Written questions

184 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fertilisers: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her department is taking to support Scottish farmers with increases in fertiliser costs.

12 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's policy paper, Independent Commission for Aid Impact's review of UK aid to Sudan: UK government response, published on 18 December 2025, wha

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the safety of lorry drivers when using roadside facilities.

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of differences between HGV driver facilities in (a) England and (b) other European countries.

10 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mosab Haroon Ahmed

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with Sudanese counterparts on threats against Mosab Haroom Ahmed in the Gorom refugee settlement in Sudan following his conversion to Chri

4 Mar 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Places of Worship Renewal Fund: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Places of Worship Renewal Fund.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Poultry Support Grant.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Expenditure: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Collaboration Fund.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environmental Land Management Schemes: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the new round of Environmental Land Management (ELM) Capital Grants.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Innovation Programme.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund.

2 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether funding will be made available to the Scottish Government under the Barnett Formula from the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

23 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Turing Scheme: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will assess the potential merits of using the Turing scheme to enhance reciprocal cooperation with other European countries so it is aligned with the Erasmus+ scheme.

23 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Turing Scheme: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to help ensure the Turing scheme funds cooperation, research, tool-building and shared training systems across countries in Europe.

23 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Turing Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered adding funding rules, inclusion support and non-formal learning approaches to the Turing scheme.

23 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Turing Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has for extending Turing funding to youth work, adult learning, community development and sport in line with the Erasmus+ scheme.

23 Feb 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Erasmus+ Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if her department has received the newly published evidence and impact report on the benefits of Erasmus+ by LEAP Sports Scotland.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reconsideration requests submitted by (a) blind and (b) partially sighted customers have resulted in the original decision being overturned in each of the last three years.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether additional funding and staffing has been allocated to regulators and public bodies to implement the strategy to replace animals in science.

11 Feb 2026 · Scotland Office

Local Growth Fund: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will make it his policy to ensure equitable distribution of the Local Growth Fund to rural areas.

11 Feb 2026 · Scotland Office

Local Growth Fund: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to not include the North East Scotland Regional Economic Partnership in the Local Growth Fund.

11 Feb 2026 · Scotland Office

Local Growth Fund: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the evidential basis is for not including the North East Scotland Regional Economic Partnership in the Local Growth Fund.

2 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on 1950s born women in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency.

15 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish impact assessments, modelling and further detail on the UK-US pharmaceutical trade deal.

15 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated towards research into the causes of epilepsy.

15 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into new treatments for epilepsy.

16 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Bilateral Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much total spend, and predicted spend in Sudan, originating from the FCDO ODA budget for bilateral aid there was, and will be, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

16 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with regards to the Prime Minister's announcement on the 15th April 2025 to spend £120M in emergency aid Sudan, a) which governmental budget this originates from and b) which

16 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Firearms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when will the Government launch its public consultation on the controls on (a) shotguns and (b) other firearms.

12 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electricity: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to his Statement on the Electricity Market Review on July 10 2025, Official Report, column 1160, if he will publish his Department’s reformed national pricing delivery plan.

Source: official written-questions record.