Written questions

398 written questions tabled, most recent first.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether guidance will be issued for (a) employees and (b) legal advisers on interpreting confidentiality clauses under the new regime under Clause 22A of the Employment Rights Bill.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is is taking to increase awareness among workers of their proposed new rights under Clause 22A of the Employment Rights Bill.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Travel: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2025 to Question 66780 on Transport: Disability, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of supporting access panels to create a national network.

22 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 3 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, when she plans to lay a report before Parliament on the delivery of the levelling-up missions.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Tourism: Sustainable Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to publish a sustainable tourism plan.

22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthwatch: Brighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his proposal to close independent local Healthwatch services and transfer their functions to (a) local authorities and (b) Integrated Care Boards, what proportion of existing fund

22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthwatch

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Equalities Impact Statement on the decision to close local Healthwatch services and transfer their functions to local authorities and Integrated Care Boards; and what assessm

21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Resettlement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme reviews were outstanding as of 5 July 2024; how many remain outstanding; what steps he is taking to reduce the backlog; and what the average time is for pr

21 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities

Equality and Human Rights Commission: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Equality and Human Rights Commission (a) is using and (b) has commissioned external teams to use artificial intelligence tools in analysis of the responses to its consultation on the Draft Code of

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of successful claims under the non-consensual conception exception to the two-child limit for (a) Universal Credit, (b) working-age Housing Benefit and (c) Child Benefit wer

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the evidentiary requirements of the non-consensual exception to the two-child limit on Article (a) 8 and (b) 14 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the provisions of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill on eligibility for Personal Independence Payment on the abilit

7 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the list of professionals who have been given approved third-party status for the purpose of certifying claims under the non-consensual conception excepti

23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Heathrow Airport: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 3.36 of the policy paper entitled UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy, published on 19 June 2025, when she plans to request the Climate Change Committee's advice on whether a third

17 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide British citizens in Tehran with the necessary authorisation to allow them to be evacuated via third countries in the region.

9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Brighton Pavilion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Brighton Pavilion constituency on 9 June 2025.

2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Wood-burning Stoves: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the installation of wood burning stoves in newbuild homes on levels of public health.

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Smoke Control Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) powers and (b) funding available to local authorities to enforce smoke control areas.

30 May 2025 · Treasury

Royal Family: Official Gifts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the cost to the public purse of gifts given by (a) the King and (b) other members of the Royal Family in their official roles since 2020.

30 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals under the Environment Act 2021 on the compulsory recall of vehicles and engines on the grounds that relevant environmental standards are not met.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Air Pollution: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the Air Quality Information Systems Review recommendation 4 on raising public awareness of (a) air pollution, (b) the associated health impacts and (c) how people can p

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people in the UK have signed up to receive air pollution alerts from UK-AIR; and what mechanisms he is using to monitor the effectiveness of the air quality alert system at (a

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many air pollution alerts were issued between March 2024 and March 2025 by his Department's UK-AIR alerts when thresholds within Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) were excee

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include PM2.5 in the UK Air quality alerts.

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people who do not (a) sign up to receive alerts and (b) actively check the UK-AIR website are alerted to high air pollution even

30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39813 on Air Pollution, whether the discussions his Department is having with the Met Office on areas for improvement includes the A

22 May 2025 · Home Office

Protest

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of legislation relating to peaceful protest.

7 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Royal Collection Trust: Postage Stamps

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the Royal Collection Trust on the ownership of the Royal Stamp Collection.

7 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Royal Collection Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will hold discussions with the Royal Collection Trust on the potential merits of publishing a list of items which are held in right of the Crown.

7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has for departmental funding arrangements for the recruitment of 8,500 additional mental health workers.

Source: official written-questions record.