Written questions

146 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of people over 50 who are classed as economically inactive but contribute to society through (a) volunteer and (b) unpaid work.

12 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Community Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support community transport.

12 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has plans to raise the starting salary for prison officers.

12 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Retirement

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has plans to lower the prison officer retirement age.

10 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

RAF Brize Norton

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will meet with the hon. Member for Witney to discuss the allocation of new funding for military housing to RAF Brize Norton.

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

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of implementing a graduated regulatory system for smaller scale abattoirs operating within smaller distribution areas on (a) movemen

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

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to consider the potential impact of trends in the number of small, local abattoirs on the operations of livestock farms as part of the Farming Profitability Review.

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

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the use of (a) mobile abattoirs and (b) farmer-assisted slaughter on (i) costs for livestock farmers and (ii) animal stress.

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

Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of trends in the number of abattoirs on (a) food security and (b) local food supply chains.

19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the National Institute for Health and Care Research on how much of the £40 million funding for brain tumour research has been spent.

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Consumers: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local trading standards services have adequate (a) support and (b) expertise to enforce consumer protection laws introduced through the Digital M

4 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Trading Standards: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current level of resources for local trading standards services based within local authorities in Great Britain.

4 Mar 2025 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 13 February 2025, how many people she expects to be impacted by this guidance.

4 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Private Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of VAT on school fees on military families.

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

Rights of Way

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) the inequality of access to nature in England and (b) that a fifth of English const

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what definition her Department applies to determine when a road network is operating (a) at and (b) over full capacity.

4 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Railways: Infrastructure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of rail infrastructure funding on future trends in the level of regional economic growth.

4 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Transport: Oxfordshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech at Siemens Healthineers in Oxfordshire on 29 January 2025, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allocating additional funding to improve connectivity in Oxfordsh

27 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Food: Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support food manufacturing sites with (a) energy costs and (b) business rates.

27 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Food: Production

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a Food Production Relief Scheme to provide targeted relief on (a) energy costs and (b) business rates for essential food producers.

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

Wheat: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce UK reliance on imported wheat for milling.

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

Wheat: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department plans to take to support farmers to produce more home grown wheat while meeting (a) net zero targets, (b) the targets outlined in the Environment Act 2021 and

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

Flour: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of prioritizing sourcing flour for the public sector from certified regenerative farms to help achieve Net Zero by

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

Flour: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of sourcing flour for the public sector from certified regenerative farms on achieving Net Zero by 2050.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Overseas Trade: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to seek UK accession to the World Trade Organization Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement.

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken towards deciding whether UK will align its regulations with the EU in certain sectors.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Tumours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly statistics on (a) the number of brain tumour patients who have received whole genome sequencing of their tumour and (b) the number of people diagnosed with brain tumours

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many school age children die each year from Asthma in England and Wales.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent asthma deaths in school children in England and Wales.

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the efficacity of the Asthma Friendly Schools initiative and (b) the potential merits of (i) supporting and (ii) promoting the scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.