Written questions
72 written questions tabled, most recent first.
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Silicosis: Health Hazards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of silicosis among workers.
4 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made regarding on the manifesto commitment to roll out a direct entry scheme for detectives to boost investigation skills.
4 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it remains her policy to move to a multi-year police settlement model.
4 Nov 2025 · Home Office
Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role she plans for policing to play in achieving the objective of halving violence against women and girls in a decade.
15 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of fully funding the specialist palliative (a) care, (b) advice and (c) assessment provided by hospices.
15 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Private Rented Housing: Landlords
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what consideration his Department of providing additional resource for local authorities to enforce 12 month relet bans on landlords who do not adhere to incoming legislation wit
14 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has prepared an impact assessment on the decision to freeze the local housing allowance.
14 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Outdoor Advertising: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending planning legislation on digital advertising screens.
14 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Visas: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timeline is for waiving visa fees for spouses and children of current and former serving personnel who are of non-UK nationality.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made in establishing a national social tariff for water consumers; and what steps he is taking to ensure that a national social tariff will end geograp
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Pumps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to incentivise the uptake of heat pumps.
4 Jul 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Electricity: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to reduce electricity costs.
30 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to include policies on autism in the youth employment strategy delivery plan.
20 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Supported Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent the decommissioning of supported housing schemes.
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the NHS 10-Year Plan reflects the specific (a) workforce, (b) training and (c) capacity needs of children's palliative care services.
1 May 2025 · Treasury
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for the fire and rescue service as part of the upcoming spending review.
1 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Local Housing Allowance: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will remove the 2011 cap on Local Housing Allowance payable for temporary accommodation through the Housing Benefit Subsidy system.
1 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Temporary Accommodation: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing emergency funding for temporary accommodation in London.
1 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to include provisions for youths in the upcoming homelessness strategy.
1 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken with Homes England to encourage SMEs to build affordable homes.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Apprentices: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to allow colleges to carry out their own end point assessments for apprenticeships.
17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education
Capital Investment: Further Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-evaluating the existing capital funding scheme for Further Education.
17 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Further Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a VAT relief scheme for Further Education institutions.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Batteries: Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of heat batteries to balancing grid demand during peak energy usage periods.
8 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Batteries: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment he has made of the potential contribution of heat battery technology to the Government’s target for decarbonising homes by 2030.
8 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Housing: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) fiscal measures and (b) tax incentives to promote the uptake of (i) heat battery and (ii) other low carbon technologies in homes.
2 Apr 2025 · Treasury
Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will postpone changes to the taxation of double-cab pick-up trucks for 12 months.
31 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of service life on non-UK nationality families of serving personnel.
19 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Taxis: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will extend the VAT exemption afforded to adapted motor vehicles for people with disabilities to London’s Black Cabs.
19 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she make it her policy to introduce a new interest-free loan scheme for taxi drivers purchasing new taxis matched to the retail price of the LEVC TXE.
Source: official written-questions record.