in cases involving safeguarding concerns for children under Special Guardianship Orders.

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Special Guardianship Orders: Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) implications for her policies of the (i) financial and (ii) housing pressures experienced by kinship carers and (b) impact of those pressures on the sustainabil

17 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Special Guardianship Orders: Kinship Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authority compliance with the requirement to provide support plans to kinship carers under Special Guardianship Orders.

11 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to support water, sanitation and hygiene programmes through Overseas Development Assistance.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Property Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the adequacy of his Department’s oversight of NHS Property Services.

2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Property Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) performance and (b) level of accountability of NHS Property Services.

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

Housing Associations: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support housing associations with increases in costs for (a) materials, (b) staffing and (c) regulatory compliance.

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

Housing Associations: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review the long-term financial sustainability of housing associations as part of the (a) Spending Review and (b) long-term housing strategy.

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Donors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing enforceable limits on the number of children conceived from a single gamete donor.

Source: official written-questions record.