Written questions
161 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when she plans to announce Official Development Assistance allocations.
20 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with relevant stakeholders on Official Development Assistance allocations.
13 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education: Gambling
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to schools on gambling-like features in video games, including loot boxes and in-game spending, as part of online safety education.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms she is putting in place to ensure that proposed agency fee caps under the new Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework are effectively monitored and enforced.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve supply teachers’ access to the teachers’ pension scheme under the new Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the new Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework makes no provision for ensuring that supply teachers can access the teachers’ pension scheme.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Conditions of Employment and Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to mitigate variations in pay and employment conditions arising from individual school negotiations with agencies under the Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to ensure consistency in pay and conditions for supply teachers when participation in the new Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework is on an opt-in basis.
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact on supply teacher recruitment and retention of not requiring agencies operating under the Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework to pay in accordance with th
12 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Supply Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing framework to require supply teachers to be paid in line with the national teacher pay scale.
2 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Hospitality Sector and Retail Trade: Young People
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of tax incentives for retail and hospitality employers to employ people aged 18 to 21 years old.
2 Jan 2026 · Department for Education
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of different rates of change in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage between 2023 and 2024 compared to changes in the student loan r
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Education
GCSE: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many incidents of lost exam scripts have been reported to the Department and Ofqual in each of the last two academic years.
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Education
GCSE: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes are in place to ensure accountability and transparency when GCSE examination scripts are lost by exam boards.
29 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Refugees: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Ukrainians with valid leave under the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme are able to obtain confirmation of their right to (a) live, (b) work and (c
29 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in the management of fire safety equipment in leasehold properties.
29 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Holiday Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to strengthen consumer protection in the short term lets market.
29 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Sanitation and Water
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support water and sanitation projects through Official Development Assistance.
29 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that visa applications for foreign nationals visiting the UK through aid-funded project deliverables are processed in a (a) timely and (b) efficient m
29 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Business Services Authority: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will initiate a review of the (a) structure and (b) terms of reference of the NHS Business Services Authority following the NHS 10 Year Plan.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infectious Diseases: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of infection diagnostics on (a) levels of inappropriate antibiotic use and (b) the policies set out in the policy paper entitled UK 5-year action
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infectious Diseases: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that diagnostic stewardship is embedded across infection care pathways to ensure that clinicians are (a) supported to use infection diagnostics effectively and (b)
9 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Disease Control: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding his Department plans to allocate (a) to international programmes primarily focused on preventing novel pandemics at source and (b) through multilateral and bilat
9 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Drug Resistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) steps he is planning to take to take to strengthen antimicrobial resistance (i) surveillance and (ii) diagnostic capacity following the conclusion of the Fleming Fun
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered allowing local education authorities to open new maintained schools.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing schools currently managed by multi-academy trusts to return to local education authority control.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Sleeping Rough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to healthcare for people experiencing rough sleeping.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Air Pollution and Noise: Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) noise and (b) air pollution on public health in densely populated residential areas.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tailor (a) guidance and (b) support for local authorities to help mitigate increasing demand on adult social care services due to demographic ageing.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Carers and Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance the has issued to local authorities on encouraging preventative health behaviours among working-age adults with (a) caring and (b) parental responsibilities.
Source: official written-questions record.