Written questions

434 written questions tabled, most recent first.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Babies: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on the recommended frequency of infant head measurements.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Property Development: Biodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to ensure adequate funding for Natural England to protect biodiversity on new housing developments.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of the (a) fines and (b) other penalties levied on water companies will be used for projects to clean chalk streams.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Community Energy: North East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to support community energy initiatives in North East Hampshire constituency.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on animal sentience.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to implement the recommendations in the Chalk Stream Recovery Pack for the (a) Loddon, (b) Whitewater and (c) Lyde rivers in North East Hampshire constituency.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rivers: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the annual investment in partnership projects to improve chalk catchments will support the National Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Artificial Intelligence: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to (a) understand and (b) help tackle the threats posed by artificial intelligence to young people through social media platforms.

2 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction of face to face banking options for all customers who find digital and telephone banking difficult to access.

27 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Post Offices: Basingstoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to support the re-opening of Basingstoke Post Office.

23 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Spending Review 2025, published on 11 June 2025, whether she plans to allocate more funding to police forces to help them reduce the time taken to allocate police officers to inv

23 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on the adequacy of the time taken for police officers to be allocated to investigate reported crimes.

5 Jun 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of (a) coercive control. (b) financial abuse and (c) other forms of non physical domestic abuse.

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

Flats: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Building Safety Act on the (a) qualified and non-qualified status of flats, (b) the length of remedia

30 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to (a) implement the recommendations made by the Leveson Inquiry and (b) support victims of press misinformation.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Illnesses: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle medicine shortages in (a) North East Hampshire constituency and (b) other rural areas for (i) Parkinson's, (ii) epilepsy and (iii) other chronic c

22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: South East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) scans, (b) medical records and (c) treatment plans are transferred effectively between medical centres in (i) Hampshire and (ii) Surrey.

13 May 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Pakistan: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make his policy to direct bilateral Official Development Assistance spending in Pakistan towards marginalised groups.

13 May 2025 · Ministry of Defence

War Pensions: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for war pensions which were denied were subsequently overturned on appeal in each of the last three years.

12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to improve the Child Maintenance Service's complaints procedure.

12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the accuracy of the Child Maintenance Service system for assessing payments for (a) paying and (b) receiving parents.

12 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that paying parents do not conceal (a) earnings and (b) investments to evade child maintenance payments.

8 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress he has made on reducing the time taken to provide full compensation to people affected by the infected blood scandal; and what steps he is taking to ensure compensation is provided to victim

7 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Slaughterhouses: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) support small and medium abattoirs and (b) prevent closures.

7 May 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Dedicated Schools Grant funding formula.

7 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Instruction and Driving Tests: North East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) recruiting new driving instructors and (b) opening new test centres in North East Hampshire constituency.

7 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Guildford and Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of time taken for driving tests in (a) Farnborough, (b) Basingstoke and (c) Guildford; and what steps she is taking to help reduce the backlog of those tests.

30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Motor Neurone Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support patients with motor neurone disease.

29 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Bus Lanes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure consistency across local authorities over motorcycles using bus lanes.

22 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Bank Services: Fraud

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with banks on the time taken to pay full refunds to people who have been subject to phishing scams.

Source: official written-questions record.