Written questions
1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
WRAP: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43345 on WRAP: Finance, if he will itemise the work programme for which WRAP received the grant in 2025-26.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Environment Agency staff worked on compliance with requirements for office workplace recycling in the most recent period for which data is available.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Glass: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility measures in relation to glass on the cost of a (a) bottled beer and (b) pint of beer in a pub.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Recycling: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Extended Producer Responsibility is a tax.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food: Insects
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research his Department has commissioned on the potential role of insect protein in (a) animal and (b) human diets in the last ten years.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his Department's policy is on the personal use of IT equipment to access the internet through (a) desktops and (b) wifi by (i) staff and (ii) Ministers.
3 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's policy is on the personal use of IT equipment to access the internet through (a) desktops and (b) wifi by (i) staff and (ii) Ministers.
3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in mental health hospitals.
3 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport
Transport: Isle of Wight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which third party companies based on the Isle of Wight her Department has awarded funding to in the last three years; and which projects they have supported.
30 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Artemis Technologies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding applications her Department has received from Artemis Technologies in each of the last three years; and which of those projects (a) have not been supported and (b) are being considered by her Depar
30 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Artemis Technologies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department has awarded to Artemis Technologies in each of the past three years, broken down by project supported.
30 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress her Department has made on the long-term housing strategy.
30 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to enable social landlords to gain access to building safety remediation funding.
22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Import Controls: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the agreement between the EU and UK to create a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement of 19 May 2025, whether agri-food tech exports would be required to meet (a) UK a
22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that UK Deposit Management Organisation Ltd includes representation from (a) small businesses and (b) the wider beverage industry.
22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Plastics and Metals: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review the inclusion of (a) plastic containers and (b) metal cans in the extended producer responsibility scheme following the rollout of the deposit return scheme
22 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Glass: Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to include glass in the deposit return scheme from 2027.
21 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the (a) Extended Producer Responsibility and (b) Deposit Return Scheme thresholds for beverage manufacturers are applied (i) per-brand and (ii) according to the size of the par
21 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Packaging: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to review extended producer responsibility fees.
20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Beverage Containers: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce a requirement for tethered caps on drinks before 2029.
20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Beverage Containers: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a UK-based beverage manufacturer can accept returns of all recyclable product packaging to offset their Extended Producer Responsibility levy.
20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Beverage Containers: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether beverage industry manufacturers will be required to pay the Extended Producer Responsibility levy if they sell their products in the on-trade market with proof from the vendor
16 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gender Dysphoria: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to remove the minimum age of referral to specialist gender identity clinics.
12 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Protected Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ban bottom trawling within more English Marine Protected Areas.
12 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Highly Protected Marine Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to increase the number of highly protected marine areas in English waters.
8 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Autism and Learning Disability: Community Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve community support to help tackle the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in inpatient units.
30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 42145 Community Health Services: Medical Equipment, what data his Department holds on the number of contracts agreed between local NHS proc
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS is for cross solent travel for (a) patients, (b) ambulance transport and (c) staff annually.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Postgraduate Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's postgraduate training review will consider the level of access to training opportunities available to international medical graduates.
29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the revised Long-Term Workforce Plan will include a detailed plan for (a) meeting demand for training and (b) resolving competition ratios in the NHS.
Source: official written-questions record.