Written questions
351 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit: Landlords
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the verification of the accuracy of service costs covered by both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit when paid directly to a landlord.
11 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Service Charges: Overcharging
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the SHAC 2025 review of First Tier Tribunal decisions which identified an overcharging rate of 63% in service charge accounts; and what
11 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Service Charges: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward proposals to create a Service Charge Regulator to ensure that service charges are rigorously scrutinised for all those who have to pay them, including fu
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England received legal advice in 2024 that aspects of the Federated Data Platform lacked a legal basis.
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2026 to Question 128022, what the legal basis is for the processing of identifiable data prior to pseudonymisation.
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to name the specific legal direction under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 that disapplies the National Data Opt-Out for NDIT processing by name and date.
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palantir: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contractual restrictions apply to the movement or reuse of NHS patient data processed through Palantir; whether those contractual restrictions have been independently reviewed to assess their
11 Jun 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Government Departments: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what safeguards exist to ensure that suppliers providing digital platforms to civilian and defence Government departments maintain effective separation between those systems.
11 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Defence
Palantir: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department’s contract with Palantir permits interoperability with other Palantir platforms in government; and what assurances his Department has received that systems used for live operational decisio
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palantir: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether independent technical (a) testing and (b) audit has been undertaken to assess the risk of (i) data and (ii) application interoperability between Palantir platforms used by different public
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palantir: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether technical verification has been carried out (a) by and (b) on behalf of his Department to confirm that NHS patient data processed through Palantir Foundry cannot be transferred to other Pal
11 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Palantir
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the evidence given by the Head of UK Palantir on 8 July 2025 to the Science, Innovation and Technology Comm
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to rights of appeal and enforceable provision on parental and carer confidence in the SEND system; and what steps will be take
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provision the Department plans to make for children and young people with SEND who are not currently attending school or college, including those who are out of education due to unmet needs or placement di
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children and young person with SEND can access suitable school and college places in instances where SEND Tribunals are unable to determine an appropriate plac
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what definition will the Department apply to the term complex needs within the context of the SEND system reforms; and how will this definition be operationalised in decision-making processes.
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Department intends to use to determine the threshold for (a) an Education, Health and Care needs assessment and (b) the issuing of an Education, Health and Care plan under the proposed reforms
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has the Department made of how the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities will be met where those needs do not align with one of the proposed Speciali
10 Jun 2026 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms will be put in place to ensure that the provision specified in Individual Support Plans under the SEND White Paper proposals is legally enforceable; and what recourse will be available to parent
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps are being taken to ensure that warnings from external professional bodies regarding critical IT risks are acted upon promptly.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to help improve cyber security governance and oversight arrangements within the Legal Aid Agency following the breach.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to address the IT weaknesses identified as contributing to the April 2025 Legal Aid Agency data breach.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all people whose personal data was accessed during the April 2025 Legal Aid breach have been notified directly.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what safeguarding measures have been put in place for individuals assessed to be at heightened risk as a result of the April 2025 Legal Aid breach.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk to domestic abuse survivors following the April 2025 Legal Aid Agency data breach.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of individuals whose data was compromised during the April 2025 Legal Aid breach; and the date on which that estimate was first established.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what categories of personal data were accessed or exfiltrated during the April 2025 Legal Aid cyber security breach; and was data relating to domestic abuse survivors, asylum seekers or criminal defendants affect
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons unauthorised access to Legal Aid Agency systems remained undetected for approximately four months from December 2024 to April 2025; what monitoring or intrusion detection systems were in place du
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any recommendations relating to cyber security and system maintenance for the Legal Aid agency made prior to April 2025 were not implemented.
10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of whether the Legal Aid Agency’s IT systems were compliant with government cyber security standards at the time of the breach in April 2025.
Source: official written-questions record.