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.