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.