Written questions
1,820 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review funding allocations to police forces to ensure that rural areas receive sufficient resources to maintain (a) police stations and (b) community policing.
10 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Police: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will undertake a review of police funding allocations in West Dorset constituency.
10 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Prisoners: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the policy objective is of advising police forces to release (a) ethnicity and (b) other details of suspects before trial.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Trials: Disinformation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department plans to take to help tackle misinformation in relation to cases which are sub judice.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Insolvency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) prevalence of phoenixing and (b) potential impact of phoenixing on small businesses.
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Insolvency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to introduce (a) additional regulatory and (b) enforcement measures to prevent directors of insolvent companies from engaging in phoenixing.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support the development of UK-made drone defence systems to protect critical national infrastructure.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department has allocated to the research and development of (a) drone detection and (b) counter-drone technologies in the last three years.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to work with international counterparts to align standards and share intelligence on counter-drone systems and tactics.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure UK drone defence capabilities are interoperable with NATO systems and frameworks.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is working with NATO allies to develop (a) joint standards, (b) data sharing and (c) operational protocols for integrated drone defence.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Russia: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) scale and (b) nature of Russian drone capabilities; and what assessment his Department has made of their potential impact on UK national security.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Russia: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential threat posed by Russian drone activity on (a) critical national infrastructure and (b) defence installations.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Primary Care: Finance and Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ensure that there is nursing representation in national negotiations on primary care (a) funding and (b) workforce planning.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of preventing the NHS Business Services Authority from withholding funding for staff payments where a community pharmacy owes significant m
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) job security and (b) employment conditions for general practice nurses.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will align the terms and conditions for general practice nurses with those in the Agenda for Change.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ringfence funding for general practice nursing pay in line with the NHS Agenda for Change.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure parity between pay awards for (a) practice nurses, (b) other primary care staff and (c) staff whose pay is determined by national NHS pay review bodies.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce a dedicated mechanism to fund pay increases for practice nurses and other non-doctor staff employed by GP practices.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
General Practitioners: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of GP contract uplifts on the ability of practices to fund pay rises for (a) practice nurses and (b) other non-doctor staff.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to provide alternative financial support to communities in West Dorset following the removal of Government funding for neighbourhood plans.
10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Neighbourhood Plans: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the removal of Government funding for neighbourhood plans does not reduce community input into planning decisions in West Dorse
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing forward the 2029 deadline for payments under the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of waiting until 2029 to make full infected blood compensation payments on (a) victims and (b) their families.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all (a) interim and (b) full infected blood compensation scheme payments are made sooner than 2029.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to support the estates of deceased infected blood victims to access interim payments of compensation.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of bringing forward the timetable for full compensation payments to (a) infected blood victims and (b) their estates.
10 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has set a target date for making full compensation payments to all living victims of the infected blood scandal.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Rugby: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support grassroots women’s rugby.
Source: official written-questions record.