Written questions
142 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Oct 2025 · Treasury
CIFAS: Bank Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to help people with CIFAS markers to access banking facilities to enable them to receive (a) wages and (b) welfare payments.
20 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Performing Arts: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she next plans to review the Children (Performance and Activities) (England) Regulations 2014.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will apply the forthcoming revised sustainability criteria for biomass to any new Contracts for Difference being developed for post-2027 generation at (a) Drax and (b) Lynemouth power s
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will ensure that revised sustainability criteria for biomass are in place before new Contracts for Difference are finalised for (a) Drax and (b) Lynemouth power stations.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to publish the revised sustainability criteria for biomass.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport
Airspace: Modernisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her planned timetable is for the implementation of airspace modernisation in the north of England.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport
Unadopted Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to local authorities to support the (a) improvement and (b) adoption of unadopted roads.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Nitrous Oxide: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of working with regulators to introduce labels for nitrous oxide canisters that can be traced to the point of sale.
16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Family Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing payment rates for legal aid in family law cases, in the context of his Department's decision to uplift the rates paid for all housing and immigr
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Bills Rebate and Warm Home Discount Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending eligibility for (a) energy support schemes and (b) the Warm Home Discount to people whose homes are not connected to electric
16 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Trusts: Employment Tribunals Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of funding for the NHS was spent on (a) legal costs and (b) compensation related to employment tribunals in each of the last five financial years, broken down by NHS Tr
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: West Yorkshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the current average time taken was for a DWP-initiated PIP review to be completed in West Yorkshire in each of the last 12 months.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions he has had with the Climate Change Committee on whether the UK is on track to stay within its carbon budgets from 2025 until 2042.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress his Department has made in producing a climate action plan by 29 October 2025.
9 Sep 2025 · Treasury
London Coalition on Sustainable Sovereign Debt
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which organisations will be represented at The London Coalition on Sustainable Sovereign Debt.
9 Sep 2025 · Treasury
Debts: Developing Countries
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to support representations of developing nations in international discussions on global sovereign debt.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Planning: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for publishing the outcome of the technical consultation on the reform of planning committees.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Building Regulations: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for introducing the technical consultation on the M4(2) requirement in building regulations.
3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 56485 on Children: Maintenance, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of aligning the child maintenance responsibilities of those who rec
3 Jul 2025 · Treasury
Employers' Contributions: India
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish an economic impact assessment on the potential impact of the National Insurance exemption for Indian nationals posted temporarily to the UK under the UK–India Free Trade Agreement on (a) wages, (
30 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Young Futures Hubs: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to extend the Young Futures Programme to include young people up to the age of 25.
30 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Young Futures Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) capital and (b) revenue funding will be allocated for Young Futures Hubs.
24 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP claims are fraudulent; how many existing PIP claimants are expected to lose their allowance as a result of proposed changes to limit eligibility to those scoring at least four poi
18 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) which stakeholders he has consulted and (b) what data sources he has used to develop the basis of the adult social care resource formula.
18 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the assessment framework used for commissioning the adult social care resource formula focuses on outcomes.
16 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Business: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to encourage businesses to use pin pads that are accessible to people with sight impairments.
12 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to extend the time limit on exceptions to council tax premiums for category G properties to cover the full period for which a property is being act
11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Multi-academy Trusts: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that multi academy trust executives are paid appropriately; and what action was taken by the 37 trusts her Department issued with outlier pay challenge letters in O
10 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of mental health staff that will be placed in schools; and what assessment he has made of the level of qualification that will be required by those staff mem
10 Jun 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many claims to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund were rejected as a result of the total fund limit being reached in 2024-2025; and how many claims made in 2024-25 exceeded the new limits fo
Source: official written-questions record.