Written questions
438 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to increase the amount of funding available to support (a) rewilding and (b) natural process-led grazing at landscape scale along (i) river and (ii) the river Wye
17 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rivers: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support restoring (a) natural processes to river corridors within river catchments and (b) (i) native vegetation, (ii) floodplain connectivity an
12 Jun 2025 · Treasury
Housing: Infrastructure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to reclassify housing as essential infrastructure.
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to what energy standards homes under the Affordable Homes Programme will be built.
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, if she will publish a target for social rent housing for (a) each year and (b) the 10 year period of fundin
11 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, how much and what proportion of the funding for the Affordable Homes Programme will be used for social rent
10 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Poultry: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of insurance requirements for companies operating intensive poultry units, in the context of (a) avian influenza and (b) other disease outbr
9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme: North Herefordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in North Herefordshire constituency on 9 June 2025.
9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
School Meals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to monitor compliance with the updated school food standards; and what support she plans to provide to schools that are not currently meeting those standards.
5 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Funeral Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants who were (a) responsible for funeral costs and (b) in receipt of a qualifying benefit were denied a Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment because of the family tests in the eligibilit
2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Environmental Statements under section 20(2)(a) and (3) of the Environment Act 2021, what the evidential basis is for the conclusion that the Planning and I
2 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pickering Fishery Association
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to implement the judgement in Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs v Pickering Fishery Association [2025] EWCA Civ 378.
2 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Land: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system for regulating the land market along the lines of the French Société d’Aménagement Foncier et d’Etabli
2 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Appointments
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2025 to Question 12807 on Public Appointments, what recent progress he has made on publishing an updated list of significant public appointments.
21 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rights of Way: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase the level of funding for local authorities to ensure the maintenance of public rights of way.
20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Forests: Commodities
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that forest risk commodities implementing legislation supports the UK's commitments under the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade
20 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Deep Sea Mining
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the US President's Executive Order entitled Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and
20 May 2025 · Treasury
Taxation: Overpayments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many enquiries have hon. Members made to HMRC on errors that led to constituents being overcharged tax in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those enquiries resulted in HMRC repaying overcharged
15 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan) in response to the question from t
13 May 2025 · Treasury
Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the potential revenue that could be raised through (a) equalising capital gains tax with income tax rates and (b) applying a 2 per cent tax for people with assets over £10 million, to
13 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Forests: Commodities
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing Schedule 17 of the Environment Act before COP 30 in November 2025.
13 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing Schedule 17 of the Environment Act before COP 30 in November 2025.
12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 49218 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, whether her Department plans to (a) make an assessment of the potential merits of exploring more
6 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his Department's press release entitled Government to end badger cull with new TB eradication strategy, published on 30 August 2024, what progress he has made on the TB era
6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Development: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44831 on Property Development: Recreation Spaces, whether she plans to limit the number of open public spaces in new housing d
6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Development: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 44831 on Property Development: Recreation Spaces, if she will collect comprehensive information on the number of open public s
6 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Property Development: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2024 to Question 44831 on Property Development: Recreation Spaces, for what reason the Government does not hold that information.
6 May 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the energy used to run artificial intelligence technologies on the UK's net-zero emissions targets.
2 May 2025 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing the Holiday Activities and Food programme on a permanent basis.
2 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pain: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 34127 on Pain: Women, whether the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is undertaking any research into (a) patient and (b) hea
Source: official written-questions record.