Written questions
227 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2026 · Treasury
Inheritance Tax: Waveney Valley
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the number of farms in Waveney Valley constituency that will no longer be impacted by Agricultural Property Relief due to the changes to IHT announced in December 2025.
16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure capital investment in NHS estate and infrastructure supports improvements in climate resilience.
16 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Voice over Internet Protocol: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the retirement of the Public Switched Telephone Network and the transition to VoIP landline services, particularly during power o
16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Health: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Adult Oral Health Survey 2023, published 9 December 2025.
10 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hussam Abu Safiya
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to her Israeli counterpart on the case of Palestinian doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rights of Way: Forests and Rivers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 83666, how new permanent legal rights of public access will be created through proposals for nine new river walks and three new na
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rights of Way: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 on the rights of disabled people to access the outdoors.
5 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Rights of Way
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made representations to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on ensuring that the statutory duties of local highway authorities for the
19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will include proposals to end the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry, including through the adoption of in-ovo sexing technology in the her Department
18 Nov 2025 · Women and Equalities
Equality: Codes of Practice
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her timetable is for reaching a decision on whether to approve the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations; and if she will lay the
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Genetically Modified Organisms: Plants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the Devolved administrations can prevent unlabelled precision-bred seeds and plant reproductive materials marketed in England from entering
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Genetically Modified Organisms: Plants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the certification bodies for (a) organic and (b) conventional non-GMO seeds providers can prevent unlabelled precision-bred seeds and
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Genetically Modified Organisms: Plants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on consumer (a) transparency and (b) trust if precision bred seeds and plant reproductive materials are labelled but the
11 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Genetically Modified Organisms: Plants
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to enact (a) a mandatory Precision Bred Variety List for England and (b) mandatory labelling of precision-bred seeds and plant reproductive materials before the Genet
10 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Companies: Nationalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish in full the (a) modelling and (b) assumptions underpinning her Department's £100?billion estimate of nationalising the water sector.
4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Anaesthetics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report from the Royal College of Anaesthetists entitled Anaesthetic Workforce Census 2025: Key Interim Findings, pu
30 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to maintain animal welfare standards in the context of negotiations with the EU on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement.
27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Aarhus Convention
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her department intends to respond to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee's report to the Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention on Decision VII/8s, publishe
27 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Aarhus Convention
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Aarhus Convention’s Compliance Committee finding that the UK is non-compliant with the Convention on the Governme
20 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Minister for Water and Flooding, dated 15 October 2025, if she will make it her policy to introduce measures before the r
20 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Climate Change Committee's letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, entitled advice on the UK’s adaptation objectives, published on 15 October 2025,
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the change in the number of dental appointments available in the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board area in 2025-26 compared to 2024-25.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking during the transition to the NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board to ensure that the level of the dental workforce meets any change in demand in the Eas
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Waveney Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many golden hellos for new dentists have been allocated to Waveney Valley constituency.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Devonport Dockyard: Radioactive Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether nuclear waste is due to be offloaded at Devonport.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce species-specific slaughter legislation for farmed fish.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department to ensure the humane slaughter of farmed fish.
11 Sep 2025 · Cabinet Office
Climate Change: Risk Assessment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he took to consider climate change tipping points when preparing the update to the National Risk Register in January 2025.
2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to delay any local elections as a result of the new local government structures proposed in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on primary care NHS dental services net of patient charge revenue in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each financial year since 2010-11.
Source: official written-questions record.