Written questions

398 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to give the same protections to people awaiting migration from the Disability Living Allowance to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) provided to existing PIP claimants

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ME/CFS: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) on the geographical availability of regional specialist services for ME/CFS; and if he will undertake a mapp

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Controlled Burning: Codes of Practice

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 29795 on Moorland and Peatlands: Controlled Burning, whether she expects the new Heather and Grass Management Code to be implemen

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Controlled Burning: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the powers of local authorities to (a) monitor and (b) take steps to help tackle (i) air pollu

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work applications are outstanding; and what steps he is taking to reduce the backlog of applications.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Sussex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board on the reduction of the number of IVF cycles offered.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fertility: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects NICE to complete its review into guideline on the management of fertility problems.

10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fertility: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of his proposals to make Integrated Care Boards strategic commissioners of local health services on (a) the level of fertility services and (b) a

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 21A of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, if he will issue guidance to local authorities on the timeframe within which the responsible pers

10 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Petroleum and Shell: Diplomatic Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what meetings took place between staff at the British embassies, consulates or High Commissions in (a) Houston, (b) Mauritania, (c) Senegal, (d) Trinidad, (e) Cairo, (f) Alex

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Eurovision Song Contest

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the BBC Board on calls for the UK to withdraw from Eurovision coverage if the Israeli state broadcaster participates.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Palestine Action

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of the policing of the law that proscribes Palestine Action on 6 September 2025 in London.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Electric Vehicles: Buses and Large Goods Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what policies his Department is developing to ensure that (a) heavy-duty vehicle depots and (b) bus depots can access timely electricity grid connections.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of permitting crop-based biofuels to be eligible under the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate on (a) the environment and (b) food security.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to allocate a proportion of support from the Revenue Support Mechanism to power-to-liquid fuel projects.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Palestine Action

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Police and Crime Commissioners on the impact of the proscription of Palestine Action on police (a) budgets and (b) operations.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Demonstrations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 904439 on Protest, what her Department's planned timetable is for considering the Court of Appeal judgment in relation to Serious Disruption Regulatio

3 Sep 2025 · Home Office

Overseas Students: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish guidance to Hon. Members on how students in Gaza who are eligible for support to come to the UK can access this support; and if she will provide a dedicated communication pathway f

1 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff are working on responding to the Managing Pavement Parking consultation.

1 Sep 2025 · Treasury

High Speed 2 Line: West Yorkshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her oral evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on 22 July 2025, on what evidential basis the country has cared more about bats than about commuter times for people in Leeds and

29 Aug 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 68002 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the communication with affected businesses of the change to reliefs in

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Solicitors

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to funding for level 7 solicitor apprenticeships on (a) equalities and (b) social mobility.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fertility: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Sussex Integrated Care Board to implement the Women's Health Strategy recommendations on access to fertility services for LGBTQ+ people.

29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

IVF: Sussex

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Sussex ICB on the reduction of the number of IVF cycles they offer.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 21111 on Local Housing Allowance, if she will publish the analysis of the range of factors considered in the decision not to increase local housing a

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 21111 on Local Housing Allowance, what the overall increase in rental prices was in the period under consideration.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education

Vocational Education: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the Protect Student Choice’s report entitled Causing gaps, creating uncertainty: why the government should lift the

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the value of the illegal drugs market for (a) cannabis, (b) cocaine, and (c) opioids.

29 Aug 2025 · Home Office

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the deterrent effects of classification on drug (a) use, (b) production, (c) sales and (d) the reduction of anti-social behaviour.

29 Aug 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish an update of recent progress in meeting the objectives of the second cycling and walking investment strategy.

Source: official written-questions record.