Written questions
397 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jul 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has identified processing errors where housing cost increases under Universal Credit have resulted in a reduction of a claimant's payment.
22 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Visas: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has reviewed the average wait time for an Ankara Agreement (ECAA settlement) extension application.
22 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Visas: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to reduce the backlog for Ankara Agreement (ECAA settlement) extension applications.
17 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Boards are held to account over the Modern Service Framework for Palliative Care and End of Life Care.
17 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made in securing new funding for the Modern Service Framework for Palliative Care and End of Life Care.
17 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential impact on the public purse of meeting the target to cut unplanned hospital admissions and bed days of one or over by 10% for people at the end of life, as
17 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse and Stalking: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions has she had with the Secretary of State for Justice about the potential merits of implementing a Domestic Abuse and Stalkers Register.
11 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the financial savings arising from local government reorganisation.
11 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport
Train Operating Companies: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will set out the key performance indicators her Department uses to assess changes in the level of performance for train operators following nationalisation; and whether she has set targets for improvemen
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Visas: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to visa sponsorship costs and salary thresholds on small to medium-sized enterprises.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to extend the minimum notice period given before introducing changes to the Immigration Rules.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department defines deliberate in relation to the Asylum Seekers (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
8 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Assistance Animals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and disability organisations on the recognition of assistance dogs not accredited by Assistance Dogs UK.
8 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade
Hospitality Industry: Assistance Animals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will review the adequacy of current guidance for hospitality venues on the admission of assistance animals, including the distinction between fully trained assistance dogs and those in training.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Asylum: Impact Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered the potential merits of conducting an Equalities Impact Assessment on the Asylum Seekers (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
8 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Construction: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on (a) future labour demand in construction and (b) the impact of recent changes to immigration law on the construction sector
8 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on a) improving the transition from training into sustained employment and b) the evidential basis for asses
8 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Construction: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the steps her Department is taking to (a) address the ageing construction workforce and (b) prevent shortages of skilled workers
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department plans to integrate lessons learned from the Afghan Resettlement Programme into the design and operation of future resettlement schemes.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified examples of successful integration of people supported by the Afghan Resettlement Programme.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the introduction of the nine-month limit for transitional accommodation on those supported by the Afghan Resettlement Programme.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has assessed potential barriers to completing the relocation of eligible people under the Afghan Resettlement Programme to the UK and moving them out of transitional accommodati
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will (a) set the programme plan and key performance indicators and (b) establish a single source of cross-department management information for the Afghan Resettlement Programme.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has considered rolling out the support provided by Surrey’s Step to Change Hub across the country.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Domestic Abuse: Surrey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will continue to fund Surrey’s Step to Change Hub after 2026/27.
8 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Asylum: Human Trafficking
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department will be exempting victims of human trafficking from the Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum-Seekers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026.
2 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Woking Community Hospital: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase energy-efficiency and (b) reduce energy bills at Woking Community Hospital.
2 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his department is taking to support Ashford and St Peter's Hospital Trust to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy bills on their estate.
2 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase energy efficiently and reduce energy bills in the hospitals and across the NHS estate.
29 May 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he intends to widen the protections in PD12J to all domestic abuse cases.
Source: official written-questions record.