Written questions

215 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the Getting it Right First Time programme.

28 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Apprenticeship Levy: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Apprenticeship Levy has been (a) collected from and (b) provided to Northern Ireland employers in each of the last five years.

23 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Cybersecurity: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending Cyber Local 2025-26 to Northern Ireland.

22 Apr 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Sovereignty: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what criteria he will use to assess the need for a border poll in Northern Ireland.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bees: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42062 on Bees: Conservation, whether he has received a request from the Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture for mutual assistance

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Foot and Mouth Disease: Hungary and Slovakia

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs’ letter of 8 April 2025 to Northern Ireland Executive colleagues, what assessment he has made of the implic

3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the abolition of NHS England will impact the (a) role and (b) structure of the Getting It Right First Time programme.

31 Mar 2025 · Home Office

National Rural Crime Unit and National Wildlife Crime Unit: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of funding allocated to the (a) National Rural Crime Unit and (b) National Wildlife Crime Unit will be for (i) operations and (ii) activities in Northern Ireland.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bees: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inspectors his Department has trained to (a) inspect and (b) assess the health of (i) bees and (ii) their hives.

26 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support the devolved Administrations to (a) increase the children’s palliative care workforce and (b) improve access to specialist services.

26 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be Barnett consequentials from the £3.25bn Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a dedicated communications budget within his Department for sepsis awareness.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of including rapid diagnostics as part of the five-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to people who survive sepsis to be signposted to commissioned services in sepsis (a) after-care, (b) support and (c) rehabilitation.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mechanisms to support the (a) adoption and (b) clinical systems integration of (i) novel and (ii) rapid diagnost

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to help develop a national Sepsis Registry using (a) interoperable and (b) patient-level data.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sepsis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help develop a dedicated diagnostic pathway for sepsis.

17 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Northern Ireland Public Sector Transformation Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Northern Ireland Public Sector Transformation Board has (a) permanent o (b) interim status.

17 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Business: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of the 14 March 2025 to Question 37022 on Business: Northern Ireland, whether his Permanent Secretary briefed him prior to the announcement.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will take steps to prepare for temperature rises that could reach 4C by the end of the century.

17 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Climate Change: France

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the French Government's Third National Climate Adaptation Plan.

10 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Credit Unions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to (a) support and (b) expand credit unions.

10 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Business: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 34541 on Business: Northern Ireland, whether the Northern Ireland Office Permanent Secretary briefed him on Board meetings prior to the announcement of

10 Mar 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Business: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 34541 on Business: Northern Ireland, when the remainder of the Transformation Fund will be allocated.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support parents with recent trends in the cost of daycare facilities.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food and Livestock: Ashford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025 to Question 34165 on Food and Livestock: Transport, how many times the Border Control Post has contacted people responsible for a load in relatio

5 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food and Livestock: Ashford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025 to Question 34165 on Food and Livestock: Transport, how many vehicles containing (a) live animals and (b) food products attended Sevington for fu

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32525 on Airports, which airports are designated Level 3.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Central Alerting System notification entitled Shortage of Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) - Additional actions, published on 18 December 2024, what steps his

28 Feb 2025 · Northern Ireland Office

Horticulture: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he expects the issues surrounding the sale and movement of plants to be resolved.

Source: official written-questions record.