Written questions
1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support community equipment providers in managing rising operational costs while ensuring continued service provision.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recent National Living Wage increase and National Insurance Contributions rise on the financial viability of community equipme
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity Generation: Gas Fired Power Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment on energy payments to gas fired electricity generators during the winter period December 2024 to February 2025.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture and Environment Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department validates estimates of compliance costs provided by regulated industries.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture and Environment Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department includes indirect business losses when estimating compliance costs.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture and Environment Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how his Department quantifies compliance costs for new regulations.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department maintains accurate records of compliance costs for agricultural regulations.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department maintains records of compliance costs for agricultural regulations.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Protection: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to conduct a review of environmental compliance obligations.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce compliance costs for agricultural subsidies.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fisheries: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to (a) monitor and (b) reduce compliance costs for fisheries regulations.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department uses to assess the value for money of the Motability scheme's investments in electric vehicles.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department funds electric vehicles through the Motability scheme.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to extend universal free school meals to children in (a) Isle of Wight East constituency and (b) other areas of high child poverty.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to provide longer-term support for local services via the Household Support Fund.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to amend local housing allowance rates to reflect actual rental market costs (a) on the Isle of Wight and (b) in other areas.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Postgraduate Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of postgraduate medical training will be carried out in full.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of temporary care environments in patient care.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients treated in temporary care environments.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ensure that the proposed higher business rates multiplier for properties with a rateable value of £500,000 or more is index-linked.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Inflation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) the Autumn Budget 2024 and (b) Extended Producer Responsibility on inflation in 2025.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of shops with increased business rates under proposed reforms to that system.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Retail Trade: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed higher business rates multiplier on larger stores.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data his Department collects on the outcomes of performance management procedures.
24 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Service: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how frequently performance management statistics are (a) reviewed and (b) reported in the civil service.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total expenditure on electric vehicles through the Motability scheme was in the most recent year for which data is available.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will conduct a value for money assessment of the funding provided as part of the Motability Scheme.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to (a) review and (b) adjust the national funding formula to reflect additional (i) staffing, (ii) maintenance, (iii) transport and (iv) other costs for small rural schools.
24 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) other support her Department provides to local authorities to help maintain small rural schools.
21 Mar 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the closure of small village schools on the sustainability of rural communities.
Source: official written-questions record.