Written questions

142 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers' Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15144 on Teachers: Workplace Pension, what the updated planned timetable is for resolving the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value

2 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Organic Farming: Standards

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of offering (a) enhanced and (b) conditional Agricultural Property Relief on (i) land farmed with certified organic production standards and (ii) farms maki

2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Debt Collection: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of statutory regulation for the bailiff industry.

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Disability: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to access (a) music concerts and (b) other live events.

2 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

El Salvador: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic pressure his Department has exerted on the El Salvador government to ensure that the human rights of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca

2 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who receive the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit contribute an adequate share of child maintenance respons

2 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 31102 on Driving Licences: Young People, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the root causes of the proportion of incidents involving young vict

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Events Industry: First Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 3rd April 2025 on Question 44192 on Events Industry: First Aid, when his Department plans to publish the updated Event Healthcare Standard; and whether he is taking steps to c

24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Disability and Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to conduct an Equalities Impact Assessment of the potential impact of reductions to Official Development Assistance on (a) disability inclusion and (b) women

3 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Events Industry: First Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what specific first aid equipment will be required under Martyn’s Law for (a) venues and (b) events; and whether there will be different requirements based on (i) venue size and (ii) risk level.

3 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Events Industry: First Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department plans to provide to (a) fairs, (b) parades and (c) other local community events on the (i) supply and (ii) administration of first aid under Martyn’s Law.

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Game: Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of the licensing of grouse shooting in England.

5 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Israel: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect the rights of Palestinian minors currently detained by Israel.

5 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Refugees: Palestinians

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the need for a resettlement scheme to support Palestinian refugees seeking asylum in the UK.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Natural History: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to continue the implementation of a new GCSE in Natural History.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 23 January 2025 on Question 24557 on the pavement parking consultation, what her planned timeline is for (a) publishing a formal response and (b) announcing next steps for pavement parking

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Cars: Insurance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of (a) the potential implications for her policies of car insurance terms allowing providers to retain up to 90 percent of refunds on cancellation and (b) the potential merits of re

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of whether local authorities are able to meet their statutory duties to unpaid carers under the Care Act 2014.

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

Water Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for awarding funding to applicants via the Water Restoration Fund.

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

Water Restoration Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of ringfencing fines paid by water companies for the Water Restoration Fund.

17 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 on Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Drugs, what progress his Department has made in tackling shortages of (a) ADHD medication, (b) Creon and (c) other medicatio

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Curriculum and Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of a national bank of lesson and curriculum resources for primary and secondary school teachers.

6 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Shipley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the supply of GLP-1 receptor agonist medications for diabetic patients in Shipley constituency.

6 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timeline is for members of the Immediate Choice Police pension group to receive their McCloud remedy pension payments.

6 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to decide (a) how and (b) when people affected by the loss of the enhanced disability premium when migrating to Universal Credit will receive the additional amount prescribed i

6 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of raising the baseline accessibility standard for new build homes to Part M4(2) of the building regulations.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2024 to Question 10637 on the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, whether he plans to (a) extend the scheme and (b) offer an alternative scheme to veterans who served before May

13 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme available to all veterans.

31 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Motor Vehicles: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to provide financial support to people to make deposit payments on wheelchair accessible vehicles.

30 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what number and proportion of pupils in (a) state and (b) independent schools had access arrangements for extra time during (i) GCSEs and (ii) A-Levels in the summer exams 2024.

Source: official written-questions record.