Written questions
130 written questions tabled, most recent first.
27 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that people with care needs can continue to pay for carers following changes to eligibility for Personal Independence Payments.
27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Fiscal Policy: Housing Improvement
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what fiscal measures her Department has considered to help facilitate the renovation of existing residential sites.
26 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Locomotives: Electrification
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to (a) support the development of battery-electrified trains and (b) ensure that those trains are made using British critical minerals.
25 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Office for Budget Responsibility: Forecasts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Office for Budget Responsibility's methodology for understanding fiscal multipliers.
25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with Cabinet colleagues on reforming student loan repayment rules to exempt nurses from repaying those loans while they are employed within the NHS.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Sugar: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has considered introducing a small levy on imported sugar; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of such a levy on (a) tariff revenues following the suspension of Ukrainia
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that GPs can support ADHD patients under the shared care plans through (a) reassessment, (b) re-prescription of ADHD medication and (c) other measures.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to expand the number of organisations under the Right to Choose pathway that are able to have their ADHD prescriptions fulfilled by the NHS.
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
ADHD
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to hire more specialists in the diagnosis of adult ADHD.
24 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Business: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she hold discussions with HMRC on the potential merits of extending terms for the collection of taxes from businesses; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on working capital for
20 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered (a) removing the tapering-off of the personal allowance and (b) reducing the threshold for the additional rate of tax.
20 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health workers will be recruited in Cornwall by 2029.
14 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British International Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of asking British International Investment to produce a critical minerals strategy that (a) strengthens the UK's supply ch
14 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British International Investment: Borrowing
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what consideration he has given to allow British International Investment to borrow from the financial markets to support the expansion of its international development goals
13 Mar 2025 · Treasury
Geothermal Power: Investment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the National Wealth Fund on establishing a platform for geothermal investment to commercialise the industry.
3 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animals: Euthanasia
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the euthanasia of healthy animals without their owners' prior consent.
26 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Development Aid: Refugees
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing the Home Office with a (a) reduced and (b) flat cash settlement for in-donor refugee costs.
25 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Bricks
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) bee and (b) swift bricks on urban biodiversity; and what steps her Department is taking to promote the inclusion of be
13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help (a) councils and (b) local authorities deliver more (i) house-building and (ii) social housing.
13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) trends in the level of local authority borrowing costs and (b) rent-setting policies on the ability of local councils
13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Right to Buy Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has conducted an impact assessment of the Right to Buy scheme on council (a) house building (b) housing stock.
7 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Bank Services: Charities
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that banks are applying (a) Know Your Customer and (b) other compliance checks transparently for humanitarian charities operating in vulnerable countries.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support the delivery of the Youth Guarantee.
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
UK Emissions Trading Scheme: EU Emissions Trading Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential economic impact of linking the UK and EU emissions trading schemes; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of linking UK
28 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Playgrounds: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing VAT for admissions fees to indoor play centres for children under 12.
28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hydrotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will direct NICE to undertake an assessment of the potential merits of the use of hydrotherapy treatments in the NHS.
23 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport
Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the maximum sentence for (a) failing to stop at and (b) report a road accident, known as hit and run accidents, from six months to ten years.
22 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Minerals: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that social value for communities and workers is prioritised in the forthcoming Critical Mineral Strategy.
20 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Business Rates: Reform
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will increase the speed at which reforms are conducted to the business rates system.
20 Jan 2025 · Treasury
National Insurance: Tax Rates and Bands
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing progressive banding for National Insurance.
Source: official written-questions record.