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.