Written questions
1,820 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to allocate additional funding to Integrated Care Boards to help improve (a) support and (b) treatment for people living with secondary breast cancer in (i) Dorset and
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people diagnosed with secondary breast cancer have timely access to (a) new and (b) innovative treatments in West Dorset constituency.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2025 to Question 66057 on Special Educational Needs: Reform, when her Department plans to make a decision on the future of Education, Health and Care Plans.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Holiday Play Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to (a) local authorities and (b) holiday club providers on enabling families to retain holiday club places without having to pay for ad
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Holiday Play Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase the level of funding for the Holiday activities and food programme for children in (a) rural areas and (b) West Dorset constituency.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the level of funding for the holiday activities and food programme for local authorities in (a) rural areas and (b) West Dorset constituency.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with local authorities on increasing the availability of holiday club spaces in (a) rural areas and (b) West Dorset constituency through the holiday activities and food p
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
National Landscapes: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to require Natural Landscapes to be statutory consultees for housing developments in (a) all areas with high levels of natural landscapes and (b) West Dorset co
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
National Landscapes: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with Natural Landscapes on their role in planning consultations in relation to new housing developments.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
National Landscapes: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making Natural Landscapes statutory consultees in the housing planning system.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
National Landscapes: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a statutory duty to consult Natural Landscapes on all development proposals.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Coastal Erosion: Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on the criteria used to select Charmouth as a location for the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Coastal Erosion: Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the expected costs are for consultancy services in relation to the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme in Charmouth.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the feasibility of extending the life of existing coastal defences in Charmouth.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with (a) Dorset Council and (b) the Environment Agency on potential alternatives to the no active intervention policy for the Charmouth coastlin
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Coastal Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to support the development of sustainable coastal defences (a) by communities living in coastal areas at risk of erosion and (b) in Charmouth.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Psychiatry: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with charities on the potential merits of protecting the title Child Psychotherapist.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Psychiatry: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to protect the use of the title Child Psychotherapist.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Parking: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with (a) public landowners, (b) the National Trust and (c) Forestry England on the potential impact of cashless-only car parking systems on (i) older people and (i
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Supermarkets
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to prevent supermarkets from cancelling orders from vertical farms at short notice.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Supermarkets
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with supermarkets on (a) the adequacy of the prices they pay to producers and (b) the potential merits of buying more produce from vertical farms.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Supermarkets
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with (a) experts and (b) representatives of (i) traditional and (ii) vertical farming sectors on improving the (A) fairness and (B) reliability of superm
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Supermarkets
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, he will make it is his policy to introduce measures to ensure that supermarket contracts support (a) traditional and (b) vertical farmers.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with the University of Birmingham on the future of the Global Surgery Network beyond June 2026.
29 Aug 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect funding for UK-led global health research initiatives, following the reduction in the aid budget.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parking: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the introduction of car parking charges on (a) access to outdoor walking spaces and (b) public health.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the potential loss of (a) the Global Surgery Network and (b) other National Institute for Health and Care Research funded global h
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pyridoxine/doxylamine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people impacted in utero by their mother's use of Debendox during pregnancy.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pyridoxine/doxylamine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to assess the long-term health and social care requirements of people impacted by in utero exposure to Debendox.
29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pyridoxine/doxylamine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether research has been (a) commissioned and (b) supported by his Department on the potential impact of exposure to Debendox during pregnancy.
Source: official written-questions record.