Written questions

347 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to assist applicants who cannot apply online to access temporary visas.

21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Child Maintenance Service: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the average waiting time for Child Maintenance Service appeal decisions.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for Child Maintenance Service Mandatory Reconsideration decisions.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Waste

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support she is giving to gleaning organisations as a method to help reduce on-farm food waste.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to ensure that GPs approach (a) shared care and (b) collaboration with gender identity specialists in the same way as other specialists.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Packaging: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether extended producer responsibility will apply to sales from January 2024 or from April 2025.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of changing school registration forms to enable teachers to identify children born prematurely who are more at risk of special educational needs.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Lithium: Hazardous Substances

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the HSE plans to expedite its assessment of the European Chemicals Agency Risk Assessment Committee proposal to reclassify lithium salts as Category A reproductive toxicants.

6 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Assets: Public Houses

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether there is any recourse to funding available to people wishing to buy a pub in their village in the context of the closure of the Community Ownership Fund.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Space Technology: Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to support the space industry in Cornwall.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Beavers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether Natural England plans to reintroduce beavers into the wild in 2025.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to increase the fees available for people working as First-tier Tribunal members while claiming the Employment and Support Allowance.

29 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Sports Competitors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that amateur athletes have access to an effective screening programme for cardiac conditions.

23 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on (a) apprenticeship completion rates and (b) apprenticeship completion rates for apprentices with one or more Functional Skills Qualifications requirements.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings: Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to make it (a) easier and (b) cheaper for people who live in (i) listed buildings and (ii) conservation areas to make their homes more energy efficient.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endometriosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all healthcare professionals have adequate training and awareness of endometriosis.

13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Landscapes: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the financial viability of National Landscapes.

8 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Blood Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) veterans and (b) serving personnel who have served as crew on (A) Sea Kings, (B) Pumas and (C) Chinooks have been diagnosed with (i) multiple myeloma, (ii) sarcoma and (iii) blood cancer in the last

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling local authorities to apply to use ANPR to enforce designated pedestrian zones.

6 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bathing Water Regulations 2013

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his timetable is for proposed reforms to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013.

6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Building Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will introduce the Future Homes and Building Standards as soon as possible.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hedges and Ditches: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will (a) bring forward legislative proposals to (i) formally recognise, (ii) protect and (iii) otherwise support the management of Cornish hedges and (b) provide funding for such

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Celtic Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what body is responsible for (a) coordination and (b) delivery of floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea.

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Wind Power: Celtic Sea

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the delivery of floating offshore wind demonstration projects in the Celtic Sea.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Deer: Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the use of exemptions within the Hunting Act 2004 for stag hunting.

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) hunting with hounds and (b) trail hunting on rural communities.

13 Dec 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Music: Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to help support musical acts from Africa to perform in the UK.

9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the hours lost to handover delays by South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust.

9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Royal Cornwall Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of attendees who waited 12 hours or more from their time of arrival to be (a) transferred, (b) admitted and (c) discharged from Royal Cornwall Hospi

9 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Royal Cornwall Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of patients (a) transferred, (b) admitted and (c) discharged within four hours at the Emergency Department in Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

Source: official written-questions record.