Written questions

442 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS 111: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS 111 response times.

8 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of excluding dental therapists from the skilled worker visa scheme on NHS dentistry provision.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department's rollout of Best Start Family Hubs will include (a) provisions and (b) support services for home-educating families that require SEND support.

8 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department's rollout of Best Start Family Hubs will include (a) provisions and (b) support services for home-educating families.

7 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Customs: Ports

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of trends in levels of charges incurred at ports due to customs procedures on small businesses.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the rates for Extended Producer Responsibility fees for more recyclable materials.

3 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of basing the calculation of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on volume.

3 Jul 2025 · Treasury

Individual Savings Accounts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of a reduction on the savings limit on Individual Savings Accounts on savers.

3 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Disclosure and Barring Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to set up an independent body to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks with formalised processing time targets.

2 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Mobile Phones: Chichester

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mobile phone signal in Chichester constituency.

2 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of job opportunities for newly qualified nurses.

30 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Waste Management

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waste in the NHS.

25 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25 June 2025, HCWS736, on Simplified Local Leadership Structures, what her Department's planned timetable is for making tho

24 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of appeal Tribunals in relation to (a) PIP, (b) DLA and (c) ESA has the Department not contested in the last 12 months.

23 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Absent Voting

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document entitled Remote attendance and proxy voting in local authorities: consultation results and government response, published on 5 June 2025, what her

16 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

A27: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the capital funding settlement for road investment strategies on infrastructure investment along the A27.

16 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure that housing developments are completed after they have been granted planning permission.

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

GP Surgeries: Westbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the decision by NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board to close Westbourne Surgery.

12 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timeline is for responding to the Competition and Markets Authorities recommendations in their report into the infant formula and follow-on formula market, published on 20 February

11 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Maternity Services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on implementing the Immediate and Essential Actions of the Ockenden review, published on 30 March 2022.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will take steps to lower the Information Commissioner's data protection fee for smaller (a) organisations and (b) charities.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to ensure improved access to schooling for children with (a) visual and (b) hearing impairments in Chichester constituency.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to ensure that local authorities that do not reach the 20-week deadline for education, health and care plans have effective improvement plans in place.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to increase the proportion of her Department's spending on active travel infrastructure.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Chichester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of available driving tests in Chichester constituency.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce driving test waiting times in rural areas.

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

Rivers: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for the publication of the chalk stream recovery pack.

14 May 2025 · Department for Education

Apprenticeship Levy: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact removing Apprenticeship Levy funding for Level 7 apprenticeships on the public sector.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Community Protection Notices: Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many breached Community Protection Notices issued to owners of dogs following attacks on cats led to prosecutions in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Community Protection Notices: Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Community Protection Notices were issued to owners of dogs following attacks on cats in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024; and how many of those required the (i) use of leads, (ii) use of muzzles and (ii

Source: official written-questions record.